Breaking Dawn Release Date!

Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer, will be released on August 2, 2008. Yea! That's less than 6 months away! Of course, if you can't wait that long, the Eclipse Special Edition will be released on May 31st and will include an excerpt from Breaking Dawn and a look at the cover.

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BYU Men's Volleyball

On Saturday night, we did a couple things we haven't done in a long time. First, we actually paid for a babysitter (we really should do that more often), and second, we went to a BYU Men's Volleyball game. Both were great. Now, even though Nate is a BYU Alum, he's not a big BYU fan. In fact, these days the only reason he'll even set foot on campus is Men's Volleyball. BYU (currently ranked #1) was playing CSU-Northridge (#6), so Nate thought it would be a good game to go to. BYU comfortably won the first two games of the match, making it look like we would be home by 9pm, but Northridge stepped up their game and started playing like a top 10 team in the third game and BYU didn't seem to realize they needed to start playing better until Northridge had won the third game and was ahead in the fourth game. The fourth game was back and forth all the way until the end when BYU hit a bad serve and allowed Northridge ahead, facilitating their win. BYU finally got their act together and quickly won the fifth game to win the match. It was nice to see BYU still win and stay undefeated, but it would have been even better to see them sweep Northridge instead of dragging it out into 5 games.

What's Wrong With This Picture?

It's 4pm (MST) on Sunday, February 3rd. I'm sitting on the couch watching TV and I change the channel to FOX. Nate hangs around for about 15 minutes and disappears for a few minutes and reappears wearing snow gear and states, "I think now is a good time to go shovel the driveway."

Any guesses?

Well, if you thought something along the lines of "that's when the Superbowl started and the man of the house was the least interested" you'd be right. Of course, those who know Nate well already knew that he doesn't really like any sports outside of volleyball. So yes, in our house, I'm the bigger sports fan, although I don't watch much in the way of sports these days.

Shoveling Snow Can Be a Really Good Workout!

We got several inches of snow last Monday, and since Nate has been working like crazy having started the busy audit season 6 weeks earlier than usual, he's not around much to do any snow shoveling. I figured that I might as well do is since it mostly benefits me. Once Mason and Jackson were both down for naps, Jefferson and I got in some snow clothes and went outside to shovel. I didn't think it would be too hard or take a long time- I used to help shovel snow as a kid - but boy was I wrong. Not only did we have about 8 inches of snow on our driveway (the other side of the street had less- the wind must have blown it our way), but the snowplows had gone done our street and had pushed the snow off the road towards our side of the street, so that added a couple inches on the sidewalk and the lower half of our driveway, plus it was more packed down, so it added weight. So it took me over about an hour to get it all shoveled, without taking any breaks. As soon as I got inside and warmed up some, I looked up how many calories are burned shoveling snow. Most sites calculated around 400/hr but some sites said as many as 900 calories/hour. Either way it was still a decent workout- better than all of the lower intesity exercises and on par with weight lifting (vigorous), skiing, and swimming. Here's what the snow looked like the next day (and it had started snowing again):

My Year In Cities

From time to time, like most bloggers I know, I check out the links to other blogs that my friends have on their pages. It's fun to see what random people blog about and what their blog looks like, etc. Today I came across this fun meme on one of such blogs and thought I'd also give it a go. You list all the cities where you stayed at least one night. I wasn't expecting much of 2007, but was pleasantly surprised once I made my list. Then I did 2006 for comparison and 2007 turned out to be quite a good year- especially when you factor in toting around 3 kids. Here goes:

2007

• *, UT (where we live)
• Las Vegas, NV (twice)
• Near Anaheim, CA (I'm really not sure what city Sherrie and I stayed in)
• Pasadena, CA (twice)
• Williamsburg, VA
• Sterling, VA
• Strasburg, PA
• Washington, UT
• Henderson, NV
• Cedar City, UT

My Sad 2006

• *, UT
• St George, UT
• Pasadena, CA (twice)

At least I made it out of the state!

(And Mason was born that year, so what was I really expecting?)

So how about you? Post your list in the comments section! Or post on your blog. I'll be waiting...

Game Night!

Last night I hosted, for the third month in a row, a Relief Society Game Night! We had a great turnout. At the peak there were 12 sisters (only one less than the first game night) and we had a great time chatting, munching, and playing games. We played Hoopla (a Cranium game) and Last Word. Both were fun games, although a bit challenging for some of the group. Of course, they were both newer games that only a few of us had played before (and only I had played Last Word before - once). I love learning new games but I get nervous sometimes that people will get scared away by the new games that are the "unknown" so I hope everyone that came last night will come to a future game night! I plan on hosting the game night the 2nd Thursday each month. It's nice to have a night away from the kids and get to know the other women in the ward.

Oh, and by the way, my name is now Sue. Not really, but kind-of.