Happy Birthday Dad!!!

 Halloween is a fun holiday in my family because it also happens to be my Dad's birthday! I love my Dad so much. My Dad is the most honest, smartest, hardworking person I have ever met. I am so grateful for the example he is and all of the things he has done for me over the years. Thanks for everything Dad, Darrell and I love you so much! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Pumpkin Carving!

I love to celebrate holidays and Halloween is no exception!! I bought three pumpkins this year and have been waiting for a couple of weeks now to carve them. Last night Darrell and I took Yoko and our three pumpkins to my parents house to FINALLY carve our pumpkins. We had so much fun! All of our pumpkins turned out pretty well too. My mom, Tracy (my sister), and I decided to something different with ours. We used this tool (I have no idea what it's called) that made it so you didn't carve all the way through the pumpkin you just took off the orange part and some of the flesh. It looks pretty cool when you light them up, the picture or design you carve just kind of glows. We also decided not to cut off the tops of the pumpkins and to just cut out the bottom and get all the insides out that way. It was harder but I like it better that way. Here are some pictures!

Mine and Darrell's pumpkins sitting in front of our apartment. The one on the left is spray painted with chalkboard paint (by Darrell) so you can write on it with chalk. The one in the middle is the one I did without carving all the way through. The last one is Darrell's. We thought it looked just like him. Really white with square glasses!
Here are all of our pumpkins carved and lit all together. Darrell's, Tracy's pumpkin (it's batman), mine, and my Mom's. 
My mom and I taking the guts out of our pumpkins!

Thanks Mom for inviting us over, the pizza, and the dessert! W will have to start doing this every year!

I've been tagged...

8 Favorite t.v. shows:

1: Friends (In know this makes me dumb but I own all ten seasons)

2:Dancing With the Stars

3. Rachel Ray

4: The Today Show

5. That 70's Show

6. Top Gear

8. America's Next Top Model

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. Mi Ranchito (in American Fork)

2. Noodle Company

3. Rumbi Island Grill

4. Olive Garden

5. Smokehouse Barbecue

6. Pei Wei

7. Supreme Burger

8. the Greek place on State Street in Orem. I don't know the name. We always call it the Greek place.

(Darrell is way sad that Chipotle didn't make my top 8)

8 Things that happened yesterday:

1. Drove to school

2. Took a quiz in my Fundamentals of Nursing class

3. Got confused AGAIN in my Nursing Fundamentals lab class.

4. Talked to my mom in the hall at school. 

5. Went to my Pharmacology lab.

6. Took a nursing math quiz in my pharmacology lab class.

7. Took a quiz in the lecture portion of my Pharmacology class. 

8. FINALLY drove home!

8 Things to look forward too: 

1. Finishing nursing school (I have a ways to go yet).

2. Halloween (my dad's birthday).

3. Dinner with my Grandpa and Darrell Friday night.

4. Thanksgiving

5. Christmas

6. Darrell getting home from work in a few minutes!

7. My little sisters birthday (Tracy).

8. Did I mention finishing nursing school?

8 things I love about fall:

1. The colors.

2. Pumpkins

3. Halloween

4. The crispy leaves falling to the ground.

5. Sweaters

6. The smell

7. Knowing the holiday season is getting closer!

8. Making soup (Darrell will only eat it when it starts to get cold).

8 Things you may not know about me:

1. I love reality t.v.! I don't know why... I know it's not really reality and that it's really silly... But I love it!

2. I can't live without Burts Bee's chapstick (I love Burts Bee's).

3. I have been skydiving twice.

4. Going to Greece is my dream vacation!

5. I would much rather be to hot than to cold.

6. Chips and salsa is my all time favorite snack.

7. I LOVE the Beatles. 

8. I can't wait to have kids (in a few years, I really need to finish school and get my RN license first). 

 

8 People I tag:

1. Keri

2. Kelsey

3. Marissa

4. Lynsey

5. Princess

6. Amy

7. Bridget

8. Anyone that wants too!

Hiking up to the Timpanogas Cave...

Last week while I was on break from school Darrell took two days off of work to stay home and spend time with me. He works during the week and I work on the weekends when Darrell is home. We see each other every night but we don't get to spend a full day together very often so it was very nice to have us both home for two full days! One of those days it was very nice outside so we decided to drive up American Fork Canyon and Hike up to Timpanogas Caves and take a tour. It was a beautiful day with beautiful scenery! The hike took us about an hour and a half and then you tour through a bunch of caves and tunnels with a forest ranger. I have lived in good old American Fork for almost my entire life and have only done this once before when I was probably 7 or 8. I didn't remember how steep the trail was or how many caves and tunnels you go through! It was so cool! Anyways, here are some pictures. They are a little out of order. I am still not very good at figuring out this whole blogging thing!

                                     Some cave formations.

Me overlooking the canyon. You can actually see all the way to the mouth of the canyon into the valley in this one. It doesn't show it very well in this picture though. 

                                                           Beautiful fall leaves!
                 Darrell in front of the sign at the head of the trail. 
Part of the trail where they had to drill through rock to keep the trail going.
                                  The sign by the entrance to the cave.
Darrell and I at the top of the trail waiting for our tour to start.
                                                   Inside one of the caves. 

 

My first attempt at a pretty complicated cake...

So a while back I saw this coconut cake on the cover of a magazine and I really wanted to make it. The recipe was a little complicated and it took me all day to make (everything was made from scratch. The cake, filling, and the frosting). When I had it all finished I was pretty pleased that it turned out fairly well. There are a few things I would know to do differently for next time but for the first time it turned out pretty good!

The Weezer concert!!!

 Last week Darrell and I went to the Weezer concert. We had a a lot of fun! After several attempts and hours of trying I finally got this video of My Name is Jonas to load. I had another video we got of another good song they played but I won't try to post it after how long this one took. My older brother Travis won a radio concert and got to be one of 20-30 people that got to play onstage with Weezer at the concert. We didn't get good pictures of that though. We went with my mom, Clint (little brother), and Melissa (Travis' wife). 

My break from school!

My first semester of school ended last Tuesday! I had all this week off to relax. It has been so nice not to have homework or anything to worry about. I have been very lazy! It was the first semester of school and after not having been in school for a while it was really hard to get used to studying and doing homework again. This coming Monday the second semester starts. My days at school will be longer and I will have more classes than last semester. I'll be starting my nursing classes and clinicals this semester though. I have to take chemistry this semester though... I am not excited for that at all! The teacher for chemistry is the same teacher I had for anatomy and physiology this past semester and that class was HARD. I hear that the chemistry class is worse. Wish me luck!