Lately

Life has been great since I last posted. I try to post more often, but its hard to find time. So buckle your seat belts and remain seated until the post comes to a complete stop.

I have been looking to buy a truck for a while now. I finally found one that was in great condition and went to West Valley to look at it. I liked what I saw, so I called the bank and got the loan all set up. Then to my dismay, he didn't have the title for it, so the bank would not let the loan go through. I was disappointed, but kept looking. Nothing like it was coming up on KSL. Finally another truck came up on KSL, and I called and went up to Kamas to go look at it, gave him the money and drove away with it that night. The cool thing is, the body is in better shape, its a year newer than the other one, and has less miles than the other one.

It is a 1994 Toyota Pickup 4X4.  Basically a Toyota Tacoma, but they didn't start calling it a Tacoma until 96.  Its in awesome condition and I love it.  I sold the Honda I was driving to a friend in the ROTC.
I'm also in the process of selling the camper shell.

As soon as I drove off from the guys house buying it I went with my friend Steve Davis up to his cabin to go deer hunting.  We got up at 4 am saturday and hiked around the mountains until about 2 pm when I snow storm came out of nowhere.  We hadn't seen any bucks unfortunately (but lots of Elk and a few doe) so we decided to head back to the truck.  However, we still had about a 3.5 mile hike back to the truck in this snow storm.  The snow was not snow at all.  It was little ice pellets that were coming in sideways, stinging any exposed skin.  It was a fun day though all in all, even though we didn't get anything.  Next year.

I had my 24th birthday on the 28th.  We had a bunch of friends over for Hoagies, then 4 of us went to the Haunted Forest in American Fork.  It was pretty good, compared to some of the other ones I've been too.  It took about an hour to go through, and people were spaced out.  So we weren't just standing in line through the whole thing watching the people ahead of us get scared and know what's coming up.  Amanda had never been to anything haunted, so it was a good night.

The 29th was our ward Trunk-or-Treat.  It was pretty fun.  A few hours before we still didn't know what we were gonna do for our costumes or how to decorate our trunk, but pulled together something pretty good.  We decided to be a Mad Scientist (Amanda) and Igor (me).  We decorated the trunk like a mad scientist's lab with things in jars like grapes for eyes, fake mice floating in apple juice (AKA formaldehyde) and propped my head on a box with black cloth around my body so it looked like a live head on display.

 It was pretty good and kind of put some of the really little kids on edge, but everyone loved it.  It was pretty uncomfortable laying there with my head crained like it was.  But it was good.  We got 2nd place on the trunk decorating contest and only lost to a full on pirate ship with a mast and a plank.  A few couples came as peter pan, wendy, and some pirates.  So we felt good about our 2nd place, especially after throwing it together at the last minute.

After I climbed out of the truck I put on a trench coat and was Igor, the hunchback assistant.  We didn't win any prizes for our costumes.  However, after the Trunk-or-Treat was over there was a chilli cook-off that Amanda's chilli got 2nd place.  We take great pride in the fact that we are the #1 losers.  No one lost ahead of us. ha ha.

This is our Jack-o-Lantern that Amanda and I carved together.  I found a picture of a pumpkin like this on the internet and we tried our best to recreate it.   I think it turned out pretty well.

On Nov 1st Amanda got her wisdom teeth pulled and a few cavities filled all in the same procedure.  She got the laughing gas for it, but they didn't put her out.  I was kinda hoping she would be all drugged up and I could film her and put it on youtube, but she was pretty coherent.  The dental assistant told me that it only took like 10 minutes to get all 4 wisdom teeth out, but her recovery has been extremely quick.  The next day she didn't even need any pain killers.  Lucky her.