Becky Crocker

Team Gilbert

2012-01-29T10:32:00.001-08:00

Two black shirts, iron-on appliques, and a night out at Sweet Tooth Fairy to show them off. If you don't quite know what they mean, think Anne of Green Gables.

Brownies

2012-01-29T10:30:00.001-08:00

This is a picture of a heavenly brownie from a restaurant down here called Zupas. I attempted to recreate them and took them to a housewarming party two weeks ago. Everyone says they turned out great! I thought they were pretty yummy, too :) I should have taken a picture of the ones I made, but I forgot. Next time I recreate them, I'll snap one.

Christmas Break

2012-01-01T15:27:00.000-08:00

Included are pictures of: Xander falling asleep in my arms, Xander coming at Emily from behind, Xander on a flattened cereal box "sled"/"luge" we pushed him around the living room on, a couple towers Emily and Grandpa built, Emily's gingerbread house ("The Shrieking Shack") and a gingerbread Hogwarts created by Ginanne, her mom, and her sisters, Emily playing Wii Fit alongside her daddy, Xander trying to eat wrapping paper, and Laura and I at the Davenport Hotel. So fun!

Mater

2012-01-01T14:46:00.000-08:00

I took a wrong turn in Orem a few weeks ago and stumbled upon this guy. He keeps watch over McGreen's Christmas tree lot. So when my roommates and I were out looking at Christmas lights, I brought them to visit him. He was the highlight, I think!

Thanksgiving Break

2011-11-26T21:35:00.001-08:00

Downtown with Laura

2011-11-26T21:29:00.000-08:00

I got together with Laura over the Thanksgiving Break. We hadn't seen each other since last Christmas so it was so good to see her in person! We got some Olive Garden, did some window shopping (including our customary BabyGap stop!), and got our picture in front of the giant tree at River Park Square.

Mixing Holidays

2011-11-26T21:23:00.000-08:00

Now that we're over Thanksgiving and getting ready for Christmas, I will post some Halloween pictures :)

Halloween

2011-10-29T16:58:00.001-07:00

I was asked if I was an angry bird, Thing 1, Bart Simpson, and Linus from Peanuts. None of those. I was Calvin. Hobbes and I were playing Calvinball.

Idaho Falls

2011-10-29T16:31:00.000-07:00

Over my fall break I traveled up to Idaho Falls because one of the other teachers on my 2nd grade team was getting married there. She had no idea I was coming, so that was fun to surprise her. I went up on Thursday, October 20 and visited the IF museum. They had a really neat exhibit about WWII. It was cool to see and read about how Americans at home banded together to support troops by buying war bonds, collecting scrap metal, and rationing their food. I just wonder how people today would react if their meat supply was rationed like it was back then. They really knew how to sacrifice for a greater cause. I also saw an MRE chocolate bar from that time period (probably still edible!). It was produced by Hershey and purposefully made so it was not very tasty so the soldiers wouldn't want to eat them. They were energy bars meant to be used only in dire circumstances. Poor guys. Another thing they had was dummy parachuters. The Allies dropped them when they parachuted in real men so it would look like there were more than there really were. They had inner workings that made them catch fire when they landed to destroy evidence that would let the Axis powers know about this secret weapon. There were so many other interesting things, and also some sad things about Germany and the Holocaust, like a package of the poison they used in the gas chambers. I learned a lot.

In the basement of the museum, they had created a street front to look like what Idaho Falls looked like in its early days. The lights would brighten and dim to simulate going from day to night to day, and they had sounds of wagons and carriages. They had a lawyer's office, a dentist, a dress shop, a photographer's shop, a general store, and some other stores with period items in them. There were no labels or anything, it really felt like it was the late 1800s.

Thursday night I went to a session at the Rexburg temple. That temple is my favorite to see at night. Other temples are lit up at night, but the Rexburg temple glows. It seems like the light is coming from inside the temple, rather than just reflecting off its walls. I love it!

Friday morning I walked along the Greenbelt that follows along the Snake River. They have a lot of really cool benches, they call it their "Art you can sit on." I got lunch at the Snakebite Restaurant, so called because it's the "best place to get a bite on the Snake River." I got a bleu cheese burger and fries. I had to get fries while in Idaho, right?!

That afternoon I went to a session at the Idaho Falls temple, and then Diana's reception was that evening. She was very surprised!!! It was so fun.

Saturday morning I went to the Grand Teton Mall, which is pretty small. It is Idaho Falls. But I had fun walking around, and then drove back home to Orem.

