Hayley's Life in Pictures: October 2012

Sunday, October 28, 2012

So.... a few days ago, I noticed something in the corner of my windshield that looked super gross. I concluded it was some sort of bug. This is a picture. It's super fuzzy because I was too afraid to get too close :P EW.

I nominated John to remove the disgusting thing. He discovered it was a dragonfly that was trying to climb up into my car between the dashboard and the windshield and got stuck and died there. This thing was easily the size of my middle finger. It was pretty big and hugely absolutely disgusting. John thought it was cool.... :P

Mason and Jordan invited me and a couple other people over to their place for lunch! Apparently, its a Halloween/Fall tradition for Mason to prepare Pumpkin Stew and Mexican Dead Bread for the group. They made a ton so I was one of the few invited over to share the experience. It was delicious! I was very impressed with Mason's skills. (that's Dooley in the background)

Lauren and I had John and Scott over for dinner! We made a Blackened Chicken with Cilantro Lime Rice and Avacado dressing dish we found on Pinterest. It was absolutely delicious :)

It was followed by card games and magic tricks. I lost every single one of them... :P

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Went on a blind lunch-date to Zupas today after work! It was delicious, and the date was pretty good :) His name was Tyler- he was a freshman at UVU and a girl in my ward set me up with him.

After the date, I went and played soccer with by Peruvian friend Cesar (aka Papi or Fancy Feet) and a random group of people. We played for 2.5 hours! It was the second time I had ever played soccer and it was a blast :) I want to get better. Needless to say, my legs were pretty sore the next day!

Went on a huge group date with Scott tonight! A bunch of his friends from back home planned it. We played extreme musical chairs, messed around with some noodle-swords and foam footballs, and had an absolute BLAST! It was a really fun group :) And no, I'm not even going to try and go through to name all these people.... :P

Afterwards, we went and hung out at one of the guys' houses and had home-made apple pie for dessert (with Tillamook Huckleberry ice cream... HEAVEN). His family had a mini band room downstairs, and we rocked out to some tunes and played ping-pong (I won Around The World, by the way. Papa would be so proud :))

Then we went and played 4-Square, which none of us had played since elementary school! Luckily, my skills came back quickly. It was super fun! ....until the cops came by and told us to quiet down. So we had to play in silence the rest of the night.... which was even more hilarious :)

Scott and I

Friday, October 26, 2012

I had to go to my first doctor's appointment for my mission papers today. Oh joy... :P I got poked and prodded and had to pee in a little cup! I'm pointing to the site of my blood draw with the arm that got poked with some sort of TB Test I think? I was really worried about the blood draw (I told the guy I was really nervous and then felt super stupid when he asked what my major was.... Nursing... haha bet ya couldn't guess that one!) But the blood draw was actually a great deal more pleasant than the TB Test was. Seriously. It was like a walk in the park! I'd take blood draw to any other shot ever :)

Lauren, John, and I made Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

Lauren took a picture of me dancing in the kitchen. I was a little hyper tonight...

John, Scott and I adventuring around Provo! Tried to find dances and parties, but found nothing we wanted, so eventually we ended up eating some appetizers at Applebee's for half-price

Scott and I have matching Vans. What bosses...

Matching shoes! ...except mine are way cooler... and way smaller....

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Farmer's Market adventure with John! I bundled up cause it was super cold and a good excuse to wear my winter stuff :)

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Snow on Y Mountain! Overcast skies! Fall colors are dimming! Winter's a-comin!

John and I went hot-tubbing tonight, and it was awesome and super warm in the cold weather

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Hot tubing after work with Brett and Grant! But Grant left early with his girlfriend... :P Oh well, it was fun :)

Monday, October 22, 2012

Fall Colors :)

I spent all afternoon just booking it through my mission papers. I got a little addicted- I couldn't stop! I was even late to FHE because I refused to stop until I had finished... Which I did :) So all I'm waiting on now is my Doctor's signature and Dentist approval! And I have appointments for those in the next week :) It's official- I'm going on a mission, and I couldn't be any happier with the direction of my life right now.

Apparently I'm not the only one who is excited about it. According to the Stake President, within a week of the announcement, 200 papers were turned in for our Stake... 3 of which were men. And here is another statistic that has been floating around articles and the news and FB:

Kind of crazy, huh?

