We ended our October with a super fun ward Halloween party. As you can see, we put a lot of effort into our costumes. This is the first year that we've dressed up for Halloween since we've been together so we went all out! We also dominated the games at the activity because we're winners!
Another highlight from October was having my parents come visit for a quick weekend! We love every time they visit, it's always a party.
One Sunday night Garrick and I were both doing stuff for our callings and I thought it was so cute so I took a picture. We've really loved the opportunity we've had to get more involved in our ward this year. We've been able to make a ton of friendships and have learned so much from our callings.
It's been Garrick's goal to be able to study from home this semester, typically he spends late nights at school. But to prepare for when baby comes, he wanted to get in a habit of successfully studying in our home office. There's been a couple of successful study nights but most of the time I distract him from his work haha. I'm hoping we'll figure out a better system some day.
We supported both of our schools by going to the BYU vs UVU weekend. The men and women's basketball teams played as well as women's soccer. It's cool that UVU is now a big enough school that they can compete against BYU!
A cool thing that Garrick did lately was teach a self defense class at our ward FHE night. One of the boys in the ward had been trying for months to have Garrick put on this activity for the elder's quorum. But Garrick had been swamped with school so the only night that worked was Monday which meant the boys invited the wives to turn it into FHE. It was pretty fun having him teach everyone different moves. My husband is a stud. And he could probably kill you with his bare hands....
One thing you should know about Garrick is that he loves Christmas. I am the one in our relationship that has to make us wait to put up the Christmas tree. Garrick started listening to Christmas music at the beginning of November and had asked several times to put up the tree before I caved. We compromised by making it a "gratitude tree" for November. So we wrote what we were thankful for on leaves that we hung on our Christmas tree. I've actually loved having the tree up an extra month so this will probably be a new tradition.
Towards the end of November we went to an event called "Light up the Riverwoods" with some friends. It was actually really cool, they had a big concert, people making ice sculptures, Santa Claus and at 9pm they turned on all of their Christmas lights. It was pretty magical.
That sums up our life for now. Next, is Thanksgiving!!
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