Happenings as of late: We have been doing a lot lately; and that, at the expense of the blog. So, we’ll get back to normal with our blog entries. Caci is going to compose a post about thanksgiving, until then, here is a list of our latest events.
- Thanksgiving @ the Chapman’s then @ Suttner’s
- Christmas lights @ temple square
- Visiting U of U where Trevor spent the first few years of his childhood
- Christmas Devotional @ temple square with Kostya
- Festival of lights at Thanksgiving Point
As you can see, we have been pretty busy with family activities lately–but thats what we do best at Christmas. “Its the most wonderful time of the year!”
Holiday Collection Photos:
Books: Our friends, the Parkers, sent us The Anthem by Ayn Rand, which we both read in a day. Excellent book! Tonight we picked up Atlas Shrugged by Rand and Caci is reading it. I’m excited to read it–some say it is a guidebook written for the Illuminati detailing their plans to take over the world! But then again, they also say that all Mormons are Illuminati. The only persons in suspect to me would be the Collings clan over @ Yale’s Skull & Bones. Following is a list of books we’ve read this past month.
- Meditations on First Philosophy - Descartes »
- The Anthem - Ayn Rand »
- The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle; school required »
- The Lord’s Question - Dennis Rasmussen (he is one of my phil professors) »
- Treatise on Law - St. Thomas Aquinas; school required (this is actually just a small section of his larger collection of treatises) »
On my list next:
For the gamers out there, we just got Assassin’s Creed - it rocks! If you don’t know what it is, watch this video.
Also, we’re keeping our finger’s crossed, I’m really hoping to go down to Central America with my dad and climb Pico de Orizaba (18,490 ft). We would do it mid January. We had planned to do this while I was in high school - unfortunately, we never had the chance. Hopefully, the price is right. If I can’t do this, Caci and I plan on climbing Mt. Rainier in the spring - hopefully dad can also do that one with us.
A bit about funds: The following is an eight-month breakdown of our expenditure on gas (since we have had the jeep). The “$0.00″ is this month thus far. Click on it for a larger/clearer view.
Total: $3,073.28 | Monthly Average: $384.16
This does not take into account the amount we spent on gas that was put on a credit card. I haven not yet figured that out, but I estimate ~ $500.00 more. So, yeah, the jeep is expensive. But I get peace of mind knowing that I can, at any given moment, pull off the road and drive following the whims of the wind; not to mention how cool it looks.
Well, we’ve decided to be a bit more economical. In fact, we’ve gone from ~ 12 miles a gallon to an average of 47.6 miles a gallon since this last Friday.
Christmas Tree ‘07:
- V for Vendetta (edited). It was awesome! We both highly recommend this. Speaking of which, Justin & Lia, we’re confused as to how you can celebrate “Guido Fawkes Day” and not support Ron Paul. Anyway…
- Over the Hedge. Caci LOVED this one. It was pretty cute.
e gigantic parties with no space to even breathe just gives me severe anxiety—I can’t stand the chaos and disorganization. So, while Trevor was gone, Jace and I carved pumpkins. It was SO cute because Jace sat right next to me while I cleaned the pumpkin out and he ate the raw pumpkin flesh as if it were sliced apple. Too cute. Then I got him in his giraffe Halloween costume and I went crazy with my stage makeup and made myself into a fabulous skeleton. Oh, by the way, I am taking a stage makup class next semester and I get to do the makeup in some of the major BYU productions!!! I am so excited! Anyway, finally Trevor came home so we went to Blockbuster to get a scary movie. However, procrastinators never get good movies. Trevor was dead set on scaring the daylights out of me by making us watch “The Ring” or “It” or something equally as disturbing with all the windows and doors open. I HATE scary movies and Trevor LOVES them but only because I hate them so bad, so I was elated when we went home empty handed (our only choices were Gremlins and Mary-Kate and Ashley’s Scare Sleepover). Trevor had to check on some stuff at the party so we all went but Jace and I stayed in the car while Trevor ran in. The only words to describe it would be complete chaos. There were like 4,000 people jammed into this little house and the acre property it was on and they were trying to get in the house by climbing on the roof and trying to go through the windows and lifting eachother in and people dancing like crazy people oh my heck I just locked the car doors and had an anxiety attack because of the chaos. Trevor finally came back and we went home and ate all of our Halloween candy (basement apartments don’t get very many trick-or-treaters) and I had a fabulous time doing my face into various monsters. We didn’t get to spend much time together but it was still fun and Jace was ADORABLE in his little costume! 
. Tomorrow there is going to be a “Honk and Wave” at the stadium to gain support from the fans going to the BYU v. Colorado State football game. I think it will be a lot of fun! It was WAY fun to be there with other Ron Paul activists and to feel like we were doing something for our country. EVERYONE! THIS IS IMPORTANT! On November 5th there is going to be a huge collection for Ron Paul’s campaign. He is trying to raise the most money in a single day in the history of campaigning so everyone DONATE! Even if it is just minimal, everything adds up. Be a part of something big! Help the country regain control of the constitution!
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