Gross Phone

2011-10-29T16:24:00.000-07:00

This is the bathroom in the hotel room in Idaho Falls. I guess so you can call room service at any time. They'd better disinfect this one really well.

What the Alpine Loop SHOULD look like in fall

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Plus an image of Y mountain from our balcony, as the sun is setting. The mountains just glow when the sun sets.

Utahpera

2011-10-15T09:28:00.000-07:00

Last Friday night I joined my friend Allison in Salt Lake for an opera, Fidelio. It was in the capital theater, which was so fun, like a real opera house with chandeliers and the cherub statues above the stage and the balcony seats that come right up next to the stage! It felt pretty fancy! I really enjoyed it, too, opera singers are some of the most talented people in the world, I think. I went up to Salt Lake early because I wanted to beat rush hour traffic, so while I waited for Allison to get off work I visited This is the Place park. There was a statue of a rather spooky character, see if you can guess! And I took a picture of the monument in front of the mountains so you can see how they have been changing color this fall. The camera cannot quite capture how brilliant the colors are, but it will have to do.

P.S.

2011-09-24T19:38:00.001-07:00

I was just looking at the pictures of the Alpine Loop after I posted them and realized that it really doesn't look that colorful. It seemed more colorful in real life! But at least the mountains are green, that's pretty remarkable here in Utah! :)

Alpine Loop

2011-09-24T19:30:00.000-07:00

My roommate Amber and I drove along the Alpine Loop road this afternoon. It is a windy mountain road that curves along Mount Timpanogos, which is just to the north of us here in Orem. It is a beautiful road all summer but now that leaves are changing it is even more remarkable. Really truly breathtaking. Enjoy!

Spokane again!

2011-07-14T15:48:00.001-07:00

I got to visit Spokane one more time this summer to visit the newest addition! He's so cute and so little! I forgot how little babies are when they first come. It was a great visit and, as always, went by much too fast.

Balloon Festival

2011-07-05T10:17:00.001-07:00

Provo always holds a balloon festival early in the morning as part of their Independence Day celebrations. The picture of the balloons all together is a view I captured from my bedroom window. The flag balloon was up in the air but tethered to the ground, and we said the Pledge of Allegiance and listened to the Star Spangled Banner with that as our posted flag. The rest of the pictures you can probably figure out :) I had to get them captured for Jordan. It looked pretty amazing, though I wish I had captured a picture of the basket. I don't know what it looks like, but it would have been cool if the basket part were Star Wars themed, too!

Parade

2011-07-05T10:09:00.000-07:00

I got to be a balloon wrangler in the 4th of July parade again this year! We were on a Fred Flintstone balloon. I told my friend Amanda to imitate him so that's what those pictures are about. There's also one of Fred eating her! I also included a picture of the Missionary Training Center missionaries behind the MTC mission president and his wife in the car. They looked like quite an incredible Army of God and I just had to capture it. The last picture is of a group of Star Wars people (Storm Troopers? can't tell exactly). The parade was a blast!

Ballet Recital

2011-06-18T09:04:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of me and my ballet buddies! We had our recital last Monday and it went really well. My two good friends, Jackie and Kelly Ann, came to watch. It was so nice to have them there!

Attack of the Pillow Pet

2011-06-18T09:03:00.001-07:00

Emily slept over at Grandma and Grandpa Mitchell's while I was home. When I woke up in the morning this is what she looked like. Didn't know those things would bite!

Note from a Student

2011-06-02T21:20:00.000-07:00

New Place

2011-05-21T17:41:00.000-07:00

I recently signed a contract for a new place to live in Orem. It is maybe 3 minutes from work (so beautiful!) and with 3 awesome girls. You can see a picture of the front, the back, and the view from the balcony. When I move in I'll post pictures of the inside, too. I am very excited for a change! I move in July 1.

Milk Carton Community

2011-05-19T16:37:00.000-07:00

I remember when I was in elementary school creating a milk carton community. I wanted to do the same thing with my students this year, although when I was in elementary school we used quart sized milk cartons, and I wanted to scale down. So we used their lunch milk cartons. We had such a good time putting it together and it looks pretty great, too. Complete with a water park, "Games and More" store (one of my students named it that), Krispy Kreme, and even a temple, which they decided to put on it. Welcome to Utah :)

Photobooth is WAY too much fun!

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Easter Fun

2011-04-23T20:19:00.000-07:00

Kelly Ann, Amanda and I dying Easter eggs!

