The Holidays Begin

I had a great Thanksgiving vacation. I did lots of fun things including snowmobiling, Temple Square, swimming in hot springs, bowling, just enjoying family, lots of cards games and LOTS of food. It was a much needed break and it was so much fun.

We decided to kick off the Christmas season by making Christmas sweaters.

Camerin, Me, Shae (Cam's sister), and David

The Big Judd

Halloween!!

We went to the ward Halloween party to celebrate Halloween. Camerin and I went as a s'more.

My roommate Bonnie (whose birthday happens to be on Halloween) was a Gypsie fortune teller. She's really good at staying in character. She told me that in my future she see's a tall handsome man holding my hand, and lots of dogs as our children. I liked the part about the tall handsome man, but I don't think I'll be having tons of dogs nor will I be pretending that they are my children. Good one Bonnie...haha

David was a transformer. This was him transformed. When he was standing upright it all folded back strapped to his back.

Some photo booth photos

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know that I was really here and that I really lived.”

-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Pumpkins!

We have a pumpkin carving contest, Me and Camerin vs. David and Bonnie. We posted this picture on facebook for voting.

Me and Cam won by a landslide!! I thought their's was great too. Just for the record we didn't look at each others' pumpkins until we were completely done. It was just a coincidence that we had similar ideas.

Fireball

We went to the Sand Dunes on Saturday night to play FIREBALL!! You might be wondering what fireball is....Well, you soak a ball of yarn in kerosene for long time, light it on fire and throw it around. Sound crazy? yes, but hey it's actually pretty cool. It doesn't burn at all(as long as you don't try to hold onto it for a long time). It's just like an extreme version of hot potato.

This is an open shutter picture. It captured all the light for 13 seconds, so the ball moved around pretty fast!

Catching/throwing the fireball.

Conference Weekend

I went to Grandma and Grandpa Hale's house for General Conference.

I took my roommates Megan and Bonnie with me.

Hanging out with cousins.