Karaoke

We went to a surprise birthday party a few weeks ago for a friend in the ward. Turns out he loves karaoke and is HILARIOUS to watch. Everyone else at the party gave it a shot too.


Mackenzie on the far left helped me stay on key, because she actually knows how to sing. Tess in the striped shirt is the birthday boys husband and is absolutely hilarious herself. Catherine in the red shirt hosted the party at her house and has a signiture dance move you can't miss. Katie on the right sang a duet with me. Steph in the black and her husband (not pictured) just moved in to the ward too and he is our home teacher. Julie Lamb with the short blonde hair is so fun and is my visiting teacher. We went to her house for Halloween.

Ben had his chance at stardum with the mens group performance. All I have to say is Ben is HOT!

Spence School Carnival

Ben and I went to the Spence Elementery School Carnival a few weeks ago. I signed up well in advance so that we would be working a booth that both Ben and I would have fun at. I chose the basketball shoot because Ben loves baskeball and I knew he wouldn't get bored (which actually never would happen anyways, because he is so fun with kids). As you can see by the picture, the demographics of the school are a bit different than what we are both used to. This is the school I work at and I absolutely love the kids. Some of the kids came to our booth multiple times after not making baskets the first few times, or came back because they made so many baskets they knew they were good at it and would win a prize.

Ben had so much fun watching the kids get so excited to make a basket. I had fun showing Ben off to all my coworkers. We were told all day long that we look like brother and sister, which isn't something new to hear for us.

Texas High School Football

Friday night we went to the Aldine Sr. high (where Ben student teaches) vs. Kingwood high school football game. We couldn't have asked for a better date night! It was incredible!!!

Some of the things I was in shock about, and thus took pictures of were: 1. The stadium looked almost like a college stadium. 2. The scoreboard had a screen on it for instant replay. 3. The marching band of the opposing team was the biggest in the region with 280 members plus a color guard (dance team). 4. At half time the teams ran out of blown up helmets (one even had smoke coming from it). 5. We were 2 of the only 10 white people on our side, while the opposing team was ALL white.

Texas Trunk or Treat

Ben and I dressed up like Samoans for the ward Trunk or treat last week. We had so much fun!!!!! Ben was a hit with his ukelele skills. Our little friend Paul from Russia (who is a genious, by the way) really loves Ben and was by his side learning from Ben how to play some ukelele.

Also by our side were our friends the Parkers. Alex and Cathrine are our good friends who we go on double dates with. We ran out of candy and they were so great to give us some of theirs.

We loved seeing all of the kids costumes, and even some of the parents. Our favorite was Obi-won-kanobi and yoda. Others that we liked were the zoo keepers and their animals, noah and his wife and their animals and we even saw a whoopi cushion. Fun times!!!