I will learn to keep my real camera with me at all times!!!

2011-03-11T17:23:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of a picture on my cell phone. Not the best! It's a waffle in the shape of Texas. Maran and I made it at the hotel we stayed at Monday morning in Midland, TX. Let me know if YOU'VE ever seen a state-shaped waffle maker! It must be a Texas thing.

One More

2011-03-08T20:26:00.000-08:00

Road Trip Fun

2011-03-08T20:10:00.000-08:00

I had an awesome time this last weekend traveling to Texas with Maran and Courtney! I got to see four new states I'd never seen before (CO, NM, TX, and NV, if you count sitting in the Las Vegas airport "seeing" Nevada-I think I saw enough of the slot machines in the airport, they were everywhere you went and there was a perpetual "ping, ping, ping!" sound all around!). And I had the best time with my sister and niece. It was hard to say goodbye.

You can see some pictures of Courtney in a cute swimsuit Maran got her. And the Cici's pizza sign later on in the blog? I snapped that to show my roommate, Cici :)

Road Trip and Images from Roswell, NM

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Ward...

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...Party!!!

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Whoopie Again :)

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Whoopie Cushions

2011-02-13T08:20:00.000-08:00

Laura gave me an awesome cookbook for Christmas called "Whoopie Pies". It has all sorts of recipes for the cookie and filling part of what some people call globs, some people call sandwich cookies, and what I grew up calling whoopie cushions :) I am not what you would call a fearless baker. In fact, it makes me kind of nervous. But that's why I made some of these cookies last night. I need practice! They were peanut butter cookies with chocolate buttercream frosting. The first two batches did not turn out, only my last batch of 11 turned out. So that made for five cookies loaded up with frosting and one final single cookie that I put all the rest of the frosting on. And yes, I did eat it! My roommates had some and said they were very good. I think they turned out pretty good, too, thank goodness! One (mostly) successful cooking experience for the record books. And to boost my cooking confidence.

Quick (and wonderful) trip home

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Pear Crepes

2011-01-09T09:54:00.000-08:00

Last night my roommates and I made some really yummy crepes with pears wrapped up in the middle and a cream sauce poured on top. I was on crepe making duty, Ann had the cream sauce, and Allie did the pears. Cici had DJ duty :) They were really yummy and it was really fun to spend the night with them, all of us back safe and sound from break.

Christmas Break

2011-01-02T15:59:00.000-08:00

I had a wonderful 2 week break at home. It was just what I needed-I feel rejuvenated now and ready to tackle another semester of school! While at home we did a little sledding, played lots of games, watched TV and movies ("Despicable Me" is a new favorite!), watched Emily and Courtney be super cute (Courtney is an awesome mimic and Emily has the cutest giggle-it is my new quest to someday get her to smile for one of my pictures, she doesn't much like having them taken!), ran errands, did exercise videos in the gym at our church building with Mom, Maran, and some other ladies, and did the typical holiday stuff-looked at Christmas lights, opened presents, went to Grandma's for dinner, and had the best snacks in the entire world completely at my disposal! My will-power kicked in sometimes, but, hey, it's the holidays! Why not enjoy? I also got to have lunch with Laura and Megan. It's lucky our parents all still live in the same city, the three of us are pretty spread out now. All in all, it was an incredible break.

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Thanksgiving Time

2010-11-28T10:23:00.001-08:00

I only wish my battery hadn't died, otherwise I'd have more cute pictures to share!

More Fun

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Courtney is actually "reading" a Book of Mormon in one of these pictures. So cute!

Winter Baby

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Cousins

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There is a picture of Emily asleep in the downstairs library. Can you spot her? :)

A Bear

2010-11-28T10:13:00.001-08:00

My roommate Cici in her gigantic coat that is trimmed with wolf fur, though we call her a bear in it.

Pumpkins!

2010-10-30T07:53:00.000-07:00

My friends Allie, Amy, Cooper and I carved pumpkins yesterday. Mine are the two on the far right. The very far right one is yawning, and it made me yawn while I was carving it! :)

Seattle

2010-10-16T23:47:00.000-07:00

I had a wonderful time this weekend visiting Laura in Seattle. One place we went to was the Chihuly Glass Museum in Tacoma, which was fascinating. I wish I could have taken pictures of the children's artwork gallery. The children drew pictures of the creatures they imagined and then the glassblowers turned their pictures into a piece of glass artwork. It was so neat!