Me:

... you could say I'm pretty gosh-darned excited

Sunday, October 21, 2012

This is John, Lauren and I driving home from a Stake Dating Fireside....

Go forth and get married!!!

...oh BYU.... :) It was good, though :)

Saturday, October 20, 2012

John and I drove up to Cottonwood Heights in Salt Lake to meet up with Lauren (who went up to Salt Lake for the night) and hang out with John and his family. It was awesome. Saw this car on the freeway and made John take pictures because it's a super good looking car and I wanted to know what it was. Dad... do you know what kind of car this is? I like it :)

I dropped off John and picked up Lauren, and Lauren and I went up to the Park City Outlets :) I got 2 new pairs of Vans on sale for my new winter/fall shoes. YES :)

Then I practiced some Spanish vocab for a while....

John and his brother Scott are starting a business where they will make shirts, hats and shoes. So Lauren and I accompanied them on their journey to Hobby Lobby to get the stuff they needed.

I was so happy about this huge zebra print flower...

Fancy fancy!! :)

Two very stylish and ridiculously good-looking people:

You have never seen two men so happily occupied at Hobby Lobby before in your life... Oh John and Scott... just look at the isle they are in.... haha :) creeper picture!

Future husband picture in front of frames displaying lovey-dovey wedding pictures

SUNSET

John let me copy like a million and one talks/stories from his missionary binder to read

Awesome day with Lauren, Scott and John! :)

Friday, October 19, 2012

Jordan and I went on a lovely little date together with his friend for his friend's birthday! Dinner at Cafe Rio, then Tillamook ice cream and Snow White and the Huntsman back at his friend's place. It was a blast. Movies like that are hilarious if you watch them with the right people! :)

Thursday, October 18, 2012

After work, I was craving some jalapeno popper things I saw on Pinterest (Pillsbury can dough, cream cheese, jalapenos, and bacon wrapped together and heated in an oven. ahh!) But Lauren was gone and my car was at the shop still. So I enlisted John to longboard with me to Macy's to get the ingredients and make them after work :) Yes, they were delicious

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Dropped my car off at the mechanic this morning, bright and early, to get my brakes fixed. Saw this gorgeous sunrise :)

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Ultimate Frisbee game! Katie, Mindy, Me, Lindsay, Megan, Nate, Nick, Chris, Geoff, and Josh! Partay!

Monday, October 15, 2012

This is when the weather starts to get a little more wintery... Overcast all day with slight showers. Luckily later in the day, we saw a rainbow out our dungeon window! And that's my baby off to the right :)

Sunday, October 14, 2012

5-minute visit from the Grandparents as they drove through from Denver to the Teasdale's and up to Grandma's sister's to spend the night!

They dropped off some winter clothes from back home, and this huge box of goodies from Mom :)

Panda. What.

....yeah, my flowers are in the picture on purpose :)

Lauren and I cooking with our dorky hats!

Dinner with John

"Nice Notes" to me from people in the ward from Ward Prayer

The red one reads: "You're so awesome, you know how I know? Chuck Norris told me that's how. From: Take a wild guess"
The blue one: "You're a champ- you may say you just 'woke up' like that, but I really know that you're fighting the criminal underworld by nightfall. But I won't tell no one. -Scott" (Scott from my ward, not Italian Scott)
Purple: "Hayley is a BABE! She rocks. She always makes me laugh and puts a smile on my face"

Whattup. I'm awesome :)

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Gorgeous day, gorgeous mountains!

Lunch date at Pita Pit with John!

Went on an adventure to the Asian market. This is what I got :)

I couldn't get a ticket to the game and couldn't find it online to watch so Scott invited me up to a cabin in Sundance with his family and their family friends visiting from Italy to watch it!

In the cabin, I found the roller coaster of my childhood. I almost died. The following pictures are for my siblings with which I shared many glorious memories with this thing :)

Mom needs a sign like this

DEER

Scott asked me on a quadruple date tonight! We went around the Orem/Lindon area neighborhoods and raked up leaves to put in the back of one guy's truck to have adventures in the fall leaves!