Well lets just start with the last few weeks.

I went to a Homecoming dance. It was the semi-formal one, so we dressed up. I really enjoyed it. My roommate and I were going to get a group of people together to go, but we ended up just us two as the other people went out of town or withdrew support. That night I had a spanish test (I did well on it for those of you who weren't asking), so I got home a little later than planned. We had planned on making dinner and eating at 7 and then dancing at 8. Well I got home around 6:45 or 6:30 and my roommate John was still out shopping. He said that he was going to pick up his date at 7:30. So I told my date the same thing. John is a great guy... bless his heart (I heard you're supposed to say that before you say something remotely negative) Anyhow John decided to do his whole weekly shopping and he didn't get back to the apartment until 7:10 or so. So I laid down our options. John opted for making the food with the girls. We both went to pick up our respective dates at 7:30. The girl I took lives in the same building as we do, but on the other side close to the street. On the guys side is a parking lot, so I drove over to the other side, picked her up (taking care to open her door) and then I brought her back to our apartment. :)

We made coconut breaded chicken, a greek salad, green beans, and rice pilaf (from a box). I worked on the chicken. My date helped me with the chicken, and she worked with John's date on the salad. John worked his box magic.

"My date", "My girl", "My dance partner" - shall hereafter be referred to as Erika.
"John's date", "John's friend", "John's girl" - will be known by her name of Tatiana.
Tatiana is the one with blond hair... Oh wait! that can't be right... She is actually the one on the left... my left...haha.

Anyhow. we just talked and made dinner. I drizzled some honey on the chicken and we ate that. It was tastified! The salad was awesome too.

We left for the dance.

We danced at the shop at Riverwoods. It was good. They had some cool lighting and a cookie bar. They had a fondue fountain and dipping treats. They also had chocolate milk and regular milk. (byu creamery of course) So Erika and I, even being full from dinner, made sure to get a glass of milk. After they dance they handed out sparklers and lit them up as we went outside. :) that was fun too.



This last weekend I went to Vera Lyn's and Scott's house for a halloween shindig. Aaron and Angeana, Evan and Ann, Chris and Chrissy, Corey and Sydney, Kent and Denise and Braden, and Vera Lyn's neighbor family were all there. It was good. There was baked potato soup, and a seven layer dip and other good yummy things. Vera Lyn had some ginger, rice, and sweet potato and corn chips. They were spicy and they were faintly sweet, but they didn't have a stong ginger flavor. You couldn't even tell that it was ginger until you looked at the bag.

I played with the kids. It is fun to get to know the little astle girls as well as Aaron and Angeana's kids and of course Vera Lyn's and Scott's.
We had a contest of eating doughnuts off a string. I wasn't going to go in the second round of competition. I had planned to go in the third round, but there was an extra doughnut, so I got off to a late start. I was eating next to Aaron, so I would reach around him and poke him in the side. He is kind of ticklish, and he had a hard time laughing the doughnut into his stomach. I think that my braces have expanded my mouth because I was able to take huge chunks out of my doughnut. Braden was doing well, but Aaron kept elbowing him (I don't know if he thought Braden was tickling him or not). I was relatively untouched, and I zoomed to victory with my nitro braces!

Then other people did it too. It was funny to see Addy (Evan and Ann's girl) She just started going before everyone was ready because she just wanted to eat a doughnut!

Other people got some good sticky faces. Christopher was going at his doughnut daintily (he had eaten one small bite) and everyone else was close to finishing, so Vera Lyn pasted his doughnut on his face when he went to take a bite. haha!

PS I dressed up as a pirate...


And this week for halloween I also dressed up as a pirate.

I dressed up as Jimmer Fredette for one occasion earlier this week. My roommate Paul has a King's jersey that says Fredette on it.

My pirate yesterday and my pirate last week are definitely different, so I will try to get a picture of both of them.

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And somewhere in there (Two weeks ago on sunday)
Sara Bingham and I went and visited Grandpa Stratford. We ate some raspberry cream cheese, byu creamery, ice cream with him. :) one thing I learned as I talked to Grandpa was that he really enjoys the stuffing in a Thanksgiving dinner. he also really enjoys the cranberries and the cranberry sauce I haven't really known what grandpa stratford enjoys about Thanksgiving dinner I think because we haven't had Thanksgiving dinner with him a lot and it was good to talk to him about some of his likes get to know him more