2 in a Row

Troy and I flew over to Utah on Wednesday morning. That morning we woke up to snow; the first snow of November but it wasn't too bad getting to the airport. We ended up just hanging out with Troy's family that day since he and I were both sick. Thursday morning we did Christmas with his family since we'll be in California this year. It was a lot of fun and I would have to say that his parents' gift to Troy was pretty creative. They made us a ladder out of sticks then gave us a gift card to Home Depot. We will definitely put the ladder to good use within the next week or two with Troy putting up our Christmas lights! Thursday afternoon we headed down to Uncle Tom ('s cabin) and Aunt Pattie's house for dinner. It was all delicious and as usual, I definitely ate way too much. Friday, we were on the hunt for a sectional and hoped to find one in Utah. The hunt was fruitless but at least we got to hang out with Troy's little bros and Grandma and Grandpa Burt. Saturday was a action-packed day. We headed down early in the morning to Will and Kristin's for Sierra's baby blessing. Afterwards we met up with the rest of Troy's family at the Creamery for some lunch before the game. The game was a lot of fun and it was great being back. We had pretty decent seats even though it was in the shade the whole time, brrr!!! The good news is that we were high enough to see all of the action, especially the flyover to start the game, the bad news was that we couldn't see the replay screen and we were too far away to storm the field. Afterwards we went to the Spaghettti Factory for dinner and then stopped by the Wu House Cedar Hills. It was a fun to see so many friends and family, but entirely too short of a weekend. We are definitely excited to see all of Tracie's family in December.

Troy's side note on the game: I'm sure all of the Utah fans will complain that officiating cost them the game. While I won't defend the veracity of the calls, I will say this, the first one came on second down, and the second one on the next play. While they certainly helped, they only thing they really did was assist in the Cougars scoring sooner, which benefitted the Utes. Admit it, the game was lost on a 49 yard bomb on 4th and 18 from the 12 yard line. Don't blame the refs for your losing pain.

Castle Rock Times - Thanksgiving Edition

Front Page
The big news of the week is the fact that we are one week closer to seeing our families over Thanksgiving!!

Entertainment

Saturday night was the 72nd annual Starlighting festival in Downtown Castle Rock,

hosted by Gary Shapiro of 9news!! We headed downtown at about 4 in the afternoon. We actually had to return some books to the library, so that was the first stop. Lucky for us they had a free trolley to take us back downtown. We then picked us out a spot that gave us a good view of the stage,

and ultimately a great view of the star on top of Castle Rock when it was all lit (lighted?) up. We then watched the fireworks display and walked around downtown window shopping at the boutique stores. The weather was great and we will definitely be going back next year. It is a fun tradition that makes us grateful that we live in such a cool town.

Business
In business news, I moved cubicles at work. My new cube has a window that looks out to Market Street and has a little more space. A co-worker moved right next to me as well, so we thought that it would be approriate for us to throw a cubicle warming party on Friday.

She provided the apple cider and I brought the Krispy Kreme doughnuts. It was a fun little gathering.

Sports
We watched BYU dominate Wyoming on Saturday, and we are eagerly anticipating the BYU-Utah matchup on Saturday. I think it will be a good game, but I'm pretty sure I know who will win. Any guesses as to who that will be?

Ho Hum week

So, there's really nothing to report of the happenings last week. Troy went to South Carolina for work for a couple of days but forgot to take a camera with him. We did find out that he got a nice bonus because of the "merging"/acquisition of his company with JP Morgan. That was really nice. I went to another stamping party on Saturday and we made Christmas cards. I'm super excited to send them out. Troy also got free tickets to the Nature and Science Museum so we went Saturday afternoon. We were hoping to go to the IMAX showing of the Titanic but the tickets were all sold out so we ended up watching something on blackholes at the planetarium. I didnt' really watch a lot of it because it made me a little queasy but it was nice and short.

Lastly, I thought I'd post something about Lexie. She is such a funny quite. Apparently she has a thing for boxes no matter what kind of predicament she gets herself into. Hopefully you like some of these pictures!

And, yes, that's Kleenex box stuck on her head!

Birthday Week

So this week was dubbed my birthday week by Tracie, and she spoiled me a lot. On Tuesday Tracie made cupcakes. They were fabulous and I had just enough breath to blow out the candles!!
I dressed up for work. Thanks to Brittany for the doo-rag, it really completed the outfit. Lexie was also excited for Halloween and kept a keen eye out for the Trick-or-Treaters. We were actually really excited to stay home and pass out candy for the first time in our house (I'm sure that will fade over time). We got to hand it out for a little while and then we went over to our friends Jen and Gavin's house for a murder mystery party. I was J. Stephen Peek, attorney-at-law, the friend and confidante of the victim (I even have the business cards to prove it). Tracie was Elise St. Gershe, the young, attractive maid at the DuPre mansion. It was a lot of fun, and we enjoyed hanging out with the three other couples.

We quickly moved past the Halloween holiday and on to Thanksgiving. On Sunday we invited some friends over for dinner and Tracie decided to be bold and make her very first turkey dinner. It was delicious!! Luckily Tracie had some latex gloves which makes handling the raw turkey much nicer. It was a fun day and it was nice to stress test the kitchen, the double ovens, and the big dining room table. They all passed with flying colors, now we just family to join us next year for the real Thanksgiving!!!!