BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble!

One day this week we went Geocaching!  It was so much fun! It was through the school, so we went to the school's Outdoor Resource Center. They handed out the GPS to us, then gave us a sheet of paper with the coordinates on it for 6 different sites. Then, they set us loose!  Jordan and I went and sought them all out. For each place there was a little word clue to help us find the exact location of the cache. After we found all six of them, we returned to the ORC and had hot chocolate and cookies! It was a perfect break from all the school work, and we had a blast walking around campus and talking with each other. It has made us both want to get more into geocaching!  We hear there are a lot of them up here!

This weekend was a great one!  Friday night we went to Curtis and Anna's. We played a couple games with them. Since we hadn't played games in a while, we had to get our fix at their house!  We played Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride!  What fun!  Jordan won Settlers of Catan and Cherstin won Ticket to ride, so it was a great night!  Friday night, Jordan's friend Travis came up from Logan. He stayed at our house Friday night.

Saturday Jordan, Travis, and their friend Ryan went and played Raquetball. Cherstin had a stake Relief Society Activity to go to when they got back. It was an incredible morning.  That evening we went on a double date with Bobby and Camille. We had Sweet and Sour Pork for dinner (Which was so delicious!)  and then we went to the BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble. It was incredible and very fun to see! We enjoyed it very much and we all wished we could dance like they did!  What talent!

Today, we finally have a restful Sabbath all to ourselves. We have enjoyed it a lot!

Extravadance!

This past weekend was a blast!  Thursday we went to this new little Ice Cream place called Frizzle Berry ... I think. It is really a neat idea/place. There are about 16 different flavors, and you personally go and choose what you want and fill up your own cup. Then there are about 30 different toppings that you personally put on your little cup. Then you pay by weight. So its fun and you can choose exactly how much you want/spend. Jordan, Bobby and I went and got small amounts and then we went to the cheap theater to see Invictus. It was a good movie. I don't think any of us knew what to expect, but we still enjoyed it!

Friday night, Curtis invited us over to redeem our birthday present to him. We had given him a puzzle for his birthday and told him that he just had to call us up and we would come build a puzzle and watch a movie with him. So thats what we did. Funny story though... I think I am getting a case of pregnancy brain or something...  We went to the movie rental place to get 'The Island' or 'Gattica' ... but both were already checked out. So, Jordan found 'The Musketeer' in VHS, which is a really good movie, we check it out, and as we are driving up to Curtis' I realize that they don't even have a VHS player. So we get to his house and we go to their Netflix account online and get 'The Musketeer' on the play instantly list. It was funny, but oh well!  We also soon realized that the puzzle we gave him was really, really hard. As, after 2 hours... we hadn't even finished the edge (as a defense I would like to say this puzzle is not your typical square or rectangle. It is the shape of a Panda. Oh, and the 'edge' curves and changes size.... so it is very hard! ;) )    So since we hadn't gotten very far... We then watched 'Water World' so we could keep working on it. We all thought the movie was weird... but we were more focused on the puzzle so it was OK. 

Saturday was a slightly more casual day. Jordan had an Elder's Quorum activity where he went and played PhaserTag. Cherstin Had an Relief Society Activity where we started our food storage and learned more about food storage recipe. The rest of the afternoon, both of us where busy doing homework. That night we went to Extravadance!  This is a show of the performing dance groups on campus. Cherstin and Jordan had gone multiple times in other semesters but this one was the best out of them all!  It was incredible!  

Sunday was Pi day! and we celebrated it by going to a friend's house where everyone brought a pie and we ate them all. We also played some math games, as well as got into a mathematical discussion... Yes, we are nerds... We even had a pie eating contest!  It was a very enjoyable evening with friends and family! 

Cherstin played the organ for the first time in Sacrament meeting this Sunday. She was very nervous but did a great job!  

Oh and as a side note, our little baby is the size of an apple!  We are just both so excited! Cherstin has been feeling great and as everyday passes we get more and more excited!  

Snow shoeing!

The weekend of March 5-7 was very fun as well!  On Friday we had Curtis and Anna and their family over as well as Bobby, for dinner and dessert. It was a fun evening, and we got to play Dominion again! That night, we also watched the Bourne Ultimatum, which concludes our trilogy serious. Anyone know of any other good trilogies? We have watched all the ones we know! 

On Saturday, we went Snowshoeing up by Mesa Falls!  It was a beautiful day, nice and warm, with wonderful snow!  It was so beautiful up there and we only saw a couple other snowshoers and cross country skiiers. It was wonderful! 

After snowshoeing we quickly came home, because Cherstin was volunteering at our new stake center open house!  It is a beautiful building and we are so excited to have it! That evening we went to our ward party in our new ward building. It was an 'Idahoan carnival'!  we had a fabulous dinner and then there were a bunch of fun carnival games we could do. Jordan won most of them so we got a lot of prizes! Granted, they were fun things like a toy lizard or a princess wand... but hey, our nieces and nephews will love them!  It was a wonderful night and we had so much fun being there! We decided to go to bed early thought because we now have 9:00 church! Yay!

On Sunday we had our new church time in our new building! It was so nice to actually be in a chapel!  After church we were able to enjoy a full Sunday! We went to our ward potluck where theree was a lot of delicious food, again!  we also went to our new Stake Center dedication services. It was neat to hear from our Stake presidency and to be at the dedication. Overall, it was a fabulous weekend!

A little 3x3 basketball

The weekend of February 25-27 was very packed and fun! We had so many things we could do, that we seriously had to pick and choose. Thursday we celebrated Cherstin's mom's birthday since she had to leave on Friday. It was good to see her again. Then Friday night we went to a Harp ensemble. It was awesome! we had never really listened or been around a harp before, and so it was very fun. There were 11 harps being played at the same time. It sounded incredible! then we went to 'game night' on campus, where we learned a new game 'Maori'. It is a tile-placing game that was very fun! We want to go pack and learn new games!

Then came Saturday!  We could have gone to the Rexburg winter fest, but instead Jordan, his friend Ryan, and his brother, Bobby, entered into a 3x3 basketball tournament. It was very fun to watch/play. There were about 14 teams in the beginning, and Jordan and his team got second place!  They played some very hard teams, but they always did well!  they were very tired, but had a blast playing the sport they love!  Jordan said it was good he and Ryan and Bobby had been playing a lot of basketball this semester! 

After the tournament we went to the temple, and then we went and had dinner at Curtis and Anna's where we were able to chat and catch up. We also played a new game over at their house, Dominion. It is so much fun!