We only had one car we I was at Girl’s Camp which was great, but Jordan had to come pick me up at camp on the last day. He had a trip planned to go to Cricket Creek. So Jordan picked me up and then we went home and about a hour later the Kershaws met up with us and we drove down to Cricket Creek on Table Rock Lake. The Armstrongs met us there and we all had a great time. We went swimming and canoed over to the other side of the lake and found a rope swing. Jordan, Jonathan and Mike were really excited about the rope swing and went off of it several times. None of the women really wanted to do it because it didn’t look that safe. We had dinner, played games, threw frisbees and saw a beautiful sunset.
We liked one of the sunset pictures so much that we printed it and put it in our dining room.
We’ve been wanting to go camping with our friends, the Gainers, for a while and after we finally found a weekend that worked for all of us we did. We drove down to Swan Creek and got a campsite, but it wasn’t that great of a campsite (there was a dead rotting fish by the fire pit and a big group of loud drunk people pretty close to us).
Anyway, we were willing to move the fish because it wasn’t that close to us and ignore the people because they weren’t being that loud. So we set up camp, made dinner, and played games. Masen was having a really hard time sleeping and was kind of grumpy. We kept playing games and finally decided to go home when the people camping close to us were being so loud that Masen couldn’t sleep.
We decided go home and so we started packing up camp. We heard some pretty Micky Blue Eyes, I can’t tell you what happened because I fell asleep in the first 10 minutes. So everyone watched the movie and then the next day we went to some garage sales. We got a cook corner shelf that we put in the downstairs bathroom. We had a pretty awesome time with them and we’re going to go camping again with them.
Well, we’re really bad at remembering what we do when we don’t take pictures, oops. Anyway, we’ve been hanging out a lot with some friends from our ward Casadee and John. They love playing games as much as we do, and they’re really fun to play with. On January 2, we played the new game that my parents gave us for Christmas called Say Anything. It was a really fun game, it would be even more fun with more people.
We also played their game called Scene It: Squabble, the girls won, and so we played again, and then we won again.
We also hung out with them on Jan 16 and played a new game we bought for ourselves for Christmas called Blokus. It’s kind of like tetris with 4 people. I really like it, but Jordan doesn’t so much. Although it did agree that playing with 4 people is a lot more fun than playing with two. After we played that we played Mexican Train with Dominoes, I’d never played it before, and it was a lot of fun, but it took a really long time.
Thanks guys for hanging out with us and playing games with us. We look forward to playing more games in the future.
So we spent New Years Eve with Ryan and Heidi and then on New Years Day we spent it with them again. Ryan’s brother was moving, so Jordan went to help. On the bright side, we got to go to Ryan’s Parents house and got to see lots of cows.
I was so excited I took lots of pictures (we probably deleted half of them). The cows were so cute, and they loved the food. There were also horses and a pony that was pretty funny looking. I told Jordan that I need a pet cow, too bad they eats lots of food and smell bad.
The other really cool thing was that we saw a eagle in a tree while we were driving there. We even turned around so we could get a picture of it.
Well I finally got someone to go backpacking with me other than Emily. The Budd’s are our friends in the ward and I convinced Ryan to go with me on Dec 18-19. It was pretty darn cold but we stayed warm enough. We left after work so it was already dark. We went to Hercules Glade Wilderness area and started our hike on the Long Creek Trail, taking the second right. Halfway to the pilots trail, we set up our tent. The next morning, we finished the loop. It was fun but pretty darn cold.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with our friends Raymond and Amy and their sweet baby Caleb. They came on Wednesday when I was at a job interview and Jordan was at work, so we’re bad hosts. Well, we had a great time with them. On Wednesday we made a delicious pizza that we didn’t take a picture of. But seriously, it was an amazing pizza. We got to play a ton of Scattagories, which might be one of my top 5 favorite games to play now. We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Thursday and the cooking commenced right after. We had a great dinner and it was so much fun to have people with us (I bet we’d still have leftovers if we cooked all of it for just us).
Friday was an interesting day… This was the first year that we (me and Jordan) have gone Black Friday shopping. Do you know where we went? You guessed it, Walmart! Now, I know what you’re thinking, what possessed you to go shopping at Walmart on Black Friday, and at 4 in the morning? Well, I’ve wanted to buy a Cricut for a while now, and guess what I got. That’s right (but mine is black):
Walmart was crazy, there weren’t any carts when we got there. We did get some great deals, I got some awesome stuff for Jordan for Christmas. I liked it so much, I might do it again. Later that day, Amy was kind enough to go with me to go to Joanns to get some fabric because it was an awesome price. Just to put some perspective on how long the wait at Joann’s was, we got there, and I went back to the cutting counter immediately. My number was 90 and they were on 24, so we had to wait a really long time. Jordan even went with me the next day to get some deals on cricut cartridges (28.88 each, how awesome is that!).
Amy and I came home and made a craft, I forgot to take a picture of hers, but here’s mine.
Jordan and Raymond went and played Disk Golf at a course nearby our house. We played Cranium WOW and it was fun too (Pretty much the same as regular Cranium, but with characters you can put hair on).
Thanks for coming to visit us, we really liked it. I’m sure you know by now that we want you to move here when Raymond is done with school (wink, wink). Next time we’ll take more pictures.
So on 09/09/09 I got a great deal on some gift certificates off of Restaurant.com I got a couple of $25 gift certificates for 90% off, and we wanted to use them this weekend. We wanted to go to an Indian Restaurant, we called and got a reservation, but when we got to the restaurant was a big sign that said Dwhali. We found out that that we couldn’t use the certificate. So we decided to go to Red Robin instead.
We knew that we were spending Halloween with Whitney and Evan. When we got to their house we decided to go to the Haunted Corn Maze. We went to the same place as we went to earlier in October. This time we went in the 8 acre corn maze, and it was haunted.
I was really scared that the corn maze would be really scary, but it wasn’t. It was a full moon and we could see everything.
We got in the maze and early in it there was a guy that was trying to scare people. I wanted to take a picture, and when I tried to he went and put a different mask on, then let us take his picture. The funniest part of all, was when we took his picture, he asked if any of us had a smoke.
Jordan started to get bored and run away and hid and scare people. We made it out of the corn maze pretty fast (less than 1 hour) and then went back to Evan and Whitney’s house and played Cranium Pop 5. Evan and Whitney totally beat us because we didn’t know that Monday Night Football had a theme song. Thanks guys, it was fun, we’ll have to do it again.
Later that night, Heidi and Ryan came over and we had hamburgers and played Cranium. We had a ton of fun with them playing Cranium. Jordan and Ryan beat Heidi and me. The funniest thing that happened was when Ryan was trying to show bungee jumping with Heidi. He picked her up and turned her upside down and kept shaking her. It was so hilarious!
