What We Do in Our Spare Time

This post is long overdue, but then again, so is my free time. So sometimes the three of us get in the craziest moods, and I have some screenshots here of our texting conversations to prove it.

It all started one night when I was texting Ashley. I had a long, stressful day, and I think I just snapped. I'm the green messages in each case.

Now I will post the conversation I was having with Caite via text at the same time.

Here's the part where I started bugging her. Ashley had stopped texting me.

And going back to the conversation I had with Ashley, I did actually bug Dan.

At which point he stopped texting me... I think he was working or something. Anyways, that's what I tell myself when people stop texting me.

I love these screenshots, because it shows how goofy all three of us are, but at the same time, you can see the different ways that we are goofy. We all have our own senses of humor and silliness, and yet, we share similar spirits that I'm pretty sure we got from our silly parents. Ashley is goofy in her manner and words, Caite is goofy in her puns and jokes and the faces she makes, and I think I'm just weird. I don't even know.

I love my family!

-Meems

Halloweenie

Yes, I now will write my Halloween story... it was so exciting...

First, I went to school. And then I went to the academic advising center (which actually came with really good news that I'll post about VERY soon on my blog, so stay tuned over there). And then I came home and ate leftover homemade pizza. And then I did a little homework. And then we had some trick-or-treaters, three girls who looked to be about late middle/early high school age who were all dressed as witches, but not your typical cute witches, more like goth.... witches.... I don't know. We got another set of three girls in the same style about an hour later, so while the amount of trick-or-treaters at our door this year was up 600% or something, the two-year-old ladybug that was our only treater last year was way cuter.

But I digress.

Anyways, the only other thing we did was eat Halloween candy and play Age of Empires on the computer together. And then one of my friends came over at 11 to hang out for a few minutes before she had to go for curfew at midnight.

And now I'm going to go sit in the warm shower, which is one of the only good things about cold weather (although today it was warm enough to go without a jacket) and then go to bed.

I know, we married folk are boring. But we missed our ward Halloween party last Thursday and while I thought about putting my blue formal dress on to pretend to be a princess, knowing I would just sit on the couch in it made it not as fun.

Also, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, so that's the next pseudo-holiday the Yockeyites are celebrating. But other than that (and the usual grind of homework) that's about all that happened here. Yay!

-Ashy

Halloween in Logan

Thank you Caite for posting! I issued a request for all three of us to post about our Halloweens, and she did, busy as she is! Bless her heart. Now it's my turn.

Halloween this year was just plain fantastic. I decided I was going to be Wonder Woman. Modest, of course. I was not wearing a spangly corset, nor was I wearing spangly booty shorts. I wore pants and a Wonder Woman t shirt. You know what it feels like to walk around as Wonder Woman? It feels great. If someone was narrating my day today, it would go like this:

"Wonder Woman is raking the leaves. Wonder Woman is washing the dishes. Wonder Woman made dinner. Wonder Woman is eating cake."

Or thereabouts. I only wore my t shirt to work today, because I was taking the boss to a restaurant that will give candy to people wearing costumes. It wasn't worth it, though. All I got was a teeny little ziplock bag of Halloween jelly beans. I hate jelly beans.

Also, we had a dinner tonight with friends. My roommate and I planned it and executed it and speaking of cake, that was my favorite part. I made a white cake with vanilla frosting, but dyed the cake orange and the frosting turned out a tombstone gray. It was delicious.

On Saturday I went to two parties within the ward and played games. It was a blast. At the second party, my roommate and I started a Foosball tournament and ended up with three people (my team) on two people (her team) and at the last game I told her that loser does the dishes. I lost. And I did the dishes. And then we left the game to the guys (the experienced players) and went to the haunted corn maze.

The haunted corn maze was just plain AWESOME. We got so lost and held hands and ran away from people and all out had a blast. The actors kind of stopped acting and were goofing off with us, which was great. I know I've told several people the same stories about the corn maze several different times, but really, I just like talking about it because it was that much fun.

And then Monday was the ward FHE Halloween party, which was great. Ashley Roommate and I ran around and were goofing off. We did the donut race, which was eating donuts off of a string and the race was over when you had all the donut in your mouth (you didn't have to swallow it), which means your donut is eventually going to fall off the string and you're going to have to eat it off the floor. It was great. And when it came to apple bobbing, we both stuck our whole heads basically underwater to try to catch the stupid apple. It's a heck of a lot harder than it seems, and we walked around the rest of the night with wet hair.

