Thanksgiving!

I need to post about Thanksgiving before Christmas happens!  So Thanksgiving this year was awesome.  Well, it was kind of stressful in the beginning because my family was supposed to come up here, but then decided not to, so we were trying to decide what to do and so we decided to drive to AZ to be with Billy's family.  But then I took the car to get an oil change and the guy said the CV boots are torn (I think that's the correct terminology).  So then I asked him if it would be safe to go on a road trip and he said "well it could break down in a year, a month, tomorrow, 10 years, who knows!" which was extremely unhelpful so we were scared to drive our car (as you all know we have had really bad luck with cars breaking down....) soooo we decided to get a rental car!  It was pretty cheap (luckily Billy is 25!) and it would be worth the peace of mind.  So we decided to rent a car and everything on Wednesday morning.

We were supposed to leave at like 7 AM but then all the Sutherland cousins wanted to go out to breakfast (Greg was in town!) so they were all so awesome and got up to meet at 7 so we could all have breakfast together before we left!  That was way fun.  Then we got the rental and went on our way.

The drive was very pleasant except for when we got stuck in traffic a few times and the rental car started acting all weird going slow!  It got overheated a few times so we would pull over and just let it cool off until we could get going again.  It was really scary and WHY OH WHY do we have such bad luck with cars????!!  It makes me really mad.  Billy's dad told us we should just buy a Rolls Royce because they hand make every single engine so it will never break down.  Not a bad investment I'd say.

Anyways, we made it to AZ Wednesday night!  And it was so fun being there!!  Thursday morning Billy went on a run with me because in my family we always go running on Thanksgiving morning.  Billy was so sweet to go with me because he is currently very out of shape but wanted my Thanksgiving tradition to continue so he suffered through it for me :) Thanksgiving day was great.  I got to know Billy's family a lot better and it was great to spend some time with everyone.  Jon, Kara and Scarlett came over too!  Scarlett is SUCH A CUTIE!!  She was so so fun to play with.

Ok sorry this is a lot of words and no pictures so far.  Jenny and Jason got in on Thursday night I believe and then we had fun Sierra and Whitney to play with too!  I think they are actually the only ones I got pictures of....haha sorry!  And even though my mom reminded me to bring my camera...I forgot it :(  Here's some pics of the cutie girlies:

Playing in the pool.  Whitney kept trying to get in the yucky water.  It was pretty funny.

Cutie!!

Oh yeah we brought my bug catching stuff to catch some last minute bugs :)  Sierra and Whitney loved helping!

Too cute

Tickle action shot

Scarlett and Whitney in their favorite place to play- the pantry

I had to document this moment.  Scarlett was being so so sweet and just sitting so happily on my lap!  She kept getting scared because we were playing with dominoes and when we would knock some over she would crawl all quickly up onto my lap and it was the sweetest thing ever!!  She is such a cutie.  Oh Kara put on a big birthday party for her since she turned 1 and that was one of the main reasons why we went to AZ!  It was on Saturday and it was a blast.  I didn't get any pictures :(  But I borrowed some from Billy's dad's facebook and Kara's facebook. Scarlett looked so so cute and it was such a cute party!   Happy Birthday Scarlett! 

What a cheese face!  You should hear her grunting.  It's so funny.

She didn't really know what to do with the cake...

We had so much fun in AZ hanging out with everyone.  I wish we could have been there longer but we will be there again for Christmas in like a little over a week!  I can't wait!!

So on the drive home we had a few more scares with the car overheating, and we got lost once, but we eventually made it home safe.  Also the sky was so so gorgeous on the drive!

Once we got home I remembered I had an assignment to do and Billy tried to do homework too but conked out like this...

Hahaha

Bowling update

Hey this is Billy.
I know everyone is interested in knowing how the bowling league and my bowling class tournament have turned out now that the semester is over, so here's an update -

We won 1st place last night in our bowling league!  We should get our trophies next week, so maybe I'll post a pic of it then.
And in my bowling class we had a tournament which I won today!

