o dia das bruxas

(this is shaun, he is in our Spanish branch, isn't he cute?)

Happy Haloween!!
O dia das bruxas is Halloween in Portuguese !

Well, recently school and work have kept me crazy busy! Yet, I found time for some fun!! Natalie came to visit and that was so much fun to have one of my best friends come down and see me (and Brian :) haha). I felt loved usually no one wants to come to Tucson!!

By the way I got released from the Primary :( Suprisingly I am sad about that, I loved those terrible kids. I will miss them, just not teaching them haha. Brian and I are also in the rama (branch) choir. HA! Has anyone ever been to a Spanish branch? Well, everyone knows that Spanish people can NOT sing. We had the stake choir director come today to help us and oh boy do we need work!!! I just hope that when the stake hears us they feel the spirit strongly and tune us out! :)

Anyway, Brian and I have been going to most of the football games, this weekend there is homecoming too. Since when did U of A have a good football team? Well this certainly makes the games more fun to watch!!

I have a crazy Spanish class where my teacher is nuts. Seriously. Anyway, we had class last Saturday (class on Saturday, LAME!) anyway, it actually turned out really well. We did a "Dia de los muertos" presentation with games and entertainment and dancing and singing, and I think it turned out really well. It was for low-income families in Tucson. Mainly for little kids (elementary age whom dominately speak Spanish). And I had to dress up as a skeleton and this picture of me is when I got home after la presentacion!

For Halloween Brian and I had no idea what to dress up as. How could we top last year's costume?

We decided we really couldn't so we were nerds. I know that is kind of lame, but we liked it and had fun with it. We went to a branch activity and NO ONE recognized us! HAHA. I didn't think we looked THAT different but I guess we did.

There was a trunk or treat, so we decided since we didn't decorate our car, we would do something else. So I cooked noodles, spaghetti, lentils and peas and mixed them all together in a big bowl with the candy. I originally wished I hadn't done this when the first few kids were highly hesitant to get our candy, but before I knew it we had 20 kids pushing their way to the candy bowl to touch the "BRAINS" haha. It was really funny. Actually one little boy was confused and grabbed a whole handful of spaghetti and put that in his bag. hahaha. I just laughed and handed him a piece of candy....I hope he doesn't eat that later!

We hung out with Ferenc, Katie and Anjuli and of course went to free Chiptole !

I almost forgot the funniest part!!! We bought these candy teeth, that are nasty looking...check it out haha...

This is TRUE LOVE! hahaha

Prescott

BENTLEE!!!!

So Brian and I spent this weekend in Prescott! We had a lot of fun, considering the last time we went up was around John's farwell, which was around June!! We visited with Brian's family and got to see Bentlee. She is super cute, I mean these pictures don't do any justice! Well, we loved spending time with her and seeing Laura and Joseph and helping them get their new place together. (I have to say it is huge! And I know it will turn out beautifully!) We also hung out with some of our favorite people from Hawaii, Jared and Anepo!! We played shuffleboard and then afterwards went to play cards with Laura and Joseph. It was a great weekend and we had so much fun...it was hard going back to school... I just can't wait until I am done!

she has this nazi sign she does....

So, do you remember my older post, when my computer crashed and deleted all my pictures including the ones of our Mortenson family cruise around Hawaii ? Well, Brian found some he took and I am just excited we have something left! So here are those pictures from December/January.

Jared & Anepo

at the PCC, before the night show

this guy was awesome haha! Best Samoan ever!!! (kirsten, he kind of reminds me of Mark for some crazy reason hahah)

Oh, September.

Well, school has begun and a lot has happened:

Brian and I went to Disneyland with his family over Labor Day weekend!!!! :)

hahaha, i had to share my score :) haha

What else? Well I turned 22! Yikes! haha



Brian bought me this Kelty backpack... we have future plans to use it.. this summer backpacking through Europe. I am soooo excited!

Chantelle and Zack got married :)

Vanessa had her bridal shower!

Well... on top of all this fun, I was bound to get sick right? Well I am unhappy to announce this is my 3rd week sick! Yeah, after some long nights without sleep, constant mucus and one trip to the hospital I can honestly say I am feeling "somewhat" better. September was rough. I hope October is better.