Happy Halloween!!!!

This is my family's cute dog Daisy in her halloween costume! She is the cutest dog ever and puts up with everything we like to dress her up in. She just looks at us like "Are you seriously making me wear this?! I'm embarrassed, take it off!" In past years she has also been been a pumpkin, Santa, and a superstar to name a few! Hope everyone has a great day and gets lots of candy!

Cyclocross Fan!!!

Well, I'm officially now a cyclocross fan....especially when it comes to watching Jake! He did his 2nd cyclocross race today at Fort Buenaventura, but it was my first time being able to watch him. I loved it and he did so amazing! Here are a few clips and pictures so you can get a little taste of what it is like:

There are some pretty intense spots on the course! These obstacles being one of them. I just know if I was to even attempt to walk over those things I would probably fall on my face and they were able to do it running and carrying their bikes!

He had so much fun doing it he even did an extra lap after riding for 45 minutes! No, the extra lap really was just on accident becuase they didn't announce he was done and it was kind of confusing! That's okay I guess, I was able to get more pictures!!!

Jake ended up 4th overall! I was so proud of him! He's just a natural! It's amazing how good he still looks after riding so hard for almost an hour!!! (the race was 45 mins, but with his extra lap it was closer to 55 minutes!) Way to go Babe, you did awesome!

Fall Break!!!

Friday was our Fall Break at school. One day isn't much, but that's okay...we'll take what we can get!

Thursday night we went to my mom's house becuase my cousins AJ and Crystal were up from St. George visiting. They have the cutest kids! This was mine and Jake's first time meeting Maycie, who is just 2 months old. She is such a doll!

Friday morning we went to the Ogden temple to do a session, but when we walked in they asked us if we wanted to do sealings. I was really excited becuase we had never done sealings before! It was really neat. One of the neatest things is one certain guy we met while we were there who was one of the witnesses. He was 101 years old! When the sealer told us he comes to the temple 4 days a week, Brother Newey responded "It's because I have nothing else to do!" He was such a cute old man and I want to be just as willing to serve when I get old (hopefully not that old...unless I can get around that good!)

Afterwards, Jake had some fieldtrips we needed to do for his geography of Utah class. We decided to go out out the Bear River Bird Refuge and Golden Spike at Promontory Point. I had never been to the bird refuge, so it was pretty cool. One of my favorite displays they had were some different bird eggs. The smallest is a humming bird, and the largest is a pelican. Jake also got to see how his wingspan measured up!

Although Golden Spike is out in the middle of nowhere, it was still cool to see. I hadn't been there since elementary school. It was fun to see the trains in the engine house and learn the history behind it all! It's pretty amazing what they were able to accomplish. The best part about the day by far is that we got to spend the whole day together!

Saturday Jake did a cycle-cross bike race at the Weber fairgrounds. He has never done a race of this type before. It's on a dirt track that you ride around for 45 mins. It has obstacles on the course where you have to get off your bike and carry it. He did awesome. I am so proud of him. He took 9th place out of about 30 riders, which is AMAZING considering it is his first race and many of the riders are usually in a faster category than Jake (they combined the 3 groups for this race). I tell ya, that kid is unstoppable! I was so bummed out that I couldn't be there because I was working, but hopefully I'll be able to make the next one.

Saturday night we went to feed the ducks and geese, an activity that we thoroughly enjoy this time of year. We first made a stop by Beus pond and then to the pond at Weber State. This goose was immediately Jake's favorite becuase it has a banded leg...his goal is to someday shoot a banded goose!!! My favorite was the goose that was eating right out of my hand! We even saw a swan up close and personal!

We also had a fun time hanging out with Nate and Karly this weekend Karly, your lasagna was delectable! We also got to go to dinner with Jake's mom, aunts and grandma on saturday night. They were down shopping becuase it was the opening day of the deer hunt. It was so fun to visit with you!

