January.

January has been a fairly uneventful month...but we've kept it fun by enjoying BYU basketball.

I love watching basketball and this has been a very very fun season.

Best game so far was beating San Diego State! 

My throat and ears hurt the entire next day, but it was completely worth it.

...and my sweet husband bought me a Jimmer jersey at the game.

 

 We were very excited that they won & even ran out on the court after. Not so much because of the excitement, but because if we hadn't we probably would have been trampled by everyone behind us running down to the court.

 We waited around after so Tyler could get his own Jimmer jersey signed by Jimmer himself!

...and guess what? He's selling it..imagine that.

 Jimmer is pretty great & has sure made BYU basketball lots of fun this year, but I'm still NOT naming my child after him.

Girls Night with the Hunsaker's.

Tyler's mom had all the girls over for a girls night while all of the boys went to priesthood session.

We gave ourselves pedicures & had lots of fun doing it!

Manti Miracle Pageant

Last week I got this great idea, that it would be so fun to go to the Manti Pageant.

It's something we've never done and its FREE! and we're poor, so FREE is always good!

Well as they SAY nothing is ever free...and boy, is it true! Sure there is the gas money, but that was expected and not too big of a deal.

Care to know how much my FUN idea costed Tyler?

$120.

Why?

It's called a speeding ticket.

Neither of us think he should have gotten it.

It was kind of a joke, but luckily it didn't ruin our night.

We still had lots of fun walking around Manti. We ate dinner there and later got a yummy Gelati (not to be confused with Gelato) to share.

We tried to buy allergy medicine for Tyler because his allergies started to get bad, but do you think the Manti grocery store stays open past 8?

The Pageant was really great. A lot less cheesy than I remember it being & we had a good time.
And took cute pictures while we were at it.

The Highlight of My Weekend

Yes, it was Halloween....and yes I had lots of fun...
Surprisingly though, my favorite part of the weekend was one very SMALL moment I had at home.
I was at my Parent's house on Friday night to pick some stuff up, before heading off to a Halloween dance. I ended up being there much longer than planned and just kinda relaxed with my brother and parents. I was headed downstairs to change into my halloween costume just before leaving and my little brother, Nate, and mom were standing at the top of the stairs. Nate looks at my mom and says "I'm going with her!" (Referring to going to my room, not to the dance). I looked at him and said, "Why?" He goes, "Because you're fun." Suddenly, I had no desire to go out that night at all! I had obligations to people though, and so of course, I did leave, but I would have loved to have stayed. I know it sounds so simple, but coming from him, it meant the WORLD! It's probably one of the nicest things he has EVER said to me. When he was really little, he was my best bud. I packed the little guy everywhere with me. Then one day he decided he was TOO GOOD for me, and ever since likes to be rude to me anytime I am around. Most the time, it is in good humor. He just doesn't like to admit he likes his sister, but NEVER does he speak so nicely...especially without you asking him...So THANK YOU Nate, for making my weekend!!! Love you bud.

Oh, and for the record! I think you're fun too! ;)

I Heart The Beach

CORRECTION
[to my previous post]
So technically it hasn't been 2 years since I left the state. I just remembered that I had a very fun quick trip last year in February with my Aunt and Uncle in Arizona. I went down to tend their cute kids and had lots of fun with them as well! I even got to celebrate my 19th birthday with them because I flew down the day after my birthday. Visiting family DEFINITELY counts as a fun vacation!

I'm So Excited.

So I was thinking about it yesterday...and I'm WAAAAAYYY overdue for a vacation. I realized that the last REAL vacation I went on was Heritage Tours & a trip to Northern California in the Summer of '07! (REAL meaning...I don't count St. George as a REAL vacation.) That is way too long to go without some out of state fun. A week from Sunday I'm going to be in heaven...a week off of work...and a chance to sit back relax and enjoy the San Diego sun...not to mention a wonderful trip to Disneyland and Seaworld. The last time my fam went to Disneyland and Sea World everybody got pretty sick and miserable so I'm excited to go back again and actually be able to enjoy it! I'm so excited to go I can hardly stand it. I will DEFINITELY be posting pictures from my trip once I am back but until then...

Here are some pics from some of my FUN vacations from the past....

Northern California '07
Santa Cruz Beach

San Francisco @ the Golden Gate Bridge


Heritage Tours '07
Kirtland, Ohio

Toys R Us in New York

Niagara Falls

Washington D.C. Temple

gardening.

...gardening...

So tonight for FHE my family and I made a trip to get some plants for our garden...it isn't much since when we moved to our house that we are in now my dad made it known that he DID NOT want a garden. So needless to say we didn't make a spot for one. Well after a few years of living here he changed his mind, so for the last few we have been planting our so called garden in spots of our flower beds. Sounds kinda tacky but it works I guess. No one ever really sees our backyard anyway. Last year our garden completely failed due to a crazy windstorm that basically ripped everything out of the ground. The only survivors were a few pumpkins and one of our crook neck squash plants. This year we changed our strategy and moved where our garden is...it now has the fence to help protect it, so we'll see how it goes. We (being my Dad, Mom, Kev, Page, and I) bought crook neck squash, tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, and jalepenos and got them planted. It was suprisingly a lot of fun, unfortunately we couldn't find any zucchini plants so we still need to go get one of those and we will be all set for summer :) We ended our fantastic FHE with Cafe Rio tostadas....YUM!