(PS I just did three posts at a time so go down a ways to see them all, from Halloween up).
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Random
A friend recently rediscovered this picture of me, laughed so hard that he proceeded to email it to us and call us on the phone to tell us that he felt it was a picture that encompassed "all of Rachel." This is at a friends wedding. I cannot decide what to make of it, see the face I am making...who else feels this way? (Guarantee everyone at my work does, its the oh crap I am in trouble with Rachel face)....
(PS I just did three posts at a time so go down a ways to see them all, from Halloween up).
(PS I just did three posts at a time so go down a ways to see them all, from Halloween up).
St. George Half Marathon
The first weekend of November we went down to St. George with some awesome friends/neighbors in our ward. The pictures are more fun so I will be brief. The road trip down and back was awesome, so much fun to just talk and listen to good music with good friends. We stayed with some great people down there and made new friends and learned a new game which we really like (Katie, it's that name game you were trying to describe to me once, after playing a round I realized this is what it was, and it all makes sense now, and is super fun!).
The race was good, perfect temperature, gorgeous views. I ran with Chris ran by himself the whole way and finished first, but Marshall was close behind him. Andrea, who said she was going to run slow with me and Lisa ran with her husband John the whole time instead and he got them to finish in under 2 hours! 1:58, awesome!! Lisa and I are slow, yeah! 2:20. But I wasn't in it for the time, we had a great time just doing it together. Woosy medal, and not that great of food at the finish line, but it was fun to have people cheering you on at the end.
Other things we did: St. George Temple, AMAZING, one of the best times I have been for sure. We met this old couple who were so cool and cute, they asked where we were from and when we said Provo the old man says "Oh man, didn't we just beat them down so good today?!" meaning the football game where we had just crushed...I think UNLV...anyway, in the temple, it was hilarious. We ate more calories than we burned at Red Robin, cupcakes at 5th and Main, custard at Neilsens, and Dominos that night.
Ok, the pictures:
one the bus to the start line!
Andrea and John!
Haha, yes Marshall and Lisa, I think they are trying to do 2010...
So I am pretty sure Lisa here is asking Marshall to kiss her because she wanted all of us to take a group picture all kissing in front of the temple.
But we were the boring-old-married-for-too-long couple on the trip so we didn't participate. No spark left for us... :)
The race was good, perfect temperature, gorgeous views. I ran with Chris ran by himself the whole way and finished first, but Marshall was close behind him. Andrea, who said she was going to run slow with me and Lisa ran with her husband John the whole time instead and he got them to finish in under 2 hours! 1:58, awesome!! Lisa and I are slow, yeah! 2:20. But I wasn't in it for the time, we had a great time just doing it together. Woosy medal, and not that great of food at the finish line, but it was fun to have people cheering you on at the end.
Other things we did: St. George Temple, AMAZING, one of the best times I have been for sure. We met this old couple who were so cool and cute, they asked where we were from and when we said Provo the old man says "Oh man, didn't we just beat them down so good today?!" meaning the football game where we had just crushed...I think UNLV...anyway, in the temple, it was hilarious. We ate more calories than we burned at Red Robin, cupcakes at 5th and Main, custard at Neilsens, and Dominos that night.
Ok, the pictures:
one the bus to the start line!
Andrea and John!
Haha, yes Marshall and Lisa, I think they are trying to do 2010...
So I am pretty sure Lisa here is asking Marshall to kiss her because she wanted all of us to take a group picture all kissing in front of the temple.
But we were the boring-old-married-for-too-long couple on the trip so we didn't participate. No spark left for us... :)
How Many Costumes does it take for ONE Halloween?
Obviously, this is quite belated. Thankfully New Years is coming up so I have a reason to resolve myself to blog regularly again :) If you go back to my January 2010 post, I say the same thing...anyway. This post is about Halloween.
Chris and/or I had many parties to attend Halloween weekend. It seemed that since it landed on a Sunday the holiday really lasted from Friday through the rest of the weekend. But the "main costume" that Chris and I wanted to do could really only be done once, so for all the other things we had to come up with alternates.
Costume #1 - Rachel at work: Pirate. Thrown together 15 minutes before leaving, but that being said it turned out pretty awesome (also shout out of thanks to my neighbor Kristi who had an eye patch!! and let me wake her up at 7:30 am for it). Unfortunately the only picture of this costume ended up in a survey for people to vote for their favorite, but pretty much it was leggings into leather boots, one of Chris's big white button up shirts with a sash, the eye patch, and a head scarf thing. Pretty cool looking also since it was 100% from clothes I just had around the house.
Costume #2 - Chris and Rachel at Church Party: Zombies. Chris suggested being this 3 or 4 days before the party, so we slowly accumulated face make up and clothes from DI, awesome second hand store and perfect for finding costumes. We LOVE the Zombie dance Kayla and Jason did in So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 (see here) so we wanted to hearken back to Jason's costume...obviously Kayla's isn't quite appropriate for the Church party! :) So we found an awesome baggy suit for $10 and a cheap shirt and cut it all up. I just found a hideous dress that looked like something a mom like mine would have dressed me in matching with my sisters in the mid-90's. But, it actually worked, and our story was "on the way to the dance when we were attacked." I got my hair to be pretty awesome, and our make up turned out great. I didn't want to be a bloody as Chris...(sometimes I think I am married to a vampire...). Check it out:
I kept forgetting what I looked like so as friends came in I would run up to them to say hi all happy and normal and it would take them a moment to realize who I was, and they would always look slightly disturbed. So that kind of made it more fun :) I was surprised how NONE of the babies/small children seemed to mind us at all. We also got the DJ to play Thriller and it was great.
