Family Night at the Cornmaze!

So as part of being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I get to participate in what we call Family Home Evening. It is one night set aside every week-usually Monday- for the family to get together and have a spiritual thought and spend some time doing some kind of fun activity together. As a student at Brigham Young University we still get to participate in "FHE" but with our roommates and other members of our apartment complexes. Every Monday our "family" still gets together for a spiritual message and a fun activity. This particular week our family decided to go to a local corn maze! It's such a fun way to get to know new people and build and strengthen friendships, as well as a way to establish a group of individuals on whom you can count for whatever social activity or need. Here is my FHE group sitting near a pumpkin patch at Cornbelly's Cornmaze. It was fun to navigate the maze and try to stick together, despite it being very dark! We got scared a couple of times as we paid our entrance fee by what appeared to be nothing but bushes and hay, but really was really a couple of employees dressed up to scare! It turned out to be a fun night as we also rode a few play tractors and on the swings and slid down the giant slides in burlap sacks and fed the goats and played in the pumpkin patch. Activities like this remind me that I am never too old to be a kid. :)

left to right: Grant, me, Nicki, Brian, Nate, Amanda, Emily and Dave volunteered to take the picture. :)

Happy October!

A quick sketch done during class to get you in the mood for the season:

Happy Autumn-time!

BYU football 2012!

So, BYU football is probably the only sport that I really go out of my way to watch. I LOVE BYU football and this year I made the dumb mistake of NOT getting an All Sports Pass. Why?  I have no idea... okay, well I do, I thought I'd try and save money by buying my tickets individually for 10 dollars instead of spending over $100 just for six games. It was a good idea, in that I did actually save money, but not so useful in that it was a lot of work to try to track down tickets to every game. In the end I only ended up getting to go to a few for lack of tickets finds, but those few games I went to (even though we lost most of them) were still such a highlight!  It's just feeling of being at a football game! The cool air, the band playing, the friends surrounding you, the shouting and cheering, just the overall feeling of autumn in the air. It's just so fun! Not to mention watching my favorite team beat their opponents (or not) soundly! Here are some snapshots from the most recent game! I LOVED how the fan sections came color coded and couldn't help but take some pictures!

Go BYU Cougars!