Thanksgiving

The 5K Turkey Run!Katelyn got our whole family to run in a 5k. It was really cold when we started out, but warmed up when we were out of the shade and actually moving.
My parents were the ones taking the pictures, and bumped into Cami.



Thanksgiving at Little America. One of the Crowther family favorites. Later we went over to the Gunderson's to have an amazing traditional turkey dinner. Mary is a wonderful cook and made everything taste amazing. One of my favorites is the sweet potato with pecan crust, YUM!

Thanks Grandpa!


First night of Christmas lights on Temple Square.
Liz and Nick, they brought the delicious roasted almonds. Its like a Christmas classic.
Cami and Brett came too. We were happy to go with them and drink some hot chocolate after. Best hot chocolate I ever tasted was at Hatch's Family Chocolates.
The Whoville Christmas tree at Gateway. You just feel like holding everyone's hand and break out in the 'fah who dor reh' song.
Later in the week Ken let us try on some of his flights suits. Jarom was trying them on for real, but I just wanted to join in the fun. I'm glad they have a blue flight suit!

Sunburn for the eyes

This is after the third day of absolutely no light. My eyes may not look that red, but two days ago you wouldn't have been able to even tell I had eyes. I burned my eyes with UV light. You may ask, "what were you doing, in a tanning bed?" No. I was not in a tanning bed. I burned my eyes in my lab running a DNA gel and looking at all the pretty colors. Yes, they were mesmerizing. Who would have thought I would have burned the whites of my eyes to the point where I couldn't see and go to the hospital for some aloe vera for the eyes (basically eye drops but they told me that if I used them more than once they would melt my eyes).
Most wouldn't know that your eyeballs could get burned, but yes it is possible. Because I have light blue eyes I tell people its like having fair skin and therefore burn easily. They could barely believe my story in the hospital at 3 am.
We had to go at 3 am because just like a sunburn, it didn't set in until later that night until finally I couldn't stand it anymore.
My eyes are back to normal now and now I just have more motivation to invent SUNSCREEN FOR THE EYES.
Ok yes sunglasses would work, but in cases where you loose and break many pairs a nice set of clear eyes with sunscreen would work perfectly!don't you just want to look at it too?

Halloween Time

Thriller!!!
Pretty freaky huh? Ya these girls made my mom scream at the top of her lungs. I jumped too when the girl jump over me and onto my chair.
It was a lot of fun to have Mary come with us! Too bad Ken couldn't come...one of these times...
Thriller was amazing as usual!
At Zions Bank we dressed up. We were supposed to be Ute fans.
I was the hotdog at the Ute game. Tyler said I could borrow it if I stitched up the sleeve that was coming loose. When I was opening an account the clients couldn't take me seriously...what isn't serious about a hotdog.

Katelyn was embarrassed when she went to pick up her two brothers dressed up as a teletubby and a hotdog.
Kate the Cat. When Katelyn was little she had a dream she was Catwoman and headbutted someone. Come to find out the next morning there was a dent in her wall the perfect size of her head. She said she had a headache that morning too.
What is different about this picture?
I scared little kids for Halloween while Jarom spent Halloween with me on the webcam. There were a couple of kids that wouldn't even come up to the door. I didn't think I was that scary. I mean, I didn't try that hard.
I'm pretty sure it was the other witch.
My family carving pumpkins.

First one done, that is why you choose the little pumpkin.
Tyler the Grandpa. Jordan the goofy Dad. Becky the little vampire. Katelyn the clown baby. Dad the devilish Uncle. What a wonderful family!

Its official!

Jarom is going to be a Naval Aviator just like this one... We are going to move to Pepsi Cola, Florida

which is right here

The move won't happen until next year probably fall so you've got us around for a while.

Jarom and my fall break

You're lookin' at the next g-unit:
next to a life sized bull made out of red bull cans, made by an 18 year old kid
by an octopus,
a little New York love,
and you can't forget good old bobby the robot.
The Solar Decathlon was being presented on the mall that weekend. Maybe not the best day to try and sell America on solar power...
I never got to go to the top of the Washington Monument when I went on my internship and we thought it would be fun to go. Right when we got inside everyone was yelling and telling us they are NOT getting back on that elevator. Apparently the elevator wasn't working properly and the people started to not feel very comfortable with it knowing they will be going up about 555'5". We decided we would risk it.Luckily we made it to the top and back to the bottom.
The WWII memorial and the Lincoln memorial could be seen out of this window. a little foggy, but still visible.

The Life of a Midshipman

This is what they do everyday at lunchtime. They have a formation and march into lunch. There are 4,000 of them so this was way cool to watch. Once they all went inside I got to go eat lunch with Jarom and his crew (aka company). I was the only person there with my hair down and not in a uniform...so I didn't really fit in and got a lot of stares. The next time I went into lunch I tried to wear black to blend in a little better, but Jarom just laughed and said, "nope still don't fit in". I wasn't meant to be cut out for the Naval Academy. They have lots of fun traditions though and I got to be a part of them. I 'rated' a plebe. A plebe is a freshman, and I rated him by asking how long he has been in the Navy. They have all these little jigs (or poems, but I am sure they wouldn't call them that there) and when you ask them a question they have to give you an answer. On Fridays they have joke days where you bang on the table to get everyone's attention and tell your joke. I unfortunately lost my voice so Jarom told my 'your mama's so fat joke.' Its a good one. Because Jarom is a 'firstie' (or a senior, I had to learn this whole new language so bear with me as you learn too) he can walk by the windows where there isn't a lot of traffic to get to his table. This is one of the many privileges you get when you have been at that school for three years. He gets to wear his khaki uniform since he is a firstie while the other midshipmen have to wear their dress blues, which is their black uniform.

The midshipmen before eating lunch. This is part of Jarom's company at lunchtime. They ate in 15 min flat! I wasn't even finished with my lemonade before the whole table cleared out. That's how efficient they are. The are served their meals and they leave their plates at the table to be cleared off. It sounds like the best way to eat a meal. They are called The Princes of the Navy...

I tried to get a picture with him in each of his uniforms that week.
This lounge area is for midshipmen and their guest only. There is red rope cutting off the outside world from the midshipmen which reminded me of the red rope in restored homes like Washinton's, where everyone stares as the walk by. It was a privilege to be on the other side of that red rope where we just looked back!









We tried to get the Utah flag in the background, but ended up getting Texas...figures, everything is bigger in Texas.


We went to the museum at the Naval Academy and we saw class rings starting from the early 1900's and dating to today. There was also ships made out of bones prisoners would make in their free time (which they had a lot of).




This is what Jarom does, aeronautical engineering. Wow...ya know what you are thinking. That is hard to say and spell let alone do. He's very smart and even helps me with all my basic physics, which is a piece of cake for him. This is a wind tunnel where they test their models.


The Naval Academy is beautiful. This is a picture I took on the bridge that overpasses a river.