smorgasbord of events

This last month has been super busy and so much fun. We celebrated our 4th anniversary, which was awesome. I am so lucky to married to the most amazing husband ever. Oh how I love him and look forward to the years to come. I went to the Twilight premier with the gals. We went to Houston for Thanksgiving and had such a great time down there. It was so much fun to be with the family and enjoy the nice warm weather down there. While we were there we went to the Renaissance Festival, the Galleria, and to Old Town Spring. It was really cool cause I hadn't done any of these things. We also went to my favorite Thai restaurant "Thai Shiam". I sure do love that place. We also ate some dang good food. Chris' mom sure can cook. We were able to hang out with our good friends that Bassetts and Chris played in the Ward Turkey Bowl. I think thats pretty much our Smorgasbord of events.

My brother Kyle & sis-in-law are having a baby boy in Dec. Eva had a baby shower so I whipped out baby quilt for them. I did this in less than 12 hours, which is pretty quick. I ran out of time, so I didn't get to do a couple of things that I had wanted to. I think that it turned out pretty cute though. I had seen this quilt & thought I can make that, so I did.

Chris bought me some roses for our anniversary. They were so pretty.

Us girls waiting for Twilight to start.

Erika, Chris, & me in Old Town Spring. This was a really fun little area.

The boys at the Turkey Bowl. After playing Chris realized that he is getting old. He rolled his ankle pretty good. Then some kid & him hit heads pretty hard & it sliced Chris' ear open. My little porcelain doll.

Showing off his mad skills.

The fam after Thanksgiving dinner. We had such a great week with them.

Chris & Erika

Chris & I

The three of us

The actors & actresses at the Renaissance Festival.

The jousting. It was pretty cool to watch these guys.

I know this is a really attractive picture of me. But this is the first turkey leg that I have ever really eaten like this. It was massive & people were just walking around eating turkey legs.

So Chris didn't want me to put this pic up because it makes him sick. This was one of the actresses. Yes that is a He She. When I first saw IT, I was like that man has boobs. We kept seeing IT everywhere. So Erika & I decided to take a pic. I guess I was kind of staring trying to figure if they were real or not. She said, "Honey you haven't been drinking that much. They are real as ever." It was kind of funny. The whole festival was really cool though.

I know that this is kind of late, but Happy Thanksgiving! Let the Christmas season begin now. I can't wait & am so excited. I have already put of our Christmas decorations & been listening to Christmas music. I am loving it.

Mulletts Galore

We have been up to quite a bit these past few weeks. A couple of things that have been happening. ESPN's College Game Day come to BYU and Chris was able to go with a couple of friends. I wanted to go but had to work :( Too bad BYU got their butts kicked by TCU. As Chris put it, " TCU is bigger, faster, stronger, & blacker (more athletic)." Totally cracked me up. Don't think he is racist, because he's not. Anyways, he sure did have a lot of fun doing the whole Game Day thing.

Halloween was a lot of fun. Chris' boss at works likes to dress up and have everyone dress up. Chris knowing this for awhile had been thinking a lot about what he wanted to be. He had it narrowed down to two things... a white trash person or a BYU fan. He couldn't pull himself to be a BYU fan and opted for the white trash guy. It's kind of funny cause he is part asian. My opinion is he just looked so nasty and funny. Anyways, for work his boss and his wife decided for their work party they wanted to take everyone to the movie. We went and saw "Where the Wild Things Are." It was so nice of them and fun. We also had a little Halloween party with some people from our ward, so Chris was able to wear his costume again.

Chris' grandpa Yeates had his knee replaced this last week so we were able to go and spend time with him and some of his other family. It's always fun to see them and spend time with them.

Well thats pretty much whats been happening in around here with us. Here are some pictures to show what we have been up to.

Some of the crowd at College Game Day

ESPN College Game Day

The infamous mullett man aka white trash.

Chris & Kendall, oh so gross

Chris' work party. They wore their costumes to the movie.

Chris & his boss Paul. Two crazy guys.

Our cousin Joey. He is so cute

Our little Halloween party.

Thank goodness the mullett days are over in the Yeates home for awhile. Happy Halloween & most important, Happy Nevada Day!!!

PumPkiNs

This past weekend was pretty dang busy for me and I didn't get much sleep but it was a good one to say the least. Friday night some couples from our stairwell got together and painted our pumpkins for Halloween. It was a lot of fun and we had some cute ones this year. It feels like Halloween now.

Chris getting ready to spray paint his pumpkins.

He's trying to figure out how to stand it up so that the bottom can dry.

I used chalk paint this year for my black one. It was way cute and fun.

Chris with the finished project.

Me with the finished pumpkins.

Our cute little pumpkins outside our door.