It's been a good week for bowling!
-Billy

11:11 on 11-11-11

TODAY IS SUCH A SPECIAL DAY!  As some of you may know, I love making wishes on 11:11.  I feel like it is a magical time.  So today is like the ultimate wish day.  I love it!  I just wanted to blog to show all my posterity that I was alive and well at this monumental moment in time.  I am actually currently studying for my bug quiz, so I am memorizing 25 different families of bugs (too bad it isn't 11!  seriously...11 would be way easier to remember). 

When me and Billy were dating, I used to always make us make wishes on 11:11 and so we would sit there quietly making a wish and then of course we weren't allowed to tell our wishes or else they wouldn't come true, but we did anyways.  Because I always really wanted to know what Billy was wishing!  He always told me it was something stupid like "I wish I could fly" and stuff but of COURSE I knew he was wishing "I wish Caitlin would marry me!"  Or "I wish Caitlin would say something about us getting married" or "I wish we could just elope and be married right now!"...because I was wishing that he would wish that.  I always told him I was wishing that I would do well on my test, or do well in school or something lame like that, when I was always wishing that Billy would say "I love you" or talk about marriage or sometimes I really was wishing I would do well on a test because I was hanging out with Billy rather than studying so I needed all the help I could get.

ANYWAYS, today is fun.  I'm glad I'm alive for this day.

Halloween festivities!

Halloween was so fun this year.  Billy didn't have work Wednesday-Saturday the week before Halloween so we did lots of festive things!

First, on Tuesday of that week, we went over to Lauren and Dan's for some pumpkin carving!  It was way fun hanging out with them and seeing their new place!

Lauren's super cute hair-do!  I need to learn how to do this.

YAY!

 They turned out pretty freakin awesome if I do say so myself (sorry Lauren, yours is kinda covered up...)

On Wednesday Billy had his bowling league and this was the first time this season I was able to go!  I decided to make pumpkin muffins again for the team.  I really need to take pictures of them actually bowling one of these days.  I <3 pumpkin muffin batter!

Thursday me and Billy went to the BYU farmer's market after I got off work!  It was so fun!  They had a bunch of fun things.  We bought some super cute Halloween pillow cases and a case of some honey butter from real bees!  Well, the honey is from real bees, not really sure how they make it into butter.  All I know is it's delicious.

Here's the pillow cases (Billy volunteered to sleep on the candy corn one because it's itchier and he doesn't even like candy corn.  What a guy am I right?)

Billy jumped into the picture on the first one and I thought it was a cute pic haha:

On Friday we went up to West Jordan I think it is to this place called Gardner's Village.  They make it all fall-ish there and decorate the whole place with these big witches.  It was really cool.  They had a bunch of little Halloween shops that we had fun walking through.

Witch biking through the air...

There were TONS of little kids there all dressed up!  It was so cute! They were all having fun dancing on that little stage to some Halloween tunes.

We bought a Halloween doormat there!  I've been looking for one for a long time but I've only found ugly ones or $40+ dollar ones but this one was super cute and 40% off!  So awesome!

Then we decided to use our Chipotle gift card Kara gave me for my birthday (thanks so much Kara!) and eat there for dinner since we were like 5 miles away!  It was my first time going there and it was SO GOOD!  Except I found a piece of plastic in my food.  Pretty sure it was the tip of a plastic glove.  Does anyone remember when Billy found a tip of a plastic glove in his food at Rubios?  Now we have both found one.  I was going to complain to get some free food or something, but I decided not to be the annoying customer and just deal with it.  It didn't dampen the experience at all, if anything it made it funnier.

Bill with his huge burrito:

Super cute pic of us huh?  Haha I kind of wish Billy wasn't making that face because then it actually would have been pretty cute, but its funny so whatevz

THE GLOVE

We were going to go to the corn maze after that, but we were both tired and cold so we decided to go home and watch a scary movie instead.  We watched The Happening.  It was pretty stupid and not scary.  So I don't recommend it.

