The weekend before Tyler's birthday

Tanner's basketball games, Temple Square, shopping, birthday celebrations (Tanner, Tyler, and Tyler's grandma) and food...

Tyler got a Kindle

This past weekend, November 12th to be exact, was Tyler's birthday. We celebrated with his Mom & her husband, along with his brothers and grandparents the week before up in Salt Lake, but him and I celebrated on his actual day. He was SUPER busy, as usual, with school stuff and didn't even get home until 7:30 on Friday (the 12th). We were starving by that point so we ate at Red Lobster (Tyler's choice) and then came back for presents. I got him a few things: jeans, shoes (we ended up returning them), and a couple other small things. Then, he opened the last present, which just happened to be the Kindle. Tyler couldn't stop talking about the Kindle a few months ago and I thought it would be cool to surprise him and get it for him... Well, Kindle's are expensive ($189 to be exact), so I pulled all my old textbooks out to see if Amazon would give me any credit for them. Sure enough, Amazon wanted my books (shocking since they're all the OLDEST edition). I was able to get a lot of Amazon credit and get my wonderful husband a fabulous present. He loved it! He still can't put it down. He's waiting for his case to get here (should get here tomorrow), and then he said he'll take it to school with him... just what he needs :) The next day I had a test (the Praxis) for elementary education, but when I got home we went out and did a little shopping together. Sunday, we had Michelle & Trevor and Tiersha & Josh over for dessert which is always a good time. Then Monday (I know, a lot of celebrations) we went out to dinner with Tyler's dad, Paul and his brother Tanner and his girlfriend Ali. Since it was both Tanner and Tyler's birthday in the past 2 weeks we had the waitresses sing to them. It was a fun weekend and I'm so glad my handsome husband is a quarter of a century (he's so old!). We're glad we were able to see so many family members and spend time with them and friends as well.

Halloween Cruise

Tyler and I are not big Halloween people AT ALL. (I don't even bother taking work off because I don't like celebrating) We don't enjoy dressing up or going to Halloween parties...our kind of fun on Halloween consists of playing games and eating, just like an ordinary game night. However, we heard about this Provo Halloween Cruise ride through "groupon," and we went last night. It was a lot of fun, and really cute. First you meet down by the ropes course off of the Provo river. Then they have men dressed up in Pirates and they entertain you while you ride down the river in a big boat. They have hundreds of carved pumpkins along the river, and Halloween lights, and it's just a really fun thing. It lasted about 20-30 minutes, which was perfect timing. If you get the chance to go you definitely should. We got the tickets half off, but I think they're only $6 or $7 per person anyway. Here's some pictures from our night (we went with Tyler's mom and husband, Shawn, and Michelle and Trevor)

The Group (our nickname was the "Heebie Creepies")





The pirates who entertained us

The scared boys, well... at least Trevor was scared

Another One Bites the Dust

In the past 6 months, Gap (where I work) has gone through at least 3-5 store managers. I'm not sure why this is but I'm starting to think it's a reflection of the employees... I don't feel like we've done any wrong, but why, why, would we go through managers SO quickly. We had Andrea as our manager for, I believe 15 years, and she was fabulous. The store ran like a charm and everybody LOVED her. Since she left (sad day) the store has NOT been the same. It gets messy really easy, the back room always looks like a tornado went through it, and the list goes on. Anyway, I just wanted to let all of you shoppers out there know that if the store hasn't been running like you remember it way back when it's because we've had SO many different store managers. However, I've heard rumors of who the new store manager will be and I'm so happy! This lady is fabulous and from what I've seen, does a great job running a store. She's fun and she's great with people/customers...Hopefully the rumors are TRUE

Fall Colors & Michael at the MTC

I wrote about going up the Alpine loop a while ago but haven't had the chance to put the pictures up, so here they are! It was really fun to see all the leaves change color and it reminded me how much I LOVE fall. The weather is beautiful and the air is so crisp. I love it!






This last Wednesday we dropped Michael off at the MTC. It was really neat, and Michael seemed very ready. He's probably dying getting up at 6 am, but he'll get use to it! :)