HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Hey everyone!!! We want to wish ya'll a very Happy Halloween and hope you have tons of fun!!! We put up our goblin decoration tonight with some scary music playing and it turned our really cute. We even had a few trick or treaters so we're excited. We had one lady tell us she loved our decorations and one little boy who took off running when he heard the creepy music. I felt bad so I explained to him that it's fake and it's only a decoration then loaded him up with some candy so he was happy. Also, since we didn't really have anything planned out as far as costumes go, I went to the store and bought us Michigan State T-Shirts(Go Spartans) for our costumes. I can't believe how competitive Michigan State and University of Michigan fans are. We were standing outside putting up our decoration and a couple walked by and said to us, Hi, GO BLUE(University of Michigan) cuz we had our Michigan State Shirts on. It was pretty funny. Our neighbor downstairs came over for dinner and we cooked some steaks and dutch oven potatoes. It was a really great Halloween and we hope you all are having a great one too!!

Will carving out the top

Carving out the face

CarVin the GINORMOUS puMpKiN!!!

So yesterday night Will n I took on the job of carving out our 100 lb pumpkin. I thought it was going to be so hard and it would take us forever. I was really shocked when we cut the top off the pumpkin and there wasn't hardly any seeds inside. It only took us about a 1/2 hour to carve it up. It's soooo cute. We both really love it. Hope you enjoy it too. We're trying to bring in some trick or treators with all our decor and stuff cuz I stocked up on candy and I'm going to make some popcorn balls to give out. So hopefully we get some kids or Will and I are going to be really full come Halloween night!!

7 Things and Crazy 8's TAGGED!!!

LUCKY 7'S
7 Things I Can Do...
1. Study All Day
2. Run a 5K
3. Bake Goodies!!!
4. Be a Great Wife
5. Play Basketball/Volleyball
6. Ride Motorcycles
7. Spend All Day with Will(if that was every really possible)

7Things I Cannot Do...
1. Get on the top of a Ladder (I'm scared of heights)
2. Kill a spider without a lot of tissue
3. Study enough.....UH!!!
4. Cook Cinammon Rolls (they're never poofy enough)
5. Change a tire
6. Quit thinking about how lucky I am to be married to Wil
7. Go watch the Pistons tomorrow(too much homework)

7 Things That Attracted me to Will!!!
1. His dimples!!
2. His passion for the Gospel.
3. He is so straight forward and tells it like it is
4. He thought it was so cute that I am so tall(it's hard to find a guy like that..trust me!!)
5. He was always talking to me about runnin and being fit...He's very motivational.
6. He cooked breakfast for me and told me he likes to cook
7. I dont' think there was anything that wasn't attractive about Will to me!!(and there still isn't)

7 Things I say Most Often...
1. Hey Babe....
2. Hey What's up.....
3. Dovey.....
4. What did you think of the homework?
5. What do you want for dinner?
6. Can i go shopping?
7. How do I do that?

7 People I admire:( I know I listed actually more than seven but they're all people I really admire)
1. Will
2. Mom/Dad
3. Will's parents
4. My sisters!!!(McCall,DJ, and Doh-doh)
5. Grandma Carol
6. Shayla
7. Coach Marshall

7 Favorite Foods...
1. SPAGHETTI(ALL TIME FAV.)
2. Salad w/ home-made ranch!!
3. Grilled Chicken
4. My dad's bbq hamburgers
5. Grandma Carol's macaroni salad
6. Fresh Watermelon
7. Steak(when it's not mooing at me)

CraZy 8'S
8 TV Shows I Like To Watch
1. One Tree Hill
2. Little People, Big World
3. Clean House
4. The Hills
5. Sunday Night Football
6. Man v. Wild and Survivorman
7. Little House on the Prairie(yes...i know i'm a little old for this show)
8. Project Runway

8 Things That Happened Yesterday...
1. Read my Scriptures
2. Went to Contracts Class
3. Ate Lunch
4. Went back to the Library
5. Fixed some leftover for dinner
6. Ate dinner w/ Will
7. Worked out at the gym with Will
8. Watched One Tree Hill

