Goblins and Ghouls

I'm awful at keeping this thing up to date... Ah well!

This semester I decided to take 17 credit hours. Probably the worst decision I could have made - I'll be taking it down a notch next semester (which I register for in just a couple weeks! Aaaah!). Anyways, it's made it a little difficult for me to do anything other than eat, sleep, and do homework. I'm a little scared for my G.P.A.... but I did a worst case scenario on a GPA calculator online, and it looks like I should be able to keep my scholarship, which is all that really matters to me.

I am living this year in Arcadia Apartments (#11, feel free to stop by!) with some really classy ladies:

Aubrey, McKenna, Myself, Claudia, and Kirsten

Any spare time that I am able to scrounge up is spent with these chicas. I've gotten to be a part of a hot springs adventure, and took some of the gang up to Salt Lake for General Conference.

Any SPARE spare time I have is spent with mi fantastica familia, especialmente mi sobrina, Allisyn:

She is so big, compared to last year! She's walkin' and talkin' and making my life fantastic. :)

My family has also come down occasionally to have adventures, most recently to catch the BYU homecoming game (which we won! Thank you Riley Nelson!).

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I started drafting this blog post a little before Halloween, and now it's December 3rd, so I'll just try and wrap up through Halloween quickly.

The first weekend of October is the LDS General Conference, and I scored tickets to the Saturday and Sunday morning sessions.

 We left way earlier than we needed to, so the drive up involved a lot of sleeping.

 Being there early meant we had time to traipse around Temple Square

In our seats! 

(I realize that I'm not in any of these pictures, but I promise I'm the one taking them).

I left straight from the Sunday morning session to get on a plane to Seattle, where I attended Grandma Till's funeral. I was so grateful for the opportunity to say goodbye, and for the chance to see my family. She is very much missed. 

 Brandi, myself, Grant, and Evan, at Grandma's house. 

At the graveside - before Grandma's death date was inscribed. Grant went back later and took another picture for me:

I came home and got back to work with school, but Halloween (my favorite holiday!) was coming up.

A girl in our ward decided to start a door decorating contest. I'm not sure if we ever took a picture of the finished product, but here's an work-in-progress-pic.

The end result was actually pretty fantastic... .we won! (partially because no one else decorated their doors....) Although we still haven't gotten our prize... (humph!). I'll have to find a picture of it. 

Our ward also put on a pretty kick-butt party. I was disappointed that the pumpkin carving fell through, but I still had fun dancin' with my buddies and getting to know other ward members better.

My FHE group also carved pumpkins, which was fun. 

Here are a few of the pumpkins I carved myself. 

I had carved a couple more by the end.... I'm obsessed. I'll admit it.

The day of Halloween, I saw the giant pumpkin drop at Hee Haw Farms

 This is what the car looked like after having two pumpkins dropped on it. :)

The Sunday before Halloween I made a big Halloween feast including, but not limited to:
Halloween-themed cupcakes, cookies, and jello, broomstick breadsticks, Jack-o-Lantern casserole, mummy pigs-in-a-blanket, and spider pizza.

This had a floating jello hand in it

 And this one was a skull

 We made a gingerbread house!

 Next to it you can see part of a skeleton that McKenna made from milk cartons.

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Ok! I think that's everything of interest to mention about Halloween. Oh! Interesting tidbit - I dropped a 2 credit class, so that made my life a little easier.