Halloween 2011

We first celebrated halloween on saturday night with some friends. We had all these plans for costumes but we just didnt have time or the means to make the costumes work. So all Saturday we conteplated a costume for our little party that night. We eventually just settled with going as a 1950's couple. I was the amazing housewife and Brandon was the working husband. It turned out pretty cute i think. 

 Here I am getting brandon a little something to drink after a long day at work.

 Our friends Justin and Rachel were Katniss and Peta from the books the Hunger games. For the record. Peta looks nothing like this! For some reason justin pictures him as a chubby guy, but i picture him looking nothing like this.

 Our friends Aaron and Megan were eachother. They are wearing eachothers clothes and Aaron is even wearing make-up.

 On halloween night we went to our friends Nathan and Nina's apartment for dinner. We all dressed up for this one two. For this party Brandon and I dressed up as Canadian Olympic athletes. We made some maple leaves and pined them to our sweatshirts and we already had the Vancouver Olympics gloves and hats.

 As you can see brandon is wearing his silver medal. for obvious reason we didnt make him a gold medal! haha Canadians dont win Gold! (and kristi that is totally a joke, we know that canada beat us in hockey this year)

 Justin and Rachel were a cowboy and cowgirl.

 Nathan is Han Solo

And Nathan and Nina's family were a bunch of star wars characters. Benny on the left is a young padawan, Nathan is Han solo, Ephraim is an ewok and Nina is princess Leia.

Overall it was a good halloween but we are sad that we never carved pumpkins. Next year we will for sure!

Fall decor

Kristi sent me some plain blocks so I could decorate them for halloween. Blocks are so expensive so i just had my dad cut me a few. They turned out pretty cute.

I made the Autumn blooks on the back so i could still use them after halloween. Now im looking forward to decorating for christmas! Cant wait!

Brandon's "Birfday" party!

Monday was Brandon's 24th birthday. I had been planning a star wars party for him for a few weeks now and let me tell you, I went all out. This party was so star wars. Almost a little five year old birthday party ish but we definitely still had fun. I just hope Brandon wasnt too embarrased by all of it. So it started off with me making a few invitations. The invitations consisted of a really long story about Brandon's jedi life and so on. With the invitation I gave everyone a home made lightsabe made out of glosticks. They looked pretty legit, the pictures dont do them justice. 

 Clearly once you cracked the glostick your lightsaber looked much better. 

I spent the whole week making paper mache planets and a gigantic Death star pinata to destroy at the party. I spent about 4 hours painting the death star and an additional hour painting all the planets. In the end it was so worth it. they looked amazing and i have to say i made one killer death star. 

 All the unpainted planets

 Brandon and the death star

 We hung up some black sheets to make a galaxy. We tried to sprinkle glow stick stuff on the sheets so they would glow like star but it didnt work at all. oh well it was still a nice backdrop for the planets.

We also had a lot of food at the party all of course had to do with star wars. 

We had the fifth star wars movie playing during the party and I made up a game to play, but it didnt really work out because we had to many people i think. It was kind of like the game Curses, but star wars style. So basically whenever someone said a certain word someone would have to do something star wars or say a quote from star wars. For example, "when someone says "birthday" stand up and yell "may the force be with you!"" It would have been really funny but no one got into it. Oh well. After we ate we had Brandon open presents. Everyone was so nice. He got lots of candy for his birthday and a star wars poster, some movie tickets and he got a new sweatshirt(he opened that a few weeks ago) and he got a brand new Washington Huskies hat. I wish i had a picture of him wearing those. After presents we tried to open the pinata but nothing would penetrate that thing. Word to the wise. 5 layers of paper mache is much too thick for a pinata for future reference. So we ended up throwing the pinata death star from our stairs down to the cement. It took four throws to break it. That thing was SOLID.

After we finished breaking the boys took on a new advnture. So for the past week there has been some dead animal (mouse or bat) in our stair well. We thought for sure it was dead because it had been there for days and had never moved. Well the boys got out a big pocket knife to move it and it turned out it was a bat and it was still alive. They captured it in a pizza box and the bat was hissing at them. they released it in the field nect to our house. I just cant believe it was alive! i had walked past it sooo many times! gross!

