A Jolly Good Time

In Springville, they just opened up a place for tubing/sledding, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and other similar winter sports. So naturally we did a Saturday activity there last week. It was pretty cold but the sun eventually showed itself (when we were done), but we still had a blast. All the participants went at least once - most went multiple times - and there were just a few wipeouts but no major injuries. I took all the pictures, so unfortunately there are no pictures of me going down, but I did go and it was fantastic!

Happy Heart Day!

Normally I choose to celebrate my half birthday, which happens to fall today on heart day! However, I've come to realize that celebrating your half birthday isn't really wonderful when you are getting older. Oh well! So, at FHE on Monday we decorated valentine's cookies. My friend Luke created this lovely cookie as his valentine to me...

And so this morning, I treated myself to his genious creation.

Yeah right! Like I actually ate the cookie... true i did stick it in my mouth, but I just couldn't eat it... way too much frosting, way too many conversation hearts, way too many sprinkles, and a load of M&M's... which if i had to eat anything off the cookie, it would be the M&M's. Unfortunately, that is not very appetizing to me at the moment... or ever.

Tuesday = Bowling

Every Tuesday we go bowling in Orem. We usually have about 55-60 people bowling. We actually use the entire bowling alley (16 lanes) to accomodate all our people for one hour every week. This gives them enough time for one game and a lot of socializing and the participants love it! I decided to take a couple of videos of them bowling because it is quite entertaining. They all have a unique way of bowling. This video is Jed, he bowls like this every time and it's just great!



Scotty got a score of 177 last week, which is WAY better than I can bowl.



There's a couple other videos but they are too big to download right now... maybe you'll see them another time? Here's me and Rex... every Tuesday Rex comes to bowling with crazy sunglasses and a different hat. Also hilarious.

Salt Lake City Oveniter!

Well, another fun adventure with RAH RAH RAH! An overniter in exotic Salt Lake City which included a dinner at Applebees and a hotel stay at the fabulous La Quinta Inn. The highlight of the trip, and the main purpose we did an overniter to begin with, was to attend the Utah Jazz game. Thankfully the Jazz won against the Sacramento Kings or that would've been one sad trip for the 15 participants who came.

Happy New Year Frisbee Golf Rematch!

Well we rang in the New Year playing Wii at Michelle and Steve's friends house, the Coxey's.  It was my first experience with Wii and phew, what a workout, but way fun!  After a good night's sleep, we had our frisbee golf rematch.  This time, Michelle and Steve had purchased themselves a couple of frisbee golf Driver discs so frisbees flew farther... well, if you were Steve anyway.  He kicked our trash once again.  We were still using one regular frisbee, which we took turns using.  Wind was still a factor this time, but the lakes were significantly fewer.  

Still, my frisbee once again managed to find pretty much the only existing body of water left on course... and the frisbee golf driver discs don't float...

Steve-o getting ready to launch the frisbee and Michelle getting her disc in the bucket.  

All in all it was a good start to 2008!

An Oregonian Christmas!

It's a Merry Christmas in Portland, Oregon! And
so nice to be away from Provo for a bit. Here is Michelle and Steve's 9 foot Christmas tree covered in more than two thousand lights. Great decorating job! It also snowed on Christmas Day! It's a Christmas Miracle! It stuck but only stayed for a couple of hours. It was still exciting though!

We did regular Christmas activities which included stockings, breakfast, pickle searching, and presents. We managed to drag out present opening festivities for 2 hours... and we didn't have that many gifts under the tree... amazing! We received delightful gifts from one another - I was especially elated about receiving a pastry cutter! Weird, yes, but hey, I've been wanting one!

We decided to include frisbee golf as part of our Christmas celebration. Since it's been raining since I stepped off the airplane in addition to the snow that fell, the frisbee golf course was not in it's best condition... but it made it all the more fun. There were several lakes that aren't usually there... I'm already not that great at the game and the wind and water didn't help. Michelle and I got to use the good frisbees while Steve used the cheep/free frisbee from Wells Fargo (and I don't recommend banking there) so that was no help to him... and yet he still won which kinda tells you something about mine and Mic's skills.

My frisbee managed to find every body of water possible.

We were fairly wet and muddy in the end - I even had puddles in my shoes - but it was well worth it. I think a New Year's Day rematch is a must!

Work work work!

Work seems to have taken over my life lately so I'm posting pictures of some of the activities we've done in the last couple months. Enjoy!

This was on our way to Logan in the canyon back at the end of September. Who knew Utah could get so colorful?

In Logan, we all had the chance to milk a cow... I milked a goat in Kentucky so it wasn't too awkward. After one of the participants milked the cow, he said, "that was WEIRD!"

This is the group we took on the Logan overniter. It was an American West Festival so that kinda explains the hay and cow milking... we also went on a hay ride and then got lost in a cornmaze for almost 3 hours... the next day in Logan, it snowed...

"Peace to the white man." Craig's favorite sign and saying - "PEACE". One day he surprised us by saying, "peace to the white man." It made us laugh for a while afterwards.

In October we rode the Historic Heber Valley Train (the Heber Creeper) from Heber to Vivian Park in Provo Canyon. It was a chilly day but fun. The colors weren't as great as in Logan's canyon but it was still a pretty ride. Left: me and 3 of my co-workers. Right: the group that came on the ride.

Halloween Party. We had a mummy wrappy contest. I helped Kenneth wrap Susie. Also wrapped is Rex on the bottom left... even the hat he was holding got wrapped. The other mummy wrapping job is pretty heavy duty. I don't even know who that is.

Pumpkin picking at the pumpkin patch in Santaquin.

Top right: Hope, me and Susie at the cornmaze at Thanksgiving point. It was lame. The corn was dry and thrashed and you couldn't tell what was the path or not... and it was only the beginning of the corn maze season! The other two pictures are of the cooking class we had at the beginning of this month. We cooked several delicious meals.

So there you have it. Some of the many activities we've been up to lately. Today we just went and saw High School Musical on Ice. I've never seen the movie so it wasn't that exciting for me, and the skating was mediocre. But our folks loved it so hooray!