Fun Fall

We sure have been having fun around here!

Scott went hunting with his dad and brothers.  They got 80 birds!  Jeff, the 2nd from the right, is leaving on a mission in a few weeks so they wanted to get in one more trip together.

We are expecting our first nephew soon, we're all excited! Last week, we had a 'man shower' for the little guy. After eight nieces, we had fun getting to shop for a boy! Scott's mom made this adorable blanket for him.

Scott's sister Lisa made these cupcakes, they were awesome! And those are bread bowls (for soup) in the background...one of my favorite things to eat in the fall.

Speaking of food, we were excited that an In N' Out opened just a few minutes from us.  We paid them a visit.

I had a fun symphony concert this weekend, we all dressed up and played Halloween music.  Can you tell who I was trying to be?

My brother Luke looked awesome.  The symphony members had candy for kids after the performance, and some little girls were too scared to go near him.  My parents took us all out to dinner after, and it was funny to walk in there dressed up!  Luke hoped they wouldn't think he was trying to rob them or something. 

Good times.  Oh, and if you would like to see what Luke looks like sans joker makeup...look here at his senior pics!  The baby of our family is 18??? I can't believe it.

FYI...this post says it is by Scott, but it's just me, Heather.  I guess I was logged on under our other email address.

Living for the weekend

Our week days are pretty busy lately, it is starting to feel like we're living for the weekends. 

We spent the first weekend of October visiting our family up in Idaho.  We had an awesome time, always do! 


Little sister Julie, who is almost 8 years old (can't believe it), drew a portrait of us that I loved!  She's at the stage where she loves 'love stories' and she said this is a picture of Scott and I at a ball.  So cute.  I wish my eyelashes were that long in real life.

This weekend, we went to Frightmares at Lagoon.  My brother came too and we had fun!

We all bundled up, and Scott and I thought it was funny that we matched.  We tried to get my brother to wear red too, but he declined :)

 I was too chicken to go in any haunted houses, so we just rode rides. 

Sunday afternoon, Scott had a great idea- we went on a drive to look at the fall colors.  Such a simple thing to do, but it was a really great time!

We went up little and big cottonwood canyons.

We tried to get a picture of us together...this was the best we could do.
We're thinking it's about time for a new camera!

 

This is the same view...looks a lot better without us in it! 

Hope you all had a nice weekend too!

Downtown

Can you tell where we went?  I'll give you a clue...I dressed to match the scenery.

I guess the posters in the window give it away.  Yep, we went and saw The Lion King at Capitol Theatre!  Man, the costumes were stunning.  We really liked it.  It was a great night out. 

On our way back to the car we stopped and watched the 10:00 news being filmed for a bit.  It was fun to watch the meteorologist point to the green screen and to read the teleprompter of the news casters while they read stories.  So, if you were watching channel 2 and saw a girl in a zebra coat in the background, you know who it was.

A day in the life of...us

I haven't known what to blog about lately, we're just settling into our fall routine.  For lack of anything else to talk about, I decided to take pictures all day on Sunday and just give a glimpse of our day through pics.

7am Sunday, it felt too early to be up, but it was a beautiful morning.

Why was I up so early?  This little gal was running circles like crazy in her squeaky wheel.  I must have been sleeping pretty light because it woke me up, and I decided I might as well stay up.

I finished preparing my sharing time lesson (for the little kids at church). 





Scott was dressed and ready for his 7:45am church meeting.  Might I say he looks pretty handsome in his shiny gray suit.

Then it was my turn to get ready for our 9:00 church, and by some miracle, I was ready on time!

Look how surprised I was! (yes, I took this picture of myself...but yes, I really was surprised I was ready on time!)

After a nice time at church we came home, changed into some comfy clothes, and did what most people do... memorize the state capitols.

Seriously though, we bought some $1 flash cards at Target once and every now and then we sit down and try to memorize every state capitol.  Quiz us next time you see us!

Pretty soon I was out like a light.  When I woke up, my face was totally indented from the square pattern on the pillow.  I'm glad we don't have a picture of that...

When I woke up, I found that Scott had made his favorite treat, caramel puffs, all by himself.

After Scott got back from another church meeting, we were on our way to my parents house for Sunday dinner.  Scott couldn't find his sunglasses, so he just borrowed some of mine :) 

After eating, we got into an intense game of Bananagrams, one of our favorites!

We missed my sister Ashley, but we did get to skype with her later that evening.

Our little niece sat in her chair like a big girl :)  She is usually our entertainment for the evening.  We all just sit around and listen to her "stories" and watch her dance.

Back at home, Scott checked to make sure he had everything done for school the next day.

And that sums it up! Just a regular day here at our home. At least it's a blog post.  I was feeling guilty :)

Time in the sun

A sunny vacation, oh man I was so ready for it! I'm pretty sure this was the first time I took more than a day off work all year.  We spent last week up at Bear Lake with my family and my aunt/uncle/cousins.  Fourteen of my favorite people, it was so much fun to be with them all every day!  We had two sail boats up there and had a blast on those.  You wouldn't think a ride on a sail boat could be very wild, but leave it to Scott...he's not afraid of high winds! 

One night a bunch of us went out for a night swim in the lake.  It was awesome!  We wore glow stick bracelets and swam to the nearest buoy and back in the dark, we were the only ones out there- it was eerie, cool & unforgettable! 

We also went golfing while we were there, and my sister in law and I found out that we are perfect golfing buddies!  There were several times that after our first drives, our golf balls literally landed a foot apart.  I was excited to get my first bogey ever (one over par) during the game.

It's back to the daily grind now, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  But it was nice to get at least one vacation in this summer.