We love the Y

Yesterday Elaine and I decided that we would try and get tickets to the Relief Society Meeting by going and standing in the "standby" line.. Of course the traffic on the 1-15 made us later than we were already running. We thought we would make our standing in line as pleasant as possible by stopping of at Maccas to get a shake... We finally found a parking spot and made out way to the Conference Center.. With our shakes in our hands we asked a missionary couple if they knew where the standby line was.. While walking away a sister yelled out to me and asked if we would like some tickets....

YES... We got tickets, we didn't have to stand in line and think of restaurant we were going to go to if we didn't get in.. (the cheesecake Factory was at the front of the list).....
We were SO pleased that we deiced to make the1 hr drive instead of the 2 minute drive to the stake center..
Sister Barbara Thompson always puts a smile on my face.
Elder Uchtdorf talk was the best...
No mentions of planes but talking about a little blue (the colour of the sky) flower..




I thought that Elder Uchtdorf was trying to get season tickets to BYU games, cause the kept on saying.. because of the "WHY"....
But I thought it was the other "Y".....

16 years..

This week Gary and I are going to celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary. (yes the pic above is of us on our wedding day)... I just wanted to share some of my favourite photo's, well the one I have access to from Provo..

Our first apartment in Biffrons Court, I loved that wall paper...



First it was just the two of us and then we had this bundle of joy.. Yes that is Gary!!!!


Then we were a family of four......



Gary full filled one of his MANY dreams in 2006, to take part in the Commonwealth Games Baton Relay....We have had some fun times together and to make our family complete, along come Eden...
What can I say....
Married to Gary, Gaz, Big G , Woody or Gaza has like living on a roller coaster...
I don't know what the next "dream" or "goal" is going to take us.
But I know for sure that I will be there holding his hand.....
As a wise man said "ONWARD HO"
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Game Day....

Yesterday was the first BYU Home game and it just happened that it was against their rivalry team Utah.About 1pm we went to a tailgate party at a local supermarket to get some free food.. Not only did we get plenty to eat and drink but Eliza won two tickets to the game!!!! We got tickets, so we gave them away to one of our friends...


On game day they line the streets near the stadium with BYU flags.. Before the game we headed down to the stadium to see if we could score some more free stuff (yes it's all about the frebbies)..
They had all different things were down at the stadium.. This meant heaps of people.. and we did score some free stuff.. a couple of bags, some foam fingers and I won lip balm..We had been to a game before but for the girls it was their first game..

Even though we left with 5 mins to go (Eden was sound asleep), we had a good time....
We have season tickets, so next Friday night we will be at the stadium again
Maybe BYU will win... UTAH 51 BYU 10.....

Pep Rally...

Tonight we went along to the BYU COUGARS Pep Rally to see what it was going to be like.. Even though we had been to several BYU Football games, we had never be here at the start of the season.. BYU have already played two games this season (lost one and won one) but they haven't played a home game yet!!!!
And what a better game to start the season of with.. BYU vs UTAH the rivalry team.. It's like Cartlon and Collingwood playing against each other.. It's just worth going to be part of the crowd. These blue seats are wish we would be seating all season, but NO we aren't.. We did get a chance to seat in these seats back in 2009, they were great seats..
It's a crazy time around campus, the rivalry between these two teams is strong and students enjoy trying to paint statues red as that is the UTAH UTES colours. So all the statues are wrapped in glad wrap.. Will have to take photo's on Saturday!!!!


The guy with the mic says "and give a hand to the BYU Cheersquad" and Eden turns around and points to herself and says ME!!!!!
Yes Eden YOU!!!!!

FHE.....

FHE is always good when it is based on some kind of food item.. This week we headed of to the local A&W shop to indulge in 99 cents Root Beer floats.. and you are asking how this is church related???

"If you stay in the gospel, you will always stay afloat" !!!!!!!!!

It was well worth it and plus we saw some crazy dude at the lights dancing on Rollerblades...
LOVE PROVO.....

The two 1st !!!

In June I brought 3 Selena Gomez tickets and the best part was I didn't tell the girls. She is really big over here and we have a couple of here CD's (for road trips).. The girls had always said that they would like to see her or Taylor Swift in Concert.. Being that I was not going to pay $180 for Taylor, Selena won.... I had always wanted to keep it a secret and didn't tell anyone via Face book or email just in case I left them open..
On Wednesday after school I told them to hurry up and do their homework as we were going to Salt Lake City to see a church concert... Phebe worked it out soon after I said that (I'm no good at lying) but Eliza hadn't come home yet, so I asked Phebe to keep it a surprise...It wasn't til we were half way there , when I reached into the bag and gave her a piece of paper and asked her "what exit did I have to get off on".. She said it wasn't the map it was the ticket.. it took her a while to read it at work out what was going on..
The girls were very excited as it was their first music concert..After buying the over priced tour t-shirt we found our seats and the party began!!! I wish I'd taken my bigger camera ,just not the itouch's.. The concert was amazing and we all had a great time.. We ALL acted like we were 12.. even the 40 yr old..Eliza also had another 1st.. she hurt her finger at sport but seeing we didn't have time to go and sit at the Dr's (the concert was the same night) i took her to the Dr's the next day and found out that she has a broken finger.... 1st broken bone in the family!!
So no washing up, laundry or other things for a while.
Off to the hand specialist on Monday to see how long the splint has to stay on for!!

BYU SOCCER...

Today was a long weekend so after Gaz went and help out at the stake service project, we decided to head down to the South Field and watch the BYU women's soccer team play.. Even though it was a bit of cloud around it was still a nice day..
BYU were playing Arizona.. they won the game 2-0....

It was our first soccer game so we didn't know how many people were going to be there.. The BYU fans didn't disappoint the team.. There was a big crowd there..

Best of all I got to see Cosmo, we hadn't seen him all summer..
On the 17th of Sept is the first home game for the football team..
Those games are AMAZING to go to and we have got season tickets, so look out for the first football post soon!!!