8 Favorite Places To Eat...
1. Macaroni Grill
2. In n Out Burger
3. Any little Koney out here
4. Olive Garden
5. Costa Vida(oh how I miss it..I cant' wait to eat a grilled chicken salad!!!)
6. Milt's
7. Rusty's
8. Arby's

8Things I'm Looking Forward To...
1. Thursday afternoon(School will be done for the week)
2. Halloween
3. Spending Saturday with Will
4. Taking Finals
5. Going home for Christmas
6. Seeing all the nieces and nephews
7. Decorating for Christmas
8. Cooking my first Thanksgiving turkey

8 Things On My Wish List...
1. Will could go to school
2. We were debt free
3. Will didn't have to paint anymore
4. To go to a concert
5. To not procrastinate my homework
6. Be able to drive home when I needed to
7. I could get over my 5 k hump and run more
8. Grandpa Dale would get better
8 People I Tag...
1. McCall
2. Kiesha
3. Kirstie
4. Megan
5. Katie
6. Darci
7. Kendra
8. Shayla

Driving up to my School

This is a picture of what I see every morning driving into my school. It's sooo pretty. There are huge trees that line the whole driveway. It's like having a school right in the middle of the forrest. I LOVE IT!!!

My School!!!

This is the front doors to the Cooley Law School. It's only about 1 year old and it's soooo nice inside. They have brand new everything and it's all top of the line!!! I am really liking school and even though it's really tough, I know it will be worth it.

Chrysler Headquarters Building

The Chrysler Building

I get to drive past the Chrysler Building every morning when I leave school. It's one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen and it's huge. This picture doesn't do it justice. My school is actually right across the street from Chrysler headquarters.

Fire Hydrant Red Bushes!!

It' s so amazing how many colors the trees turn here. They get so bright and pretty. These were our green bushes about two weeks ago and now they are red as the fire hydrant behind them.

CrAsH!!!!!!!

Okay so we had quite the experience today coming home from church. Will wanted to show me this huge castle he saw the other day so we took a little detour from our normal path home. We checked out this huge castle which we found out was like a huge Christmas store and diner and like reception hall. I keep saying huge cuz it was HUGE!!! It was seriously like three blocks long. Anyways, we were on our way home and it had been raining cats and dogs and we were on Baldwin. We live just off Baldwin but we were on the North end where there is always traffic. We were cruising right a long when all the cars in front of us slammed on their brakes and Will well being quite the Michigan driver waited a little too long to brake and when he did I looked in my mirror and saw a saturn slam on their brakes and swerve to the right to avoid us, unfortunatley for him the dodge truck behind him didn't swerve to get out of the way. The truck hit the saturn which his our jetta!!! YIKES!!! I yelled Look at the Saturn just in time for Will to swerve to the left to avoid a total crash. Will was so mad and I was just in total shock!! We pulled over with the other two cars only to find out we had not a scratch or dent on the Jetta!! Will talked to the guys and they worked out their insurance issues and we headed back down the road. I am sooooo glad that nothing happned to our car and to any of us!!! Afterwards, we just couldn't help but laugh cuz it was soooo crazy. Ne ways the Jetta is doing great and Will and I are okay dokey too!! Will n I also want to give a CONGRATS shoutout to Mitch and Kirstie Moore. They had a little boy, Braxton Mitchell Moore and we are sooo happy for them. I took my final for my Intro to Law Class last Friday and I'm so glad I will now have Friday nights to spend with Will. We went to the movie last night and we decided to go see W. the movie about George W. Bush and we both thought it was the dumbest movie ever!!!! We left about 45 minutes into it. I can't explain exactly why we didn't like it but it was not entertaining at all. So we decided to walk around the mall since we were there. We watched UFC last night and we saw such a good fight between Anderson Silva and Patrick Cote. I was so bummed when Cote's knee got hurt and they had to call the fight. There totally needs to be a rematch between those two when Cote is healthy. Anyways... peace out and have a super great day!!!

