Busy Sunday

Today we had such a busy day. Travis had bishopric meetings at 7, then came to pick me up for church at 9. Travis has to stay after church for a while to do callings and tithing. I went home to wait for visiting teachers, then Travis came home and we had a quick lunch before he left to do his home teaching. Then as soon as he got home, I ran out to do my visiting teaching. Then our home teachers came over (I didn't actually get to see them, since they came by before I got home from visiting teaching). So at 4 when we were all finished we layed down for a nap. When we woke up 3 hours later I thought I was going blind because the window was open and it was glowing orange. I've never seen anything so bright, I woke Travis up and he was so interested we both got up to go see what it looked like outside and this is what we saw.


Sorry the picture is so small. I put 3 pictures together to make this one. It was probably even brighter then this because minutes later it was black outside so it changes pretty fast.

Cedar Breaks

So on Friday Travis wanted to take me up to Cedar Breaks since you don't have to pay to go to the lookout this time of year (the real lookout, we've been to the free side one, but Travis said this one is better). Halfway up we knew we wouldn't be able to see anything, it was so foggy. But it was still a really pretty drive. We decided to go all the way up to Cedar Breaks anyway. We got to drive through the snow and everything was so frosted over it was awesome! Travis thought I looked funny freezing. As you can see behind me you can tell how foggy it was. That white is all we could see.


Then we say the trees which were frozen sideways, weird.



This was the drive down. My favorite were the red trees when we could find them.


And this was my favorite photo of all.


Hope you're having a great fall too! We're suppose to have snow this week so fall is almost over for us. I don't like winter!

Travis' new calling!

Well it's official now, Travis is now the 2nd counselor in the Bishopric in our ward! Crazy, I know. The worst part of it was that they called us in and gave Travis the calling three weeks ago. We had General Conference that weekend then Stake Conference the week after. My mom and sisters came down and Travis' dad and one brother came up from California. His dad also bought him a really nice new black suit! So great since he just has one grey one, now he'll have two! He'll be in them a lot so at least he can alternate, not that he's like me with a different dress every week. Hopefully I won't be alone all the time now, it's a good thing he doesn't have a job yet or I'd probably never see him.

Here's Travis with the weird missionary tag the bishopric has to wear. We think it's because it's a student ward they want to make sure that when new married couples come in they will know who is in the bishopric. I think he looks like a missionary again! cute!

Fun Friday

It was nice to have a good day after a terrible week. They've been laying people off at the school I work at, one of which was the mother of the girl I work with. So there was a possibility that she might take her daughter out of school and put her in a school closer to home, which means I could be out of a job too. But her mom said that she was going to keep her in school, so I survived. But I'm a stressed out person anyway, so it was a bad week. So on Friday after school we went on a drive through the mountains to see the colors changing and check out the snow. We drove up to Brian Head and Cedar Breaks lookout. It was so pretty! and there was sooo much snow already up there. We even saw a doe and 2 baby deer walking across the street, but they ran off when we got close, obviously. We also tried to find Aspen Lake, you can see it from a lookout point off the highway but we've never been able to get there after repeated tries. So we tried again and failed again after driving down a pretty much one-way dirt road for 20 min and then turning around. But it was still a really pretty drive, and we went to Costa Vida for dinner afterwards. We haven't been in sooo long and we realized why when we paid but it was so delicious! It was so relaxing after a long depressing week. The nice thing is that I have the week off work this week, time to relax a little more.


The little yellow tree on the bottom right in the picture above looked liked it was glowing! I couldn't get a good close-up, but it was crazy looking!


Some foreign guy took our picture at Cedar Breaks, I felt dumb giving him our little digital camera, when he had his full-on huge camera and equipment. But I don't think he spoke very much English anyway!


I tried to take some pictures while in the car, I wasn't fast enough, but this one looked cool.