I love PC

One of our friends, PC, is an electrician and he offered to come over and hang some new light fixtures for us. Well he only offered because I asked him everytime I saw him if he would come over and do it since James has no "handyman skills". I would do it myself but electricity is one thing that scares, cause I'm afraid I'm going to electrocute myself and no one will find me before I have burned to death. It's a small fear. So he hung a new light in our kitchen, entry way and the top of the stairs. Now I have no more ugly, gold lights in my house! (this is the least of my problems though) The thing I am most excited for is he and James hung our replacement cabinet after the old one fell off!!! It's only taken us 6 months to hang it but I don't care. It's up and I can put dishes in it instead of on a desk in the corner, yeah!!! It's the little things that excite me.

I also did some handyman work myself this past weekend. It's only taken me a year and a half to do all this since we moved in.

I hung our painting.

I hung one of my Ansel Adams frames.

I hung another Ansel Adams frame. I like his work if you couldn't tell.

I put that rubber modling on the floor of the closet. And organized the closet, but that's not really a handyman skill.

Also, not really a handyman skill, but I bought new autumn placemats for the table.

You can see where I kept my dishes until my new cabinet was put in.

Here's James folding the laundry because I told him he had to since I was such a man all day doing handyman work.

How I feel today

Performance Fleece

Don't ask why but everytime I hear about Performance Fleece at Old Navy I sing this song... (This is for you Ann!)

Performance Fleece,

Ooo it's fine.

Performance Fleece,

I'll be there at nine.

I'm going to go,

with you as my guest.

In Performance Fleece,

We'll be the best dressed.

Old Navy, Old Navy,

Performance Fleece.

Black Out

I love Utah football!!!!!!!!

#8 Utah 13 #12 TCU 10

UB Football

Last night was the very first nationally televised football game for University of Buffalo. They've been a division III school and they have moved up to a division I. I had never been to a game and James, in his 4 years of attending school there, has only been to one before. So we decided to go last night, since it is free to students. But I'm sure I could have splurged for the most expensive tickets, which were $15. The football game reminded me of going to games in high school. There was a track around the field, the seats are all benches, and it's complete chaos. We went with Jimmy C and Rick. We met up with Nick Mendola the local radio announcer and sat with him. Jonah came and tailgated with us but he is a sports reporter for the newspaper so he got to sit in the warm, cozy, comfy seat press box. It was a good night for football, not too cold, but a little chilly. I had an amazing stadium hot dog and some hot chocolate. It was a really bad crowd turn out though. The stadium holds 35,000 and only 16,000 showed up. And probably 1/3 of the people left at the beginning of the third quarter. UB ended up winning the game and me, James and Jimmy rushed the field with all the students. James had to help me jump over the railing cause of my bad ankle. We ran around the field for a while with the players and the band. Then when we got back to the cars James realized he lost his keys while on the field. So I had to go back to the house to key his spare set, luckily I put them away so I knew where they were. Now he gets to go to the dealership and purchase another key for $110. Good ending to the evening.

The stadium

Jonah looks so professional in his jacket and jeans

James and Jimmy C

Brooke and James - I don't normally wear blue - Go Utes!

And I did wear my lucky JC Penny Utah Utes tube socks!

On the field after the game

I didn't take the following pictures - James stole the camera from me.

Happy Halloween

A couple days before Halloween me and James decided it was time to carve our pumpkins. I went with the traditional weird faces while James went with a more complex witch cut-out. I carved three pumpkins in the time it took him to do his one pumpkin. It came out really well, I was very surprised.

Brooke's pumpkins

James working on his pumpkin

The finished product

On Halloween night we went out downtown to the Town Ballroom. I dressed up as a Charleston girl with Corinne and Kristin. James dressed up as Will Ferrell's character from Semi-Pro, Jackie Moon. He even grew his hair out a little bit so it would be more "fluffy". If you didn't know, James had hair down to his shoulders in high school and it was so curly. He will not be growing it out like that again. His shorts were too short and I tried to convince him to wear more underneath but he said if he did that he wouldn't be "in character". Whatever. We had lots of fun!

That's me!

Jackie Moon

My Ladies - Corinne, Me, Kristin

I had no idea how to get that knot in my necklace, apparently you just tie it, ha ha.

Kristin is also commenting on my nice cleveage. ha ha.

Elvis made it out for Halloween

This girl was Grimace! I was so upset when she didn't win the contest.

Jaimete Vinilliams 10-25-08

I know this is a little late coming but on the 25th of October my little sister Jaime got married to Pete Williams. Now I knew Pete previously from my stint at Payson High School and he wasn't the nicest person to me, but when they came to visit this past summer he was very nice. It was a short trip for me, I flew in on Thursday morning and left Monday afternoon. When I got to the airport in Utah the man at Enterprise was flirting with me and gave me his number (ha ha) and was going to give me a "luxury size car" but I declined and said I just wanted the mid-size since I drive a Honda Civic. Thursday night was Jaime's shower with the fam. My aunt Shirlene had it at her house and it was fun to see everyone! Friday was the rehearsal dinner at Los Hermanos in Lindon. It was amazing. I ordered a side of guac for myself and I ate it all. I love guacamole. Saturday was the big day. In the morning I got my hair did by Girl, who does amazing work. Then Jaime and I had our makeup done by the girls at the Mac counter at Nordstroms. My girl had a fake tattoo on her chest, which was funny, but weird. That evening they got married at the Cedar Hills golf course. It was very pretty. I had not been in that area since we lived in PG when I was in 5th grade. It had changed so much but the Purple Turtle was still there! It was fun to see the fam and be a part of the wedding. Congratulations to Jaime and Pete. Thank you to Aunt Shirlene who made Jaime's dress, all the bridesmaid's dresses, and Pretty Princess Luci Mei's flower girl dress. And thank you to Ashley, Ryan, Josh, Les and Andrew for coming, it was good to see you guys!!

The bride and groom

The bride and groom

Thats me!

Pretty Princess

The wedding party

The ceremony. And for all those Payson graduates - Yes that is Mr. Dalquist

Cutting the cake