Apple Pie!

So yesterday I made my first ever all from scratch apple pie! I went next door and picked the apples, found a recipe online, and made it. I usually don't love the homemade version of apple pie (The store bought version is my favorite pie), but I think that my pie turned out really great and I am pretty proud of it.

(This shirt was one of my lost and found purchases- Price $1)

This new tablecloth was also a lost and found purchase (Price $1.25) I'm pretty happy with it. I think it might be the exact same one my mom has and always uses. I had to fold it in fourths to fit on our table.

You might have noticed on the table my beautiful flower arrangement? This one is by far my favorite one that I have done so far by far! It is a cube design and I think it is absolutely beautiful!

Since I am the last lab of the week we also get to take home extra flowers. I was able to get enough flowers to make 3 more bouquets. So I gave two away and kept one for us. So FUN! (Eric if you read this, please remember how much I love flowers for future years when Im not bringing so many home)

We also went to see Thriller. The oddesy dance company does a dance all around Utah with halloween themed dances. It was really fun and neat to see. The picture is a little fuzzy, but oh well.


Im also trying to learn the wheel in ceramics and boy is that frustrating. I had no clue how hard it would be! But hopefully all this time I spend throwing will make me good at it and I can get some good ceramic pieces out of it!

Felindee Rap

So we tried so hard to have this done before the end of Feliz and Indee's birthday (Eric's two sisters), but Debbie didn't get out of school til 7 pm and we finished filming and editing at 11:38 pm. We made it! But then it took 75 minutes to upload onto YouTube so it wasn't ready for sharing until Oct 12th. Oh well. We tried!

Happy Birthday Feliz and Indee! Hope your days were magical!


Love,
Eric and Debbie

P.S. On a sidenote, Eric went out this morning to drive to school and someone had stolen his windshield wipers! Ridiculous! I hope stuff getting stolen doesn't become a trend!

Carol's baby

So I guess I never got around to posting about Carol's new baby Kohen. She hasn't posted a new blog yet either, so I thought I'd beat her to the punch. He is already two weeks old. Good Job Carol! He is cute as a button! (Just as your baby shower suggested he would be!)

We took her donuts and flowers.

This is the arrangement I made of the bird wings that I brought home from hunting. I think it looks kinda cool and is a great Halloween decoration.

After we found the conference tickets.

And this is our primary class minus one kid (Jason). I gave them all flowers either for their hair or boutonnieres. You can tell each of their personalities from this picture I believe. Also as a side note, they are sixth graders! Crazy! Don't they seem tiny?

Wendy comes to visit!

We were privileged this past week to have a visitor! WENDY! We had a lot of fun. We went camping, hiking, eating, visiting, and to general conference. Overall it was a GREAT week! Thanks for coming Wendy!

We had tin foil dinners that turned out really divine!

And the leaves were changing colors and the weather was nice! (Not the cold and snowy 30 degrees that we have now!)

We got some new cool pink and green camp chairs. Now we own 6 chairs total. Thanks Wendy.

We also hiked bridal veil falls and I thought the picture needed a little something to make it more valuable in 30 years.

And Conference was fun and we got to sit really close. I had a horrible cold, but it was minimal during conference. A great blessing! Im sure those around us would have been really mad if I was coughing and blowing my nose every 30 seconds (Which I WAS doing right before and right after- and still am doing even almost a week later!)

Come visit again!

Requests for a new post!

So my girlfriends and I (this is Debbie writing by the way, not Eric) have a girls night every month and yesterday was my turn. We did some Papier-mâché and some other stuff like fixing my hair- I love it when people play with my hair! Other activities included looking at Carol's belly. She is due any day now and is about to pop!


After Kasey did my hair I slept in it and wore it to school today. It still looked good on day two. I wore the twist but next time she'll need to leave me with the braid because that one is pretty too.



And today was my first floral arranging class! We made bouquets but I brought it home and put it in a vase. If Carol has her baby really soon I'll make a bouquet for her. Would you like that Carol? I didnt arrange it in the vase really yet since I might split it but the flowers are so pretty.



And Kasey requested that I add these pics from the last girls night.





Also I am loving my classes. I am taking ceramics (I can't stop thinking about clay!), floral design, indoor plants, clogging and environmental microbiology. Clogging is truly the best exercise out there. I dont have a video of me doing it, but I taped someone else in the class doing our first solo dance. Here it is. (I cant seem to get the words to line up with the pictures so hopefully you figured it out)

Eleanor Rigby - The Newest Niece

My older brother Derek and his wife Aynna just added to their family with a baby girl: Eleanor. She is cute as a button but has much more hair than any button I've ever seen. Debbie was on a pheasant (or was it peasant?) hunting trip in Colorado this weekend so I went up to the baby blessing alone, but it was fun to see her and to hang out with Jonah.

Jonah was being a stink on the playground, but this picture makes it look like he's just some sweet little angel.



Me and Eleanor.


What a little baby. Literally.


That's what I'm talking about.


I got video footage of Eleanor's earliest signs of vanity: she smiles when I compliment her. Press here to see it. Or die.

This is a bonus video of the booger Quincy ignoring me and looking good doing it. Click here or also die.

Shark!!

So for Labor Day weekend we thought it would be fun to make a movie. Eric came up with the idea to do a Jaws mockumentary and so we got an HD camera from BYU and made this. Hope you think it's funny.