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During the BYU football home games, they show a video of Cosmo against some bad men…each to be continued at the next home game. Spencer, who is very much into roll playing with whatever he can find (right now, it’s colored pencils…weird, I know). I’m just laughing to myself because he’s talking about a game, a big kick, Cosmo, and then the noises of an action-packed fight. When some of the colored pencils fly off of the couch (Evie is asleep so no worries there), I can only assume the bad guys are getting their butts kicked. I’m trying so hard not to laugh too loudly…but it’s hard not to.

Yesterday Evie took 3 steps while she was hanging out with daddy at Chris and Julie’s apartment. In Relief Society today she took 4 steps! Not too much longer!

So, I took my first Geology test last night and boy, oh boy does my brain hurt! I haven’t had to study like that in over 3 years! I’m so out of practice. I’m enjoying my class but there’s SO MUCH info to go over and understand that it just hurts. I got a 78% but hopefully next time I’ll study over a long period of time and not just for 3 days before the test. PLUS, I should have new books to tempt me as much…I hope. 🙂

This is a sample of the wrist badges for Lauren’s Dragon Rider birthday party this weekend.

Well, even if the game had some bad footwork, Evie had a good one. She took her FIRST STEP! Aunt Netty, Aunt Coley, Uncle Mikey and Mommy (me) saw it (daddy was out getting dinner). Hopefully she’ll realize how fun it is to walk and do it again!

During the BYU football game tonight we had to watch what we were saying…not because it was THAT bad of a game (although we could do better) but because Spencer repeats what we say a lot. Steve said “suck” once and Spencer repeated. So, Aunt Netty decided to use “stinky” instead. BYU knocked a Tulsa player out of bounds and Spencer said, “Mommy – they pooped.” I said, “Are they stinky?” Spencer said, “Yeah.” Aunt Netty said, “Okay – Maybe I won’t say ‘stinky’ anymore.” After that Spencer and Lukie said “stinky” over and over again. Made me laugh so hard I teared up. TOO FUNNY!

So I haven’t read in a long time…due to my addiction to digi scrapping. Coley let me borrow (actually, Natalie let me borrow) the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. What a great book! I was addicted from the beginning preface. I finished in 1 day (yes, I’m a stay home mom so I actually have the option to read that much…AND I even did one load of laundry! I know, not much but now that I’m finished with this book and I’m waiting for the next I have time to clean…even though I’d prefer not to!) There are two books to follow…I just have to borrow them once they’re available (and eventually I’ll get my own copies!) SO GOOD!

Isabella Swan’s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife — between desire and danger. Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/index.html

So Steve and I were granted financial aid for school and were thrilled! I’m very excited to back in school. We decided to use some of the leftovers to get a laptop – we chose a Mac. Steve went through UVU (also known as UVSC) and got a student discount. We got a free printer/scanner and then Steve brought home a surprise. He got me a WACOM board for my digi scrapping so I can draw and create my own papers, alpha, etc. I’m so excited! So, that’s our Christmas presents. We’re so excited!

So last weekend I volunteered at UTOSC. I had done a little work with the flyers and t-shirt and had fun doing it. I had a blast at the conference though! Being one of 4 girls around was fun. I even made friends with some of the geeks’ wives who weren’t even there! I had even more fun picking fights since I’m a Window’s user! (I have nothing against Open Source…I use Windows because I’m comfortable with it…but I will be teaching myself a few Open Source programs within the next year). Everyone at the conference was great – volunteers, speakers and attendees. I helped with the check-in, took pictures randomly, and as someone put it – obsessively did head counts in each classroom. I learned a lot from the things I did hear…usually only 2-3 minutes at a time in each room, plus the conversations between the geeks in the hallway (they call themselves geeks so I don’t think I’m being rude). I really had a ton of fun and think it’ll be fun to help next year too. I think I’m now an “adopted geek” because I’ve been asked to help again.

This last weekend was the Utah Open Source Conference that Steve was helping with. I also helped out creating flyers (and one became the t-shirt design). Steve helped set up for the event and got home pretty late…usually after 1 or 2 a.m. I have wonderful family who offered their help so I could volunteer at the Conference too. Spencer spent 2 1/2 days at Grandma and Grandpa’s. They found this awesome firetruck with moving ladder, flashing lights and sirens. It’s seriously about 3 feet long! He had so much fun! I just hope Grandma and Grandpa did too! Chris and Julie watched Evie on Thursday night. They came over around 4:15-ish and stayed until 9:30 or 10:00 (I can’t remember when I got home). Evie loves Chris and Julie! On Friday I took Evie to Annette’s around 8:30 (after dropping Steve off at the Conference so he didn’t fall asleep driving). She had so much fun playing with Evan and Luke. She got lots of kisses from Aunt Netty and Lukie…mostly Lukie. They sure love each other! I called to check on Annette a few times and she assured me Evie was behaving for her. I think I picked her up around 6:30…mainly because I was hurting from not feeding her all day! I went back with Evie to get Steve but the shirts I designed finally came so I helped out a little. Saturday morning I dropped Evie off at Mike and Nicole’s around 7:45. I went to my Geology class because I had a feeling he was going to quiz us…and he did. I left as soon as the quiz was over. Around 1:15-ish I went to Mike and Nicole’s to feed Evie and she fell asleep (for 2 1/2 hours!). Nicole told me that she let Mike sleep in but Evie was giggling so much that she woke him up. Luckily it’s not a bad sound to wake up to…or at least it’s better than her crying. The BYU game was on tv so Annette and Lukie went over to Mike and Nicole’s.  I knew Evie would be occupied with Lukie so I figured she was fine. After  the conference we had a “post-mordem”  meeting and then cleaned up so we picked up Evie around 10:45 and Spencer around 11:15.  We are so lucky to have family so close by who are willing to help when we need it!