Costume #3 - Chris and Rachel at Cousin's Party: Ninjas. So, we didn't want to do the hair and make up again, so we made costumes AGAIN just from clothes that we already owned for my cousin Cheryl and her husband Tyler's Halloween party. We saw this video online about how to make the Ninja head piece from a T-shirt which inspired us (see here). This is not the same video but same thing.
We just so happened to ALREADY OWN a Ninja sword (technically its a Samurai sword, but I'm pretty sure only Chris could tell you the difference). I made my weapon out of a string and paper towel holder. Woot.
For some reason I thought I had 4 costumes...but I can only think of these 3. But still, that is a lot as it is. We went to another party after the cousin one as Ninjas, and Halloween night I honestly cannot remember what we did. If anyone reads this a remembers what we did please tell me. We may have watched a scary movie or something...
Also related to Halloween, for an accounting office work party we carved pumpkins:
In case you can't tell, our pumpkin is eating another pumpkin. This is reminiscent of one year when Chris and his roommates carved pumpkins and a big one started wilting and kind of fell over a smaller one and looked like it was eating it. They put ketchup on it. Also, the face of the pumpkin being eaten is reminiscent of that same year one of the pumpkins as it got older and older and more wiltly had the SADDEST face, it was hilarious.
Lastly, Chris ran the Provo Halloween Half Marathon. It started part way up Provo Canyon and ended at the Riverwoods Shopping Mall. He didn't wear a costume, though a lot of people did. He ran it in 1:48!!!
Chris and/or I had many parties to attend Halloween weekend. It seemed that since it landed on a Sunday the holiday really lasted from Friday through the rest of the weekend. But the "main costume" that Chris and I wanted to do could really only be done once, so for all the other things we had to come up with alternates.
Costume #1 - Rachel at work: Pirate. Thrown together 15 minutes before leaving, but that being said it turned out pretty awesome (also shout out of thanks to my neighbor Kristi who had an eye patch!! and let me wake her up at 7:30 am for it). Unfortunately the only picture of this costume ended up in a survey for people to vote for their favorite, but pretty much it was leggings into leather boots, one of Chris's big white button up shirts with a sash, the eye patch, and a head scarf thing. Pretty cool looking also since it was 100% from clothes I just had around the house.
Costume #2 - Chris and Rachel at Church Party: Zombies. Chris suggested being this 3 or 4 days before the party, so we slowly accumulated face make up and clothes from DI, awesome second hand store and perfect for finding costumes. We LOVE the Zombie dance Kayla and Jason did in So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 (see here) so we wanted to hearken back to Jason's costume...obviously Kayla's isn't quite appropriate for the Church party! :) So we found an awesome baggy suit for $10 and a cheap shirt and cut it all up. I just found a hideous dress that looked like something a mom like mine would have dressed me in matching with my sisters in the mid-90's. But, it actually worked, and our story was "on the way to the dance when we were attacked." I got my hair to be pretty awesome, and our make up turned out great. I didn't want to be a bloody as Chris...(sometimes I think I am married to a vampire...). Check it out:
I kept forgetting what I looked like so as friends came in I would run up to them to say hi all happy and normal and it would take them a moment to realize who I was, and they would always look slightly disturbed. So that kind of made it more fun :) I was surprised how NONE of the babies/small children seemed to mind us at all. We also got the DJ to play Thriller and it was great.
Costume #3 - Chris and Rachel at Cousin's Party: Ninjas. So, we didn't want to do the hair and make up again, so we made costumes AGAIN just from clothes that we already owned for my cousin Cheryl and her husband Tyler's Halloween party. We saw this video online about how to make the Ninja head piece from a T-shirt which inspired us (see here). This is not the same video but same thing.
We just so happened to ALREADY OWN a Ninja sword (technically its a Samurai sword, but I'm pretty sure only Chris could tell you the difference). I made my weapon out of a string and paper towel holder. Woot.For some reason I thought I had 4 costumes...but I can only think of these 3. But still, that is a lot as it is. We went to another party after the cousin one as Ninjas, and Halloween night I honestly cannot remember what we did. If anyone reads this a remembers what we did please tell me. We may have watched a scary movie or something...
Also related to Halloween, for an accounting office work party we carved pumpkins:
In case you can't tell, our pumpkin is eating another pumpkin. This is reminiscent of one year when Chris and his roommates carved pumpkins and a big one started wilting and kind of fell over a smaller one and looked like it was eating it. They put ketchup on it. Also, the face of the pumpkin being eaten is reminiscent of that same year one of the pumpkins as it got older and older and more wiltly had the SADDEST face, it was hilarious.Lastly, Chris ran the Provo Halloween Half Marathon. It started part way up Provo Canyon and ended at the Riverwoods Shopping Mall. He didn't wear a costume, though a lot of people did. He ran it in 1:48!!!
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