So I have realized that I have failed to update y'all on my life so here's a little recap of Fall 2011:
1. Moved into a new house with some old and new roommates. It's always an adventure and now we're all such great friends! I love it. :)
2. Pinterest....Oh how I love Pinterest! It's probably worse than Facebook. I now have double the number of projects that I want to work on. Thank you Pinterest! But they're cute projects, so it'll be worth it in the end.
3. Boating with Michelle's family. Her parents are so nice to let us come and have fun!
4. Nights of boredom....this is where we do crazy things like doing our hair all crazy and dance to 80's music or come up with things like the grey monster!! Hehe.
5. Picking apples. Every year this has to happen. It's always a bitter sweet moment due to the fact that we all love the taste of these apples, but oh how we all hate picking them. I'm not going to lie...it sucks. But in the end we get to eat fabulous apples and have the best apple juice ever made!! Mmmm....my mouth is salivating at the thought of that apple juice.
6. Rock Band. I have some friends that do this thing called "Roctober" and they basically play Rock Band and Just Dance every weekend of the month of October. It's a blast!!
7. Making a giant screen. My friend Mark had this brilliant plan to make a giant screen to watch movies on and have dance parties. We got some used queen-sized sheets from a hotel and we sewed them together. Then we hung it up on the side of Mark's house and we let the fun begin!! It was pretty darn awesome...Just sayin.
8. Campfires...they're always fun, even when I get frustrated and almost swear in front of everybody. ;)
9. Halloween. Best. Holiday. Ever.
10. Pumpkin walk. I went with my roommates and a couple of friends to the pumpkin walk this year. It's pretty cool to see all the things people can do with pumpkins. Best part of that night....Jessica getting engaged. I didn't know about it, but I saw some pumpkins there that said, "Jessica, will you marry me?" And then I got a text from her sister Chelsie saying, "Jessica's engaged!" I looked at those pumpkins again and I was all like, "Say what?!" Yep, Brock propose to Jessica at the pumpkin walk. I thought it was cute and original! Way to go Brock!
11. Bowling! I like bowling. I have an awesome roommate named Stacey and she works at the Fun Park. She can get us in free for bowling! I love her for this. And I love her too! Good times. :)
12. New job. There are no pictures for this, but I did get a new job and I am loving it! I do miss the people at Production Services, but there is always a time to move on to newer things in life. The people I work with now are so nice and I think I'm going to have a great year with them.
13. Hamburger Cookies. My ward had a contest on who can make the best cookies! As they were judging them, the rest of the ward watched Hocus Pocus. Good laughs right there! When they were done judging, guess who won the cookie contest?? I did!! It was so exciting....first time that I've won something in like forever.
15. Birthday Parties! Michelle's birthday was in November so we naturally held a party for her to celebrate the event. Stephanie made a Dobby cake! It looked so good. We ate cake, played Swedish Twister, and had a dance party. So much fun!!
I've also gone to my sister's party in October, brother-in-law's party in November, and my nephew's party in December. I don't have very many pictures from those, but I had a few of my niece and nephews.
16. Making a video for our ward prayer introduction. We had a lot of fun planning this and showing it to the ward. I'll have to post it a different post.
17. Facebooking. Stacy and I have a lot of fun chatting back and forth on Facebook. One time, we got 100 notifications on her profile because we had nothing else to do.
18. Thanksgiving. Once November hit, I made a giant turkey to put on our wall and all through the month of November we all added feathers to it and wrote things that we are thankful for. It looked pretty awesome in the end. I had three Thanksgiving dinners this year. One with the ward, one with my roommates and friends, and one with the family. Lots of good food!
20. Roommate Christmas party. We decorate the house pretty cute for Christmas so we had to have a mini Christmas party with just the roommates.
21. Making a gingerbread house. Steve, Mitch, Michelle, and Stacy made a gingerbread one night and the next day we all helped make a gingerbread house. I think it turned out to look pretty darn good!
22. White elephant party. I have pictures...but I forgot to put them on here and I'm not doing it now...it takes to long. Sorry everyone! But it was a fun party at Michelle and Stephanie's parents house. We ate food, played some pool, exchanged the gifts, and watched "A Christmas Story." Loads and loads of fun!
23. Christmas. Sadly, I have no pictures of Christmas day, but it was fun. I went to Lyman and enjoyed a delightful Christmas Eve dinner with my family and we all enjoyed visiting and being with each other. The kids had fun opening presents and seeing what Santa brought them! It was a good day to celebrate the birth of our Savior! Always a good reminder to have the Spirit of Christ all year long.
24. Weddings. In total I have been to 8 or 9 wedding receptions. (I can't remember the exact number...oops.) But just this week I had 6 friends that got married! I feel so old and behind, but I'm excited to see all my friends move on to a whole new adventure. Lucky them. ;)
Well...that's all. Bring on the new year!!
