Late Night Cravings

So tonight me and Suzanne had a little craving...baked beans!! Ahhhh yaaaaah! This is another example of one of our random adventures that we have had here that we just laugh our heads off about. We just had a craving for baked beans at 10:30 tonight, so we went to the Creamery and got some...that's all I have to say really, but it was funny...we thought so anyways...haha! Especially since that was all we went in to the Creamery for...a can of beans...and then we left! The kid that works there is getting to know me and Suzanne really well now since we come in for little things like this all the time now. Well anyways, we got home cooked them and found out they didn't satisfy our cravings as much as we thought they would...they weren't very good. To make me feel better though Suzanne told me she's going to make me some of her "Papa's beans" (as she calls them) some time. It's her Grandpa's secret recipe! Woo hoo!

OUR BEEEEANS...before the test taste...Look how excited we are!!! (Not for long)

mmmmmm...these beans are uhhhh...really uhhhh...good...

She means business!

Sleepy Suzie????

So this is a great story! Haha! Maybe not so great actually...I think it's one of those "you have to have been there" times...but it was sooooo funny! So on Saturday night me and Sam went to our FHE brothers' dorm to watch "Clue" and Suzanne stayed home to do some homework. When we got home we came across Suzanne like this! It was hilarious!! Maybe we are just sleep deprived up here but me and Sam found this really really funny! We especially liked her apparel...the socks...the robe...the pants! Such a great combination! I would have posted these earlier but it took me a while to convince Suzanne to let me post them. So we took pictures while she was sleeping and while we were doing it Suzanne kinda woke up and started talking mean to us in her sleep...it was really funny because she didn't know what she was saying and we knew she didn't. Poor Suzanne's kind of had a rough sleeping experience here. Haha! She seems to fall asleep every where! It's quite funny acutally! We can always count on her falling asleep in Music class (which is a funny sight since I sit next to her everyday and look over at her with her head back and her mouth open!). Also another funny experience...so she comes home everyday and takes a nap and on Monday she fell asleep on the couch and like 3 people came to the door all at different times and she answered it all three times but she said she can hardly remember doing it!! She said that all she remembers is people laughing at her! It was funny! We laugh about this stuff all the time!

A Weekend Full of "Light"

I had the best weekend ever!! I wish it could happen more often! The performing group I was involved with back home ("Light") came up to Utah this weekend to put on a benefit concert in Spanish Fork, Utah, and I had the chance to see them perform and spend the whole day with them at Lagoon on Saturday. It was a blast! I miss those guys soooo sooo much! This group was my life throughout high school. I loved it! It was the best experience of my life thus far. I don't even know if the words I say could ever help someone understand the wonderful times that I had in Light. It was just a great great experience. There is just so much love and happiness that radiate from the kids in the group and especially from our director and his family. I love them so much! The Filichia's (that is the director and his family) do so much for the group. They are some of the finest people I have ever met. They are so loving and I feel so much a part of their family when I'm around them just because that's the kind of people they are. When I first saw Sister Filichia on Friday, I ran and gave her a big hug and we just started crying together. I was so excited to see her and Light! The benefit concert that was going on that night was dedicated to the Filichia's son Tim Filichia Jr. who just recently passed away in a car accident on his way back from Arizona to BYU. Their son was one of the greatest guys I knew and I'm so happy for him now because I know he's in a much better place right now doing a much greater work then he could have ever done here on this earth, but it just hurts me so much to see the Filichia's in so much pain. I love that family so much! Well anyways I had a great time this weekend and loved seeing my friends! It was a lot of fun. I even got to be in the traditional music video that Light makes every year. I felt like I was part of the group again!! The first picture is a picture of me and Whitney Dawe who is a girl from Spanish Fork that hosted me one year when I came up with Light. It was fun seeing her again. I'm wearing her hat that she wore in her performance. The second is Suz with some of our Light buddies after the concert. And the rest are pictures from Lagoon. I had a fun time bonding with all the new kids that joined the group this year AND of course my good ol' buddies from the year before. They were a lot of fun. Light's going to have one heck of a season this year!

Surgery??? WHAT?!?!?!

