Bah-Hum-Bug!

I have to admit I am a little Bah-Hum-Bug when it comes to Halloween (hence it's Halloween night and I am writing this post.) I don't like Halloween parties, I don't like to dress up, I don't like to answer my door to give out candy but I do LOVE to have the candy all to myself. Matt on the other hand likes to hand out the candy and tease the kids when they come to the door. At work today employees were able to bring their kids around for some candy. Matt wanted to dress up a little so my Martha Stewart-esque sister made a little costume for him. THANKS RENAE!! You are the BEST!

Till next year BAH-HUM-HALLOWEEN!

Invite me anytime!

Thanks G-ma for the tickets AND your prayers. BYU really needed to win and it makes it much more fun to watch.

26.2...all in the rain

Renae and Laura did it! All 26.2 miles in the rain. They did great.


Before Picture
I took them to the bus at 4:30am


Not very many runners were eating the ice cream so
Renae got some for everyone...Yummers!


Since I had to drop out I didn't run but
we still came for moral support. It is so great
to have family to cheer you on. Especially at
mile 16!


Dad, Julianne, Mom and Joey

St. George

Football, Birthdays, Running, Shopping and Eating...What more could you ask for in a trip. Joe and Julianne were once again great hosts. We had such a great time and the only requirement to enter into their home was to wear our "Quest" BYU shirt. Joey informed us all that we needed to watch the BYU football game in our football shirts. BYU won (whaoo!) but played such a sloppy game (boo-hoo)

Happy birthday to Dad and Joey! I will post more pics when Julianne sends them too me (hint)

hApPy bIrTdAy DaRrElL!

Darrell is truly a great big brother. When we were in Europe he was the navigator, the travel agent and was always making sure the girls were doing alright. There are lots of fun, and humorous memories from that trip...

When we would be skiing/snowboarding together he would always be concerned about whether my boots were too tight or not tight enough. I remember snowboarding at Brighton once and it was SO cold. I couldn't get my boots tight enough because my hands were so numb. Darrell took off his gloves and and tightened my boots.

Hope you have a great Day!

RAID is a MUST HAVE!

Living right up against the Provo mountains has some great advantages. The scenery is beautiful, we see deer quite often (which I also hit with the car quite often) and the there are hiking trails right in our backyard. However, there are some not so great things. Each summer it seems we deal with SpIdErS! I hate spiders and it seems as soon as the weather gets warmer they start making an appearance in our garage.

This is typical of what we see. They are HUGE! So we keep a handy bottle of Raid in our garage. I have gotten quite brave and killed a few of these ugly things myself. Earlier this summer we finally got our house sprayed for spiders and actually haven't seen any for quite a while...until tonight!

Here is our experience...We were just wrapping up a great evening filled with shopping and dinner at Cafe Rio. We drove home tired, worn out and ready to go to bed. We pulled into our garage and Matt gets out of the car. I was gathering some of our things when I hear Matt yell.

"Sharon, get the Raid!"

I look in Matt's direction and see these 2 long hairy legs peeking out from the wall of diet coke that is lined up in our garage. Of course this just sets my heart racing and I couldn't do anything but scream and the only thing Matt can do is keep yelling at me "get the Raid, get the Raid, it's a TARANCHULA!"

By this point I am freaking out and immediately feel like spiders are crawling up my legs, but somehow I was able to give Matt the Raid. I stood way back so I couldn't see the ugly thing. Matt sprays and sprays and sprays until a cloud of Raid was forming above his head (which now we are laughing about) but it did the trick and killed the stupid thing. After my episode of freaking out and opening the garage door to get some oxygen I was finally able to bring myself to look at it. I had to get my camera because my description of the incident does not to justice to just how big, hairy, and ugly this thing was. eew! I sure hope I can sleep tonight!

Just to get an idea of how big it is Matt put a quarter right next to it.


The discard into the garbage...sick!

The list of things Matt has killed with Raid
1. Ants
2. Medium and Large spiders
3. Taranchula
4. Mouse (I believe Lisa has accomplished this too)

oops...forgot sunscreen!

Where did Matt sit at the game? We will be remembering the sunscreen for the next game!