alive.

Don't worry folks, we are alive. The last few weeks have brought sickness (my first sick day in years), lot of work and homework for André and lots and lots of work for me. This week was our biggest conference of the year with most of our biggest donors on campus and I found myself working 15 hour days nearly every day. Poor André was forced to do his stats homework and eat frozen pizza all by himself. It was a good experience and I learned a lot, but I couldn't help but be glad this happens just once a year.
We are excited to have (most of) our evenings back together.
But not to worry, we have done some fun things in the last little bit:

 went to a taping of the BYU football pre-game show and watched the game on the big screen

dressed up as the Incredibles for Halloween for our rocking ward party. I even made these owl cupcakes from Pinterest and they were a big hit.

Had a cider and games night with some friends. We ate way too much sugar and had too much fun.

Snow is falling in the mountains and André's midterms are picking up. We sure are excited for the rest of fall and holidays with our families!

autumn weekend

why, hello indian summer! with the weather so beautiful and warm this week, we decided to take a jaunt to Payson for a fall farm fest. It felt like we were crashing a kids birthday party at somebody's house, but it sure was a lot of fun

 I found a cute pink tractor. I was ready to trade in our car right then and there, but André said no.

 

He went for the biggest tractor he could find.

We also bought pumpkins for our doorstep and watched some cows chow down and got some free cookies on our way home

Happy fall from the Kaisers!

a little taste of what I do at work...

I've written things for the alumni magazine before, but the issue that came out this week was my first under the assistant editor title.

A sampling of my contributions:

Check out the rest of the magazine (it's fabulous if I do say so myself) here

André's first attempt at blogging

Last Friday we went to my mission reunion.  It was fun to see the Murrays and many of my companions and good friends.  It was quite comical when one of my companions and I discovered that we were wearing the same ensemble.  Michelle enjoyed getting to put faces to some of the stories I've told her about my mission.

 Having just got a new position at the MTC and some new hours this Saturday was the first Saturday evening that we've been able spend together since May.  We celebrated by riding horses, doing a scavenger hunt, getting ice cream and watching BYU dominate San Jose State.  Go Cougs and go Shelly, she is a natural equestrian!

practically famous

It's been a few days the Kaisers.

On Monday our picture was in the Daily Universe

(can you find us down at the bottom?)

And today we found out we were on ESPN during a football game a few weeks ago, happy faces and all.

People will be lining up for our autographs soon. Don't worry, our people will call your people.