Its that weekend time again!

We had a great weekend! Although I cant really remember what we did on Friday night. I think we just hung out. Kristin Suzanne and I went to the store to go buy apples to make Carmel Apples and I think that's about it. We probably played games and watched movies as usual.

Saturday was a bad weather day. We went over to Maceys to pick up our Pumpkins, what a selection! Also they all looked like good pumpkins so they were easy to pick. PLUS at 9 cents a pound who can beat that price! This was the score at the beginning of the football game an interception and touchdown within seconds of the game starting.This is my cousin Caleb he is on the ground crew, so we gave him a twin sandwich! As you can see in the progression of pictures, the weather got really bad at the football game from the beginning, to there in the 4Th quarter of the football game. Kristin and Will left just before the BLIZZARD, when I say blizzard I mean blizzard too look how big those snowflakes are! But of course the Cougars won :) and later that night we all watched Transformers and ate our HARD AS ROCK Carmel apples. I love Transformers! Kristin and I discovered that we melted the Carmel too long so it got really hard on the outside of the apple. At one point Matt was biting into his apple that had Carmel, white chocolate, and Cinnamon sugar on the outside, after he bit it we heard a crack and Matt say "Is my tooth still there?" We all were laughing so hard because we were all having a really hard time biting the Apples. Ohh and Travis was over pretty much all weekend, anyways he said they were fine. Kristin and I didn't believe him.

Sunday we had regional conference and we were one of the 14 out 107 stakes invited to the conference center to listen to Elder Boyd K Packer and President Gordon B Hinckley speak! They were wonderful! We were only 7 rows away and I cant tell you how amazingly close you feel to the spirit of the lord when you listen to these awesome men speak. I wish I could do that every Sunday!

Bonus Video! Matt was putting on his really warm football socks. Jason had just gotten out of the bath tub and was curious why Matt was pulling his socks up to his thighs so we thought Jason Might want to try them on. :)

What a Weekend!

Here are some quick notes.

I didn't take any pictures this weekend... what was I thinking!

Friday
It was a busy busy day at work then Matt and I went down to Kristin and Wills and stopped by at my friend Leesa's wedding reception. She looked beautiful! We took Jason with us and he really liked the grape drink that was served.

Saturday
Matt Will and I went over to Art Dye Frisbee golf course, there is a tourney there in a week so they were practising. It was really windy and quite chilly. Matt didn't have his best game but I think it was good practice. I took a nap while Jason and Matt played then we went back home to Herriman to pick up some clothes and bundle up for my cousin Conner's Football game. It was SNOWING like crazy and we got there at half time. Matt had on his hunting boots and his snow pants and coat. Matt volunteered to be on the chain gang and hold one of the markers. What a nice guy considering the field was a mess and at one end there was probably 6 inches of standing water. Then after that we went over to Ray and Linda's to watch the BYU football game with everyone. It was a good game (it shouldn't have been, we are way better than New Mexico you just couldn't tell) and because of a few lucky turnovers we won the game. Whew! Then we went home and had our celebratory Martenellis.

Sunday
Matt and I woke up at 5:30 am and left for Vernal. I drove in the morning and let me tell you its a little creepy out there past Heber in the dark. I have never driven out there before so I wasn't familiar with the roads. We got to Vernal at about 8:30 then we left for church with the Larsen Family. They are some good friends of ours that I knew when I was a kid. Their oldest boy Landon is leaving tomorrow for his mission to Brazil. He gave an excellent talk, boy has he grown up! I remember him rocking out with us to Ace of Base in 5Th grade! ha ha Anyways after sacrament we had to go back home for Matt to finish up a little homework. The drive back through Provo Canyon was GORGEOUS! All the leaves of fall and the mountains... Man i should have a taken a picture! We got home and took a little nap then Matt finished his homework and I made dinner and we watched Cars then Matt played his guitar until we went to bed.

It was a good weekend! If anyone is wondering Suzanne was in Idaho with Nate. Oh and this morning i ended up with both sets of keys to the Jeep so Suzanne is stranded at home Good thing she called Sharon and she can give her a ride to work.. Whoops I feel terrible!

Where have you all been!

