Bubbles! Bubbles! Bubbles!!!

Late last night, Gavin, me and our friend, Makenzie decided we wanted to go hot tubbing. It had been a long week for all of us because finals week starts on Monday and we had been studying long and hard all week long. We thought we deserved a short break to go relax in a nice hot tub. We called our friends and asked if it would be all right if we used the hot tub in their apartment complex. When they said yes, we immediately grabbed our swim suits and hopped in the car. As we are pulling up, it starts to snow! In St. George! I'm sure all you who are in Salt Lake or other cold places are scoffing right now. But after living in such a warm place for awhile, you acclamate fast! Alright, alright...we are woosies. :) But hey, its a HOT tub, so we should be fine. And we were, other than freezing for the 5 whole seconds after taking off our outer clothing and running to the hot tub in our swim suits. We start up the jets and settle in, just LOVING the warm water when the bubbles start getting higher and higher. All of the sudden I couldnt see Makenzie anymore! The bubbles were literally over her head. Someone must have put some soap in because it was like a gigantic bubble bath. We sure had alot of fun!




This is not a great pic, but you can kinda see how crazy these bubbles were. And this was even after we had turned off the jets and let it simmer down a bit!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!!

Friday night, we went to the college basketball game and won big. We went a little bit early so we could enter in a raffle and try to win some prizes. We walk in the door and are handed our ticket and we walk up just in time for them to announce the winner... GAVIN!!! Whoo hoo! He won $30 to Texas Roadhouse. Thank goodness because we are almost out of money on our meal plan... Then five minutes later, we play a game to see who will win the next prize, hot potato. About 30 or so students form a circle and start passing golf balls. One by one students were out because they were holding the ball when the music stopped. Finally it got down to two people, me and some random kid. In order to win, we had to get rid of the ball after physically grasping the ball in our hand. It was intense. But at the last second, I switched it up and used my other hand, AND WON!!! Whoo hoo! Twenty-five dolla to Applebees!It was pretty sweet if I do say so myself. Then they did another contest kind of like limbo, but instead of it going lower and people having to bend to go underneath, it got higher and people had to jump over the top. The winner got a digital camera and Gavin made it into the top three. I had no idea he could jump so high! He seriously came within an inch of winning the camera, but Nate Jensen has crazy long legs and won. Good for him. Gavin did get a free movie ticket to the theatre though. :)

It's Thrilling!!!

It was a cold autumn night.... (OooOoOOOOooh!)
Lauren and Gavin were far away from civilization.... (OooOoOOOOooh!)
And they saw.... A GHOST!!! (AHHHHH!)
....and a mummy and skeletons and Frankenstein and VAMPIRES!!! Oh. Scary. But Thats the way (uh huh uh huh) we like it. (Uh huh Uh huh!)

Thriller ROCKS!!! Lets go again next year!!!










P.S. During intermission, there was a little side show that was interesting. In the show there is a few numbers done by an actress portraying "Lorena Bobbit". During intermission, she came out and said she was in search of a new man and she was looking for one in the audience. She went through a couple guys and found one named Michael. She had him come down to the stage and told him they were getting married right then and there and that he was never going to find someone as good as her. Michael then says he has found someone better than her. So Lorena asks him to bring her down to the stage. Well she comes down and Michael then procedes to tell the audience their whole life story. How they have been dating for 5 months and how he felt this was the right time and how she was dating his friend but that didnt work out. Yadda yadda yadda and then he gets down on his knee and asks her to marry him. Ah! Nothin says romance and true love like proposing in front of hundreds with a bunch of dancing zombies breathing down your neck...

Halloween FHE

Yesterday was our wards halloween family home evening party and we had delicious soup and garlic bread, salad and cupcakes. It was super good, I had 2 huge bowls of chili and potato soup. Eating at the school cafe sure makes you appreciate home cooked food and our bishopric and their wifes didnt dissapoint, we were completely spoiled. We were so thankful.
After dinner, there was a pumpkin carving contest with prizes, so Gav and I grabbed our pumpkin and started right away so we could win. I wished my sister, Lexi, was there to help us with her awesome artistic talent. But we thought it would be funny to do one of the pumpkins that look like they are throwing up. So we made a simple sketch and it turned out really cool. We figured we were a shoe in for the major award. So time was up and everyone lined their pumpkins up along the bishops pool and someone else did a throwing up pumpkin! Dang... but theirs wasnt as cool. :)So we waited for the judges to make their decisions and when they announced the grand prize overall winner got a $45 gift certificate to Texas Roadhouse, we thought we had a good chance of winning. Until the judges announced that the newest convert to the ward (she was baptized on Saturday) won. She must have had the spirit guiding her because her pumpkin was an elaborate pic of CTR with the tree of life as the "T". We have to admit that it was pretty cool. And there were other prizes. So they announced the winners for "honorable mention", "most traditional", "funniest", "scariest", etc... And. We. Didnt. Win. The other throwing up one won for "scariest" Lame. Ours should have at least one for funniest.
Oh well. We actually had the funnest time doing it and thats all that mattered. I love you Gav. :)

