Happy Halloween

Here are the cute kiddos from Halloween. We did wake Ginger up and force her to wear a Frog costume for a few minutes. Yep, we're evil. I have to say I have the best honey ever! Even though we had made plans with friends he politely bowed out and then he let me hang out with him all night away from the trick or treating crowd watching TV/movies. He bought pizza and Halloween candy to appease the psycho ailing wifey, then he had to endure me sleeping on the couch for most of the evening. He is an amazingly patient man!! I don't know if I have ever loved him more!!

Catch up

Whew! It's been a long month. We both had end of the terms, mine today and Chad's last week. Lot's of games, lots of Relief Society and High Council. Plenty of playing at Wolf Creek, football games and not enough sleep! I come home each day and struggle to not nap on the couch after work, only to drag myself out of bed again at 5:15 to drive to Lehi and then to South Jordan to start the day all over again.
We had a great condo and 4 nights at Wolf Creek. The weather was beautiful and the fall leaves brilliant in the Canyon. We had a great time with friends and really got to relax a little.
Here are a few pictures from Wolf Creek. And a shot from bowling with friends. Yep I'm ruined by facebook and Wii bowling, I'm just not as good in real life!

New Wreath

First decorations of fall!! I found white pumpkins and will have to have pictures of those tomorrow, hopefully they won't be covered by snow!

Week in Review

This has been an interesting week! Monday after a busy day at work in preparation to going to the Volleyball Luau I took Ginger out for our normal after work walk. While talking to Chad on the cell phone and walking in the park area, out of no where another dog comes darting out from behind me starts to attack Ginger. I am yelling trying to pull her up and the two dogs apart and finally have to pull the other dog off of Ginger. Which ended up with my hand (thumb mostly) inside the other dogs mouth...yep, like a little kid I have been bitten by a dog!

I pulled the other dog (25+lbs) off and carry it back to it's backyard. It was a dog I knew and it had escaped its owner while walking to the mailbox. I left Ginger with this man and his kids in the park as I couldn't handle both of them. I dropped the dog off in the backyard, and headed back to Ginger (extremely freaked out, unhappy, but not hurt).

This all happened of course with blood running down my arm, all over my clothes, all over both dogs. And the kids in the park staring...(one told me I had an ow-ee) yep, gotta love it!! So my hand is fine, the picture looks worse than it was, it became really swollen and super stiff, but didn't get worse. Chad got home, I cried (yes, I'm very proud of the fact that I didn't do it until I got in the house and Chad showed up) he called my dad to find out if we needed to get it checked out, and Dad suggested antibiotics and a tetanus shot.

Yes, we did skip the Luau!

We have had a good week, hanging out with friends who had surgery, a great game day hanging out and having wonderful food. I also had a chance to study and prepare for a Relief Society lesson on Sunday. I have been released after 5 years from Young Women's and have been called to serve as the 1st Counselor in the Relief Society.

I don't think I have been so nervous to teach in a long time! The lesson was on the Eternities and the 3 degrees of glory and after reading it all week and studying a ton, I had about 15 minutes. It went well, and a lot of prayers were answered. I feel so grateful that the sisters in our Relief Society helped! I think that makes the biggest difference.

This need week we are getting ready for a little vacation with friends in Wolf Creek. So excited!

Happy October!!

I love October, I'm hoping at one point we get the crisp autumn air and colored leaves everywhere. I'm on the look out for the perfect white and orange pumpkins for our front porch and having a hard time walking through any store without buying fall decorations, Halloween candy and big fatty pumpkins :)