We've made it to October 2015...there is light at the end of the tunnel...
Of course there was more BYU football in October including the homecoming game against East Carolina. Everyone was supposed to wear royal...so we purchased some new t-shirts for the occasion. (Guaranteed t-shirt sales is the principal reason they tell fans to wear certain colors to certain games.) I love BYU sports. Brad does too. But I'm a little obsessive and feel the need to go to all the football games while I'm in Provo. Brad enjoys football from the couch on TV. But because he's an excellent husband, he suffered through all the games sitting on a hard stadium bench with me. To make it a little more bearable, we would sit at the top of the stadium so we could have something to lean against.
This is proof that we actually were actually at the game.
Then my family came up for my cousin's wedding. Of course we had to take the obligatory "sis pic" after hanging out on campus.
And then we took this one with all the kids (minus Nick).
The next weekend we went to another wedding! This time it was that of our friends James and Amanda at the Salt Lake temple. Brad was a groomsman.
I got a job in Utah as an associate producer for TV news. I was technically on-call, but I ended up working full time for the first 3+ months on the overnight shift. Of course I was behind the scenes helping to write the morning shows. But this one time I actually made an on-air appearance. Thanks to there not being many people working the shift, I was chosen to be a face paint model during a segment wear the anchors tested out different Halloween face paint kits. They gave the anchor some short amount of time to paint our faces on live television. If you couldn't tell, I was painted to look like Darth Maul. At this point I had seen a total of 0 Star Wars movies so while I had hear the name, I couldn't tell you who he was. Let me tell you, I was very disappointed to learn while watching the movies later on that Darth Maul is only in one Star Wars episode. How lame. Considering that I had heard of him beforehand, I figured he was some important recurring character. Guess not. In case you were wondering, I washed the face paint off before I left.
In case you didn't already know...I'm not much of a Halloween person. I probably get it from my mom. I have nothing against the holiday...I'm just not very creative when it comes to choosing a costume. And I'm not a big fan of scary things. Remind me why people pay to go to a haunted house and get scared. It makes zero sense to me. Anyway, working the night shift probably left me with even less creativity than normal. So Brad and I (mostly Brad) came up with these costumes. If you're not from the computer generation CTRL+C is the keyboard shortcut for "copy" and CTRL+V is the shortcut for "paste". And since you can't really tell in this picture...Brad and I were both wearing white shirts, jeans, and white shoes. We put the costume together a few minutes before our ward party a few days before Halloween. And we got to wear them again at a Halloween party on Halloween hosted by our friends Jake and Anna.
And of course we had to carve pumpkins. Brad and I started dating in October of 2014. He took me on our first date on a Friday (October 10) and then the next night was his roommate Jake's birthday party. Being fall...small pumpkins were used as decorations. Somehow I thought it would be a good idea to carve them and so the next day Brad brought them two of them over and we did. So fast-forward a year and we decided to carry on the tradition and carve small pumpkins again. Not only are they cheaper...but they are definitely cuter. Yes, we carved them late Halloween night due to the fact I was lacking motivation and energy due to abnormal sleep schedule.
Howdy ya'll. Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. We are now in California relaxing until real life starts in July (aka when Brad's job starts). And since I know you're all dying to know what I did last September, I won't keep you waiting any longer. Enjoy.
This was Labor Day. Brad was studying and I was being a distraction. Also, I love the glasses that when he's being especially studious. :)
And of course September means football season. This was BYU's home opener against No. 20 Boise State. We went into the fourth quarter down 24-14. We scored a touchdown to put us within 3. Under a minute left in the game, we score another touchdown on a 35-yard pass to put us up 28-24. Of course there were still 45 seconds left which is plenty of time for BSU to score. But we intercepted it and scored another touchdown of our own to seal the deal. It was quite exciting to say the least. And in case that description wasn't enough...please refer to the following highlights video.
The next weekend we headed home to celebrate Brad's grandpa's 90th birthday. Of course we also stopped by my house to hang out with this little guy.
It was also quite convenient that BYU played UCLA at the Rose Bowl that weekend (as indicated by the end of the above highlights video).
We got there plenty early and took this picture. Good thing we took one before... While we went into the game not expecting to win, BYU played surprisingly well throughout the first half. UCLA didn't score a touchdown until the second half. Even then...we led the whole game until UCLA scored a touchdown with three minutes left to go in the game. Such a bummer. But if we have to lose...UCLA is my second favorite team. In fact I might have been singing along to their fight song the whole game.