After we had ice cream cake that i made(and it was amazing) and talked for a little while. Our friends little boys played witht he planets and we played with our other friends little puppy Finn. We had a lot of fun and brandon had a good birthday!

$FREE.99

Today was a Yellowstone free day, and considering we are only an hour and a half away, we took advantage of this deal. I wanted to go before we left Rexburg because we live so close to one of the largest national parks in the country and it would be a shame to move away without seeing it. We went with our friends Justin and Rachel and had a great time. I was surprised by the number of bikers in the park. It made the driving a pain because we were constantly passing bikers on the side of the road. Those are some very in shape people(however by the looks of some of them you wouldn't think it) because it was at least 20 miles to old faithful and people were definitely biking all the way out there, if not further, and there are a lot of hills. Ok i know for some people that would be a breeze, but definitely not for me. We didn't see any bears. I think we will have to drive the ten minutes south to go to bear world if i want to see some bears. We did see Buffalo though. Lots of them! And we were so close to them! However i kept a good safe distance away because i saw a girl get trampled by one on tv once. Our friend Justin was so close and some lady asked Brandon if he was crazy, he told her that he kinda was( which is true, haha no offense Justin) On our way home one was on the road and we had to wait a while for him to move, when we started driving again he was on the side of the road just feet away from our car and it startled us pretty good. he was sticking his tongue out at us too. We Saw lots of geysers and colorful fungi. it was actually really fascinating. My camera died when we got to old faithful, but i did get a picture of it starting to go. After we left the park we ate lunch in West Yellowstone at this cute little restaurant. We sat in this little covered wagon, which i don't have a picture of because of my dead camera. I had a really good bbq pork sandwich and Brandon had a buffalo burger.

 Our first sign of wildlife! a herd of elk!

 This one was called Fountain paint pots i think, it bubbled and was really cool

 Brandon and Justin being prepy

 This place was so cool, the water from the geysers flowed into the river and it was really pretty

 This was called the turquoise pond

 This is the opal pond

 This is part of the Grand Prismatic spring. It was so colorful and amazing

 Buffalo!

Here is my ONE sad picture from old faithful. I was so glad my camera revived itself for at least one picture. We went and looked at the old faithful inn after and it was amazing! it was the most amazing inn i have ever seen. It had three levels and then there were all these stairs that went up to the "Crows nest" The crows nest was at the very top and had all these crazy stair ways to get up to it. Unfortunately because of the earth quake at Hedgen lake(?) in 1959, it is no longer structural safe for all the visitors to go up there. I wish so bad. I would love to stay there but its quote expensive. like $120.00 a night for a cheap room, probably off season. haha maybe someday. Sorry no pictures, you will just have to go see for yourself!

Smarty pants

Brandon got some new glasses yesterday. his eyes were getting really tired so he thought he might need a stronger prescription. he uses his glasses mostly for reading and studying but he sure looks smart and handsome when he wears them. Don't you think?

 He wanted to be holding a book in the picture to make him look smarter. Hes so cute.


On a side note, school is going good for brandon. he is especially loving his raquetball class. I am also really liking the health center, however the days are far too long and i have killer headaches by the time i get home. Maybe i need some glasses too.

Brandon's First day

Today Was Brandon's first day!

We thought this would be funny for us to do since This will actually be Brandons seventh semester, not his first day of preschool or kindergarten, however he does have very similar movie interests as a certain kindergartener we know. I am not in school but i spend my entire day at the health center doing my externship. So far it has been good but i have a lot to learn.

This weekend we went Down to Utah to go to my friend Kelley's wedding. it was lovely and there was a lot of good food. We also got to see Grammy while we were in Provo. it was good to talk to her even though i do not think she knews who i was. She told us that she was "tripping down memory lane multiple times during the conversation but we tried to keep her on track. We got to spend a lot of enjoyable time with Michelle and Justin and Parker and Halle and we got to go to two of Parkers soccer games. he was so cute! Thanks for having us michelle and Justin!