Hee Haw Farms

Kate and Kaitlan’s ward had a ward activity to Hee Haw farms, so naturally I went.  I’d never been to any sort of Halloween activity in Utah, so I was pretty excited, but held no expectations for this particular arena. 

 

First was the Hay Ride to the haunted house or whatever it was.  We originally didn’t get tickets to the haunted becuase Kate H. and I are pansies, but we eventually decided it wouldn’t be that bad because this was a family park and I finally consented. But my indecision caused us to miss the first hay ride, and we had to watch all our friends ride away without us.

But, turns out, this wasn’t so bad because near the waiting area were some really strange things. For example, here is some goat tower thing that we would have missed out on!

 

We also played on the tractors and trucks.

This truck was nasty, so we didn’t sit in it.  We walked around for a minute longer and found a nicer truck.  Kaitlan and I got in it, and then started to see some suspicious items: an iPod, a jacket, and it reeked of cologne.  We realized it was someone’s actual truck and not a prop just as the hay ride was coming back and tried to get out, but there weren’t any lights and I couldn’t find the handle to the door. We figured it out, but the lights came on when we opened the door and I was scared that the driver of the hay ride was the owner of the truck and we were going to get kicked out or something.

  

Some of the members of their ward.

 

The Kaitlyn’s (a mix of the spelling of their names) and I.

Kate looks like she jumped super high in this picture.

The haunted house wasn’t too bad, but that’s mostly because I was always third so I wasn’t the initial scare or the person they followed.  I also get really annoying in haunted houses because I get jokey and sarcastic as my defense mechanism against getting scared.

Most of the people who were in the house/maze thing were high schoolers, but they did a pretty good job!

And Look! A family!

There was also a corn maze, but we got bored of it pretty quickly and wanted to go home and watch Hocus Pocus so we only went a couple hundred feet in and then turned around.

Coach Jamie

Matt and I went to one of Jamie’s volleyball games. Here are some treasures demonstrating Jamie’s coaching style.  :)

 

This was a nice little sequence.  This next picture was taken at 5:19:23 and the one after was taken just 3 seconds later, at 5:19:26.

Lastly,

Coach Jamie

Matt and I went to one of Jamie’s volleyball games. Here are some treasures demonstrating Jamie’s coaching style.  :)

 

This was a nice little sequence.  This next picture was taken at 5:19:23 and the one after was taken just 3 seconds later, at 5:19:26.

Lastly,

Alpine Loop

If you have ever lived in Utah during the Fall, you have probably done the Alpine Loop.

This year I did it three times.

Alpine Loop Take One

The first time was on a blind date that Jeff set me up on. As you can see, it was really pretty, but very, very green.

That date was pretty much a disaster. Not a single person on that date was even a little bit interested in their date. My date and Jeff’s date were second cousins and just talked the whole time about their third cousins-next-door-neighbor’s-best-friend’s-dog. Or something like that.  They really had their family history figured out.

As we were laying out the blanket for the picnic, my date decided to try and lay it on these bushed that were about 3 feet tall.  Now the whole place was covered in underbrush and stuff, but there were definitely spots that were not already occupied by bushes.
He explained his actions by saying that he thought the bushed could be padding.  Weird kid.

The best part of the date though was when we were getting dropped off.  We had to drop Jeff’s date somewhere else so she could get to Salt Lake, and as she got out of the car, she said “nice to meet you” to Jeff and I and then thanked Brigham. It was weird, but then my date drove to the Elms and dropped Jeff and I off- not even getting out of the car. It was so weird.

And before you get all skeptical, I promise you that Jeff and I did not act like we were on the date together. Even when they were swapping storied about their first-cousin-once-removed’s-first-grade-teacher, we did not start talking to each other about our mutual friends.

Alpine Loop Take Two

The next week, a group of friends and I went between the conference sessions on Sunday.  As you can see in this picture, we were not the only ones with the idea.  There was practically a traffic jam up there. 

Still a whole lot of green, but some of the leaves were changing!

Since there were so many cars up there, we didn’t get out in time to get home for conference, so we stopped at a park on the way back and turned it on in the car.

I’m not sure how effective that was…

Alpine Loop Take Three

The next Sunday, Jamie, Matt, Kristin, Mei Ling, and I went up. Jamie told us to wear fall colors, and then got mad at us when none of us brought a scarf.  :)

The colors were much more brilliant this week though, even though my camera got a little funky with the colors in Jamie and Matt’s pictures.

Anyway, so it was cool to see the progression of the leaves. I’m glad the loop is so close to Provo!

 

DADD

Have you seen this?  I find it pretty funny.  Not anything my my dad of course, who doesn’t acknowledge that we’re dating anyone until he absolutely has to, but I was amused by it nonetheless.  :)

Jamie’s Birthday!

Jamie’s birthday was AWESOME!  We went to Noodles and Company.

Matt was extremely excited to be there.

I mean, ridiculously excited to be there.

It was delicious, of course.  Especially now that they have one of those soda machines where it has a touch screen. We all got water though, so we didn’t get to fully realize the amazingness of it.

Later, Jamie and I went to her garden and got some CORN!

Look how good that corn looks!

Some more of their sweet crops.

Sunday was the actual birthday dinner, composed of the Hoffmans, Jenny and Henry, and me.

The weather was great, so we had a picnic across the street.  The food was so good!  It was almost completely grown out of Matt and Jamie’s garden and oh man you could tell! (That’s for Matt)

But really, it was super good.

This is Henry, before the chip made him choke and he threw everything up.

Jamie and her husband.  Aren’t they cute?

The corn being eaten!

Then we went inside for presents, which is always extremely exciting. Unfortunately, all my pictures are blurry from this part.  My favorite of her presents was “Letters to Juliet” though.  Good stuff. 

Happy birthday Jamie!  I hope it was great!  The best part was probably Matt’s blog post, but you’re 22 now! 

Time to have a baby…  ;)

One of the better tricks

I love this.  If you need a laugh, watch it.  It’s only like a minute long.  :)