Restless Youth of Today

Pumpkin carving is fun, you find the perfect pumpkin, plan a design, and then execute it. This is usually what happens...but nothing can prepare a person for a mutant pumpkin! Christy and I were invited to our friends Michael & Allie's apartment for a triple date pumpkin carving extravaganza. All was going really well, we were all having such a great time. Until Christy let out a blood-curdling scream! I quickly rushed to her side to see see what was ailing her, only to discover, we were the unfortunate hosts of a mutant pumpkin! The insides were tainted with a brownish slime! It was truly disturbing to the psyche.
There was only one course of action that we could take, smash it before the plague could spread! And that's just what we did, we all marched out into the alleyway and prepared for the proper disposal of the bane of pumpkin-kind!




The world can rest easy once again, the nightmare is over...for now...

Who Directed These Videos?

You may or may not be familiar with this, but our new favorite thing is literal music videos. We all know how music videos are not always representative of what is happening in the song. These vidoes take the original music video and dubb new words over the old ones and some of them are really funny! Here's a few of our favorites, and if you don't like them at first, keep watching, because a lot of them keep getting better. If you have any favorites, send them our way!

My Super Creative Husband

For those who don't know, I (Christy) am a veterinary technician, which involves getting pretty dirty everyday. Whether it is snot, fecal matter, urine, blood, dirt or whatever, it doesn't matter much because I always have my trusty scrubs on. Well recently we had a small emergency which involved me getting a bit of blood on the front of my scrubs. For this purpose I prefer darker scrubs but that day I happened to be wearing light blue ones. I washed them in cold and forgot all about it until I pulled them out of the drawer one day and put them on. I thought, it's just a small spot, no one will really notice, and finished getting ready. When I was all ready and had about 5 minutes until I had to leave, I looked at myself in the mirror for the first time that morning and realized that everyone would notice. I could have just changed and forgot all about it but then what would I do? Throw out the scrubs? That's when I remembered what a creative husband I have. I said, "Scott, can you draw something on here to cover the blood? You have 4 minutes." He got out his sharpie and went to work, and 2 minutes later, exactly 2 minutes later, I was out the door.

Pretty good for 2 minutes, huh? Could you even tell it was blood? And I got compliments from all my coworkers. So those of you who know Scott know that I may not have the neatest husband, or the cleanest, or the most handy, but you do have to agree that I have the most creative husband.

The Long Haul

Last weekend we had one of many firsts together: going to General Conference. We drove with Melissa and Mike Waller to Utah and it was a verrrry long drive. We somehow turned a 10 hour drive into 12 hours. It could have had something to do with stopping in Barstow to go to Del Taco for BREAKFAST, stopping in Vegas to go to the Luxor, stopping in Mesquite for gas and lunch and pulling off somewhere in Utah at a Burger King for drinks. The drive was actually quite fun though- Fact or Crap??

We finally got to our destination and then on Sunday we went to the afternoon session of Conference.

It was a really great session and Elder Holland's talk was so awesome! We were all so excited about it and of course he's our favorite guy anyway.

After the session was over we decided to walk around a bit, but since Temple Square was closed and we could only view the temple from just outside, it didn't last long.




It was freezing cold and raining off and on so we went back to our car which was parked across the street from the Conference Center- we were lucky enough to get a parking permit for the Church Offices parking structure. This is the coolest parking structure: it has a full car wash and a mechanic's, which we assume is for the general authorities and the mission cars. We pulled out into this line of cars that was not moving at all. After sitting in it for 10 minutes or so we decided to look for a different exit, which required driving past the mechanics. As we did so, Scott said, "That was President Monson in there!"
"No, it wasn't."
"Yes it was! I swear!"
"Are you sure?"
"YES!"
So we park the car and everyone gets out and runs back to the mechanic. Of course it wasn't President Monson. It was ELDER HOLLAND! We all went in and shook his hand, he asked where we were from and he said that that was a great place to be from. He also said we were all very sweet for coming and patted Christy and Melissa's cheeks (which their husbands are not allowed to kiss anymore), and then we were on our way.

Overall it was a really fun weekend with some good testimony-building experiences. But man, we are so not gonna make that drive again anytime soon.