Football!

So, a while ago at work we had a tailgate party. They served us hotdogs and hamburgers and anybody who wanted to could sign up for 3-on-3 flag football. I, of course, jumped at the chance. I would have enjoyed it more if it was tackle, but you take what you can get. My team was with Bonnie and Arni-elei. We took the championship!!! I was amazing the first game that we played. The score was tied and my supervisor said that the next score would win. The opposing team had the ball and they were about 15 yards from the goal. Guess what happened next? I caught an interception! and then Arni-elei threw a pass to me and I caught it and ran about 40 yards for the winning touchdown! It was awesome. The championship game, I didn't play quite so well, but Bonnie and Arni-elei did and that made up for it. As most of you know, I like to brag, so for the rest of the day I was bugging my supervisor (who was on one of the other teams) and made him send out an email to the entire office announcing that we were the winners. Here's some of the pictures. I posted them at work so I couldn't crop them like I wanted so you can't see them very well, but it will have to do.

Halloween

On the 25th we had a Halloween activity at the church for primary. Here are some pictures of the kids in our sunbeam class. Aren't they cute?

The first picture is of Ethan with his brother and sister. Ethan is in the middle. He is quite the handful, but he is very smart and cute. He just doesn't like to sit still as you can probably tell from the picture. The next one is Aubree. She is very sweet and almost always reverent. She knows our names and listens when we talk. The third picture is Rylee. She is super smart and can be very reverent, but can also be a handful at times. She knows a lot and likes to let her teachers know that. She thinks Devan is really weird and is always giving him a look that says, "What are you?". It's pretty funny. Here's a picture of her look. You can see it better when its zoomed in but I'm at work right now so I can't really edit my pictures.

Later that night we hung out with Bonnie and Marc (some friends from work) at Marc's house. We helped Marc make some delicious pumpkin stew and we played on his Wii and watched a movie. It was loads of fun. Here are some pictures of Devan and Marc cooking. Don't they make great chefs?

I got a new shift at work!

So yesterday I started a new shift at work. Before I was working 11:30 to 8:00, which was ok, but I was getting home so late and then I had to cook dinner and we weren't eating til like 9:30. Not to mention the fact that I missed so many wedding receptions and bridal showers because of my late work schedule. As of yesterday I work 9:30 to 6:00. I think I'll like it a lot better, but there are some things that I need to get used to. For instance, I am bored to death at work right now. I used to be able to stop at the library before work and get a few books to get me through the week. But the library doesn't open til 10 so I can't do that anymore. I have to remember to stop after work. and now I can't go to my favorite store (Against the Grain) on any day except for Saturday cause its only open 10-6. But that's ok. These are just things that I have to get used to. I am very grateful to have a dayshift now because I can make dinner at a decent hour and I can go to enrichment night and I can go to wedding receptions and I can spend more time with Devan. On the whole, its a very good change for me. :)

There goes our car!

The National Kidney Foundation had somebody come tow our car away on Saturday. I was sad to see it go. But, we got a really nice car on Friday. It is laser blue metallic and it has remote start. We can start it from inside our apartment so its warm by the time we have to leave. It has a sunroof, heated seats, etc... It is a 2006 Chevy Malibu Maxx and we love it! I will have to take some pictures of the new car and post it.

Our Car Died!!! :(

Devan and I had just decided that we needed a new car and we started looking around. We were excited to be able to have two cars so that Devan wouldn't have to ride the bus all winter long. Then, this past weekend while Devan was heading to Spanish Fork for his guard drill, the car broke down. His parents brought one of their cars for him to use and then they came back later to tow our car to the shop. By that time the back window had been busted out somehow. Anyway, they took it to the shop and Jeff, the mechanic, checked it out. He said it looked pretty sick. The radiator was gushing, among other things. It doesn't even start. He said it would probably take about $800-$1000 to fix. The car is definitely not worth that much so we decided to donate it to the Kidney Foundation and now we definitely need to find a new car. The one that we were looking at before was really nice, but it turns out we weren't approved for the loan because we don't have enough credit references even though our credit score is dang good. So we went into our credit union to get pre-approved for another car that we were looking at. The credit union said it would be no problem so we went to the dealership this morning. It turns out they just sold the car. Fortunately they were able to find a couple more Malibu Maxx's for us to look at. Hopefully we'll be able to get one this weekend or early next week because right now we are borrowing my parents car. Anyway, thats whats going on right now. It's been crazy!