On Saturday night I had to work :( Here is a creeper picture I took of a super cute boy dressed as Batman walking through the Wilk!  He was so adorable, too bad I only got a picture of the back of him.  And it's blurry.  I'm excited to dress up our own kids and take them trick-or-treating someday!

On Sunday we had pumpkin pancakes for breakfast and chili for dinner.  Two fall staple food items.

Sunday night we went over to John and Barbara's for a pumpkin carving party!  It was so so fun!  I love hanging out with my cousins, it's the funnest.

Everyone carving away/ getting distracted by Johnny's creative carving strategies...

cute little carvers...

our awesome Stegosaurus pumpkin!

All our pumpkins lined up outside our door...

And thennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn on actual Halloween on Monday we went over to Lauren and Dan's again to watch The Uninvited!  When we were over carving pumpkins Lauren told us about one of her worst Halloween costumes that her mom made her be.  She was a "deviled egg" dressed in a white puffy coat and a yellow yolk and then devil horns.  Hahahha we thought that was hilarious so guess what we dressed up as...yep deviled eggs.  We showed up on Monday and surprised Lauren.  It was pretty hilarious.  Lauren has pictures on her phone sooooo I'll get those later and then put them on here :)  Lauren was dressed up as Audrey Hepburn...so cute!  And Dan was a sports fan.  We all dressed up just for fun and sat there in our costumes watching the movie :)  It was way fun!

So anyways, that was a really long post so sorry but it was a super fun week of Halloween activities!  I love Halloween!

p.s. I am majorly struggling with making our blog cute.  HOW DOES EVERYONE DO IT???  Help me!!!

Parks & Rec

Ok so we have been OBSESSED with the show Parks and Recreation lately.  It is THE BEST SHOW in the WORLD.  Well Billy says that I say that about every show I get in to.  But really this show is hilarious.  This clip sums it all up.  Tom speaks right to my soul in this because I'm always trying to get people to talk in abbrevs.  It's totes going to catch on someday.

Sorry this video is flipped the wrong way...it was the best quality I could find :)  my fav: chicky chicky parm parm

Fall!

So one thing I really love about being here in Provo is the Fall!  All the leaves are changing colors right now and falling off the trees and it is magical.  I love it.  Here are a few random things that have been happening lately.

We got a little hay bale the other day and some beautiful pumpkins to put on it which is so festive and fun.  Look how perfectly swirly that big pumpkin's stem is.  It's so perfect.

I got some new running shoes!  Well, they are the same as my old ones but just new.  They were $140 on Road Runner.com but I found the exact right shoe and size on Amazon for only $75!  Score!  I'm loving running in this fall weather.  Its so crisp and refreshing.

We made pancakes one Sunday morning and Billy made me one in the shape of a bug because that's all we think about these days :)  (don't worry about its deformed leg)

The view out our window currently...the construction people are being super loud again every morning.  And it's really annoying.

Here's some pictures of Billy being a cutie.  Always have to include some cutie Billy pictures.

Working hard or hardly working?  Looks like he's working pretty hard...

Just cute as can be...

changing the lightbulbs in the kitchen...HI YA!

and can you believe how sweet my mom is for sending this basket of delicious cookies to me when I was having a hard week at school?  She is so awesome.  She also sent us a Halloween package but I forgot to take a picture of everything in it and we basically ate everything she sent already sooo...just know that she is awesome.

Anyways, that's what we've been up to as of late!  We have some fun plans for this week because Billy doesn't have work Wednesday-Saturday so we are going to do some fun fall things like pick apples and go to the corn maze and make lots of pumpkin treats!  I'm so excited.

P.S. I made some mini pumpkin muffins tonight to reward myself for finishing my physics test...and as I was putting them in the oven I dropped them all face down in the oven.  It was sooooooooo sad.  But I made some more and they turned out :)  Just kind of funny/depressing that that happened!