Busy but Boring

Well, I haven't had much to write about lately. Life has been busy, but nothing exciting going on. We had a really fun time this last weekend with Stacy and Jeremy. Stacy: your taco soup was amzing! The perfect meal for a snowy night! It's so good to stay in touch with friends!

I was disgusted to wake up Sunday morning to 4 inches of snow! Outrageous...it is the middle of October. The neighbors down the street must have been thrilled about it because we came home from church and they had a big snowman built already!

Today was a big day at school for me. I gave my first shots to a real patient! (We practiced on each other twice). She was nervous, but not as nervous as she would have been if she would have known it was my first time (I decided to keep that piece of information to myself!) It went well and luckily there was no complications or bruises that showed up!

Amy tagged me last week, so I figured I'd feel them out to help you get to know a little bit about me and give me something to write about....

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8 Obsessions of mine:
1. Jacob
2. Having the least clutter as possible
3. Lists...I'm so much more efficient with them
4. Having good grades
5. Trying to be organized
6. Balancing the checkbook and having it match the amount in the account
7. Making the bed each morning
8. Making Jake happy

8 goals for the future:
1. Graduate and pass my dental hygiene boards
2. Raise a righteous family
3. Buy a home
4. Build a home with at least 3 acres of land and a pond for Jake to train his dogs...definitely NOT in the city!
5. Learn to speak spanish fluently
6. Learn to play the guitar well
7. Serve a mission
8. Have horses for our family to ride and enjoy

8 vacation want to's
1. Sandiego CA...Jake has never been to DisneyLand, so someday I'm talking him and doing a session through my favorite temple!
2. A cruise anywhere!
3. Alaska (this would be Jake's #1 choice)
4. Florida
5. A church historical tour
6. Washington D.C.
7. Back to Hawaii!!! (but spend 2 weeks there this time!)
8. Somewhere out of the country (I've never been!)

8 of the best words...sorry, not creative enough to come up with this one

8 things I'm doing tonight
1. Make dinner...we're having personal pizza's (I think we're going to try them in our pazookie skillets, so hopefully they turn out ok!)
2. Laundry...darks
3. Practice my guitar
4. Do homework
5. Help Jake study for his test
6. Balance the checkbook
7. Call the HP people to see if they have any clue what is wrong with our computer
8. Hopefully squeezing in some time to ready my book...Breaking Dawn

If you would like to continue with the tag, feel free to!

Conference Weekend

This weekend flew by, but it was great! It was so nice not to have to go to work! On Friday after I got done with school we went up to Logan for the weekend.

Jake's favorite part of the weekend was the opening of the duck hunt. Connar and him look forward to that day the whole year long! They're crazy about it! They day went well for them they shot 8 total and got drenched...the perfect weather for duck hunting!

Jake got a kick teaching Carter (who's only 2) all about hunting. Carter loved seeing the duck decoys and the ducks they brought home. Jake can't wait to have a hunting buddy. I'm really going to have to set an age limit on when our kids can go hunting with him!

Conference was amazing. It's so great to have a living prophet on this earth today to guide us! While the guys were at the priesthood session, the girls went out to eat at Firehouse Pizzaria and then played some fun games afterward.

On Sunday we took family pictures with Jake's family between sessions and then went and had a YUMMY ham dinner. After this we went to my mom's house in Centerville to see my family. We were celebrating my Grandma's birthday and my cousin Keith was up from Arizona. I was stoked to see him because I haven't seen him for 3 years!!! (Partly due to his time in Japan serving his mission). It was great to be able to catch up with him. We had turkey dinner here, which was DELICIOUS! We were fed way to good this weekend...it will probably show when we get on the scales!

It was disappointing to have to start the week and go back to work and school. Maybe some day somebody will invent something to make the weekends pass slower and the weeks faster!