More Glass Museum

2010-10-16T23:40:00.001-07:00

Inside the big silver cone is a place called the Hot Spot where you can watch artists do their glass blowing and create their artworks. It was fascinating!

Whoops!

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I posted before I put in the pictures!

Temple

2010-10-16T23:32:00.000-07:00

Laura and I visited the Seattle temple on Friday night. The best sort of thing you could do on a Friday night.

More Temple and Poulsbo

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Poulsbo

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We visited a town that has a street that looks like an old Norwegian town. We visited a bakery and I got a cute maple donut man! It was a really cute, fun little town.

More Poulsbo and Ferry

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Ferry Ride

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You can see a car riding the ferry, too :)

Smith Tower

2010-10-16T23:13:00.000-07:00

In the cityscape picture on this post, you can see the Smith Tower off to the right. It has the pointed roof. It used to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi! You can see how small it is now in comparison

West Seattle

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Space Needle and something for the boys

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Laura and I visited the Space Needle but we did not go up in it. We visited the gift shop at the bottom and enjoyed it from the outside.

Next to the Space Needle they had a fairgrounds set up. There was a ride with a "burning building" in the middle and firetrucks to ride in going around it. I thought Nolan and Gerret would enjoy it :)

The Seattle Underground

2010-10-16T22:55:00.001-07:00

Laura and I took a tour of the Seattle Underground. It was really neat, I love history! Apparently they had built some buildings after the fire in 1889 and they needed the roads to be higher to avoid high tide so they filled in the land around the buildings up to the second story. So the second story became the first story. This left the first stories of all of these buildings underground. Sadly the people in the city used it as a Red Light district. But what are you gonna do?! We got to see the oldest toilet in Seattle but I did not get a picture of it. They raised their toilets up a few feet because they had really bad sewage problems back then. You would flush the toilet and you would get a really bad back splash of sewage, a foot or two out of the toilet! Gross!!! So they lifted them up a few feet to avoid that. I also learned that at one point they had filled in the roads but the sidewalks next to the buildings were still down at the lower level, about 10 feet below the road. So if you were walking along the sidewalk down below and you needed to cross the street, they had ladders placed at each intersection for you to climb up! Our tour guide was really hilarious so it was a very enjoyable tour.

Hard Rock Cafe

2010-10-16T22:52:00.000-07:00

This picture needs an explanation. Laura and I went to Hard Rock Cafe for lunch on Thursday and they did not cook my burger all the way through. It was VERY pink. So I sent it back for them to redo it and the chef came out and apologized profusely for mixing it up and felt so bad. He said he would do it right this time and make it up to me. When he brought the burger back out he had created this tower of the toothpick flags and it was sticking up out of the burger! It was awesome! Then he knelt down to present it to me and said he was sorry again and I told him it was perfectly fine. He more than made up for it. It was really sweet!

Things Along the Water

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Pike Place Market

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Cutie Courtney

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She's got a messy face. Rather endearing :)

Saturday

2010-09-19T17:35:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Allie and I went to meet our friend Pyper at the IKEA store about 30 minutes north of us. It was pretty cool to walk through all their showrooms. They had my dream kitchen. I've always kind of dreamed of black cupboards, and they had offset it well with a bright white tile backsplash that kept it from being too dark. I loved it! We got lunch there, and then some goodies. They had cookies called Ballerina!!! So I had to get them. I ate the hazelnut chocolate bar today. After that we went to Allie's sister and brother-in-law's to visit them and their little girl, Baby O. That's what we call her :) She's pretty cute!

Allie's Party

2010-09-19T17:30:00.000-07:00

So for my roommate Allison's birthday, she wanted to go to this hip little lounge/restaurant in Provo. It is a completely non-alcoholic place, perfect for BYU students, so we all dressed up and went and got mocktails. Mine was a double berry martini. It was pretty sweet. Very "swanky", as Allie would say.

Random Old Picture

2010-09-19T17:29:00.001-07:00

Just found this on my camera, from like a month ago, a bunch of ward friends all squished around a table for Sunday lunch.

Water Balloon Fight

2010-08-31T20:42:00.001-07:00

So I took part in that world record breaking water balloon fight a month ago and they were filming a music video during it. Well, guess who shows up in the music video?! Me!!! I just found it on youtube, it's called You Always Make Me Smile. I found the official music video for it and then I was about 1 minute 34 seconds into it. It's so awesome, I'm on the left and my friend Amanda is getting hit in the middle and my friend Averyl is laughing on the right. Check it out!