TAGGED

1. Where did you meet your husband? Well he put toothpaste in my hair when I was like 8 and we grew up down the street from each other so we knew who each other was.
2. How long did you date before you got married?Well.....1 year of online dating..ha ha when Will was in Iraq and then 5 months of dating before we got engaged.
3. How long have you been married? 1 year and 8 months
4. What does he do that surprises you? Buys me flowers, cooks dinner, buys me pumpkins, he's always surprising me.
5. What is your favorite feature of his? My favorite feature of Will's is his dimples and his arms. I hope when we have kids they get his dimples!!
6. What is your favorite quality? Will has a huge heart and he is so positive and supportive of me.
7. Does he have a nick name for you? Chech-nymph(it's a fly he ties for fly-fishing), Dovey, Babe, Dop, Churry-Burry!!
8. What is his favorite food? Steak, King Crab, or this Taco Cassorole I make.
9. What is his favorite sport? Any, he loves them all.
10. When and where did you first kiss? In his sister's truck when he dropped me off at home one night before he left for Iraq.
11. What is your favorite thing to do as a couple? Honestly, I love to do anything as long as we're together. We ride bikes, movies, work-out, shop, and cook.
12. Do you have children? Nope
13. Does he have any hidden talents? Yes....I find he has new talents everyday. He can pretty much do anything he tries.
14 How old is he? 25
15. Who said I love you first? That would be me!!!
16. What is his favorite music?country, rock, whatever is on the radio at the moment
17. What do you admire most about him? I admire his strength. He is so strong in moments when I am weak and I really admire that.
18. What is favorite color? Red
19. Will he read this? Maybe...
20. Who do you tag? I tag Keisha, Megan, Kendra, Katie, and McCall

Trip to the Detroit ZOO!!!!

So today I surprised Will and we took at trip to the Detroit Zoo. It was soooo much fun. We seriously had a blast. We saw soooo many fun animals. The first thing Will said when we pulled in was I can't wait to get some junk food at the snack bars. He has been working out so much lately and we both have been watching what we eat, but Will let that fly out the window for the day at the Zoo. He put down a small pizza, cheeseburger, bag of chips and a lemonade in no time. It was really fun because they had the whole Zoo decorated for Halloween. They had so many pumpkins carved. We saw Mickey Mouse pumpkins, baseball ones, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pumpkins, the Adams Family pumpkins, the Simpsons pumpkins, basically you name it and they had it carved or painted on a pumpkin. We saw some huge rhinos!! I couldn't believe how big they were. One of them was running and charged at this barrel toy it had and threw it in the air. We also saw a huge chimp that I thought for sure was a gorilla becuase of its size but it wasn't . We saw bears, tigers, lions, snakes, kangaroos, elk, deer, zebras, hippos, giraffes, donkeys, eagles, and so so much more. My favorite part was well just being with Will and also I loved the Hippo and the Polar Bear. When we were at the Elk Exhibit this cute little girl walked by and said Dad look, it's elfs!!! I was laughing so hard. Her dad said no honey they are elk and she said no dad they are elfs!!! We rode a little virtual reality ride they had which made us both kind of sick to our stomachs and before we left we had to ride the train around the Zoo. It was sooooo much fun and I'm so glad we finally got to spend a whole Saturday together. Time is so precious to us because Will is always working or working out and I'm always studying or doing something related to school. I am really grateful we got to go to the zoo today. We have Stake Conference tomorrow and I am really exicted. It's in a town we've never been before called Grand Blanc. On a little bit different note, I just need to express my gratitude and gratefullness to the Gospel in my and my husband's lives. We are so truly blessed daily. I have been having a really hard time with my grandpa dale being so sick back in Utah and knowing that I am out here in Michigan and the only thing that seems to comfort me is knowing that Families are Eternal. I love my family and all my friends so much and I appreciate all of you in our lives. I again just want to express my love for my grandparents and I know this is a hard time and you are in our prayers always!!!

