Leaf Peeping

Just a few pics of our Sunday afternoon drive on the Alpine Loop. The leaves are BEAUTIFUL right now! My dad just bought a sweet camera, so I felt like I was posing for engagement pictures all over again. These are some of my favorite pictures that were taken.

Musings of a Cougar Fan...

I am going to start out my post by saying that I am proud to be a BYU fan! That's right....I love my team! The past two weekends, the BYU team has played some amazing football. They went up to Washington two Saturdays ago and beat the Huskies 28 to 27 when they blocked their extra point attempt. Everyone tried to take away the shine from the victory by claiming that the PAC-10 refs made a bad call, thus moving the Huskies back 15 yards, and thus leading to their extra point being blocked. I say BULL! I'm sorry, but you can't change the fact that BYU outplayed Washington in every aspect of the game. Check the stats. Last Saturday was even better. After listening to Ute fans (including close friends and family) rib me all week about how BYU was going to be SLAUGHTERED by UCLA, BYU not only shutout UCLA but spoon fed them their worst lose in 75 years!! Oh yeah. The final score.....

In case you couldn't read it, the scoreboard says 59-0.

The whole gang after the game.

Die-hard fans!

Posing in front of the cougar. Check out all that blue! Y'know, everyone loves to hate BYU, but I don't care. I'm a cougar fan and proud of it! Go COUGS!!

Life After Summer

So, I noticed today that I haven't posted since we got home from Minnesota. oops. I feel like I haven't had a moment to catch my breath since I started work. It's been a crazy ride, but I'm happy to say that I'm actually enjoying it. I met all of the kids I will be working with last week and they are so dang cute! I definitely come home tired every night, but it's a good tired. Jordan and I have gone through major role reversals in the past week. I go to work all day, and Jordan is at home more. I come home to a clean apartment and folded laundary every day. In fact, the other day Jordan had taken a pumice stone to the hard water ring in our toilet to get it extra clean. I couldn't be happier! My favorite part of starting work was decorating my little office. That's right, I have my own office. It might be the size of a closet, but at least it's mine. And, I have a big window. I know I'm lame, but I took a couple pictures of my executive suite.



This month we also celebrated my Grandma Hale's 80th birthday. I was supposed to bring homemade ice cream to the party, but I didn't know how and decided I was going to just bring store-bought. Jordan, however, decided that it was homemade or bust, so he bought all the ingredients and made a recipe he found off the internet. His ice cream was the hit of the party. My aunt even called him for the recipe. My little homemaker.


Jordan and my cousin Dix were sporting their football shirts. Jordan's was much cooler!

These last pics are of our niece's birthday. Emma turned two on Sunday and we had a huge family party.

Emma wanted Uncle Jordan to help her change her baby's diaper.


So cute!