Spicing up life!

Look! Look! Another post and it hasn't even been a month! That's got to be a record :)

The last few weeks have fallen in step with the rest of this semester and been completely INSANE, but we still managed to enjoy ourselves! It all started off with Cassie's coming of age... That is, she's legal now! (My oh my, they do grow up fast don't they?) So, to celebrate Cassie's birthday we ended up doing a lot of activities in which people can drink, except there was no drinking involved!!! The funny thing was that it wasn't all planned to go that way. It started with dinner at the Olive Garden (a must for Cassie's birthday). The place was packed, so we decided to sit in the bar/cafe area. The funny thing is, being in Provo the waiters didn't think anything of it, and I'm pretty sure they didn't even offer us an alcoholic drink (maybe they thought Cassie still wasn't old enough...). So we stuffed ourselves silly with salad, breadsticks, and pasta, and then rolled ourselves out to the parking lot to head home.
Little did Cassie know that there was a little surprise waiting for her at home that I had been putting together all week right under her nose!!! While we were gone I had some of our good friends come over, decorate the place, and get it all spiffed up for the after-dinner party. I like to think that the Birthday Princess had a great time seeing all her friends and playing games with them late into the night. It was a lot of fun!

The next weekend was our ward Halloween party, which was SO much fun! Earlier in the month Cassie had mentioned the idea of us dressing up as Salt and Pepper shakers, but nothing ever came from it... that is, until the day of the party when it was about two hours before it started and we realized we still didn't have any costume put together! So, the Salt and Pepper shaker idea stuck, and 96 cents later we were all rolled up in our construction paper with a large 'S' and 'P' plastered onto our chests. Of course, we were the hit of the party (or was everyone just laughing at our ridiculous costumes?). Anyways, we were put into a group of star couples and the dream team group #5 battled their way through the competition and ended up taking first place in the Halloween games by a land slide. This was due to the fact that we were amazing in charades, and maybe a little bit because (seeing that I have an awkwardly large mouth), I was volunteered for, and completely dominated, the donut on a string game. Award? Heck yes. Can you say free ice cream at Cold Stone?!?! It was great going out and chilling with the rest of the group enjoying our wonderful, flavorful, creamy victory ice cream. That's right. Be jealous :)

Now we are just battling to get through the next few weeks of school until we get to head home for Thanksgiving and take a quick breather. Good thing it's soon, because we're running out of air!!!!!!