Halo 3!! (...yeah...)

Matt has been so excited for the release of Halo 3 and finally the day has arrived. He has been watching the Halo 3 Countdown show on G4. He is totally PUMPED! At midnight he'll be going to get the game and plans on playing tonight. I'll just stay up long enough to get a few pictures :)

Leni Jane

An old friend of the family became a dad this past week. Little Leni Jane was born on Wednesday to Shane and Hailey. She weighed 5 lbs 11oz. Congrats!!

A Funny Musical

This weekend we went to a very interesting musical that our friend Haley was in called Urinetown. That's right "pee"town. The whole show was all about it and how people were being charged beyond reason to use the "public amenities." It was very funny and so random. A lot of the songs were spoofs of other musicals like Fiddler on the Roof, Thriller, Guys and Dolls, and lots more. It made us laugh... a lot. If anyone has the chance to go don't be afraid of the title, just get ready to be entertained. The musical even got some Tony Awards. The Swift Creek Mill is a cool building that has been redone to be a playhouse and a restaraunt. It was fun to see sweet Haley as a hunchback, leg-braced old lady that even cursed a few times. We're excited to see what she does next.

Weirdest Thing Ever

Sorry for all the confusion. I wanted a change for the blog but I'm still learning . I just fiddle around until I've made a big mess and then try to clean it up. I'm just really frustrated right now. Check back in a little while. Hopefully I'll have figured it out.

Anyway...we've been having problems with bugs in our apartment lately. Little tiny annoying flying bugs. The apartment complex had the pest control company do a routine extermination for all the apartments. We left a specimen of the bugs (in a cup with plastic wrap and a rubber band) for the exterminators to look at. He called later and said that they must be coming from our dry foods. So I went through all our cupboards and threw away anything that was open. Nothing. No huge clumping of bugs anywhere. We continued to search and finally found where they were coming from.








Apparently rodent poison makes a nice little home for them. Crazy. Who would have thought they could thrive on poison. Who knows how long they've been down there. So now our cupboards are clean and bare but we no longer have the bug problem (we hope).

New Look

I am so not ready for summer to be over. Hence the flowers. Matt wasn't very happy about the blog being all "girled up." It probably won't stay this way for long.

So Matt and I have been thinking more and more that we might be ready for home ownership. Here is a picture of a really cute house we saw. We think it is a bit over our price range, but we can dream can't we?!

It will still be awhile before we actually get into a house. Last saturday we spent most the day driving around to different houses that Matt found on the internet. It's interesting to see all the different areas and how quickly the neighborhoods can go from really cute to really scary within a few blocks of one another.

One Week Down!

So, I've made it through the first week of school. I have to say, it wasn't too bad. A whole year of experience sure pays off. I didn't feel like I was in the dark this time around. I have a cute class, 12 girls - 5 boys. They are really catching on quick to the daily routine and already want to help out. That's something we didn't see from last year's class till after Christmas. These kids a little more "with it" than last year. I don't have nearly as many behavior issues. But it might be a little early for that. They are just beginning to come out their shells. Today they were really chatty. Maybe that's just because it is Monday. So far I'm glad I decided to stay with this age another year. We'll see how I feel in a few months ;)

Matt has been busy with school (what's new?). He has one or two tests every week. I don't envy him at all. He's doing really well though. Keep it up!

Labor Day

Our ward has Breakfast in the Park every Labor Day. Last year we didn't go for some reason. I'm guessing we were probably visiting Corey. But this year we went. It wasn't anything spectacular, just muffins, bagels, and fruit. yoohoo! So we ate, talked to some new couples in the ward and headed out for the more exciting part of our day. It was Haley's birthday! We went 'Putt-Putt' golfing (or miniature golfing for all my western U.S. readers). It was a lot of fun. Mostly goofing off. The highlight of the afternoon was when Brian hit the ball really hard and knocked it out of the golf course and off the roof of the building. It was pretty funny. Matt and Kimberly were the only ones that actually finished all 18 holes. I don't even remember who won.

We had an army guy following us around. He kept getting in the way of the hole.




Are we still golfing??

The Birthday Girl!!

The Deal or No Deal Game


Matt loved it even though he only got 8 tickets. He didn't want to look better than the birthday girl who finished with a deal of 100 tickets!

Dental School Kick-Off BBQ

So, this happened a while ago but I thought it would be worth mentioning. Every year the dental school has a Kick-Off BBQ where they have food, raffle prizes, silent auctions, a moon bounce for the kids (mostly kids from our fruiful ward), and some free stuff too--toothpaste...that's all we ever get. So if anyone needs some toothpaste, we can hook you up :) We entered into a raffle where you buy the ticket and then if your ticket gets drawn you get half the pot. Matt bought ten dollars worth of tickets and we still didn't make it. Good thing we don't gamble regularly. The casinos would love us.

Cameron and Haley

Brian and Kimberly

Brian and Brittany







It was so hot and humid that we didn't stay very long. Instead we decided to go to some movies. The guys went to Simpsons and the girls (Haley and I) went to No Reservations (good movie, I liked it anyway). Cameron couldn't miss having his picture taken with the Simpson's clan (he's the one on the left).