Slacker...

Well another month and a half has gone by without my permission. I've been a major slacker, but for good reason I think.

So to play a little bit of catch up since the last post:

Halloween was uneventful. I was excited to have our own house to pass out candy. Well we ended up having like 10 trick-or-treaters. I skipped my class that night to go to the party at Grandpa Huber's house--which was really fun and yummy food.

The first round of the playoffs for football was against Jordan. Hunter came out on bottom. Every team from region 1 and 2 lost the first round. As we had predicted at the beginning of the season Bingham won the 5A state champion. Better luck next year for our boys.

Thanksgiving was good as always. We started with an early Thanksgiving at my parents' house the Sunday before because most of us were going to be elsewhere for Thanksgiving Day. It was yummy and I got to set up my mom's Precious Moments tree--my favorite thing to do! Thanksgiving Day we were spending it with the Woods at Grandpa Huber's house. There were about 50 or so people there and we ate very well!!

With the end of football season we are back to basketball season! We have been to almost every Utah Runnin' Utes game so far this year including their only road game to Boise. They are so much fun to watch! Not only is it college season, but Hunter basketball is going on as well. Thank goodness for basketball season--much warmer than football season was this year.

Road Trip to Boise State

To go into more depth about this fun quick trip that we took. At the home game before the Boise State game, we saw that they were going to be traveling there to play. We got to talking about how much fun that would be to go to that game. It would be on a Tuesday night and I normally work. I decided that I would see if someone could cover. If someone could we would go, if not we wouldn't. After asking around someone was able to. We bought the tickets and were getting ready to go. It was the day after we had a huge snow storm, but we kept checking the weather and it showed that once we got out of Salt Lake County the weather would be better. I picked Preston up from school and we headed on our way. As we were getting to the freeway we got in a little fender-bender--we were very unhappy, but there were only minor scratches on the car so we exchanged information and were on our way.

The roads were pretty bad until we hit Davis county. By the time we got to Ogden the roads were completely dry. All was going well. We were making really good timing. We left at 2 and the game didn't start until 8 so we had lots of time. We stopped for a bite to eat and to fill up on gas. Well out of nowhere a complete blizzard started. It was probably the worst I've seen and we were trying to decide to stop or keep going. We decided that it wasn't going to pass anytime soon and that we should continue on. It lasted for about 40-60 more miles, but finally got clear and we made it to Boise at about 7:30.

The game was fun! There were a lot more Utah fans there than I was thinking there would be. They ended up losing by 2 points which was a bummer. The game got over at about 10 and we were to get back on the road. We needed to get a car charger because both of our phones were almost dead. We stopped at a Walmart and didn't leave until about 11. I tried to get some sleep while Preston drove. The roads were really bad, but we were going faster than we were on the way there. We stopped at the same gas station we had on the way to fill up and get some snacks. We got back on the freeway, but got on the wrong one! We ended up in Pocatello--adding about an hour on to our travel time!! We ended up getting home at 5 Wednesday morning, but it was totally worth it!!

December is going great! Preston is now officially graduated!! We are so happy! Meranda gets home on Thursday! I can't believe that it's already been 18 months--Time flies!

We've experienced such amazing blessings the last little bit. We can't help, but be grateful for what has been given to us and for what the Lord has blessed us with.

I can't believe that next week is Christmas! This is our first Christmas in our own home and I am loving it! We got to put lights on the house which I absolutely loved doing!! Looking forward to next week!!