Volleyball

season is over and I am going to miss it. I loved the girls, they were such a good team! Not only because they had a 12-2 record but because they got along great! I never EVER had to deal with drama.... thank goodness! There was one time I stayed and helped with the Varsity and they were stressing me out because they had so much drama! My girls were definitely the best. They always believed in themselves even when they were behind eight points, they always seemed to push back and win. 

These are my girls. Sad to say I am not in these pictures. I was in Oklahoma at the time. 

Do It Yourself

Melissa Came over for the weekend and we wanted to have a craft night. Decorations are much cheaper when you make them yourselves. Our new love is Pinterest, a virtual pin board, and we found some really cute craft ideas. Mel made a ribbon wreath...sorry I don't have a picture. She didn't buy enough ribbon so she didn't have a finished product when she left. It was black and white striped and then an orange bow. 

All I needed was yarn and paint. I made a Halloween banner. 

Then I tried yarn balls. Just blew up some balloons, and wrapped yarn around it. All you do is use a paste made from water, flour and sugar and go to town. I also made a cute bowl. 

And the final product....

Every Sunday we have dinner with the Tuckett cousins, who are here at BYU, and I was in charge of dessert. Yep, I got our dessert from Pinterest. I carved out the center of the apples and it became bowls for our ice cream. Cute huh? 

What a good Fall treat! 

Campin'

We finally went camping this year! Yay! And my new bestie, Jenny, from my major came too. We were a little late getting out there. Geoff was having a bad day, poor kid. The motorcycle died on him while driving home from work and he got sore from pushing it all the way home. Then he noticed I forgot to turn his homework in!!! I'm such a bad wife!! :-S And he had to take a test. Thankfully camping lifted his spirits. We had yummy turkey hot dogs. Turkey hot dogs and Hebrew Nationals are definitely the way to go in my book. 

The boys put up the tent while the wives watched. 

I love their head lights. 

At 1:30 in the morning we heard gun shots. It was super annoying and it kept getting closer and closer. I of course start freaking out (shaking uncontrollably) because Geoff makes me watch Criminal Minds, and all I can think about is when we were going to die! haha! After about half an hour of this going on, Wes calls the Sheriff and tells him there are drunk people shooting around people who are camping. They were probably about 50 yards away. Geoff starts laughing at me and tells me to calm down, so I try. Brandon, Jenny's husband, went out to their car during all this and got his own gun. He was our protection if anything happened. I calmed down and eventually the people left and we could all go back to sleep. 

At eight in the morning we wake up to music blasting.....in the wilderness. Come on! We left to get away from civilization! 

Geoff was in charred of breakfast. I mean... in-charge. 

Those were the first two pancakes, they were practice. He redeemed himself later. 

Cheesy face

Sexy face

Jenny and Brandon

Those are his real eyes. they are super blue! 

Love of the Outdoors

The last few weeks, the Pete major has done lots of fun things! We have gone Mountain biking, hiking and a ropes course. 

This was our two hour hike. It was beautiful! 

Here is the ropes course. We definitely had an adrenaline rush! Before I did anything I was making myself sick just thinking about it. The first thing we did was climbing up a pole only attached to a tree at the top. Then we walked across another log up above the ground. 

These boys wanted to make it more intense so they decided to blindfold themselves. 

Then we climbed up a ladder and went down a zip-line. 

Emily and Diane raced up and made a record....in less than a minute. 

Last was climbing up a pole and jumping off! The goal was to jump and grab a ring. 

I was a little afraid. As you can tell I am holding the tree. 

Can't wait till next week when we go rock climbing!

Conference Weekend

is always the best. We get to listen to messages from the prophet and apostles of our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and we usually get visitors. This time is was my sister Abby. She came down from Rexburg, Idaho to hang out. The first thing Abby did when she got to Provo was eat a J Dawg hot dog and attend the BYU football game. 

She admitted it was a little boring until the very end when we started winning. We had 20 seconds on the clock and won 27 to 24! 

Saturday night while all the men went to the priesthood session of General Conference, Natalie, my cousin, invited us to hang out with her in-laws. It was a super cute idea... we watched The Importance of Being Earnest and had Tea and crumpets! Unfortunately the dough for the crumpets took longer than expected, so the boys had them with us. 

I am not a tea drinker. I had to put tons of sugar in it to taste slightly appealing. Geoff served his mission in Germany and Austria and became accustom to drinking it. He loved it and wants to start drinking it again.

To finish the night off, we played night games outside and stayed the night with the cousins. 

Sunday morning we went over to the Nufer's and had a battle!

We finished watching conference there and had to say our goodbyes to Abby until next time she comes down. It was great to have her and wish she was here in Provo with us!