Festival of Trees

Last weekend we went to the Festival of Trees in Sandy. I think this is the third year we've gone. We love it! Primary Children's Hospital puts it on. People decorate gorgeous Christmas trees, often dedicated to a lost loved one who was treated at Primary Children's, and donate them, and then other people buy them to raise money for the hospital. It is something I support, and everything there-the ticket price, the activities and treat sales- goes toward the hospital; I love going. It always puts me in the Christmas spirit. We had a great time.

The obligatory picture by the all-penguin tree (penguins were my favorite animal growing up)

















One of my favorite trees. I love the colors!

















We even made Santa Faces! (we were probably the only ones in the kids section without an actual kid)

So I was looking through some old yearbooks and I found some pictures. It is funny to think that this is what we looked like in high school.

Jimmy Joe 1978


Joanna 1960


Davey 1968


April 1964


Jimmy Joe 1970 (or is that Dad?)

Chem-E Car Philly Trip

So for those of you who don't know, I was on the Chemical Engineering car team. We went to Nationals in Philadelphia to compete with our car. All the finalists from the nation were there. We ended getting about 10th place out of 35, but we were fine with that because we got a free trip to Philadelphia. So here is a slide show of my trip. I loved Philadelphia. I got to see the beginnings of our nation. My favorite part of the whole trip was being able to be in the same room where our Forefathers first wrote the Declaration of Independence declaring our independence from England. Then after the Revolutionary war with George Washington sitting at the head, the constitution was written and signed in that same room. It was such an amazing feeling to be in the same room where the American government was invented by men like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, James Madison, and 37 other representatives from the 13 original colonies. We also had a chance to go to the church built in 1727 where George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would go to church every Sunday. America and Chemical Engineering rocks!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Halloween

I realized that I never posted pictures from Halloween, so here they are. We had a lot of fun this year! For our ward Halloween party, I dressed up as a ladybug and Jimmy Joe dressed as a pirate. Those tats look pretty real on his arm. He was pretty proud. We came up with our costumes one hour before the party, at Honk's the local dollar store. That's the best way to do it!

Here we are we the fabulous pumpkins we carved. Many of you may not know, but Jimmy Joe proposed the same day that we carved pumpkins for Halloween 2006 (no pumpkins were involved however). Anyways, just a bit of Orgill trivia.













At the Ward party. We won a dish scrubber in the cake walk. It was very exciting!


















I even won the Best Idea award, judged by our Bishop.

















In the above picture we are in the car going from the ward party to Witches Night Out (WNO) at Gardner Village in West Jordan. We left the Ward party a tad early to get to it while it was still going. It was a very Halloween-icious night. The most exciting part- among probably 500 people, I won a pound of fudge at WNO! I got to go to the candy shoppe at Gardner Village and pick out whatever flavors I wanted. It was pretty much my dream come true. At the BYU Bookstore fudge counter, when I'd walk by, I'd always ogle and wish, and a few times I'd dig in my pocket and get as much fudge as my change was worth. I love fudge. So, I was pretty excited to win it.



































And on the Halloween night, we planned a murder mystery dinner with 2 couples in our ward. It was WAY fun! We all dressed up like our characters. Thanks Kendall and Halie for the awesome dinner and Trent and Liz for being in our mystery!













And this is a picture from American Fork Canyon. We drove along the Alpine Loop to see the fall colors. Although we missed them and most leaves were off the tree, it was a gorgeous day and so pretty.

Learning to suture

So last week we learned how to put in sutures in my wound management class. I'm not gonna lie, I felt pretty professional, even though it was only on a pig's foot. I think my stitches looked pretty good too! We each made incisions on our selected pig foot and then learned and practiced different types of sutures to sew it back up. I really enjoyed it. It's times like that that get me through ridiculous days like today. We had a Therapeutics exam today, all about medications and how to prescribe them, and it was tough. I spent a good part of the weekend studying (apart from the BYU football game!), and it paid off, but I am exhausted! I am living for Thanksgiving break; it's almost here!

Election Day

We went out and voted tonight after I got home from class. I am so grateful we live in a democratic country. It's such a great thing to have a voice in the selection of your national and state leaders. Hopefully the elected President will lift up our country and do some good things. I hope you all voted. Go America!