i jinxed my family

story:

for christmas, birthdays and any other kind of holiday to celebrate, casey's parents were sweet enough to take us all on a cruise for christmas this year! we've all been way excited for awhile now for it

it was the one where you leave from san diego and go down to mexico (the mexican riviera i think?)

we were going to leave on Dec the19th, and get back on the 26th, 

it was going to be a blast!

then, like 5 days ago, i sent the family members this video.

it's of a cruise liner that went on that same kind of cruise we were planning,

but they had a fire in the engine room and were stuck out there for days with no electricity, lots of food rations, no running water, and a lot of other no fun stuff!

well, turns out that ship was going to be OUR SHIP!!!

guess what that means!?

cruise cancelled!!! :( 

wo is me, wo is me!

tragic/ironic huh?

so now, the family is facing a huge dilemma (no, not that big but you know how it is...)

the cruise line is of course being very nice and trying to be accommodating to passengers in exchanging cruise line tickets, and kinda helping w airfare etc.

so naturally, we're all freaking out a lot and trying to find another cruise to go on.

carribbean sound good?

don't mind if i do!

oh.

but wait.

originally, casey and i were going to drive to san diego making our trip only the cost of gas and excursions.

what does a carribean cruise mean?

 way cool? yes.

same price for us? yeah right.

now we have to deal with AIRFARE!

blah...

mmeh...

noooo....

airfare = an arm and a leg.

 airfare = a good portion of tuition

airfare = rent for 2 1/2 months

airfare = a bajillion cute shoes i could have bought

mmmeh

we just keep telling ourselves "the memories, the memories, we'll make so many good memories"

today my mom told me "you can't expect memories like that with saving all your money"

breathe kimber, breathe :)

our saturday

saturday was quite the eventful day for us

we woke up at 7 (on a saturday!? i know, terrible) to start getting ready for dancesport!

by 7:30 casey we were at the ballroom in the wilke and casey was practicing all his moves for his big debut!

he is in the beginning level social dance class here at BYU (and loves it:)

the 180 classes always compete cha cha, and casey did so good!

the 1st round had 12 heats of probably 20 or so couples in each heat, which, yes, was still long but so fun

the 1st time they stood right in front of me and danced but i just watched, i should have taken pics though bc in the next 2 rounds they were way far from me (casey said it was better floor space).

him and his partner were just having fun, which was even more fun to watch

after the 3rd round we raced to his intramural flag football game which means he missed the 4th round they had been called back to :(

casey was a little bummed out he couldn't keep dancing, but football takes priority, ha

luckily they also won their football game!

casey actually had a really good game with some key interceptions, catches, and flag pulling.

twas freezing but still fun to watch

(blogger is not letting me upload these pictures for some reason, mmeh)

after the football game, i drove 20 min to Lehi to work on a slave labot project for a class-

literally slave labor.

an hour later i drove back to dancesport to compete myslef in pre champ smooth, twas fun to dance.

after i competed we watched the colorado get dominated by byu in the football game.

then i drove back to lehi to keep working on that project.

at 5:30 it started getting too dark to work, so with half our project finished we left.

once home, it was only 6:30, but casey and i could have sworn it was 10:30.

so we stayed in, watched a movie, and just hung out together.

woo, what a busy saturday! glad that is over!

my november the fifteenth list

i want to put my Christmas decorations up.

i don't care what people say, i want to.

my momma has made it possible for me to have some really really cute ones and i want to enjoy them for more than 2 weeks!...i think i'm going to do it this week :)

i want sunday to come faster.

sunday will mean casey and i will have been done with this week (which includes i think 8 important quizzes/tests between the 2 of us, lots of work, lots of football games, rs activities, family birthday celebrating, landscape projects, etc)

but more importantly sunday means my mummy and daddy, brother, SIL, niece, niece, and brother will get here for thanksgiving! i'm so so so so so so so so so excited. i'm starting to get really ancy (ps- i usually get really annoyed and have never been into counting down the days til blank sort of thing, but i think that's what i'm kinda doing in my head this week :)

i want all my nieces and nephews to live closer.

it's getting ridiculous how cute they're all getting and how much i'm missing out on :(

i guess i'm lucky to have a niece (and soon a new nephew) who do live close.

i want to not have to to take economics.

enough said.

i want to get 8 hours of sleep every night.

no more, no less.

it always happens that i get between 5-6 hours one night,

and then next day i don't have to wake up early so i get between 9-10...it's not working out well.

i want to listen to christmas music.

oh wait.

i am :)

thanks pandora.

i want to be done with dance this semester.

now that dancesport is over, i feel no need to attend my dance classes

i want to watch lots of disney movies with my niece right now

it would be so relaxing and fun

i want it to snow.

i know, i'm weird.

but i really do, it's so magical to wake up to fresh snow outside our window, i just love it.

i just don't want it to turn into ice

soon i'll post about our weekend! it was such a busy saturday!

