Spider Woman

Well, this has been a pretty uneventful week for us here in Rexburg, but I have committed to keeping a blog, so I will write a few words.

Friday night, I took a remote sensing test and then we drove to Costa Vida (Cafe Rio) for boy Taylor's birthday party. The line was so long that by the time we got our food, everyone else was already done eating.  So we took our food to Taylor and Crystal's house to eat and party.  We had a good time hanging out and playing games.

MyKel woke up Saturday morning with a tingling on her second little toe.  She went to the bathroom to get a better look, and upon examining her toe, she discovered a small bite mark.  She promptly marched back into the bedroom and threw all the blankets off the bed in an attempt to discover the culprit.  A shocked Colby awoke wondering what was going on, only to be recruited in an all out effort to locate and destroy whatever had bitten her.  We did not have any success, and instead began to try to figure what had bitten her.  After a few hours, we came to the conclusion that it was a spider bite that didn't hurt.  We continued to check on it throughout the day to make sure it did not swell or anything.  Unfortunately, she did not gain any superpowers.

The beginnings of spider woman!

Another big event of the week was when it snowed yesterday.  I went into the plasma center at around 11am.  There was not a flake of snow to be seen anywhere.  About an hour later, I walked out of the plasma center into a flurry of snow with about 3-4 inches of snow on the ground!  We spent about 45 minutes shoveling snow with non-snowshovels after the snow slowed down.

Last night, we played games with boy Taylor, Crystal, Denton, and girl Taylor.  Denton and I were roommates last fall at the same time that MyKel and girl Taylor were roommates.  Crystal (MyKel's sister) and boy Taylor were also in the ward.  None of us were engaged last fall, and now all of us are married.  Around this time last year, we all went sledding together at the sand dunes.  It is hard to believe that a year has passed since that night at the dunes.  It has been a great year!  We had a great time last night just being together again.

Today and last night was stake conference.  We heard some great messages and felt the spirit and our leaders instructed us from the scriptures.  We have a great stake presidency and great leaders, and they shared some powerful stories and we realized, once again, how very blessed we are to have the gospel.

We had dinner at boy Taylor and Crystal's basement apartment tonight.  We were joined by Felicia, Rachel, and Heather.  Afterwards, we played a game called Farkle and then looked at pictures from Crystal's wedding for a while. This was the first time that we didn't go to Greg and Nancy's house for dinner in a long time.  Right now, MyKel is making pumpkin spice cookies.  They smell good!

YUM!

I didn't write about anything else this week.  It seems that all of the event's worth mentioning occurred over the weekend.  The rest of the week was spent working hard at school and enjoying each other's company.  I am also reading a book right now called "In the Heart of the Sea."  It is a novel based on the journals of men working on a whaling ship that was attacked by a monstrous sperm whale in 1820. Overall, we are loving life and loving each other.

A Hazardous Halloween...

Sorry we didn't post anything last week.  I worked on a new post for about an hour, and then saved it, or so I thought.  As it turns out, everything was lost. After that, I just gave up and figured I would just write a blog for this week instead.  I will start with a quick summary of last week (of what I can remember):


We served for about 4 hours at the cannery in Idaho Falls canning chicken noodle soup for people in need around the world.  We were there from about 4:20-8:30pm.  It was a lot of fun.  MyKel and I were in charge of making the broth.  I can still remember the ingredients: 42 pounds of chicken soup base, 12 pounds of salt, all poured into a 60 gallon pot of water.  I was in charge of putting together the ingredients and dumping them in the pot, while MyKel controlled all of the buttons and levers (the complicated stuff).

On Saturday night, we went to a ward activity.  MyKel was Dorothy and I was the tin man (wrapped up in tin foil) from the Wizard of Oz.  It was a lot of fun.  Later that night, we went to Greg and Nancy's to carve pumpkins.  I carved a cyclops pumpkin, and MyKel cleaned a big pumpkin out for the pumpkin soup that Nancy would make for Sunday dinner (which was SUPER GOOD!).  MyKel was mostly just excited about baking the pumpkin seeds.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road! 

Halloween was a good day for us.  We went up to the Hazard's again and took some of their candy.  Then I tried to scare some of the little kids, but I wasn't very successful, so I just put a wig over my entire head and made weird noises at the door while passing out candy.  

Cyclops Pumpkin!

Yesterday we worked for a few hours in the geology lab.  We both have jobs reorganizing the entire lab and a ton of geology publications.  I actually enjoy it, but I am not sure MyKel does.  She isn't as interested in all the articles and pictures that we stumble across as I am.  Later on, we went to the temple and then attended the Golden Dragon Acrobats show, which was completely and utterly incredible!  We couldn't believe some of the stuff that they did.  Our hearts were pounding the whole time, and we were hoping that nobody would die. Thankfully nobody did, so in the end, we really enjoyed the show.