Catch up...

So since it's almost Christmas, I figure I'd better get caught up with the last couple holidays we've had (better late than never?).

Halloween this year was fun. Brad and I don't get trick-or-treaters at our apartment so we decided to dress up and go to our ward Halloween/Trunk-or-Treat Party (we weren't the only young couple there with no kids :). We went as a 50's couple and I made my poodle skirt on my new sewing machine! It was fun decorating our trunk and passing out candy to all the kids. Some of our favorite costumes were a skateboarding sumo wrestler, and a family that dressed up as Peter Pan characters (the Korths!). The 3 year old son was Peter Pan, the 10 month old daughter was Tinker Bell, the mom was Wendy, and the dad was Captain Hook. So cute!




Thanksgiving was a blast. I have the funnest (yes, funnest) in-laws! Brad and I went to Utah for 9 days - a nice, long break from work. We flew to Utah Friday night before Thanksgiving and didn't leave to come home until the Sunday after Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun visiting the Jeppsons. While we were there, we visited one of my roommates from BYU (Callie, her husband Steve and son Austin),and watched the long-awaited BYU vs. U of U football game with Brad's cousin Jeff and Grandpa Gotberg... that ended in grave disappointment.


You gotta be able to laugh it off... In case you don't know, Max Hall is the BYU quarterback who threw 6 Utah turnovers. Ouch.

We went to church, visited Grandma and Grandpa Jeppson, saw Brad's little sister's (Cami's) high school play - Hello Dolly, ate lunch at the greatly missed Cafe Rio - twice, watched a movie with Brad's family (The Man Who Knew Too Little with Bill Murray - it's one of our favorites, so funny!), hung out with Brad's brother Brandon (we call him Bird) and sister-in-law Jenn (the same one I'm in business with!), and Wednesday night was the Gotberg (Brad's mom's side) family Thanksgiving party. We did a big Thanksgiving dinner and played basketball at the rec. center after.




The boys had fun getting the balls stuck in the bars behind he basketball hoop. From left to right: little cousin Quin, cousin Jeff, brother Brandon, Brad, and cousin Trevor. This activity is was spurred the now infamous line from Aunt Krista, "If they're that stupid, they deserve to lose their balls."


Left to right: cousin Nicole, cousin Megain, Cousin Jeff, sister Cami.


Success!!


Then they had to get them down. Jeff and Brad hoisted Trevor.


Thursday was Thanksgiving with the Jeppsons (Brad's Dad's side of the family) and we stopped by my Aunt Chris's house after to visit with my aunt, uncle, and cousins who live in American Fork, and my grandparents who were down visiting from Idaho. Friday, Brenda (Brad's mom) and I went shopping, then for the rest of the day Cami, Jenn, Brenda, and I made gingerbread houses! Well, gingerbread churches, actually. It's one of the Jeppson family Thanksgiving traditions to kick-off the Christmas season. It was really fun! I gave mine to Brad's grandpa the next night since I couldn't take mine home. This is what it looked like:


Front



Side



Back



Notice the angel I put on top of my church! :)




Saturday Brad and I visited our old BYU stomping grounds. It was fun reminiscing until we walked by one of the on-campus computer labs where I had spent so many late nights... and all of a sudden I felt a little sick. After lunch with Bird and Jenn at Red Robin in Provo Towne Centre Mall, we visited the apartments we lived in when we were first married and the duck pond near our last apartment in Provo where we loved feeding the duckies! Saturday night we went to Temple Square to see the lights with Brian, Brenda, Bird and Jenn. Cami had to work. Jenn took some awesome pictures of the lights and the temple with her new camera!



The big brown building up on the mountain underneath and to the left of the Y is the first apartment (Lookout Pointe #318) we lived in when we were first married! Aw, memories...


This is a picture of the Clyde Building (engineering building on campus) where we spent countless late nights. That side walk you see through the field area - Brad actually drove down that in his parents' little Nissan in a moment of insanity... almost scared a pedestrian to death.


This is the second (and last) Provo apartment (Harmony Square #206). We could walk to campus and the duck pond was right around the corner.







Where we were married August 5, 2005.






Sunday we went to church, ate leftovers, and flew home later that night.

If ever there was a spare minute from the big activities, we were eating left-overs, crocheting, and mostly PLAYING LOTS OF ROOK! (It's only the best card game ever!) We probably played about 12-15 games of Rook, but that is only enough to carry us through the end of January before the withdrawls start again. We won't see them again until the beginning of April when Brad's youngest brother comes home from his mission in Lima, Peru. It is April yet?? We miss them already! It was a great trip that made us wish we could be on vacation everyday.