HI-YAH!! I was rockin' out with the Teenage-Mutant Ninja Turtles made out of pumpkins!!

Will chillin' with a lion

Will with a seal

So I was trying to get a nice picture with my hubby with a seal in the background and right as I went to take the picture the Seal turned around, so I ended up with a picture of my cute hubby and a seal's bum!!!

Oh isn't it nice to be tall.

Me with the Hippo

I think that hippos are seriously the cutest animal, so Will made sure we got a picture of me with the hippo!!!

The Rhino(He was HUGE!!! Like almost 8,000 lbs!)

The Chimp

Midterm Results....

Hey everyone I just wanted to fill ya in on my midterm results. I didn't want to post anything until I got all of them back. I did really well on my contracts midterm and I was a little nervous I didn't do well on any of the others so I waited until I got all of them back before posting anything. Anyways, I got the second highest score on all my midterms in my classes!!! WOO-HOO!!! I am not saying this to brag, merely to express my gratitude for prayer, scripture study, sleeping very few hours while studying and cramming my brain with so much info. I guess it all paid off. Now I just have to keep going and make it through finals in December and I should pass my classes!! I made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies yesterday and they turned out delicious. I ran out of vanilla extract so I added a little orange extract and oh my goodness, they turned out better than any I have ever made before. I also heard my Grandpa Dale is doing a little bit better, so thanks for the prayers for him and please continue to remember him in your prayers!!! Peace out!!

My Grandpa Dale

I just wanted to say that my Grandpa Dale is pretty sick and he is up in the hospital in Provo. I just want to ask everyone to please keep him in their prayers!! I also just wanted to say how much I love him and my Grandma Carla!!!

Our Home Decorated for Halloween

Another Home Pic

Halloween Sugar Cookies

Today instead of doing all of the laundry and cleaning I needed to do, I decided to do something that is way more fun. I made Halloween Sugar Cookies. They turned out really cute and yummy too. I was talking to Dylann this afternoon on the phone and she asked what I was doing and I told her making sugar cookies and she told me my mom says i'm gonna make some too. It was so stinkin cute. I ran out of icing and decided to freeze the rest of the cookies instead of make more icing. Will went to the store for me to buy some cookie cutters and I told him to get a pumpkin, ghost and maybe a bat or something. He came home with $40 worth of cookie cutters. I now own almost every possible Halloween cookie cutter. Thanks honey!

Burnin' the Midnight Oil!!

So yesterday I didn't have class and I was so excited to have a day off. I had wanted to bake some Halloween Sugar Cookies and get our house all clean and catch up on laundry but that did not happen. Will's boss told him that he needed to have this house he was painting finished yesterday. Will asked me if I would go help him paint and get finished. We went to work at like 7 am and drove to this super cute small town called Almont. It reminded me sooooo much of Minersville. When we got to the house, I figured we would probably be ther until like 5 o'clock and then we'd be finished but Oh WAS I WRONG!! We painted from 8 in the am until 4 am!!!!! It was the longest job but we had so much fun working together. We had the radio blasting and we were rockin out. By 2 am, I was so tired that the only thing that kept me going was thinking that in a couple hours I would be in my bed sleeping and Will would be getting a nice paycheck. We went to a little fast food place called "Charlie Browns" for dinner and it was yummy. This town is seriously the cutest town that I've been to so far in Michigan. They have a little farmer's market and that is where Will bought my ginormous pumpkin and we also buy lots of corn from there too. We are going to go back there sometime this coming week or the following to watch the Almont Raiders Football team and I will take some pics of how cute the town is. So we went to bed at 5 am and woke up at noon. We are both pooped out!!! So today I am going to do laundry, clean my house, do homework, and hopefully if I have time, bake some sugar cookies!!! My dad and mom told me today that my Grandpa Dale is in the hospital up in Provo and I just wanted to say that I hope he gets better and him and my grandma Carla and I hope everything is okay!! Also, I got to talk to my Grandma Oma today and it was awesome. I was about in tears because Ellen called me from her work and said I have someone that wants to talk to you and it was Granmda Oma!!!! I'm so happy I got to talk to her. Thanks Ellen!!!! Hope everyone has a great day!!

