Ace Hardware

A new Ace Hardware opened just down the street from us. Courtney and I decided to check it out on opening day.  It's a nice store and they have a wide variety of items for sale.  We went to the toy department and began playing around.

I told Courtney that jack-in-the-boxes are scary and I didn't like them when I was young.  Courtney wasn't listening to me and started turning the handle.  It didn't take long before the thing popped out and Courtney hit the floor!  It was hilarious!!  She was so scared and began giggling so hard that she was crying.  It was the best thing I have been in a long time!

They sell a "pooping unicorn" that we had fun playing with.  It's grossly fascinating to squeeze it and see it poop.

This looks like a hilarious game.

Screensaver

At Success Academy, the sophomores and juniors share the computers.  There is one set in each classroom and they log into them.  The sophomores really need to make sure they log off the computers.  If they don't, the juniors like to change the sophomore's background picture.  This is what they did to one sophomore this week....

Haha!  I wish they could watch when a sophomore sees their new background picture.  That would be hilarious to see their confusion!

YW Relief Society activity

The Young Women combined with the Relief Society for an activity.  We made "mug rugs" which are kind of like hot pads that you can put your mug of hot chocolate on.  We were given a piece of fabric to decorate and then we sewed a liner and another piece on the back so it made a cute little mug rug.  Courtney and I had fun while making our project.  I didn't have a lot of creativity so I had Courtney write our name on mine then I decorated it.

Courtney's is the one on the left (she loves dinosaurs) and mine is on the right.

Courtney had her fill of HUGE brownies that were treats at the activity.

I switched mug rugs with a YW in our ward for the picture, just to be silly.

Annoyed Courtney

Courtney isn't a morning person.  She warms up but sometimes she is just kind of grumpy.  When we talk to Ethan on Tuesday mornings, she is sometimes grumpy because it throws her schedule off and we try to get her to talk before she is fully woken up.  The other day Ethan took this picture of her "annoyed face" while she was talking to him.  We had a good laugh when he sent it to us.  

She loves her brother and does love to talk to him, she just wishes it wasn't first thing in the morning. ;) 

BYU soccer game

We wanted to reward Courtney for having a good attitude during the soccer season. BYU soccer was playing at South Field and Courtney had been dropping hints that she wanted to go (they were NOT subtle hints, haha). She was at school on Friday and texted me to say that she would like to go to Provo even if we didn't go to the soccer game.  I laughed because I had already purchased soccer tickets.  So I sent her a picture of the tickets and she went nuts!

We didn't leave until midmorning but the drive was beautiful and we had a great time.  We went window shopping, walked around BYU campus, and got to the game in time to watch them warm-up.  Our tickets were almost mid-field on the 3rd row.  It was cold but we had blankets and coats so it wasn't bad.

She always laughs at my attempts to take selfies.  People around us were taking them but she was so embarrassed that I wanted a picture of us.  Crazy teenager!

They have the game ball on this pedestal.  Before the game, the ref takes it, uses a gauge to check the air pressure, and then they take the pedestal off the field.  

One of the refs had huge quads and Courtney couldn't get over how huge they were.  It was hilarious.

Goodbye gift

Today was Bryan's last day at St. George City.  They gave him a huge candy bouquet.  It was so nice of them and had a lot of his favorites in it.

 

SF Giants

The Giants were playing the Dodgers and we wanted them to win so Courtney got her Buster Posey jersey on.  Unfortunately, it didn't help and the Giants lost and were out of the World Series run.  It was a good season and we had fun watching them but now Bryan will be sad until the next baseball season.