I need to learn how to sew.

So this year, I followed my annual tradition of letting my students choose my Halloween costume. Last year, it was the cavewoman costume. This year, it was a pink M&M. I thought to myself, I could sew this easy...just make 2 big circles and sew them together. WRONG. That train of thought led to the following disaster:

However, Mikelle and Chris saved the day once again and made me a much bigger and better costume. Their awesomeness resulted in the following goodness:




Me and Whitney the Pig!

BYU vs. Wyoming

My parents went to St. George over the weekend and they gave us their BYU tickets. We were a little hesitant to go because of BYU's losing factor and it was raining. However, it stopped raining during the game and the Cougars won! They sure showed us!



Addie (3) also felt it was necessary to say to me, "Maren, you sure have crazy hair."

Fall Break

Over fall break, John and I went down and staying with Cam and Di for a few days. It was super nice and relaxing. During this time, we somehow acquired a large amount of pumpkins. Also, we watched Diane decorate her house. She should probably charge money for people just to look at it. AMAZING.

General Conference

My sister Megan had some extra tickets to the Sunday session of General conference so John and I were able to go up with them. It was such a great experience to be at the conference center. Between my texting during the no texting talk and Megan snoring during the session, it was a very spiritual experience.

It was so flippin bright. And yes, I am aware of how chunky I look.

The Healthy Biz

Apparently John and I are unhealthy. Therefore, we have decided to change our lives and become new people.

Step one - Stop getting fat.

Step two - Make homemade parfaits (bananas, mango, raspberry, granola, fat free vanilla yogurt) COMPLETE WITH DIXIE CUP-O-RAMA. This is what we eat for lunch every day now. We are now starting to walk/run between 3-4 miles every night. GO US!

4 Years in Counting!

August 26, 2006

We are the best John!

NYC Pictures- FINALLY!

Thanks again to Ty and Jackie for letting us come out and play for a while! It was so much fun! We were glad to be able to take one more big trip before school started again.

Land of Obama-Rama! DC

Virginia Zoo

This is at the zoo in Virginia!

Fishing

It was awesome and the 8 or 9 fish we caught were yummy.

John was super excited.

As was MeLisa

I know this is a totally unflattering picture of myself. When I caught this fish, John told me to hold it up by my face. Of course when I did that, the fish flipped out and smacked me IN the face.

I caught a fish while eating a hot dog. AMAZING.

Projects Completed Thus Far

I finally finished some of my projects! They turned out pretty awesome...therefore, I am awesome! There are still a couple that I am working on, but these were my big ones!

Project #1 - Kitchen Table

Before

After!

I painted it black and white and put a black antiquing glaze over the white!

Project #2 - Computer Desk

Before

This desk has been in my family forever! The drawers were falling apart, the finish on the wood was coming off. Overall it was a stupid disaster.

After!

This project turned out to be my favorite. I think the drawers turned out so cute! I found this way cute paper and modge podged it on the front. Then we knocked out the center drawer and made it so it was just open.

Project #3 - Dresser

Before

After!

Project #5

There is no before on this. Whoops! I modge podged some old books to match my stuff downstairs and then put together these flowers! SCORE!

Get ready....

For house makeover awesomeness. 4 or 5 projects to come before school starts....CHECK BACK FOR PICTURES!

Korbin and Ashley's Wedding

We went to our friends KC and Ashley wedding in Idaho Falls. It was so great to have the whole Penta there (except for Jackie...we missed you!) Tyler flew in and brought the Ky-ster. It was so much fun....freezing...but fun.

Only 1 left! Go team Adam!