TaG!!!

K friend, my 4th picture in my 4th picture file!

This was when Will and I were at my family Christmas party in Richfield a couple months before we got married. That's my silly goofty Will!!! So I Tag McCall, Keisha, Katie, and Megan!!!

CANADIAN THANKSGIVING!!!

OUR NEIGHBOR, MIKE, IS FROM CANADA AND THE OTHER DAY HE WAS TELLING ME THAT THIS WEEKEND IS CANADIAN THANKSGIVING. I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD CHOCOLATE PIES AT THANKSGIVING AND HE KINDA LAUGHED. I TOLD HIM THAT CHOCOLATE PIES ARE A HUGE FAMILY THANKSGIVING TRADITION IN MY FAMILY. I DECIDED TO SHARE OUR FAMILY TRADITION WITH HIM SO I MADE HIM SOME GRANDMA CAROL CHOCOLATE PIES TO TAKE TO HIS FAMILY IN CANADA THIS WEEKEND. I HOPE HE ENJOYS THEM!!!

SO LONG MIDTERMS!!! WOO-HOO

SO TODAY I TOOK MY LAST MIDTERM AND I'M SOOOOO EXCITED. I HAVE STUDIED MORE THIS LAST WEEK THAN I DID TOTAL GETTING MY BACHELOR'S DEGREE!!! SO OUR PROF'S GAVE US THE WEEKEND OFF, WELL AT LEAST THEY AREN'T MAKING US HAVE CLASS TOMORROW SO I AM TRYING TO PLAN SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR WILL N I TO DO. I HAVE A FEW IDEAS BUT I WANT IT TO BE A SURPRISE FOR HIM. NE WAYS, I THINK I DID OKAY ON MY EXAMS BUT HONESTLY YA NEVER KNOW UNTIL THEY ARE GRADED. I'LL KEEP YA POSTED. LATER!!!

MIDTERMS!!!

Hey everyone!! So this week is Midterm Week and I am really nervous but also really excited to see if I can remember all of the information I've been learning. I know I should be studying but I am in the library at Cooley right now and I desperately needed a break from school work so I decided to blog. Will and I are both enjoying the fall out here. It' soooo green still but some of the trees have started changing colors. The other day I was in the library studying and right outside my window there were two whitetail bucks. It was awesome, I tried to get my camera on my phone to work so I could text a picture of them to Will. Everyone in the library said as we get deeper into Fall lots of deer will show up on the grounds of our school. I took my midterm for Contracts today and honestly it was pretty rough but it gives me a good idea of what I need to be doing to prepare for the final in December. Will n I watched Conference yesterday(well I did Will slept) and it was great. I really enjoyed President Cook's talk. Will has been burning the candles at both ends as he likes to say. All of last week he worked his full time job and then we went out to a friend's condo at night and painted it to earn some extra money so Will can come home for the Elk Hunt in November. I am so truly blessed to be married to Will. I have never seen anyone who works as hard as he does. We have both been working out lately over at our friend's gym. It's so nice to have a hubby to work out with and especially since it's Will cuz he is sooooo motivating. He makes me want to run 10 miles everyday on the treadmill. But that never really happens, although maybe someday it will. Tonight for FHE I'm going to surprise Will and take him bowling or to a Cider Mill, I haven't decided yet. There is so much to do here, it's hard to fit it all into our schedule. I need to get back to my Torts Homework and studying so peace out and I'll put some pictures on later tonight or tomorrow if we go to the Cider Mill!!!!

Pumpkin' Roller!!!

Fall is here!!!

So today Will called me and said he had a present for me when I get home. I had no idea it was going to be a 60 lb pumpkin!!! I was sooooo excited. I came running out of the house and cracked up when I saw Will sitting in the Jetta with this GINORMOUS pumpkin seatbelted in the passenger seat!! It was awesome!! Thanks babe, I love it!!!

HOLY PUMKPIN!!!