Friends

2010-08-30T17:44:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday I joined my two visiting teachees from over the summer up in Salt Lake. One of them, Kara, was going through the temple and had invited both Elise and I to be there. Then that night I came back home to Provo and had roommate bonding time :) We took a few pictures before this one that turned out and every time I had cut myself out of the picture! Finally we got a good one with Allie's help! They are all three the best ever. I just wish I saw them more, it feels like I am always gone teaching or at school or at a church meeting. And when I come home I sleep! So it was good to be together Saturday night.

Manti

2010-08-12T09:02:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I joined some ward friends for a trip down to the Manti temple for a session. It was absolutely beautiful. I tried to find out which sealing room Mom and Dad were married in. Mom said she remembered it was very blue. Well, first of all, they redecorated the sealing rooms in 1985, five years after they were married, and second of all, they were all blue! So I don't know which one was it exactly but it was neat to see them all. They were so exquisite. We stopped at a McDonald's in Provo before heading down to Manti and then stopped at a McDonald's in Ephraim after the temple session! I guess it's Dallas' tradition to stop and get hot chocolate at McDonald's after every Manti temple trip, even though this is only his third trip. Funny how traditions take hold so fast!

Garden and Seven Peaks

2010-08-12T08:39:00.000-07:00

A conglomeration of two events here. I have pictures of the garden I grew with some friends in the ward, we have beans and tomatoes and strawberries and carrots, plus peppers, cucumbers, and squash ready for the picking! It's been so neat to eat out of our garden, we're going to have a squash dinner on Sunday because they're starting to come out of our ears, we have so much! The other picture is of me and my teacher friend Cherise at Seven Peaks water park. We got free day passes from our school so we decided to use them together.

Up a Mountain

2010-08-12T08:33:00.000-07:00

One week ago I joined 3 friends for a hike up Y mountain. After we had made it to the Y we kept on going up the mountain! Up and into a little canyon in between Y mountain and the one next to it. It was so beautiful, we made it to a really pretty meadow where butterflies and dragonflies were flying all around and there were pine trees that made me think of Washington. There was an aspen grove where lots of people had carved things, Alyssa found her brother's name carved in a tree! We saw a carving that was dated from 1984 (sounds ancient, huh?!). Alyssa found a giant dandelion that she made a wish on and then blew. Amanda climbed a big boulder that she named Pride Rock, and she and Dallin both lay upside down on the Y so there are pictures of that, too. We had a blast and felt very accomplished for having literally climbed a mountain!

Up a Mountain Take 2

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Up a Mountain Take 3

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Up a Mountain Take 4

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Oh, and one more thing

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I brought my camera to Pullman with me when we visited Zach and completely forgot to take a picture with him. Next time, I guess!

Utah and Washington #1

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I had a great time :) I don't have time right now to write all about it, it is almost Institute time! But I will say this...I love my family!!!

#2

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#3

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#4

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The Big Day

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Yesterday was the big day-my birthday! I turned 24 and I had exactly 24 people come together for dinner at Mimi's Cafe! It was perfect, and then I got 24 donuts at Krispy Kreme and we went to a park in Orem for Orem Days where we watched fireworks (of course we all joked that the fireworks were really all for me!). It was a fantastic day! Enjoy the pictures.

Happy Birthday

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Birthdays are Fun

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12th of June

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June 12

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Day of Birth

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Bon Anniversaire

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Feliz Cumpleanos

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Birthday

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Up with Maran, Devin and Courtney Take 2

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I went up to St. Anthony this last week for a brief but very worthwhile visit with Maran, Devin and Courtney. Courtney is a bundle of fun, I just love how her little face crinkles up when she smiles! Enjoy the pictures!

Up with Maran, Devin and Courtney

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Potato Country

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Idaho

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Murder Mystery Dinner

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Last night I attended a Murder Mystery Dinner with some friends in my ward. I got to pretend I was a big business woman, Katie Tuttle, who had worked my way up the corporate ladder. I wore heels and my nice pants and a button up shirt and carried my briefcase around all night. (I just described it to you because there is no picture of it!) I had a blast, it was so fun to pretend to be someone else and to see everyone else being crazy things like a sitcom star, a famous writer, a nerdy computer guy, a stay-at-home mom, a doctor, a librarian, a business man, and the "mom and dad" of the group. Then we watched "Clue" to end the evening. Fitting, isn't it?

Courtney...

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...and more Courtney...

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...and my favorite temple :)

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