BYU Homecoming

After Dave's crazy test week (which went pretty good) we decided to spend our weekend in Provo and celebrate BYU's Homecoming!

Friday night we went to the BYU married student dinner, where we got served a nice dinner, had a program by Mindy Gledhill (so talented), and a show by ComedySportz (I was crying laughing so hard). We spent the night in Provo (thanks Jessica and Zac!) and the next morning, got free blue pancakes and watched the parade . . . even though it was real cold and was snowing. Funny story--the grill for our pancakes was low on propane, and they had a hard time cooking our pancakes--David's were pretty runny so he didn't really eat his. But we did get some yummy hot chocolate from the nearby gas station. The parade was great, and we got quite a bit of candy even though we were competing with some pretty agressive 4 year olds.


On Saturday, we visited some friends and Dave's sister Steph, and went to the BYU football game! We had wanted to go really bad, but we didn't have tickets, and at the last minute, our sister-in-law Becky called and asked if we wanted tickets--so we did get to go to the game! A big Thank You goes to Becky for getting us great, row-two tickets with seats instead of aluminum benches which were really nice when it is sooo cold.

You can see from the picture we had great seats and I was freeeeeezing.
Anyway, we had a great time and it was fun just to walk through campus and see the Y on the mountain lit up.

Steph's birthday is today! Here is the happy birthday girl with her yummy chocolate birthday cake. You're the best, Steph!

Anniversary!

So it's not actually our one-year anniversary yet, just our 9 month. (October 2nd) But we still went out to celebrate! We went out to eat at Cafe Rio, because we had enough stamps to get one meal free :) Here is a picture of us with Dave's Grandpa, Theron, as we were heading out the door to eat.

This week, Dave has another killer testing week--five tests and a quiz in five days. He has been getting ready for this week for a while, so hopefully things will turn out well.

During the afternoon session of conference, I made gingerbread Halloween cookies. Michelle Yates (Dave's sister) gave me the idea. When all the men went to the Preisthood session on Saturday night, all the girls got together and hung out for the evening. We made pumpkin cupcakes, among other things, and Michelle was showing me some Halloween cookies that you can make with gingerbread cut-outs and dough; I loved the idea. I went ahead and frosted some pumpkins, ghosts, Frankensteins, and mummies.

Wasn't conference great? I thought a lot of the messages were very timely considering all that has been happening lately.

A few weeks ago, I went to Idaho to start gathering materials for my senior project at BYU--I'm going to do a folklore/historical multi-genre collection of experiences my Grandma and Grandpa Harper have had with cattle, ranching, and farming. Here we are eating at the Outpost Steakhouse in Almo, Idaho. I split a 12 oz. Black Angus steak with my grandma--yum!