H1N1

H1N1

Brett & I had a ward party tonight, so we needed a costume. We decided that we would be the swine flu since, I mean, c'mon we both had it and conquered it!! :) So, we cut out some pig ears, a tail and a snout...

Isn't he such a cute little piggy?!

• We won 3rd place for our costumes at the Halloween party! We won a bag of snickers, score!
  

• Second place were dressed us as Jesse and Woody from Toy Story, they looked great

• First place was so original. The wife was a huge quarter, the husband was wearing a cardboard self-made gumball machine and their little 8 month old baby girl was a gumball- cute!!

Happy Halloween

Sweet & Sour

This post is titled Sweet & Sour because there has been some sweet things going on lately and some sour. This first picture is Sweet. Our weekend treat was home made caramel pecan popcorn. So good!!

This was a cool recipe. I popped popcorn kernels over the stove in this pot with a little bit of oil in the bottom. Then after the popcorn was popped, we melted sugar in the pot until it was caramel. Then added butter, vanilla and vinegar. Then added the pecans and popcorn and stirred it all together!

This was also a sweet. Kate and Clark came and visited us. Kate went to school here so it was fun for her to see it changing. Pretty sure Clark just thought that BYU-I was just a building in the middle of snow plains- so it was good that we clarified that for him. :)

We went bowling, to the temple and to lunch with them. Bowling was a lot of fun. Kate and I were both having an "off" day (since usually we both pretty much bowl a perfect game) right kate? :) so we were a little frustrated....but it was still fun.

Sadly- oh uh, i mean luckily... :) Brett and Clark both share the passion of Golf. So we made time to go to the driving range and they taught Kate and I how to improve our golf game. Don't get me wrong- I support Brett's love of golf, it's just i can't golf 24/7 like my hubby can!

This is where the story gets sour. Grandpa passed away Thursday, October 15th. He was such an example of generosity, kindness and humility.

I went home for the funeral this weekend, it was really nice to be there with family and to say a final good-bye to Grandpa.
Grandpa's backyard was always such a jungle-gym to me growing up. He loved having his big garden and many fruit trees. This is his famous pomegranate tree; i took a few home this weekend...

This picture is really cute of mom & dad

family

Alex Showing off his moves!

The Latest

We have been really busy up here in Rexburg lately. We've had lots of visitors and we LOVE it!
The first weekend Dustin and Jeff came. Than Denae and her kids
came and then we went down to Utah for general conference! FUN!

I'm not sure why, but lately for all these fun events I haven't had my camera!! So, most of these are courtesy of Kaley :)
This is at Angie's house, they were so nice and let us stay there while we were in Utah. We had so much fun with all the nieces and nephews. Little Mylie warmed up to me on this trip...isn't she so cute?!

The gang hangin out for general conference

Denae and the kids came last week. Denae hadn't been up here since it was Rick's college so it was so fun to show her around. This is us at Craigo's.

After dinner we went bowling on campus.

Denae's kids were such great sports during their stay at our place! Brett and I felt bad that the kids were confined to our little apartment...but they seemed to have a fun time!!

One of highlights of their stay was going to bear world. It's just down the street from Rexburg, and they have bears roaming around while you drive through the park...!

These are the cutest little bear cubs

A bear right outside our car window! Remeber how bad Brett wanted to see a bear in Lake Tahoe?! Well, he was just a car door away on this trip!! (However, something tells me he will still be seeking a higher adrenaline bear meeting in Tahoe next year)

At bear world they had a petting zoo...

This crazy goat chased brett all around the petting zoo... It was scary and hilarious. I'm going to post the video soon!

Having Dustin and Jeff come up was fun. Brett loves to party with them, and they all get so hyper when they're together... One of the fun things we did was going to a corn maze. (A little to my dismay...I really dislike being scared, and i don't define it as fun) but i sucked it up and went, and actually had a fun time.

They boys and girls split up, so kaley and i had fun playing tag with the boys. Like i've said in earlier posts, Kaley is brave so i felt safe walking around with her. :)
This is what the scary corn rows looked like!!!!!! Looks like a scene from a horror film!

Last and not least, we started a softball team. This is our team, minus one couple.

From left; Dave & Lorry our neighbors, brett and i, kaley, the tall guy in the back is Stephen brett and Kaley's cousin, Katy is in the blue shirt in the front, bryce brett's friend is in the blue hat in the back and Danny, brett and Kaley's other cousin is on the far right: Fun team!

I hadn't touched a bat in three years and I was pretty sure I would strike out and be horrible, and i WAS NOT fantastic, but it was super fun!
Go Team Smalls!