Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we went to my Uncle Rod's house. It was fun to see the whole family again. Thanksgiving is the only holiday we all get together at. We had LOTS of food and a really great time catching up.

It was so fun to see my cousins! We don't see each other very often and Bobby, Alyssa and Bryce don't usually come on Thanksgiving. It was a good surprise!

My mom always loves to see her brothers and their families. I probably took a million pictures, but either Aunt Donna or Aunt Jan, or both, would be doing something mischievous. I didn't get one normal picture!!

Lili and Payton were buddies all day, just look at those smiles, no doubt they were up to something!!

Gage is the happiest baby ever! All he does is smile. I spent a lot of time with him when I was home... he's SO cute.

Christmas City

Every year Mayo Clinic rents out a place for their annual Christmas Party. It used to be the zoo, but this year and last year it was at Christmas City at Firebird Raceway. Basically it is a big carnival/ fair. Santa was there. We watched a tiger show and ate dinner. Later on we bought some cotton candy and ate some fry bread. It was so great to be with my family; Bobby, Sarah and Chloe came too. Brittany brought along Taylor as well! It was so good to see everyone, I've missed them so much. :)

The petting zoo was a big hit, Chloe has no fear!

The bull riding was as fun for us to watch as it was for Bobby and Rocky to ride!

Taylor and Brittany have been friends forever. Taylor is like just another sister. I'm pretty sure she's spent more time in my room the past 3 years than I have!

I love to be home to participate in all the things my mom and my sister do together. I hate talking to them when they're together doing something fun. I get jealous!

Jennifer even got to come. I haven't seen her in a while, it was fun.

Whenever she was all over the place! She loved seeing all the animals! Santa was also a big hit!! She danced to music and made it so much more fun for all of us! Christmas is SO much better with little kids!!!

My dad and Chloe are SO cute in this picture! I love it. She pretty much has all of us wrapped around her little finger!

Halloween

A few weeks before Halloween Sonya and I went to CornBelly's corn maze at Thanksgiving Pointe, it was so fun. Daniel, Brodie & Adam came and Adam brought his cousin Nicole and her friend Candice. We went through the maze, rode the tractor train, jumped on the huge trampoline, ate some kettle corn and rode the haunted hay ride. It was fun, I had been wondering what the heck Thanksgiving Pointe was. I got a small glimpse that night.

On Halloween night we were hippies, my idea thank you very much. It was last minute, we had to dress up, otherwise we'd look SO lame. Sonya was a pirate!

Early October

About 2 weeks ago Amanda Monk and I went to Visit Nicole and Brady and their cute baby Logen in West Jordan! Logen has the longest TONGUE! We were happy to see them doing well and happy!

It snowed! I was so happy to go to church wearing my new peacoat and tights!! The problem is that it has only snowed once, and that was like the 2nd or 3rd week in October and it melted like the next day. Only the very tip of the peaks have snow right now!! I'm ready for winter, bring it on Utah! I finally feel like I have enough warm coats, pants and shoes to get me started. I have done so much shopping here, my favorite purchase is my red wool peacoat from gap, I wear it too much, but I LOVE it!

Fall Is Here

Fall is here! I have been looking forward to seeing the leaves to change colors for so long! I have never lived in a place where there is a fall season before! It's beautiful! My roommates and I went up to Sundance Ski Resort in Provo Canyon last Sunday to take pictures. I was so fun.

Grandma Loves Me!

Grandma sent me the biggest box this weekend! Inside was all the right ingredients to make a house full of college girls VERY happy!! She most obviously made a trip to Costco before sending the box. She sent popcorn, hot cocoa mix, instant oatmeal, pancake mix, a big halloween bowl and CANDY CANDY CANDY!!! She's been so good, not a week has gone by without me getting something from her in the mail... I really LOVE getting mail. I miss my grandparents a lot, I love them!!

the new roommates

I got really lucky- MY ROOMMATES ARE NORMAL! I share a room with Brittani, Michelle and Layne are in the other room. We all get along great. Social life is way different here, but I am slowly adapting. The school is so huge that you really base your social life around the people in your ward because they are the ones that are easiest to get to know. My first week here I only left my house to go to school and we had no visitors, it was brutal! In thatcher my apartment was the central hub for social activity!! Things are just different in Chatham Towne, the people are older (juniors and above) and life is more grounded and focused. I actually like it now that we've met some people in our ward and we have friends. Life is good.

(PS I'm in the BYU158th ward and that's on the low end of the scale!)

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Brittani, Me, Michelle and Layne

We went to smart cookie, it is this ice cream place that has a whole rack of different assortments of fresh cookies. First you choose 2 cookies and then you choose the type of ice cream you want to go in the middle to make your ice cream sandwich. It's yummy!