Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!

It's been a very Halloween filled week.  Thursday night we carved pumpkins.  Here were the before pictures:


Nate decided to carve Texas A&M's logo into his pumpkin and I chose to do Mickey Mouse.  So you can see my cheat sheet in the picture...I can't draw Mickey Mouse free hand.  And the final product:


I traced on the ATM for Nate, but you can still see the marks I made-obviously I didn't make the marks very well.  It's harder to draw on a pumpkin than a piece of paper.  And some of the letters kind of fell apart...  Our apartment complex did a competition for our pumpkins so we turned mine in and I won third place!  Which means we get $25 off next months rent.



 I even got a little trophy :) 

We didn't really dress up too much for Halloween.  I did go to a "Witches Night Out" on Friday night.  A few of the girls in our ward got together and we made caramel apples and told "scary stories."  It was a lot of fun.  Then we went to our ward's Trunk or Treat where we ran out of candy in about 20 minutes.  There were a ton of kids!

Nate's highlight of the week was having President George Bush Sr. come to one of his classes on Friday.


He and his wife Barbara came and Nate said they were very nice.  He got to shake both of their hands and President Bush even got his teacher to let them out of class an hour early and told their professor that they should all get A's.  I don't know if that second part will happen, but that would be nice. 

We are getting ready for another crazy week.  Nate has a big paper due and I will continue my job hunt.  Actually, I am going bowling with my work tomorrow.  They do lots of fun activities like volleyball and other sports, but I don't feel like the work is very challenging-basically anyone could do my job!  Enough complaining though, I am grateful to have a job!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Dallas get-away

I just finished reading over my Young Women lesson for next week and it was about gratitude.  It made me think of all of the things I am grateful for, especially for Nate-today is our ten month anniversary!  It has gone by fast and has been a lot of fun.

This weekend we got to go to Dallas.  Friday we went to the State Fair.


One word sums it up: fried.  Everything was fried.  This years winner for "Most Creative" fried food was Fried Beer, we didn't try it, but we did try the "Best Taste" winner which was Texas Fried Fritos Pie.

It is chili and cheese in a fritos crust and deep fried.  MMM!  I couldn't believe all of the fried food people were eating!  I think just the Frito Pie took a year off of my life, although it was really good.

Other highlights included the pig racing and light show they did at night.  So when it got dark, they coordinated lights and water to music, it was pretty cool.  If it wasn't getting so late I would upload the video of it on here, but it takes awhile, and I am getting sleepy.

Saturday morning we went to the Dallas Temple.  It was definitely very unique looking.

You have to be creative about when you get to go to the temple, since it is so far away here.

And of course, we went to the BYU Football game, I am almost embarrassed to mention it since Jennifer pointed out that is all we talk about on our blog.  I guess the only time we do something worth writing about centers around a football game.  Anyways,  I won't dwell on it too long since BYU lost, although not as badly as some thought they might have.  It was still fun to  be able to cheer for BYU again!  Go Cougars!