Weekend in Utah!

When baby sister started running so well for SUU- we knew we really should see her race.

And then when she decided she would go on a mission next year- we decided we REALLY needed to see her race at least once in her life.

She's pretty awesome.

So to Utah we went!

And here she is- we found her right before she raced and got to chat a little bit.

PS- it was SOOO cold.

Post race, all smiles.

After her race- we made our way back down to Provo to hang out with even more family!

Saturday we woke up to snow!

We were pretty excited... except we knew that we were going to have to sit in it through a football game.

Oh boy.

So we bundled up, and off to Lavell Edwards Stadium we went!

It was SO fun being back! 

But it was a little bit slightly miserable to be wet and cold...

(Shhh, don't tell Jon)

BUT we DID finally thaw out...

and the snow left the mountains looking fabulous!

Love, love, love BYU.

Weekend in San Antonio!

We always like an excuse to go to San Antonio- 

and having our folk dance friends around was a great excuse to go!

Isn't his smile contagious?

Jon was pretty smitten with this kid.

We went Veteran's Day weekend and got to participate in some pretty cool festivities.

We went to Hondo Airport (west of San Antonio), got to see a lot of cool airplanes...

and even got to meet the Candy Bomber, Gail Halverson!

He's pretty adorable.

Don't recall the story of the Candy Bomber from WW2?

Click here...

And then we waited around for the candy drop reenactment!

Here it comes!

 Candy falling from the sky is a adulthood childhood dream come true!

They dropped onto the field after doing multiple circles and drops so everyone would have one.

On your marks, get set, go!

So glad that we have folkies close by.

Halloween 2013

Halloween twenty-thirteen...

Has a nice ring to it.

This time of year is the best.

Although we were still battling 90 degrees and 98% humidity... it cooled down right in time for Halloween.

We found a lovely pumpkin patch... in the yard of a downtown church.

 Kind of lame- but we live in a huge city.

And carved them that night!

 

Of course- our pumpkins only lasted a day because it's Houston.

They molded in no time.

Nothing like picking up your front door pumpkin, only to leave the bottom half stuck to the front door!

And these bad (as in dope) costumes got us $100 off our rent at our apartment Halloween party!

And last, but not least- we trunk or treated it up to top off our Halloween.

Now excuse me while I stuff my face with candy.

A Visit from the Brames!

We had a lovely visit from the Brames back in October!

They hit up NASA (while I was at work... boo)

 On the train ride around the compound...

 Mission control as it appeared in the 60's.

 The Saturn Rocket!

 Touching a piece of the moon!

I finally got to join in on the celebrations for dinner.
We love some good Tex Mex!

And then headed over to the BYU football fireside!

At each away game, instead of watching film the night before, the BYU football team does a fireside in the city they're playing in.
We were an hour early and got FRONT row seats.
I wanted to "good game" Taysom as he walked by...
but settled for a sneaky pic of Bronco instead.

The next morning we woke up and headed to the BYU-U of H football game!
(Which is the REAL reason the Brames visited, let's be honest.)

 At the tailgate party we got to ride the bull...
I rocked it.

 

Jon did ok...

 Time for the BLUE fro!

 Ta-da!

 I love that people don't think his hair is real.

 The game!

 Which turned out to be one of the most intense games ever!

 So happy they won!

Thanks for visiting!