BYU VS. "Eew-TAH" (UTAH)

I am writing in blue in honor of the COUGARS. Rise and Shout!!! Saturday was the BYU vs Utah football game. What an AWESOME game it was. It was a battle of the field goals for the 1st 3 quarters. Utah scored a touchdown with a few minutes left in the 4th quarter putting them up by one point (BYU 9 UTES 10). BYU took the ball with 1:38 (or something) left in the game. After 3 failed attempts to convert a first down they had no option left but to go for it on 4th and 18. Max Hall threw a beautiful pass to Austin Collie to put BYU in field goal range. After a few penalties by Utah, BYU was all set up for a Harvey Unga touchdown. It was beautiful. The Utes can complain about the last two penalties all they want, but there were missed penalties ALL game. Especially ones that the Utes commited. So that being said...BYU is awesome and the Utes are losers AGAIN. Maybe Kyle Whittingham should have tried an onside kick!!! HaHaHa

Interesting...Rachel and Nate are doing the Clayton and Heidi pose. Hmmm

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Clayton and I were with the Andrew side of the family for Thanksgiving this year. What can I say...I ate A LOT, got sick, let the food digest, felt better, and ate AGAIN. This cycle was repeated numerous times. Why I always do this I will never know. The food was great. Clayton made the best yams (I am not the cook of the family, Clayton is). I must admit I am not a yam fan, but Clayton's are amazing. Most of the family was there, even my uncle Tim and Aunt Tina's family who I have not seen in over 2 years. Food was great, family was great, Thanksgiving was great.

RICHARD SIMMONS

This is the time of year to give thanks. Today, I want to give thanks for cute, curly haired men who look GREAT in spandex shorts! Yes, I am talking about the one and only Richard Simmons. This picture was taken about 5 years ago when Richie came to ICON. At the time I was working in the testing lab and had just got done running on a treadmill. That should explain my awful appearance of no makeup and crazy hair. He is just as crazy in real life as he is on TV. My only wish is that this picture would have shown more of his spandex shorts and white t-shirt with two big eyes on it.

I would also like to give thanks to my friend, Tj who suggested that I post this picture on the blog. It was a great idea. And even though this picture was taken over 5 years ago (pre-Clayton era) it would be unfair of me to not share it so that everyone can appreciate the beauty and energy of the great RICHARD SIMMONS!

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL ON ICE

Friday night Clayton and I took our nieces, Aubri and Hadlee to High School Musical on Ice. I would be lying if I said that I didn't want to go and I knew that the only way I could convince Clayton to go was to invite Aubri and Hadlee. When the show started both girls and I were screaming. I would sing along to all the songs, which I think embarrassed Aubri because she kept hitting me and telling me to stop. I don't know why...I have such a LOVELY voice. Here are some pictures of night.

Believe it or not Clayton really got into it. When we got home that night he went straight to Hollywood video to rent HSM.

WORLD'S LARGEST LEAF PILE

Saturday, Clayton and I raked our leaves. Let it be known to our landlords (if they read this...Rachel and Nate) I believe a deduction off of rent should be taken into consideration for our awesome leaf raking skills. I think that we raked up the largest pile of leaves known to mankind. In case any of you are thinking this is a gross exaggeration we took a picture to prove it.

We didn't want little kids being tempted to jump in our gargantuan pile of leaves and spreading them back into our yard, so Clayton suggested that we slide a bunch of boards with rusty nails under the leaves.

SUBIE 2

Since we sold the escort I figured I should post a picture of our new car (that we bought back in July). We got ANOTHER Subaru Outback Sport. I guess you can say we are a tree hugging, beach loving, Chaco wearing, Subaru family.

Clayton: My wife speaks for herself... I am neither tree hugging nor chaco wearing. However I do love the beach and Subarus... especially this Subaru. It's the best car on the planet...

HALLOWEEN IN THE OFFICE

Since Rachel, Nate and the kids weren't able to come trick-or-treating to us on Halloween they came to see me at the office on Monday.

Kace was the camouflaged Ninja and Tydon is the happy lion. The dragon is named Sammy. He is a friend of Kace's. I think trick-or-treating after Halloween is the best because you score the most candy. You get all the leftovers because people (like me) have eaten too much and don't want any of it in their sights anymore.

GOODBYE ESCORT

After 7 years of driving around the piece of crap I call my escort, we finally sold it on Saturday. Yes, we are no longer a 3 car family. I was a little sad to see it go...that is until I had some cold hard cash in my hand.

Don't look too close at this HORRIBLE picture of me. We got done running the race and I had fallen asleep watching a BYU football game. But, I had to have a picture before the escort was gone...regardless of how I looked!

1ST DAM RUN

Saturday, Clayton and I ran the 1st Dam Run which is a 5k & 10K race held each year down on the island in Logan.

Speed Racer (Clayton) Says: My wife is an AMAZING runner. She was very kind in staying by my side even though I was slowing her down. I started out pretty strong... but by the time I was about 3 blocks into the race I started crying because I was cold. And tired. Literally... I cried.

PUMPKINS

For Halloween Clayton and I decided to carve pumpkins. I'm sure many of you know this, but for those who don't...it is VERY hard to find pumpkins ON Halloween. After we found our lopsided, orange balls of beauty we preformed some serious surgery on them. I went for the more traditional approach by carving a triangular eyed, semi-toothed pumpkin. Clayton was a little more creative carving a scary, jagged toothed pumpkin. Once the carving was done, the real FUN part began. We took them outside, found some gasoline in the brown recluse (our storage shed in the back) and lit them on fire. It was awesome. I'm glad that Clayton has introduced me to the art of pyrotechnics.

Notice the gas can in the back ground. Probably not the smartest place for it to be!

We didn't want to be responsible for starting the Utah version of the California fires so Clayton hosed them down with water once we were finished.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!