Friends from Logan!

This past weekend was so so awesome! First off an old roommate got hitched so Clarissa and I met up in SLC and went to the reception together. It was so good to see Clarissa again and for the giggles. The bride and groom looked so cute together and I am happy that we went. Then friday afternoon my good friend Amber from Utah State came down to visit, it was so good to see her again and to spend time together! The first night Amber and I went to the Provo temple where Amber did baptisms and I did sealings. The next day we made our way up to the University of Utah to visit our good friend Chris who was in our ward up in Logan and a good neighbor. Chris is in the pre-med program up there and we haven't seen him in a long time. Amber and I may or may not have gotten lost a couple times on campus, but Chris pulled through and got us to his place. Chris made us chicken enchiladas for lunch and showed us the top of the roof. AMAZING view!



Joel, another friend from the old ward, showed up to visit. It was so good to see these guys and to catch up with each other. Chris gave us a tour of his classrooms where he studies and a little of campus. Afterwards Amber and I went to my parents house where she answered my brothers texts and we played a card game and ate dinner. This weekend was fully awesome and I am so grateful for such good friends and great examples! Thanks so much guys:)

Amber, me, Joel, and Chris

Joel being one with the skeleton

Raking up the lights!

I couldn't pass up the opportunity the other day of taking a picture of the annual raking up the lights at my parents house. Let me begin by saying HILARIOUS!!!! Just as I am typing I am giggling. . . let the good times roll. So this blessed event happens every year and has been passed down from the oldest child Logan now down to Steve-O, bless his heart. The event begins as such: Dad instructs that this saturday is the day to put up the Christmas lights before it gets too cold. The children then run to friends houses or say they have homework or try to pass it on to another sibling. As for Steve-O, he is the last and has no way around it. At this point mom and I come home from a Relief Society activity to see poor Steve-O up on the ladder as my dad is handing up the lights. Of course I can't pass up this opportunity and insist on finishing our crafts outside, who wants to miss the lights going up! As Steve-O is hanging up the lights the ladder is not the most stable thing and about eats it. He then calls down to my dad for a little support. My dad then gives me a look and places a hand on the ladder to not hold it or support it at all, but rests his hand comfortably. Then dad calls up to Steve-O if he has been cleaning out the gutters, Steve-O responds "No! I am trying to stay on the ladder".  Then Kaden trying to make a point keeps talking as my dad is trying to tell him how to hang the lights.They slowly make thier way around the house and the tension starts to build as the two are trying to communicate what the other one wants. Of course it doesn't help that I am laughing:) At one point Steve-O, who is on top of the roof now, is talking to me while dad goes around back to look at something. Steve-O thinking he is done throws the hammer at me and misses me by inches and we laugh. Just then my dad asks Kaden for the hammer and needs it now. Poor Steve-O stuck on the roof explains that the hammer is now on the ground. Really my writings are not doing the situation the justice it deserves. Anywho, let me summarize with this, if you want a good giggle come to the Day house for the annual putting up the Christmas Lights:)



The story doesn't end here. . . We make a trip to costco to get more lights. Then trying to find the right lights that match the ones already on the house while trying to hit all the free samples!!! I love saturdays:)

Learning the skills. . .

It has been good to be living so close to home. One of the many perks is that I can learn from my mother some of her many talents. These learning lessons are the lessons that I have been needing and wanting to learn for a while. Of these talents I have now learned how to make the real good cinnamon rolls, to save corn on the cob during the winter, and also how to make my very own grape juice and how to bottle them. Thanks mom you are saving future generations:)!!!!! Here are some pics of the corn celebration after all the work is done. Jenn and I husked I don't know how many dozens of cobs, Addie helped a bit with her one or two. Mom did the washing and putting them in the pots. We then got the knives and went to work cutting off the corn from the cobs. I won't mention that boobing that went on by a certain in-law of the hot corn, but my fingers went numb from nerve damage:) Good times, thanks mom and Jenn!