So once again it's been a while since we've blogged but you haven't missed much. For thanksgiving we went to my family's house in Seattle and had a great time with the whole family. This year we made two turkeys--one was deep fried. It turned out well but I'm not really sure if there was that much of a difference flavor-wise. We ate lots of good food, played squash, shopped, and my dad beat Joey in a push-up contest by an embarrassing amount (65 to 33).

Back in Utah, we are dying for snow. It has only snowed a few times and since Joey is now obsessed with skiing, we are just wishing for a few more feet of snow. It's been freezing, but sunny for the past week or two. I miss the snow! I figure if it's going to be cold, you might as well get some pretty snow. Especially since we walk to school, we don't care if the roads are bad. I'm hoping for a snowpocalypse sometime soon.

We have our season pass to Canyons. I've been twice and Joey has been like a million times (ok, maybe like 7). It's really nice that it is only 25 minutes from our home. But, I am in the midst of finals so I don't really have that much time to ski right now. I've taken one final and have two more to go over the next week. Can't wait for winter break!!

Last night we went to a white elephant party that was lots of fun. This is a pic of all the boys and their loot. There was lots of stealing going on, but Joey lucked out and got the highly-coveted $15 gift card to McDonalds.

Fall

There hasn't been much to post about lately or any good pictures to share. We've had a pretty fun fall and are getting excited about the snow and ski season. School is definitely rough right now and will be until finals are over. Just counting down the days to winter break...anyway, here's a couple of pics from my phone depicting a donut eating contest from a ceiling fan on Halloween, ice skating, and pumpkin seeds.

Happy Halloween

dude ranch

Here are some of the pictures from the dude ranch I went to with my sister over fall break. We were only there for two full days but we had a busy schedule. It was in the upper 90's the whole time, but we just put on lots of sunscreen and had fun anyway.

We went riding both mornings we were there. We grew up riding horses and elizabeth especially loved them. I hadn't ridden in a few years so I was a little worried that I would be scared to canter but it ended up being way fun.

Since it was still really early in the season for the dude ranch, there were maybe like 3 other people staying at the ranch. That meant we had the whole place to ourselves and were the only ones riding one morning.

Before this trip, I had never shot a gun before. I was a little scared that the kick back on the gun would knock me over but it really wasn't that bad. The gun was way heavy though, and my left arm was incredibly sore for days after. We got to do skeet shooting, but I wasn't very good. I only hit 3 out of 25 targets and elizabeth hit 9.

We also went golfing...not my favorite activity but we saw lots of deer and rabbits on every hole.

Grand Canyon

This weekend I flew to Phoenix to spend the weekend on a dude ranch (more pics on that later) and luckily I had a window seat because we flew right over the Grand Canyon. I took like a million pictures on my phone since I've never seen it before and have wanted to for a while. Pretty cool. Even from 30,000 ft it looks enormous!

Last weekend my parents came down to Salt Lake for a visit. We saw a lot of family, went to the Utah v. UW football game, saw the leaves in Park City, went to a session of General Conference, and took them to one of our favorite restaurants, the Copper Onion. A really busy weekend but it was so fun to have them here.

The month of September was seriously amazing here. Warm and sunny almost every day. October has been a rude awakening--on Thursday it snowed!

While my parents were in the president's box, Joey and I were in the MUSS. It was pretty rowdy, but fun. Too bad we lost.

Causey Reservoir

This Saturday, we went up to Causey reservoir with our friends sarah and tyler. It's about an hour north of salt lake and we had heard there was some good cliff jumping. When we arrived, I dipped my toe in the water and knew that I probably wasn't going to get in. It was freezing. My more adventurous friends jumped in and swam across to the other side to jump off a cliff.

I think this is a picture of sarah jumping, but it's so far away I can't really tell. As they were all swimming back, I guess their bodies started going into shock and they could barely move their arms. Despite the cold, it was really gorgeous out there and I was surprised at all the greenery since so much of utah is brown. The fall here has been amazing, it still feels like summer and I hope it lasts a few more weeks.