Grab That Flag KIMBER!! GRAB IT!

Kimber is in the middle trying to look at me these pictures do not do justice of how hard she plays!

She is looking at me again she is on the line ready to rush!!!

She cannot hide from me she looks angry GRR!!!

She needed a break so I got a close-up of our star Flag Football Player!!

So I don't know if I told anybody, but Kimber plays Intramural Flag-Football with some girls in the ward and it was the first game I got to go to so I took some pictures!! She is known for her lighting-fast speed and blocking abilities. She plays linewoman on both ends of the field (offense & defense) So it was so much fun watching her bump into people trying to get the quarterback she really takes it seriously!! On defense she gets to the quarterback quickly, but I personally think she doesn't want to her her fingernails haha. It was a freezing night and I was glad that their team won!!! They even had scouts there trying to scout out their team for the next game. I was like really man come on it is women's intramural flag-football. Some people take this so seriously. Like my wifey Kimber!!!!! The games I was not able to come and watch she would tell me all about it and how she grabbed this girl's flag. It is great!!! But the greatest moment I think is when she made this awesome one handed grab and took the ball for a touchdown. I think she should go out for more passes, but she likes to just rush and play where she is comfortable. Anyways Kimber deserves some praise and credit and so I am giving it to her because My wife is playing intramural football!!!! I never thought she would, but she has definately proven me wrong. Now she gets to dance it up all weekend at Dancesport Woot Woot! But this is a football post so we will stick to that. Anyways if this smile doesn't get you out to watch Kimber than maybe witnessing girls trying to grab a flag off another girl will and I think every game there is always a de-pantsing haha. Well I love Kimber she rocks!!!  Tear them up babe you gotta win the Championship!!

let's face it,

google docs = one of the best inventions ever.

i use it for so many classes.

no more "let's meet as a group to study and match up 50 people's super busy schedules to do so"

OH WAIT.

instead, "let's make a google doc, everyone add their notes to it and help each other"

that's grrrrreat!

arizona treasures

have you seen the blog iheartmesa.blogspot.com?

i just found this blog and i love it! makes be want to live there again so bad!

(i wish there was some really good provo blog like this!)

also, if anyone knows the kuzdas family from mesa and/or their duaghter Heather Sutton,

she could really use a lot of people's love and support right now.

she was just diagnosed with a severe bone marrow disease (MDS).

i was so sad to see that this cute young mom whom i've always admired is now facing this.

read her story and learn how to help here

i just found these pics from our last visit to mesa

they made me so happy :)

we love bahamabucks (we also love that annalee [my niece] is content with just having her own little taste tester)

also remember kirky, mi hermano?

 well a year ago last sunday (oct 31) he got home from his mission!

that weekend was so much fun! :)

 the 6 of us all flew to AZ together for that quick little trip, so fun :)

in that short year we have officially added 4 more to the family:

casey, abby, phoebe, and tristan at the end of theis month :)

and a short year later he has turned into this:

cute, huh?

lately

i put up christmas lights on the trees around campus
i got to celebrate this cute girl's birthday with 1000 of her closest friends. pizza pie buffet cafe rocks

i played flag football again with these girls and had a flippin blast (we won our first tournament game too!). our team name is hot mommas :)

casey and i learned a lot about each other and ourselves yesterday

and i have finally gotten the hang of foxtrot in smooth! it's like the epitome of jazz dancing which is the best! i love it!

twas a halloween weekend

and a fun one at that!

at first we didn't know what we were going to do,

ideas came up, we heard of things going on, plans fell through, but at the last minute we were still able to conjure up a mad weekend!

although it was a stormy night to begin, one of the activities we did was this provo text-or-treat halloween hunt,

we received clues via texting and went around to different well known spots around provo for candy, coupons, and goodies.

it was so random but so fun to do together!

and in the end there was a money balloon they popped and we got 6 bucks. awww yeah :)

we also popped in at a costume party from someone in our ward, it was a riot. we loved every second of it.

and for our costumes this year we went to savers and found some fun random goodies to go back in time to the 70's!

points of interest:

casey's awesome/creeper wig (he played with it all night twirling it in his fungers and flipping it out of his face- he loved it)

casey's eye-liner-chest-hair = hilarious. (no, not as legit as tim the wolve's but still awesome in itslef)

kimber's sweet/nasty "new" suit that can be used for 70's, 80's, and 90's

kimber's awesomely big hair pictures do not begin to show its awesome bigness

kimber's legit bell-bottom pants. sewn together with love minutes before our departure for the night (bad part- my zipper would literally not stay up for more than 5 minutes at a time...no not annoying at all)

kimber's sweet platform shoes 

oh, and yes, we carved pumpkins bc if you don't you're not cool :) jk

our pumpkin carving fest was awesome which means it was super fast...almost too fast actually.

carving pumokins as adults with the jam lid is the cleanest and easiest thing in the world