General Conference

General Conference is always one of my favorite weekends. You get to just relax and listen to hours and hours of the prophets and apostles speak words of wisdom. What more can you hope for? It was the weekend right before Lisi's wedding so my Mom was already up. What a better way to spend with the girlies! Snowb's bf also accompanied us :) It was a chilly weekend, but when has it not been rainy for General Conference?

Mr. Esqueleto

My roommates and I had the privilege of hosting FHE this month. In honor of October we threw a spooktacular Halloween party! Allison knew how to make these bone-shaking skeletons from paper plates. So everyone hopped on over with their pair of scissors and away we went! Wish we had the music to go along "dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones...." Here's the progess....

And here's the completion..... I'm the one taking the photo :)

After our lovely little operation, we had a donut eating contest in the kitchen. Boy did it get wild! Ready to dig in......

Getting clotheslined or something to that effect :) I think I lost sight of my donut! Haha!

Now that's dedication!

Bridal Photos

Yesterday Snowb and I helped with Lisi's Bridal Photos. Snowb did her hair....gorgeous eh? Then I went to the photo shoot to help arrange the hair & dress perfectly and not let the dress get dirty. Let me tell you....it's inevitable! Somehow I made it into her album online. My hair looks disgusting! Haha! I went on a very rigorous bike ride up the canyon that morning and didn't have time to wash it. Oopsy. But what can you do? Anyway, she has some amazing shots!

Check out the photographer's favorites. They are amazing!

Lisi's Bridal Shower

Last Saturday Snowb and I threw Lisi her Bridal Shower. To tell you the truth, it was super stressful to plan with everything else going on in my life but it all came together very nicely. We definitely couldn't have done it without all the help from her friends. They were AMAZING and offered lots of help. So thank you! My Mom flew up for the shower without Lisi knowing.....it was a huge surprise!

Volleyball Season

This year I was asked to coach volleyball as well since I did so well with the basketball girls last year. I thought it would be fun to do since I love coaching and also volleyball (BUT not as much as basketball!). Let me tell you what.....it's been a challenge thus far in many different respects. Time being the first one. With teaching and also working on my Masters there is not much free time. I have practices every MWF with games on TTh. It's a full schedule!

Last year we were in the Charter School league and so for basketball we only had games on Fridays with practice twice a week, three if we were lucky. It was ideal for my schedule. But this year we are in the official high school sports program, UHSAA, for Utah and are a 2A school. All the schools we play are between 1-2 hours away. We also have to pick up another school (about 45 min. away) and take them to all of the games with us. They are our JV team since we only have a Freshman and Varsity team, which I am the head coach for both. Talk about intense! Because we play schools with girls that have been playing since 6th grade or before we have been losing pretty badly. Most of my girls have never been on an organized team before. They are just happy playing, but I really want to win!

To top it all off, we don't have our own gym yet (coming next year....) so we practice at the American Fork Armory ("this ain't the armory!") which doesn't have any volleyball lines marked and the floor is super slippery. Not ideal in any way.

BUT I am really enjoying it and having fun. People told me I was crazy to coach both volleyball AND basketball and now I am starting to understand why.......I'm exhausted! I love it though!