Jeff and Diana Harris

Because this is my senior year in college, all of my friends wanted to take pictures. One of my friends, Polly, is graduating in December and moving to Oregon with her husband AJ for a company called Deloitte, so we decided to take the pictures last week. Over the last year, Polly has been one of my best friends. I met her spring semester and she has been there for me ever since. We would study together and Jeff and I would sometimes hang out with Polly and her husband AJ over the weekend playing games and having dinner nights. Polly is amazing and was sweet enough to take me to the hospital when I found out the morning of I was going to have surgery. She stayed with me till Jeff arrived and I was blessed to have her with me. Natalie and Courtney have also been amazing friends and I am so happy I have had them to talk to when I needed them. I am going to miss them when I graduate. Polly and I

Here is the final product……

Jeff and I decided to get a Christmas Tree this year even though we will only be able to enjoy it for two weeks. We rearranged our apartment so we would have a perfect place for it. I thought getting a small tree would be lame, but after putting it on a little table I thought it turned out quite nicely. I was going to pick colorful lights, but I just love how white lights look on Christmas Trees. We also were going to buy ornaments, but none of them had hooks, which was odd. So my first assumptions was they are now making customers buy them separately, but I still couldn’t find the hooks, so Jeff and I gave up and decided to just stick with the lights. I love the smell and now our apartment looks, feels, and smells like Christmas. I am so excited to go to California and spend Christmas with my family this year.

How I love date nights! Jeff and I had a date night on Friday and we had a lot of fun. After a long day at school and work we took the TRAX downtown and saw the Temple Square Christmas Lights. The lights were so pretty and Jeff and I felt like Buddy the Elf running around looking for the biggest Christmas tree with the brightest lights. Jeff showed me the paper lanterns of all the different languages and I had to take a picture with the Japanese lantern. ; ) After Temple Square, we took the TRAX to the gateway and ate dinner before going to the Jazz game. Sadly the Jazz lost, but it was still a lot of fun. And the best part of all...... we didn’t have to drive through traffic after the game. We just ran and jumped on the TRAX (literally, we almost missed it) and went home.

Diana taught several students in ASUU how to do the thriller dance from the original Michael Jackson movie for their Halloween contest.  Here is the video (they won first place).  Skip to 3:50 seconds to see the dance.  Diana is slightly covered, but she is in the front row in the middle behind "Michael."

Last weekend, Jeff and I were invited to a murder mystery dinner at Dan and Jillian's home in Logan. It was a western/pioneer theme (as you can tell from the pictures) and each of us had a character to play. Jeff's name was Elias Truist-Heath (hence, He lies through his teeth) and my name, Elvira-Lynn Fekshin (hence, I infect people.....). Dan was Wyatt Hertz (Why it hurts) and Jillian was Dee Adela Muerte (Dia De La Muerte, a Mexican Widow). There were two other couples there and there character names were, Butch Chastity, Chief Breaking Wind, P'elvis Swagarin, and Helena Handcart. It was tons of fun, despite the pain I was in. I ended up being the killer, which was obvious from the very beginning.

On August 31st, Jeff took me to my first real outdoor concert. As you can tell by the title of this post it was John Mayer and he was amazing. He played at the Usana Amphitheater and because we arrived so early we were able to get great seats. We bought lawn tickets, so it was first come first serves. We brought a huge blanket and played cards until the concert started. The opening band was Owl City and they are known for their song "fireflies." Owl City songs weren't the greatest, but they weren't that bad either. Most of the songs you could tell the band wasn't playing, but I found out later that the main singer actually created the music himself in his basement with his computer before he added the band. It definitely is better listening to them on the radio then watching them.

Anyways, when John Mayer came out it was awesome. He is definitely worth see Live and it was worth every penny. The only down fall was it was a lot colder than we expected and it would have been a lot better if we weren't sitting next to people smoking marijuana. It smelled awful.

Overall, great concert!!

Here are some pictures. Enjoy! :)

Last weekend we visited the largest open pit mine in the world: Kennecott Copper Mine.  It was pretty cool.  I was mainly impressed with the massive size of the dump trucks.  Here is a picture of an actual tire.

Jeff and I have been so bad at blogging lately, so I decided to make a goal for myself to blog about certain events that have happened since the last time we blogged, which was October. Sad, I know. So I am going to start with January and go from there.