Funny Thing...

(A Picture from our Wedding Dinner in December...good times!)

Funny Thing...

1. How the Chevron on University Parkway asks if I want a Car Wash...but there's no car wash at that location.

2. How I bought a "seedless watermelon" and was surprised to find little black things inside....hmm...

3. How cyclists and runners own the road in Provo...they are everywhere!

4. How the 80-year-old woman sitting next to me at the endowment session the other day told me 7 times during the session that her "hose" were cutting off her circulation and she thought her toes were going to fall off....

5. How I thought I would never cheer for BYU...but here I am in Provo living in on-campus housing wearing a BYU football shirt for this saturday...Go Cougars! :)

6. How sometimes I get a silence laugh inside of me when the carpool lane gets stuck in traffic as well...

7. How I'm 22 and it doesn't feel as old as I thought it would...

8. How I should be working right now doing my "Call Monitoring" job at home but I'm blogging...

9. How our neighbors have a yellow tiled bathroom...I don't know about you but that's nasty.

10. How my primary has 4 kids...Joy, Grace, Samuel and Fernanda. (Two of whom don't speak english...)

11. How Thanksgiving isn't here yet, but I'm already done Christmas shopping!

12. How my in-laws sent Brett and me Spain candy the other day and we ate ALL of it in one day...more like 1 hour :)...mmmm....

13. How crazy people are...

14. How I mentally compete with others at the gym...seriously if the girl or guy next to me keeps running I feel I have to as well, it's great!

15. How I listen to people on the phone with my call monitoring job that are hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and yet they want to buy a program that is $20,000+. Again...crazy people out there.

16. How excited I get to watch the Biggest Loser on Tuesday nights...

17. How excited I am for Brett to come home and for the Dustin family Thanksgiving next week!

Happy Wednesday :)

The Haunted Storage

Our Halloween :0

Zombie Brain Stew....

"Bone Daddy Breadsticks" and "Vampire Blood Beverage"...

Oh, the festivities! And sorry...no costumes...

Making yummy caramel apples...mmmmm.....

Brett about to jump out and scare the innocent civillians about to walk
by in his hockey mask and gear....And yes...a scary hanging santa...

The Maze...

We put Bob & Claire's storage room under the garage to good use this Halloween. We went up on Saturday to party with Katie, Steven, Laura and Matt for good ole' Halloween. We started the haunted evening with dinner (spooky! As seen above...), and then ventured to create haunted houses. Brett and I made a haunted storage in the massive storage space located underneath the garage. It wrapped around through the storage boxes, extremely maze like, very dark, and very scary :~ and then into the the other side of the garage. It was so fun to create and then scare people as they went through. It started a Halloween tradition that Brett will not let die. It was truly a Halloween not to be forgotten.

The End.

Brett goes to Golden...

Last Friday was the first night we spent apart since we got married. Brett went to Golden Colorado this past weekend to present his research at the American Physics Society. The conference was held at the Colorado School of Mines, a university an hour outside of Denver. We had to wake up at 3:30 in the morning so Brett could catch his 6am flight into Denver. He and four other graduate students from BYU went to the conference. Brett said there were alot of strange "folk", but I guess that's what you can expect from a scientific conference of this caliber. Saturday morning at 8am Brett presented his research at the Biophysics Symposium on the Electrostatic Properties of Biological Solutions. ( :) Just smile and nod.). Brett also helped himself to a Coors Light, since Golden is its world headquarters ;). Thankfully he is home safe and sound. :)

Fall Fondness

I love fall!! The trees outside our apartment are huge, old, and produce a TON of leaves!! Everytine I go out to my car instead of pushing off snow, I push off leaves. I love it!! This is my favorite time of year! The smells, the leaves, apples and caramel, candy corn, and Halloween!

Up...and then Back...

The icy, cold trail....

Me, my dad, Josh and Trevor with the snow covered mountain behind us...(Sorry for the poor sunshine positioning on the hill :))...


This morning my dad, brothers, and their priest group went on a hike to take on Mt. Timpanogos. Well...I got up at 4:40, got up to the campground to meet the crew, and we headed out. We got a little past half way before we met up with intense, cold, stiff snow. Needless to say we saw a life flight come in a little above us and guessed it was for a snow accident. Being smart and safe we decided to head back. All in all it was a beautiful hike and a great Saturday.

Sold!!

My "Owl Art" is coming to a Hip & Humble near you coming this next week in Bountiful and Salt Lake stores. This has been one of my favorite stores for the past 5 years. They are a great store with fantastic gifts and they are letting my lil' owls grace their wonderful presence. Yea! Thank you!

Caroline's Baby Shower

Today I went to a baby shower for one of my best friends Caroline. It was so much fun to see all my best girl friends and catch up on their busy, amazing lives. Thanks girls! And best of luck to Caroline. Love you all :)

Hoo...Hoo....

A set of 3...owl, branch and flower....
A funky lil owl...

Another set of 3...bird style

A bird fit for a queen..

A set of owls...

Skinny owl out on a limb..

Well...recently I have picked up a rather unique hobby of making Owl Art. It is wall art that is made of canvas or duck cloth. It is rather funky but is alot of fun. I am currently getting them into stores and I'm really excited! Hope you enjoy my randomness. :)

Babysitting for 4

This weekend Brett and I got to watch Kirt and Aprils (our aunt and uncle) 4 kids from Friday to Sunday while they were in California. It was such a blast! They are great kids and were so much fun. We went to the park and fed the ducks, played on the swings, had a lego war, played seek and hide, watched Star Wars and General Conference, and pretty much every other game you can think of. There was the 3 boys, Jake, Matt and Ben and one girl, Aubrey. They are wild and crazy with so many surprises but way sweet and fun. (I am not pictured above, but I promise I was there. :) )