I love Halloween. I was planning my costume for a while, and I'm already excited for next year. Good thing Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here soon, or I might start getting next year's Halloween costume next week.

I just love holidays.
Love, Meems

My Not-So-Typical Halloween

Alright Emily, here you go, so I win because I got to it first! Ha! Take that! :D (Just kidding, I love you two!)

So my Halloween is going slightly dull. Despite the usual Halloween costumes and paraphernelia adorning my high school, I am bored almost out of my skull. (Which, I'm sure, would be an interesting sight for everyone.) So far, just during school, I have seen several flappers, no less than half a dozen bananas, several hooker cowgirls with fake ponies, and a girl dressed up as some sort of creepy geisha marionette. However, I give kudos to Elli, who is a marvelous person, who dressed up as a fully modest Snow White, and she was GORGEOUS. Seriously. Someone put handcuffs on that woman, for it is a crime to look that good.

At the beginning of band, Mr. Bowman was dressed in his regular clothes. When he walked into the orchestra room where we all were, he was fully decked out in a Captain America costume, fake muscles and all. So kudos to Mr. Bowman, too. For once, you are cool.

I just decided I like the word paraphernelia. Say it. Paraphernelia. Paraphernelia. It's kind of hard to type though.

It is an early release day today, so I won't be at school for much longer (14 minutes, to be exact), and then I shall find myself some food, take a nap, and then go to work from four until seven, which is incredibly extensive, I know. And then I shall see what my lovely parents want to do with me until I head out to Keystone for the Haunting of Keystone tonight. If I die, I love you all. But I am terrified of going.

I am not dressing up this Halloween (I know, I know, I am so lame!), but I didn't really see the point of dressing up for four hours for school, changing my clothes for work, and then changing them back to potentially have gone trick or treating that is not even going to happen this year, before changing back into normal clothes for the Haunting of Keystone.

I did write a creepy and weird story for my journal in ICT today, but if you want to see that, you have to go to my individual blog.

I hope you all have a happy, creepy, gory, and glorious Halloween! Love you all! Love, Me. (Caite, duh!)

Parties and... More Parties! (and Homework...)

This last weekend we all convened together in Utah to celebrate Great-Grandpa's 80th birthday and their 60th wedding anniversary. (I've only been married for two years- we have a long way to go!)

As usual we had way too much fun, eating food and laughing and punching each other and overall just enjoying ourselves.

I can't wait for Thanksgiving.

 It's Mama and Daddy on the swings! I'm so grateful for our parents' example of love and devotion too!

This seriously is a great picture of us. I can't get over how much I love it. Even though KT's head looks slightly disjunct from her body.

I wish I had more to write about, but unless you want me to tell you about tracker-action organs or characterization in writing.... there really isn't any fancy news about anything. I mean, I want to say  "Surprise! We're getting kittens!" but there's this issue with our landlord and our contract saying in big letters "NO PETS" so... yeah. You'd think with 14 credits that I would have less homework than 18, but I kind of don't. Now I'm super glad I chose not to take any ensembles, even though Symphony Orchestra is playing the "Planets" and Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique"...... I guess I did play in the student organ recital this last Thursday, and I didn't blow it (which is always a plus). And Dan is still working night shifts (I'm surprised he looks as happy as he does in that picture, he only got about four hours of sleep that morning) but he's earning some pretty sweet paychecks every two weeks so I suppose I shouldn't complain overly much.

And in case you didn't know, we're both planned to graduate this upcoming April, something like the second weekend, so mark your calendars because we both plan on being there! What happens after that? Psh. Like we have a clue. Dan is applying for masters degree program as ISU so we could be joining Andrew and Julie in Poky a year from now, but that's about all we've got.

Hope school and everything is going well for you two- it would be  nice if in her next post Meems would mention the degree she finally chose, and if KT has anything she's decided yet she should post that. And anything else of remote interest, of course! Like that fact that I love plain mini marshmallows and am going to go eat some now while I try to finish my homework... Night all!

-Ashy

Puns, Puns Everywhere...

