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.