The End is Near: Fires, Floods, and the Creation of a New Earth...

Fires: Early Saturday morning, someone set fire to our chapel. Luckily the youth were meeting there early, so the firemen got to it before major damage happened, but there is severe smoke and heat damage, so we will be meeting at another building for about 6 months they think. Yikes! Another chaple close to ours was burned a lot worse, and a vacant house nearby was also set on fire.

Floods: This morning we awoke to our neighbor's toilet water leaking down through the ceiling into our bathroom. Fun! This has happened before. And our fridge stopped working for the third time so all our food went bad. And when it rains a lot the plaster on top of our window falls down and makes a big mess. We are excited to one day move from our cute little apartment.

Earth: At my work there is a costume contest each year for group costumes. The social workers decided to be planets! Several hours and lots of paper mache later I made Earth:

Mars was also with us,

Along with Neptune (why make a costume when you don't need to?)

And the sun.

Jacob did an excellent job drawing the land on my earth. Yes, we really are that dorky in my office, but we have so much fun!


We went to the ward Trunk or Treat as a scary lumberjack, and...a lumberjack's wife.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Staycation

For our anniversary celebration, we had a staycation. I was surprised as I mentioned this to people and they did not know what it was. Here's a little info from Wikipedia if you're also not sure: "A staycation (also spelled stay-cation, stacation, or staykation) is a neologism for a period of time in which an individual or family stays and relaxes at home or a nearby hotel, possibly taking day trips to area attractions. Staycations achieved popularity in the US during the financial crisis of 2007–2010." On our staycation, we started the day off with a lovely brunch at Village Inn, and then headed to the zoo. Neither of us had been to the Hogle Zoo before, and we were excited to check it out. My favorite part were the little monkeys. So cute! We watched a big gorilla eat its poo. Gross. Then we saw the zoo's most famous resident right now, Zuri, the baby elephant. She was very cute as well.

Here we are, riding the zoo train with all the kiddies. If you go to the Hogle Zoo, don't take the train. It's like 30 seconds long and you don't really see anything cool on it.


Isn't Jacob's face so cute in this picture? He had fun with the big water ball that you move around.


That evening we went to a play at the Off Broadway Theatre called Y-Light. It is was a spoof on Twilight featuring vampires from BYU and werewolves, or "beer wolves," from the U. It was pretty funny and had a lot of Mormon jokes and rivalry jokes, both of which we enjoyed.

P.S. Our cats are still adorable, in case you were wondering:

25 Starts Off With A Bang

Jacob is 25. He had an amazing birthday. He wanted the new apple t.v., but the apple store kept selling out before I could get there to buy one. I called Friday after work, and they had sold out again! I called Jacob and said I was sorry but he'd have to take a rain check. Fortunately, Jacob took matters into his own hands and went to buy one Friday morning when there were only 3 left at the store. The apple t.v. couldn't connect with our t.v., so Jacob decided he needed a new flat screen. Now we have a 42" t.v. that pretty much takes up our whole living room. If you've been here, you know. We watched conference in HD! We also had some friends over Friday for Jacob's birthday favorite, German chocolate cake.

Me, Audrey, Elder Parry, and Jacob.

Last week we surprised Elder Parry at the airport on his way to Honduras. We used our detective skills to deduce what time and what airline he would be on so we could see him. Pretty cool.