The news of the week

Jake's contribution to this post: This past week I went to Las Vegas for Interbike with the guys from the shop. We stopped in St. George to do a little biking. Wednesday night we went "street" riding and I smashed my shin on my pedal...no that is not my knee, that is a large bump on my shin!

We then woke up and went for a mt ride that was awsome, called Jem Trail just outside of Hurricane. we drove to Vegas, which by the way was my first time ever in Vegas. We went to the bike show and looked around before going to the Tropocana to spend the night. We checked in and went to eat at a buffet, after dinner we watched a crit bike race at Madalay Bay which was amazing. Nate Mess. won 40 $ it would have been 60$ if he would not have played his 20$ on the way out of town. We drove a lot and had a good time. Thanks to Matt for everything!

Here is a clip from the crit race. They are pretty intense to watch. It's amazing how they come flying by! If anybody knows how to switch the video so it is right die up, please let me know becuase I couldn't figure it out!

Kristin's contribution to thist post: I REALLY missed Jake while he was gone! This was the longest we had been apart (from Wed. morning to Fri. night), but luckily I had lots of homework to keep me busy! It was sure good to see him when he got home, but I'm glad that he was able to go and have a good time. By the way...this injury if proof of why I won't let him "street" ride very often!

On Saturday Jake rode in a crit in downtown Ogden. He is still determined to stay in shape...you'd think by now I'd have had some of his determination rub off on me! He was riding really strong and riding really well until he started to have trouble with the computer sensor on his bike rubbing. Although he had some bad luck and was really frustrated with the referee, I was really proud of him. I love to watch him race and doing the things he loves!

After Jake's race we hurried to Centerville (Jake actually rode his bike, but I knew I'd never make it on a bike so I drove!) to help my little sister get ready for Homecoming. It was her first formal dance. I just wanted to tell her how cute she looked!

Recap of Some Important Summer Events

I decided I needed to blog about some of the events that happened this summer BEFORE I started blogging!

1.)The biggest event: Our trip to HAWAII!!!! It was awesome! We went with my brother, Court, and Jake's parents. This is where Jake served his mission so it was way fun getting to meet some of the people he worked with and served. We did so many fun things!

We saw lots of pretty sunsets, tropical flowers and palm trees!

We ate at The Famous Giovanni's Shrimp Truck! (I was feeling kind of sick so I didn't get to eat much! It looks pretty sketchy to eat anything that came from anywhere this van, but it really was delicious!) We also had the BEST shaved ices ever at Motsumoto's. They were so good we had to go twice!

Of course we had to go through the temple while we were there! It was amazing!

We went to Honu beach and got to see 2 sea turtles! They were so big! We had to stop by several times before we found some that had come up on the beach to bask.

We also went to the Polynesian cultural center, went on a few hikes: 1 up diamond head and the other to a really whimpy waterfall...but they were both gorgeous! We also went to Pearl Harbor, The Dole Plantation and the swap meet. One of our favorite things we did was snorkeling...we got to swim with the turtles and see lots of pretty fish! We packed so many fun things onto the vacation, we wish we could have stayed for another week!

While we were there we actually discovered some of Jake's favorite foods from his mission. One of which being chocolate Halpea pie. Another was Li Hi Muing...not my favorite, but its good on pineapple! We loved their coconut syrup and Hawaiian sun drinks!

Unfortunately on the way home we got stuck in the airport (we flew stand by with buddy passes from Court). We had planned to get home around 8:00 in the morning, but didn't get home till about 6:00 pm. It was still worth it though!

2.) This summer I had my summer work party at Lagoon. As always, Jake's favorite ride was the ride home :) but that wasn't the best part for me! They had a drawing with all the employees and I ended up winning a 4 GB ipod nano! I NEVER win anything so I was stoked!

3.) We also went on a really pretty hike up waterfall canyon (in Ogden) with our friends Nate and Karly. (They do a really good job keeping us entertained!) Jaked packed subway sandwiches up for us and we were able to really enjoy ourselves!