Even more pics

Cotton Candy! he he he

To begin, all who read this blog should know that this is my first. I am just a beginner. Being a beginner I think I should fill everyone in on a little bit of mine and Lauren's beginnings. The first words ever spoken between the two of us was truly about the weather. It was a windy night in St George, infact it was a pep rally for the Homecoming football game the next day. Lauren had the daunting task of making cotton candy in the wind. Ha ha ha ha, it was quite a sight. So being a damsel in distress I had to take my chance. And there we were, talking about the weather, but that wind lead me to the most beautiful woman in my life..... Jumping forward one year, Lauren was kind enough to put together some treats and a poster for a pregame surprise for this years homecoming. Included in those treats was some cotton candy. It was really good, the one bag had three different flavors. I suggested to Lauren that she closed her eyes and I would give her samples and she would have to guess the flavor. Well, it wasn't much of a challenge for her, and on my shelf was some salt,.... I couldn't resist! As I attempted to shake a little salt into her mouth, I bumped it too hard and a large amount dropped in. I felt bad. kinda, and in retaliation she told me that I had to let her tickle me. She didn't stop for ten minutes. Between the tickling and the image of her face in my mind I could not stop laughing. Wow, I love cotton candy!!!

--Gavin

Random pics that arent up yet.

Number 12

Labor day weekend was awesome. Thursday was the big football game against SUU and although we lost, it was a fun and intense game. Gavin had quite a big cheer section between my family and his. :) Go number 12!!

Pranks

Last year, I wrote for the college newspaper, The Dixie Sun. One of the articles I did was on pranks. Technically, as a writer for the paper, you cant use personal stories, but this prank was too good not to. Below is an exerpt from the article I wrote about the prank Lexy and her "friend" (me) pulled on Mr. Gavin Gardner. . .

Learn to pull off successful pranks

By Lauren Jones

"April Fools' Day is still a distance away, but that doesn't stop some students from finding ways to break away from the everyday routine and enjoy life to the fullest.Most people have been the target of a prank. Sometimes it has been funny, and other times we just want revenge.

Lexy Cline, a freshman radiology major from Salt Lake City, was with her friend (ME!) when they decided to pull a prank on Gavin Gardner, a sophomore biology major from Lake Shore, who was out of town at the time. They started blowing up a bunch of pink balloons, planning on filling up his dorm room, but they got to the 70th balloon and realized that they would be there forever. So, instead they put a sheet by the door and filled the space with the balloons. When their friend came home, it was so packed he couldn't even open the door.

"I was confused why my door wouldn't open," Gardner said. "Then I saw the balloons, and I thought it filled the entire room. So I whipped out my pocket knife and started popping. I was relieved when I saw the sheet and realized that it wasn't entirely full. I was shocked they came up with that. Let the games begin."

To get the girls back, Gardner inadvertently told them he was allergic to latex. The girls got worried and went to his place to see what they could do. Gardner then "popped" out and scared them half to death."

. . . This is a pic only about a fourth of the way done. Gavin was out of town and his suitemate and friend, Craig let us in to play the joke on him. We werent sure when he'd be back, so we were trying to hurry.

This is Craig . . . Caught helping with the prank!

And this is Lexy helping too. :)

Good times. . . Good times.

:)

Update

Gavin and I have been back in St. George for awhile now. Gavin has been doing football; he says its going real well, the team is looking pretty good and there is a chance he will actually get to be on the field this year as reciever. DSC is lucky to have him. I have been trying to find a job and recently (just today) got offered a job at the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel down here. I am real excited about that. We have also been in training to be Resident Assistants at the dorms. The past couple days we have been helping check students into their rooms and being trained on how to be good RA's. The picture above was us rock climbing as an activity about teamwork. You should have seen me holding the rope when Gav was climbing. . . :) It was funny. I was using all my weight to keep him from falling and as he was repeling down, I slid across the floor.

School starts on Monday too. Its going to be a really busy time with school, work, football, homework, RA's, wedding plans and other random activities, we're hoping time will go by fast.

We also bought a grill at a yard sale for $10. . . but it doesnt work. :( We have also been looking around for a place to live after we get married. We found a little house for a real good price that was really nice, but its rented out right now, maybe in a couple months it will be available. :) But there are alot of other places too.

Well thats about it for now. . . I have been trying to get Gavin to write some stuff. Maybe next time. . . :D