turkey weekend

So Thanksgiving weekend has been quite a blast. My family came up from Simi to join in the festivities of the Ogles clan in Springville. It was so great to have so much family here!

MoGene, Darcy and Sadie

Thursday was filled with cooking, eating, karaoke, performances, basketball, etc.

After our Thanksgiving meal (lunch), our family gathered in the family room (all 50 or so of us) and enjoyed each family performing something:

Amy Lambert enjoying the performances (along with the rest of the people in the background)

ie - Sarah, Marie and I with our frantically put-together, barely practiced performance of "Sisters" (from A White Christmas)
ie - Chuck Norris jokes
ie - A quick game of charades

Then, as cheezy as it sounds, our family played our own game-show called, "We're Related!" It was fun to see how many of the younger kids knew so much about our family history!

Then the karaoke machine came out. You know its not Ogles karaoke if Safety Dance isn't put on at least once!

Marie getting ready to eat!

After everyone's fill of pie (we had 12 pies...), my cousin Liz came home with 4 tickets to the Jazz game!! So Liz, Melissa, Jackie and I headed off to Salt Lake to enjoy our 100 Club tickets! The Jazz were playing the Chicago Bulls. I don't think I can ever go to another NBA game unless I can go like this: free, VIP parking; free tickets; free food at a restaurant on the 6th floor overlooking the stadium--crab, lobster, shrimp, etc; free snacks at halftime--popcorn, nachos, soda. There is really no other way to go. Thanks to Liz's Uncle Gary (and NuSkin), we thoroughly enjoyed our free Jazz evening--enough so to be able to spend a few dollars on things like t-shirts and hoodies!

Liz and Melissa are Boozer fans. (Jackie and I are Kirilenko fans--go Russian dude!)

Then, last night ( with 9 cousins, 3 siblings, and my dad), we went to the BYU Men's Basketball game against Weber State. Go Cougs! I'm having major luck with my sports games this weekend. The Jazz slaughtered the Bulls. And although the Cougars lost it for a while, we came back and won against Weber. Let's hope my luck remains today as BYU comes up against our greatest rivalry, Utah. I predict the following ending:


O Rise and Shout, the Cougars are out
Along the trail to fame and glory.
Rise and shout, our cheers will ring out,
As you unfold your vict'ry story.
On you go to vanquish the foe
For Alma Mater's sons and daughters.
As we join in song, in praise of you, our faith is strong.
We'll raise our colors high in the blue,
And cheer the Cougars of BYU.

GO COUGS!

ridiculous query

So I had this conversation with many of the women in my family over the Thanksgiving weekend. After New Moon came out last week, it was ever-more apparent to me that Robert Pattison makes a HORRIBLE Edward Cullen in Twilight. Not only is his acting absolutely atrocious, but he is just not good looking enough for the part. And the more I've watched Vampire Diaries on the CW, the more apparent it is that Stephenie Meyer should have used Paul Wesley (vampire Stefan Salvatore) as her Edward Cullen.

What are your thoughts? Robert Pattison? Or Paul Wesley?

Robert Pattison/Gag-Edward Cullen: (PS - and what's with his crazy hair? Comb it already!)

Or Paul Wesley/Steamy Stefan Salvatore (should-have-been-Edward-Cullen):



He is just so much better looking, no?

grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

So for Halloween this year, I dressed up as the Progressive salesgirl "Flo" in the commercials. At this point of the night, my lipstick had worn off. But I think I did a pretty good job of it.

Sarah and I went to her Stake Halloween party at Noah's in Lindon. It was basically a HUGE dance. Regardless of the fact that I was exhausted and didn't know that many people, I had a lot of fun.

At one point of the night, I saw a girl walk past dressed up as Ms. Trunchbull from Matilda. She was totally awesome, boots and javelin in tow. The thought that went through my head was "Greatest costume EVER." And then she turned around and it was my friend Jill Highland! Haha. I love her.

And surprisingly, I only had 2 pieces of candy all Halloween weekend. I think that must be a record or something.

ridiculousness

The Daily Universe sponsored a Stephenie Meyer-style writing contest. Need I say more?

Enjoy:

First Place

By Meridith Reed, 24

He had eyes like murky duck pond water: mysterious, forbidden things lurked beneath an impenetrable surface. Instantly, I felt a deep otherworldly connection between us. It was as if hot lightning had struck both of us and forever bound us together.
My eyes were sudden slaves to his; looking away would have been fighting gravity. And then, I saw, in the bottomless recesses of his black pupils, a vision of our long, happy life together. I parted my lips to speak, but I was breathless and voiceless. He spoke first: “And you’ll get a bubble sheet at the printer. Next!”

Second Place

By Sarah Montgomery, 19

The crisp autumn air quivered with hidden promise, waiting to be found, like a bed of fluffy cream shrouded within a Twinkie. It had been three months now: she knew the sensuous intensity in her home teacher’s hauntingly butterscotch eyes wasn’t imagined. She saw how his fingers fumbled distractedly for the right page of the Ensign; she noticed how he lingered eagerly in the doorway once the closing prayer was done; she heard the meaningful inflection of his voice as he breathed, “Is there anything we can do for you, sisters?” She knew: they were destined to be together.

Third Place

By Summer Myers, 23

She often fantasized about their domestic life together: cooking meals, folding laundry, brushing their teeth. Oh, to share that intimate nocturnal rite! His rugged fingers would confidently grip the brush; he would roll the toothpaste tube, firmly and evenly, from the bottom. With every stroke his breath would become fresher, his gum line healthier, his enamel whiter.

Would he rinse with a cup, or would he sip the water from his own deft hand? She longed to know. And when he finished he would turn to her, and the resplendent gleam of his smile would be audible.