Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday here. Corrin, Adam, Amber, Stephan and Spencer (and Erma) all came up for the weekend. Dinner was fabulous. I made a new sweet potato recipe that everyone raved about. I got the recipe here. It was super easy and super yummy. After we stuffed ourselves we played some games and ate pie.

I made these cute party favors for each place setting. I got the idea here - they were very easy to make once I figured out how to steam them and they added a certain...je ne sais quoi.

On Friday we got together to go bowling. I got second lowest score and Daniel got second highest (yay!). Afterwards we went to eat at T.G.I. Fridays and saw Chad and Drew. That was lots of fun. Then it was on to the "Cousins" in Sandy for more visiting and pie.

Saturday was the big show down between BYU and Utah. We hosted a viewing at our apartment complete with lots of food to munch on throughout the evening. And we were victorious! Go Cougars!!!!

The star of the whole weekend, however was this little guy:

Spencer was such a delight to play with and make laugh. He especialy enjoyed smiling and laughing at Daniel. Soon enough we'll have one of our own!

Shout Out!

I thought I'd give a shout out today to one of my favorite Blogs. My friend Laura introduced me to The Apron Stage earlier this year and I have been back to visit it every day since.

This Blog is run by 4 amazing women - only one of whom I have ever met - but after just one read, I'm sure you'll agree with me. They write about funny things, and sometimes sad things, every day things, and out of the ordinary things. They write about life and love and everything that those imply. But it never ceases to entertain me and always makes me think. Enjoy!

We Came, We Competed, We Conquered!

Yesterday, Daniel and I competed in the 7th Annual T3 Triathlon at the Orem Rec Center. It was a beautiful day - we couldn't have asked for better weather. It started with a 3 mile run that went pretty well. Then on to the bike ride. It was gruelling for me - at least the uphill on 4th South. Everyone that we passed on the run, passed us on the bike. So by the time we got to the swim we had free range of the lanes.

I kept telling everyone that my goal was just to finish the race, but secretly I also wanted to make sure I did it in under 2 hours, and I did. I'm not sure of our exact times, but I think it was around 1:45. And Daniel stuck with me the whole way! He definitely could have done it much, much faster on his own, but I'm glad I had him by my side.

Sorry we don't have any pictures...we forgot the camera. But my Halloween costume below, was pretty close ;)

P.S. They are having another Sprint Triathlon in April, click on the picture above for more info.

Halloween Visualization

So, our triathlon is a mere 6 days away -eek! I decided that to help me prepare beyond the physical training that we've been doing, I needed to get in the game mentally - be the triathlete, if you will.

Here is me being the triathlete...although hopefully on Saturday I won't have any scary pirates coming at me. On second thought, that might just help me go faster :)