napa bike ride

The latest Crowley activity... Carol Beckmeyer is in the hospital with a concussion. These women had trouble crossing the railroad tracks. All the women went down in one pile. Carol was unconscious. Your mother broke her arm and has four stitches. Other than that, the trip was great. Dinner in St. Helena.

Cinnamon Rolls!

Cinnamon Rolls is our General Conference tradition. We have them for breakfast on Sunday. It's a great tradition! My roommate Emily's mom would make tons and tons of cinnamon rolls for the Sunday afternoon

session of conference and all their kids would invite everyone they wanted
to come eat cinnamon rolls and listen to the
last session of conference. It was a lot of fun, especially since they have 10 kids, so that was a lot of people and a lot of cinnamon roll consumption!

I thought that was a very cool way for her parents to encourage watching General Conference together and to enjoy some grubbin' cinnamon rolls, so we now enjoy cinnamon rolls on General Conference Sunday (just us- maybe when our kids our older we'll invite people over to enjoy them too, but for now Rod's a little possesive of them. He insisted I not give half of them away to people like I did last conference).

Also to help the kids be good so we could actually enjoy conference, they did some pumpkin painting with watercolors. Lizzie felt very grown up to

be doing what she's only watched Caitlin doing before.

Also, a side note, our Primary Program was last Sunday (I was in charge this year) and it went great! Ok, so that's mostly before the music was awesome, the kids really did a great job, but there were no last minute disasters or anything like that. And all the kids who had talks did great! I was seriously impressed with the kids public speaking abilities. One of the moms told me she was telling her daughter she did a good job, but she should have looked up more. Her daughter says, "But mom, she said we only had to look up twice!" Which is true, I told the kids giving talks to try to look up twice while they were speaking. Apparently she thought I meant it as a absolute number, no more, no less!

Where are you?

Okay, so I was noticing that we havne't had a post for a while from Carrie and -shocker- Mom and Dad! It's NOT hard mom! :) I know, I know, sometimes there's just nothing that exciting to add. Let's see....Audrey has been doing good in the bathroom department, Devon is LOVING Cub Scouts, Cameron is one of the best reader in his class (according to his teacher) and Alex is still eating, sleeping and pooping (now that's what I'm talking about!) Troy is super busy with his intership and fish....and I am just busy doing mom stuff. Although Beverly and I did go shopping today!

general conference

Me and Em had a great time at conference! One of the best things was on our way into the conference center- there were protesters like usual, but there was this guy dressed in red and black with a pitchfork, saying (referring to the protestors) "hello....i am satan. these are my street preachers."


Anyway, I really enjoyed Elder Ballard and Elder Holland's talks. It was an interesting theme this afternoon. And then Elder Wirthlin was very touching. I'm always impressed with how humble he is. Well, I hope you are all having a great weekend! See some of you soon!

Smiles from Alex!

Here are finally a few smiley pictures of Alex! He is a very sweet baby and I am really enjoying him. I just hold and snuggle him while the other ones yell at me and tell me they hate me.....so I am truly enjoying him before he turns to the dark side! We are really excited to see mom, dad, Kate, and Trav next week. Sorry we don't live closer to you Carrie or Em, we'll miss you :(

Girls Night!

Here are some of my friends in Sunnyside, the girl on the end next to me and I planned a surprise birthday party for our friend (sitting in the middle) who turned 30. It was a lot of fun...The only hangup was when I talked to her husband about it being a surprise, I made it clear that it was for GIRLS, he decided to join too-So it was us and then one man who apparently didn't mind having dinner with a bunch of women. Weird....Troy would rather have his eyes poked with needles than go to that!

Later this month is another birthday, and we are going to have a spa-themed party while we watch The Bachelor :) and eat Bon Bons!

Emily The ART major!!

ok, so currenlty my major is a BA in Art with an emphasis in Art History and a minor in Humanities. So you're probably thinking Emily, what the heck, you are not an artist, why are you majoring in art? Well, let me explain myself. There is a humanities Europe trip next spring. They go all over Europe basically for a month. This trip is precisly the think i've been looking for, it seems like it'd be perfect for me. So, i need to turn in my application and a letter of intent but i know that my chances of being accepted are higher if my major has something to do with this trip. So, i'm not telling a falsehood, it's just that i'm really never going to be an art major, but i kinda need it to make it look like this trip will help with my career. Is that wrong?.....Well, i find out the beginning of November if i'm accepted or not, after i find out if i can go or not i will probaby change my major/minor. I'm leaning towards a minor in Biology, so i can start swinging towards marine biology but as for my major there are too many things i like. But i'm taking a career exploration class and that is proving useful! so, i just though you'd all like to know what my dreams are!!! The winter semester is sill up in the air as far as what i'm going to do. My options are going home and working, staying up here and working and taking some night classes, moving in with kate (she dosn't know this yet) and working, heck moving in with anyone and working!!! i know everyone would just LOVE to have emily for four months!! haha..well if you have any free time and you want to learn more about this trip i'm talking about the website is www.byui.edu/travelprograms/humanities well i love you all! brooke, when i called devon on his birthday i can't believe how old he sounds! haha brett was with me and he said hi to devon and dev said, 'ben?' haha i thought it was really funny..