HOORAAAYYYY!!! I have a little bit of time before I have to cover Jeff's shift at work today, so I thought I would post and see if Ashley and Emily died from the surprise of it. Tada!
   First of all, I feel like Emily missed an important picture of her, Ashley, and I when she did her last post. So here it is:

   Second of all, I did this post primarily for the fact that I really love puns and one-liners, and I wanted to show all of you the stupid things that I find hilarious. Ashley and Emily have already, of course, found out through many random texts from me just what I find funny. So has mom and dad, but not to the extreme with which I bombard Ashley and Emily, mostly. Here is an example of the things I do to Emily:

  So there's that, right out in the open for you guys. In all reality, it was while I knew she and dad were facetime-ing (horrible spelling, get over it), and I just wanted to make her laugh for no reason. I am just so rude sometimes.
   I really do enjoy puns and one-liners, though. I really really do. So here are some of my favorites:

-Did you hear about the fire at the circus? The heat was in tents!
-The cannibal was frustrated so he threw up his hands.
-Helicopter rescue pilots have the most successful pick-up lines.
-I'm glad I know sign language, it's pretty handy.
-Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says, "does this taste funny to you?"
-Killed a hipster. Now he's just somebody that I used to know.
-Why was the magnet getting the girls? It was attractive.
-My friend David recently lost his ID. Now we just call him Dav.
-A chicken was murdered yesterday. The investigator thinks there was some fowl play involved.
-Class trip to the Coca-Cola factory, I hope there's no pop quiz.
-A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
-PMS jokes aren't funny, period.
-There was a fight in the candy store, two suckers got licked. (HILARIOUS)
-Organ donors really put their heart into it. (HAHAHHAAAAA)
-I though I was drowning in soda, but it was only a Fanta Sea.
-The best way to strike up a conversation with a fish is to drop a line.
-A will is just a dead giveaway.
(This one is one of Emily's favorites:) -Call me butter, because I'm on a roll!
-There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.
-My wife said she's getting fed up of my constant guitar puns. I told her not to fret.
-I'm in a band called 'The Waist Measurements'. We're really big in America.
-I wanted to be a cardiologist but I didn't have the heart.
-How does a man on the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it.
-My friend is a midget comedian. He is a little funny.
-I see you have some graph paper. You must be plotting something. (zing!)
-What do you do when you're attacked by a group of clowns? Go straight for the juggler.

And one of my absolute favorites:
-Why does a milking stool have only 3 legs? Because the cow has the udder!

BHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAAA!!!!!!
Come on, I know you guys found at least one of those funny. So laugh. Laugh and laugh and laugh. Tell them to your friends. And I challenge you to find one that I haven't heard before.

This really is all I'm posting about here. I apologize, but this is all I have time for. But hey, I still posted. So no more getting mad at me! Sheesh!

I love you all, and have a WONDERFULLY punny day.
xo-Caite

National Sister Day

It's National Sister Day, apparently. And what better way to celebrate than a blog post!! So let's start with some memories! How about we take a trip through photos, that's always pleasant.

Here we see one of my favorite pictures of Caite:

Caite is the one in the green striped shirt stabbing herself in the eye with her finger. This picture makes me laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME I see it. Then there's me (Meems) next to her and then Ashley next to me.

Here is one of my favorite pictures of Ashley:

This was taken as we were caving. We discussed what it looks like she's doing. Some say she's carrying a heavy box. Others say that she is "gangsta dancin". I say she looks like a gorilla. Again, I still laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME I see this picture.

So I've put together a compilation of groups of photos.We'll start here with pictures of Ashley and Caite:

Great, huh? :) Yeah, I'm going for embarrassing here. I love those two girls.

Here we see Ashley and I:

Again, these are just awesome.

Now we see Caite and I.

Oh, I just love us.

Now I'm going to embarrass us one at a time. So first is... Ashley!

Man, I love that girl. I like her second half, too, he's pretty funny. They're both just sooo goofy.... I'll put a confession here. Sometimes I go visit them just for the free entertainment.

 Next is... Caite!

Oh gosh, she is hilarious. Sometimes she doesn't even know how funny and adorable she is. And sometimes she does ;) The last text message I got from her: "The weather man said there won't be any rain for 6 months, but I drought it."

And not to just pick on them, I put two of the cheesiest pictures of me I could find.

That first picture is one of the most ridiculed pictures of me on the internet. Also, I still stick with my story that her marshmallow was on fire and I was blowing it out, because it's true. I was.

And here we have all three of us:

Gosh, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I LOVE US.

It's true! I have the best sisters in the world! NOBODY ARGUE WITH ME, IT'S TRUE. I love my two sisters so much, it hurts sometimes. Sometimes I dream of a world where we all live in the same city again and party ALL the time. That would be heaven.

Happy National Sister Day!

-Meems

P.S. All is well on my end, CAITE AND ASHLEY PLEASE POST. Loves! <3