So today...haha...I went to the doctors for an infected toe that I just recently got. Well I guess it all started Saturday. After I got done playing in the snow, I came in and took off my shoes and socks and I noticed a blister by my big toe nail. I thought it was an odd place to have a blister, but I didn't really think much of it especially since it didn't hurt. Well Monday morning I woke up to it throbbing and it was really big, so right then I decided that it must be infected. I called the doctor to get an appointment and they set it for today at one. So today, I went in not think much about the whole thing and right as I get in they set me down in the chair and the doctor goes..."You aren't allergic to any kind of numbing medicine are you?" I told him no and I still didn't think much about it. Next the nurse has me sign a paper giving the doctor permission to take a "little" sliver of my toe nail out...still, didn't think much of it. After the doctor lays me back in the chair so I couldn't see what he was doing he say, "Okay, this may hurt a little" and I just said "Okay" STILL not thinking anything of it. Oh man!! It was the most pain I've ever been in my life! haha! That just goes to show you how much pain I've been exposed to in my life. I immediately knew what he had been hiding behind my feet. It was a needle!!! Ahhhh! Good thing he didn't show me or I might have flipped out and just decided to live off Advil the rest of my life! I don't think anyone knows my fear of needles better than my mom does...but that's story for another day haha! Anyways, after that was all done and I had stopped crying (I admit it okay...I did let a few tears slip...IT REALLY HURT THOUGH!!...It was kind of a laugh cry so the doctor didn't feel awkward), all I could feel was pressure on my toe and that was it. Then he bandaged it up and the nurse told me that I did good in my surgery. Ahhhhh...I had a surgery and I didn't even know it was going to happen. I'm never going back to the doctors again!!! haha!

A Faulty Prank

Late Saturday night, possibly early Sunday morning, (right after the snow) I walked into the living room due to some disturbing noises that I heard at the door. It kind of scared me at first, but I immediately realized that it was just someone hanging out by our door. But what were they doing? So I opened up the door to find Benjamin and Sam from our FHE group caught in the midst of a prank that they were trying to pull on us. Haha! Suckers!! They were trying to block our door by piling snow up in front of it!!!! I couldn't believe it! They seemed liked such nice boys too! Haha just kidding! Because the door was wide open though, the snow fell into our apartment. I made them get it out, while I took pictures of them for my blog (it's funny how that was my first thought..."I GOTTA TAKE PICTURES FOR THE BLOG!!") Well anyways, they assured me that it still was going to happen even though I had caught them. So then I assured back to them that THIS WAS WAR!! In the morning we woke up to the snow piled in front of our door. We never got to see the full affect though because half of it fell over in the night and all we saw in the morning was the bottom half in front of our door and the top half on the ground broken up. Haha! It was funny though! So does anyone have any ideas?

IT'S SNOWING!!!!! (just picture Toodles from Hook saying that and slamming the door)

The weather here in Utah is so weird! Let me tell ya! So yesterday night I posted pictures of us at the Halloween party. The whole night the weather was fine. It wasn't even cold. Me and Suzanne were walking around in just our costumes the whole time and we were fine. So this morning we woke up and it was as cold as could be. We had heard it was going to rain (this really wasn't that big of a shocker though since it has rained here almost every Saturday since we've been here), but we got something a lot different then rain. It SNOWED! It was awesome!!! It actually snowed on Wednesday night as well, but this snow stuck today. It was sweet! I wish I knew how to post some of the videos I took with my camera because those actually do the snow a lot more justice then what the pictures do. It was so much fun. We all ran outside when we realized it was snowing and just played and played. It was some narley snowflakes out there tonight!

Ward Halloween PARTAAA!!!

Tonight was the Ward Halloween Party! It was so much fun! I took a ton of pictures because of my new calling as the ward publicity co-chairman, so here are a few of them. Me and Suzanne went as Wilma and Betty from the Flintstones. It wasn't always going to be that way though. We were planning on being Jesse and Kelly from Saved by the Bell, but then we got to thinking that we might have a better chance of winning best costumes if we were actually somebody that people would recognize. Well we didn't win the best costumes because we arrived late and they were just starting to announce them as we entered the doors, but we still had a lot of fun doing it! AND it was only $4 for our costumes. We went to Walmart and bought some cheapie sheets and some hair spray dye, and we were set. It was awesome! In some of the pictures you will see some of the different costumes that were worn at the party. My favorite are Vicky and Daniel who were sporting a gothic punk look tonight. Ya, it was pretty freaky. I did Vicky's hair for her. Vicky's my next door neighbor by the way. She's Lanae and Becky's roommate. She was really excited about this one.