This blanket was part of my super busy weekend. There was a family in our ward and their little baby passed away last week. So as a ward we made a blanket for them. It was really neat because we had every family in our ward cross stitch a heart onto a square to let them know how much we love them. I was able to teach a little bit about making quilts to some sisters, which was fun to be able to share some of my talents with others. I am a little bit bias, but I think that it turned out so dang cute. I hope that the family knows and could feel that they are loved and in our thoughts and prayers. Over the last week I have been able to think about the gospel and how grateful I am to have it in my life. With out the gospel, it sure would be hard to make it through life.

Catch up

Well, quite a bit has gone lately and I haven't blogged about any of it. We have been staying pretty busy with life, Chris more so than me. He is busy with work, school, and trying to make me happy (which isn't that hard). I have a few projects that I am working on for Christmas gifts, so that is keeping me pretty busy. Here are a few of the things that we have done.

Our stairwell has done a couple of things together, which has been fun. We went to Pioche for a weekend. My mom turned the big 50 and my high school was celebrating its 100 year reunion for homecoming. That was pretty fun. I guess thats pretty much all of the big stuff that has been happening. Here are the pictures of some of our happenings.

In our stairwell almost all of our birthdays were either in August or September so we had a dinner and then hit a pinata. It was quite entertaining.

Kendall giving it a go around.

Chris with one of the parts that fell off.

us just chillin

We have had construction going on for a year now around our apt. I'm about sick of it, but thats another story. Well they seemed to think that they could just park in our parking spot whenever and for as long as they wanted. We finally got sick of it and Chris made this note and put it on the tractor. It was pretty funny. We thought that they would get the hint and move it the next day. Nope, it was still there. I finally called good ole Wymount and talked the manager and they moved the tractor right away.

You think my tractor's SEXY!!!

Some of the people that came home for the homecoming game and 100 year celebration.

My mom and dad. Aren't they just the cutest thing ever.

The L that they light up every time we score a touchdown. Way to lynx!!!

Just a few of the things that we did over the last month.

Chris's new blog - "Cookin with Chris"

So I've never been much of a blogger. I think I've written maybe one or two posts since Kimber started blogging over a year ago. However, I had a thought the other day and I've decided to act on it.

If you know me, you know that I love to eat. Lucky for me, I'm half Japanese and it seems like my metabolism is more Japanese than Caucasian and I'm the same weight that I've been since high school. Not only do I love to eat, but I love searching for new recipes and trying them out. Who knows, if the whole structural engineering thing doesn't work out, maybe cooking is something that I can fall back on. I had the thought the other day, "Why don't I create a blog and post some of the great recipes that I find?!?!"

So here goes nothing. I'm planning on posting recipes that I find (and like) on the blog. I'll try to get pictures of the different dishes and post them as well. I know that it's always nice to compare what you made with a picture of what the dish is supposed to look like.

By the way, Kimber is the mastermind behind the looks of the blog. If it were up to me, I'd have a solid color background with black text. Lucky for me, she enjoys making blogs look cute and she's good at it.

The blog is called "Cookin with Chris". Unfortunately, cookinwithchris.blogspot.com was already taken so I had to use www.recipesviachris.blogspot.com. I hope y'all enjoy the recipes that I post.

Another Labor Day in Pioche

We made the trek down to Pioche for Labor Day again this year. I look forward to going home for Labor Day every year. This year was a little bit different from than last year, because we had two new nieces that we didn't have last year. Our family is growing and its a lot fun. I love being able to just spend time with my family and being home. Here are some pictures from our weekend down there.

Baby Kloe was blessed. My grandma made her dress & it was just beautiful.

Happy little Kloe

We had a little princess birthday party for Bailey. All she wanted was a pony & apple juice from papa & nana. Well she got apple juice & a power wheel mustang.

The boys getting ready to go & play in the annual golf tournament.

Each night us girls slept outside

my little cousins & Bailey

Mom, Bailey, & me all shared a bed

Bailey & me

Nana & Bailey

Bailey waiting for the parade to start. She looks excited doesn't she.

Eva & cute little Sophie

Us getting ready to get candy from the parade. We scored quite a bit of candy.

Kyle, Eva, & Sophie

Vinnie, Jordan, & Kloe

The three amigos

Bailey & her buddy Chris

We had so much fun & miss everyone. Especially our little buddy Bailey. We can't wait to see you all again. Hopefully real soon.

We have the food network!!!

BYU has finally done something good for us here in Wymount. They have given us the food network!!! I am so excited about this. I don't have to watch it on the Internet anymore. I don't know if Chris is to happy about the exchange for it though. They took our ESPN away a few months ago for it. But I am totally happy with the exchange. So excited that I had to blog about it.