Ashley's Bday, Saturday Fun!

As many of you know we celebrated Ashley's birthday this Thursday!!! Ashley, Kelsey, Andrew, Aunt Kathy, and I went to Andrew's restaurant to enjoy Ashley's favorite dish (my least favorite) sushi. Because we are poor and have no money she didn't get many presents from me. So she decided that on Saturday she wanted to go for a drive to see the fall colors.

So this morning Ashley, Andrew, and I started our day off going to Great Harvest Bread Company and Jamba Juice to enjoy a great breakfast. We then drove up Provo Canyon and stopped off at Bridal Veil Falls to hike around. (Joe, Matt, Andy I totally think we can climb up this)

After, we headed to Sundance where they were having an outdoor art festival which we walked around and checked out the booths. Then we continued past Sundance which turns into what's called the Alpine Loop and is famous for its fall colors. I have to say it was very pretty. I have never really enjoyed Fall because in California you don't see tree's like this.

After Alpine Loop we ate lunch at this great place called Kneader's, where they bake all their breads and have wonderful desserts.

Located practically down the street from Kneader's is a new Cabela's so of course we had to stop and check it out.

You know you're in Utah when you have to take a number and then wait for your number to be called, like you're at the DMV, just to talk to someone about guns!

We then headed back to Provo for the BYU vs. CSU football game. We ending up missing a lot of the first quarter because I am retarded and though it started at 5 pm for some reason. But It ended up being a great game. (much better than their pathetic loss last week) I do have to give a shot out to Paul Madsen #76 on CSU team (he is mormon) because he was the only CSU player to help a BYU player up after he threw them down, which made me laugh.

After the football game we headed to the Women's Soccer match to watch them destroy Utah State 3-0. I had fun their because some crusty old Utah State fans were getting upset and I spent rest of the game trying to say this to make them more mad.

So we had a really busy, but really fun day! Happy Birthday Ashley! Love ya!

BYU...Women's Volleyball?!?

So Ashley and I attended our first BYU sporting event this evening. This may come as a surprise, but we went to cheer on the BYU women’s volleyball team. You can make fun of me if you would like, but we had a fun time. We played San Diego (yes the German translation) State and it was a very close match.

BYU won the first set followed by San Diego taking set two and three. We rallied in the forth set and came from behind and won to force a fifth set. In the fifth set we destroyed them! The only reason we won was our #12, Kayla Walker I believe, she is 6’5” and dominated on offense with 31 kills but she was maybe the worse blocker in women’s volleyball history for her height with 2 blocks. I tried to get a moment with her after the game as they were running in the locker room but a news reporter got to her first. I hope she doesn’t Google her name often because she could definitely beat me up.

I was able to secure two miniature volleyball’s which were thrown into the crowd. The first because I got mad hops and the second I snagged from Carlie McKeon, which the announcer made fun of me for stealing it from a girl. But you know what; I saw her give another girl a concussion in a basketball game last year so if she really wanted it she would have put up a better fight. That volleyball had a voucher for a free popcorn which I thoroughly enjoyed. I did end up giving her the mini volleyball, but I kept the free popcorn voucher.

Well all and all we had a great time and this was just a taste of what Saturday’s football game against Andy’s Florida State Seminole’s. Which brings me to this week’s poll (yes, I’ve decided to include a weekly poll with my blog). Who will win the BYU vs. Florida State Football game?

Major = Business; Emphases = ?

I was going to blog about our moving in experience, because it's a funny story, but Ashley has already started working on a post for that which you will see soon.

So I know I want to attend the Business school. I like business, it was fun doing the mortgage thing, but I don't know what my emphases should be in. Each Friday I attend a lecture series where a successful Marriott Alumni comes and speaks about their specific profession in the business industry. Hopefully this will help narrow it down for me, but in the meantime I need your help.

At BYU there is the Marriott School of Business. At the Marriott School of Business there are two options; the School of Accountancy, and the School of Management. (I am talking a business writing class, and we are studying grammar. This is the first time I have ever used a semicolon before in my life besides making a winking smiling person ;) via online, and no I obviously haven't done it since I met Ashley. I don't know if it's grammatically correct though) Under Management you have to choose an emphases of Finance, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Global Supply Chain, Strategy, and Organizational Behavior/HR Management. So I created a poll to the right ----> in which I need you to suggest what emphases might give me the greatest, most unique set of skills, so I can make millions of dollars, buy an island and fly you all out to vacation with me. Next week I will reveal what I am leaning towards, and ofcourse this all depends on if I get into the dumb school or not!


Update: School is going great; Ashley is working hard on finding a job, and the reality of us living in Provo for the next couple years is starting to sink in. (How do you like that semicolon huh?)

Andy

This is a picture of our good dear (old) friend Andy. If you read the comment section it's obvious to tell his political stand point......baby

Pig Roast

As many of you know this blog is primarily Ashley's (even though she updates it once a year). Well I am now taking over this blog because my business writing class requires I keep a weekly blog as part of the the course work. So be careful while leaving comments as my BYU professor may be reading them. Although he did say today that we could plagiarize if we wanted to burn in hell which I thought was pretty dang funny since I like to say that a lot, especially while giving lessons to the youth.

So for my first blog post I would like to share something I did two weekends ago. For those of you who don't know, our friends, (now old friends) threw us a going away party which included roasting a pig in the ground. It was probably one of the top 5 coolest things I have done so far in this life and I suggest everyone do it or at least come to one of our annual pig roasts in the future. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Here is the pit in which Wilbur cooked. Joe said he could dig it in 15 minutes but did not take into account he hadn't water his backyard since he bought the house so the dirt was more like a rock. It took him 3 hours to dig this.

This is Wilbur hanging out in Joe and Tiffany's fridge. I would not be surprised if Tiffany makes Joe buy a new fridge and put this one in the garage to designate it as the annual pig roasting fridge.

This is Wilbur right before Tim, came over to save the pig roast and show Joe and I how to make a pig roast rub.

Close up of Wilbur.

Wilbur wrapped in Banana leaves

Once Wilbur was in the ground it was cool how you could stand on top and barely feel the heat from the roaring 2000 degree coals below. It was pretty cool especially because I did not think this would work at all.

This is Tim, Kellie's dad, using his electronic thermometer to test if Wilbur was done. When the thermometer hit 170 degrees we leaped like school girls, as we were all nervous about the Wilbur cooking all the way.

Even though Matt Felt had been up for 96 hours straight, or close to that, he made an appearance and supervised Matt Jackson digging up the pig. I could be wrong but this may be the only picture of Jackson doing manual labor. Unfortunately Kellie couldn't make it due to Taylor not wanting to come out of her nice comfy home until she was forced out earlier that morning.



Joe and Tim working on getting Wilbur out of his nice steamy oven.

After we lost two of Wilbur's legs, Joe and Tim had to get creative and used cooking sheets to put under Wilbur for support so we wouldn't loose any other body parts.

Wilbur after we cut out about 1/2 of his meat.

If you are thinking to yourself that Wilbur must have been delicious, moist, and flavorful, then you are right. He was quite tasty and we are thankful to our friends for throwing us such an awesome going away party. We are also thankful for Taylor being born before we moved. So you can expect to check back once a week for an update. I hope all is well with everyone!