Halloween

It has become a tradition to have a family Halloween party! It is something we look forward to each year. This year we were able to have it at the same time we came to Utah for Amanda’s wedding. It was Sat. October 11th and Miss and Chad and his girlfriend came up from Arizona to attend. We have it at Kirsten and Carlen's house. Everyone must come in costume and we carve pumpkins and have taco soup. Meg and Steve were cowboy and cowgirl, Chad and Katie were devil and angel, Miss was a bumble bee, Mom was Pro. McGonagall, Dad was a really scary police officer, Brett and I were not really prepared so we just put some stuff on. Kristen’s family was character’s from Dr. Sues (they always have great costumes) needless to say it’s a blast.

Amanda's Wedding

We flew into Utah on Friday Oct. 10th. Mike picked us up from the airport and we went straight to the church to finish the set-up for the wedding. It looked beautiful!!!! Amanda picked awesome colors (mustard yellow, crimson red and eggplant purple) The Reception was that night and the next day was the temple ceremony. All of it was wonderful. We loved spending time with family. The food was great too she had caramel apples from the Chocolate Factory and brownies with lots of different toppings, spring rolls and wontons! Yeah, delicious! We helped ourselves to lots of leftovers.

Pics of the Accident

Still House Hunting

We have an offer in on this house! It is the second offer we have made so we hope all goes though We are just waiting to hear back from the bank.

FROG LEGS, Yep you heard it right...FROG LEGS

I just wanted to let everyone know that last Saturday between conference sessions we went out to eat at a seafood place in Baytown, Tx. I'm not a huge fan of seafood, but the Cobabes said that there was other stuff their too, so I figured I'd get a burger or something. While looking through the menu I saw a side dish......"Frog Legs." I jokingly said that I was going to order it (I actually thought someone was going to chuckle and then tell me that they weren't really frog legs, rather some fun side dish that they just named it "frog legs"). But to my astonishment they really were frog legs and the kids thought it would be funny for me to try it. I made a deal with Marnie that if she would at least take a bite then I would eat the rest of it whether I liked it or not. The deal was made!! "Fried or grilled?" the waitress asked. I replied, "well how do you like your frog legs?" (i thought that was kinda funny). Anyway, i got my frog legs grilled and they were actually really good, I really enjoyed them. They were kinda expensive ($2.00/leg, and each leg is pretty small), but all in all it was good!!! So there ya go.....I ate frog legs! (oh, and marnie did too, but just a wee bit)

New Car

So I got in a car accident last month.  I feel really stupid but I ran a red light. This is what I think went down. I was on my way to get Brett from work (note that, I am still trying to get used to the area) I have my GPS and so with the combination of looking around to familiarize myself and with the GPS telling me to “go straight on” I went “straight on” and ran the red light. I was fine (shook up and some airbag burns) and the other lady that I hit was ok. It messed up both of our cars pretty bad. Ours was declared “a total loss” So we just got a new car. It's a Toyota Corolla XLE '09. We are excited about it. I wanted to post our pics of it but our camera is out of batteries and the charger is packed somewhere with all of our stuff in the storage unit. So, no can do. This pic is the same body type, ours is a dark grey and we have tinted windows, FUN!!!

The After Math

We survived!!! This was an interesting experience! So we evacuated to “The Woodlands” and stayed with some friends, the Sorbers. Hurricane Ike hit in the middle of the night, so Brett and the one other evacuee guest stayed up all night to keep watch. I fell a sleep on the couch waiting for them. The wind was the most intense part. But luckily we were far enough inland that we didn’t get it to bad. The next morning we surveyed the damage. It was pretty bad. Trees down everywhere! The roads were covered with debris and power lines. We stayed inside all that day and the next. The Sorbers fortunately had a generator cuz no one had power. We plugged in the fridge on and off during the day to keep our food cold and used lamps at night. We cooked on the grill and propane stove. I have to admit that we might have just been hit by a hurricane but our stomachs sure didn’t feel it! We ate so good! Young Shin, Rachel and Erin are all wonderful cooks and made sure we had plenty of good food. Gas was nowhere to be found so we had to be careful of our usage. Finally after about 3 days the trees were starting to get cleared (Brett helped with chainsawing for most of that time, going from house to house with a a few other ward members with chainsaws). We went out to clean up the mess it left in the Sorbers yard. Once the gas stations were receiving gas again it was mega lines (4 hr was normal). We opted not to drive and wait until the lines were not so bad. We ended up staying with the Sorbers for about 6 days then we got word that the place we are staying, in Mont Belvieu had power. We left and waited it out there a little longer. All in all Brett and I were out of work and school for a week and a half. I went back to work and they still did not have power but were running on a generator. We are told the some people will not get power until November! We feel so blessed to have good friends that we could stay with during all this craziness. The after math is finaly starting to get a little better like a lot of lights were out downtown so traffic was crazy! Well that’s it, Thanks for all your prayers in our behalf!