HAHA Where have Matt and I been?? Busy... Dang Gina..
Friday I had to go down to our Utah county office all day and help with an Open House. It was like a wedding I swear! We had tables and table settings and all these desserts and roast beef and sausage, Fruit, Veggies, 7 layer bean dip and chips, it was crazy! My job was to get there early and cut fruit like a mad woman then make sure everything was stocked all day. The open house ended at 2:30 so then we started to clean. They over estimated the food by quite a bit so I ended up bringing home gallon size bags of watermelon, strawberries, honey dew, grapes, sausage, roast beef, BYU mint brownies, eclairs, broccoli, bell peppers, carrots, sugar snap peas, and a bag of chips and guacamole. OH and I was given one of the table center pieces (a floral arrangement) SHEESH! When I got home I immediately put away everything in my fridge, it was as full as it has ever been. I then cleaned and cleaned to make sure everything was nice for when Jordan, his fiance Michaela, and her mom Joni came to visit. They ended up not being able to go to the Rodeo so we decided to go by ourselves. Which I guess Kristin and Jason really wanted to go too, I felt really really bad when she called on Sat. morning asking what time to meet us. She didn't seem very interested in it so we just went! Sooooorrrryyy Kristin! NEXT YEAR FOR SURE! Lets get Jason Mutton Bustin' too eh? You think he'd like that? Well anyways at the Rodeo Matt ate 5 cups of Strawberries and Cream and 2 cheeseburgers. Lets say that didn't sit as well as he'd liked and about half way through the bull riding he told me it was time to go... I didn't understand but he told me later he had to find a bathroom ASAP. We finally found one up the street and Matt said that it was a REALLY REALLY close call for him. (If you want to hear the whole story ask him its hilarious)
We met Michaela and her mom that night. Sorry about having no pictures... kinda silly I didn't take a single one! She is a nice girl, Matt and I like her. She has long blond hair and blue eyes, she is 5'2 and a half, she is tiny but has an athletic build to her...(anybody seeing any similarities?) HAHA you guessed it... I don't know if Jordan could have found someone that looked anymore like me! Matt kept almost putting his arm around her all weekend because he would see a short blond girl out of the corner of his eye and assume it was me. She is exactly the same size as me luckily because she needed to borrow a skirt for church on Sunday. Kind of crazy! We even have the same face shape and have about the same sounding voice. I figure when we go down to AZ in July we can confuse the crud out of the Rochelle side of the family by switching places all the time... the weirdest thing of it all is when she was little her mom started calling her Mickie but it never stuck, that would have been reeeally weird.
Saturday we had a make up softball game that was fun to play in... it was really hot though AND the other team didn't have enough players so they forfeit. Then Matt and I met up with Jordan Michaela and Joni to do the wedding stuff. Us girls went and looked at wedding dresses ( all of which looked GORGEOUS on her) while Jordan and Matt went to look for suits. We ended up at Macy's where the couple wanted to register so Matt and I went home and hit the pool for an hour. Let me just say Jordan was a tooper! Michaela had him at Target Registering for about 4 hours then to have him at Macy's registering for another 3? Matt would have called it quits after 1 hour at both places!Anyways I made dinner, we all ate then we went over to Boondocks to play putt putt or Mini golf whatever you want to call it.
Sunday we had biscuits and gravy for breakfast and went to church at 1. Weird thing is when we got in there we could smell that the gym floor had been re-done then the bishop announced that since we weren't allowed in there we would only have Sacrament meeting and that's it... HIP HIP HOORAY!! I mean wait... should I be sad about that? Well we went home and I made Banana Bread again while we watched Michaela and I's ( another weird coincidence) favorite movie Pride and Prejudice. They left at around 4 and we went down to Will and Kristin's for dinner. It was great fun and enjoyable but I don't feel ready for the week! Tonight Matt and I are going to go buy our Mountain Bikes... that should be exciting!

Busy Busy Weekend!

Friday after work Matt and I spent quite a bit of time washing and vacuuming out our cars. We then went over to Checker Auto to buy oil, air filters, oil filters, fuel filters, and so on to change out on Saturday morning. We went and rented a movie from RED BOX, (our favorite). We rented "The Queen", the movie was kind of interesting but mostly boring, I had no idea the Queen of England hated Princess Diana, although I am interested to watch the special on tonight interviewing Prince William and Prince Harry.

Saturday morning Matt worked on the cars while I cleaned my little guts out. Our house was in serious need of some attention, I mopped and swept and vacuumed and did laundry and scrubbed and cleaned and wiped the doors and light switches and cleaned the bathroom and organized and.... UHH it took all morning! Unfortunately after Matt got done changing his oil and everything else his car would start but then die right away... we knew it was coming his car had been acting up the last few days we just thought it needed a little TLC, turns out it needs attention we can't give it. He was annoyed of course so we called the shop and it wasn't open on Saturday so we decided we would just tow it down on Sunday. He changed my oil and filters though and my car is working great! We went for a run when we got everything done around 1:30, it was so hot and windy and we ran to the normal place then walked another mile to Smiths to return the DVD to the RED BOX. That was a bad idea I was MISERABLE! It was hot and I was thirsty and I couldn't open my eyes it was so windy and during all the cleaning I didn't eat so i was hungry. Let's say it was a hard run! We got home and were so sweaty and sticky that a shower didn't sound good so we hit to pool for about an hour. It was really nice then we ate and showered and headed down to Will and Kristin's to drop off her camera. We were only there for a little while and poor Jason's face when we were leaving, he was pretty upset. I cant get that little face out of my head... We ended up still going to the Temple Pageant even though Kristin and Will thought it would be too late for Jason. I enjoyed the drive down and sitting under the stars looking at the temple. Even though the play is a little hoaky I still liked it. Matt thought it was boring and kept laughing when it wasn't supposed to be funny, oh well.

Sunday we slept in because we got back form Manti at about 1:30 in the morning. I made Matt pancakes for breakfast and watched one of my favorite movies "The Polar Express" Matt even picked it out! He is so good at picking movies on Sunday that I like to watch. We went to church and it was great our kids were good and we had a good time! Matt forgot about the lesson though until about 5 minutes from the end of Sacrament Meeting but he did a good job in spite of not knowing the lesson. We got home from church and I made dinner and we called our Dad's and Ironed and we towed Matt's car to the shop. We were just going to use this big rope but these guys who live by us were driving by and offered us a tow strap, which was very nice of them, so we used it. I don't like towing cars it's hard not to be jerky at it! Luckily we have my Jeep that can do things like that. We'll see what the damage is later today on how much it will be to fix. Wish us luck that it is something easy as pie to fix... Cars! Hope all those fathers had a lovely day yesterday!