friday favorites

1. Meeting my brother Scott on campus for lunch every Friday.

2. When, during a ballet performance at the assisted living home this week, one of the residents tried to get on stage to join the dancers.

3. Having the in-laws in town!

4. When we're at a restaurant and Ben says "You know my policy: it never hurts to ask, and always order something that's not on the menu!"

driving the alpine loop: a big fail

Before coming back to Provo for our last semester, Ben and I made a bucket list. I was adamant that "driving the Alpine Loop in the Fall" be on there - in fact, it is the first one listed. I have heard from numerous friends and cousins how beautiful the fall leaves are, but for one reason or another, fall after fall I have failed to drive the Alpine Loop! This fall, our last fall, I made absolutely sure that we did not neglect this item on our bucket list. And we didn't . . . we just did it a little too late.

Take a look:

Nope. Not a single leaf!!!

. . .

I finally managed to take this single picture of some leaves on a tree. Only part of the tree is showing because the rest of the picture would be dead leaves. Ha!

Who would have thought, because this is what the trees look like down in Provo! I guess you just have to be smarter than the trees. :-/

friday favorites

1. I learned something new about Ben this week - he does not feel comfortable when the TV volume is on a prime number.

2. One of our activities at the Courtyard at Jamestown this week was "Quotes, Jokes, & Root Beer Floats." After serving everyone a root beer float, I read them jokes for thirty minutes. My favorite one was "You know you're getting old when . . . you get the dreaded furniture disease - your chest falls into your drawers."

3. Ben & I visited the Tamale Lady this week for $1 tamales - I ordered "uno pork, uno cheese, and three chicken." Now I wish I had taken Spanish in high school.

4. We took Ashley's cute kids (2 years and 4 months) to the Smurf movie last night and learned that we are probably better off sticking to Uncle Ben & Aunt Karin for now.

5. I've started wearing winter jackets this week and in each one I've put on, I've found at least one partially used kleenex. Welcome to my life!

A new blog tradition? Friday Favorites? We'll see how it goes. :)

pictures

One of my good friends, Katie, took some pictures of Ben & I when we were in Merced over the summer. We love them and we are hiring her for all of our future picture needs! Her website is ktmariephotography.blogspot.com . . . check it out!

just a few bits

Not a lot is going on in the Myers household . . . we are just busy-busy-busy!

A few exciting things:

Ben is done with his GMAT prep course. No more 8 hours of class per week! Go Ben!

I got a 99 on a midterm last week and the screen at the testing center said "Fantastic!"

The fall leaves are so vibrant and so gorgeous - loving it.

I found this on the internet yesterday and Ben & I laughed hysterically:

not a loser

Sometimes it's not about being a winner, it's about being a not loser.

This is what Ben told me as we walked out the door to the football game and I was wearing my marshmallow jacket. It is not a winning jacket because it is not cute; never has been, never will. BUT, because I was warm in the 34 degree weather - I was a not loser!

Speaking of winning and losing (but not really), yesterday I created AMAZING homemade chicken fried rice! Who is the bomb?!

windows

If you have seen this picture -

then you know that I once tried to kill a bee by swinging at it with a broom. You probably remember that I missed the bee but killed the window.

I am now pleased to announce that we have a new window!

The window man (who called me Sister Myers because he couldn't say Karin - gotta love the Church) told me that this glass has surface strength that is 4 times stronger than regular glass. I thanked him and told him that, still, I would try to keep my broom away from all windows.

[Although, I have to admit that last night I dreamt there was a giant spider above the window in our apartment and we were trying to kill it by throwing bricks at it.]