Nothing!

So this post is mainly for my mom. I started a blog for her about 6 months ago, but she hadn't done anything with it until about a month ago. Now she has a new post about every day and is blogging like crazy. I used to give her a hard time about her not having anything new on her blog, but now the tables have turned and she is giving me a hard time for not having a new post in over 2 weeks, so mom here it is.

What have we done in the past two weeks??? NOTHING!!!!!
Now that school has started again, Bryce and I don't have time for a life anymore. Our weekends consist of laborious hours hovering over various textbooks, straining our minds to remember every minuscule detail.

Okay, life isn't that bad, but we do spend a lot of time studying in our house. However, we are both so grateful to be in our last semester of undergraduate school, and we do enjoy spending every spare minute we have with each other (it's not like we're in love or anything).

So our recent update? We are very happy, very busy and very blessed!!!

Family Time

Bryce and I try to make it up to Logan about once a month to see my family. It's so hard only seeing them once a month, but when we see each other we make that time count. This month we weren't sure if we were going to get the chance to see them, but on Friday my mom called to let us know that they were going to be in Provo to get a few things fixed with Skyler's car. After talking with Bryce we decided this would be a perfect time to see my family, we would get to save ourselves about 2 hours of a drive which was nice! We left about 8 am Saturday morning and met my family at Skyler's dorm. Since all of his roommates were asleep, (mind you it was 11:00) we decided to hang out in the common room downstairs for an hour while we waited for the car to be fixed. Yes, we did fit 6 people on this tiny couch!!!

My amazing parents! Bryce and I appreciate everything they do for us and love them so much!!!

Me and My Beautiful Mom

Sisters Forever, Forever Friends

Two of my role models!

All that waiting apparently started taking it's toll on us.

Mother and Son

To pass the time we decided to play in a very intense, very close game of Foosball. The boys barely pulled ahead!

After Foosball we decided to have a Ping-Pong tournament. The girls played first and the winner moved on... Good Job Britt!

Next it was the boys' turn. Bryce won by a hair, sorry Sky, but now you get to play Shelynne.

This game was pretty close, but Skyler won 15-13.

Skyler trying to teach me how to properly hit the ball.

Me, confused as to why I keep losing. Maybe if I concentrated more and talked less the results might have been different.

As you can see I did not like the results of our tournament. Shelynne- Ultimate Loser, Skyler- Bronze, Brittanee- Silver, Bryce- GOLD!!

Good thing I still love them, even after they all beat me.

After playing Ping-Pong, we picked up the car, dropped it off at Jiffy Lube and went for lunch at Applebees. It's a good thing this picture turned out so well because the waiter who took it said he was going to charge $5 for his picture taking services.

After lunch we went back to BYU and went bowling for an hour before we had to leave.

Sheldon Wilcox
AKA: Stud Muffin
Ht: 5'10"
Shoe Size: 9
Bowling Technique: Walk 3 steps forward, throw the bowling ball, then hop 3 times (trying not to fall over) as you watch the ball hit all the pins down

Diana Wilcox
AKA: Mamacita
Ht: 5'4" and 3/4 (don't short her the 3/4)
Shoe Size: 5 1/2
Bowling Technique: Take 5 steps forward, throw the ball as high as you can in the air, watch as it pounds the ground and knocks all the pins down.

Bryce Carter
AKA: Leash
Ht: 5'9"
Shoe Size: 9 1/2
Bowling Strategy: On the first turn, aim for pin # 10 (the hardest pin) and avoid hitting all the other pins. On the second turn aim for the remaining pins.

Shelynne Carter
AKA: Shaneequa
Ht: 5'2"
Shoe Size: 4
Bowling Technique: Take 3 steps forward, then reverse and take 3 steps backward, try again this time taking 2 big steps, 5 baby steps, then 1 more big step. If it looks like you are going to hit a lot of pins down start riding your horse.

Skyler Wilcox
AKA: Skyler Rama
Ht: 5'8"
Shoe Size: 9
Bowling Strategy: On the first turn aim for the gutter and avoid all pins. On the second turn knock all 10 pins down resulting in a spare rather than a strike, but don't be alarmed (this is what you want to do).

Brittanee Wilcox
AKA: Blondie
Ht: 5'2"
Shoe Size: 5
Bowling Strategy: Trick everyone into thinking you aren't competition by bowling two gutter balls in the first round. Then slowly bowl spares until you slowly become a competitor and give everyone a run for their money.

As you can see, when we began the game my parents both stepped up and knocked all 10 pins down. This was followed by at least one gutter ball by each of the children following. My parents were flabbergasted, and couldn't figure out how THEY (two excellent bowlers), produced not 1, not 2, not even 3, but 4 horrible bowlers (even the "in-law" inherited this bad bowling trait.) Fortunately for them us "bad bowlers" got better throughout the game, we just needed a little warm up, that's all.

Last Weekend

For our last weekend of Christmas break, Bryce and I decided to have some fun in St. George. We originally planned to go to St. George to go to the temple, but the day before we found out that Ryan and his girlfriend Meagan were also going down to St. George. After going to the temple we met up with them and had some fun mini-golfing. While we were waiting for Meagan and Ryan, Bryce decided to try his hand at whack-a-mole. As you can see from the second picture he was the HIGH SCORE. Unfortunately, the high score only got us 6 tickets!!!

We wanted to get a picture with just our teeth glowing. Unfortunately, our shirts were glowing a lot more than our teeth.

With the tickets Bryce and I won we were able to each get a piece of candy and these amazing mustaches!!!

New Years Eve

For New Years Eve, Bryce and I spent the day in St. George. We still have a few more gift cards from our wedding so we decided to see if there were any good sales at Bed, Bath and Beyond after Christmas. We decided we are both very frugal shoppers. Even though we saw things we liked we concluded that we didn't need those things and walked away empty handed. I think we will wait and see what our new apartment looks like, then buy new things to decorate it with. After Bed, Bath and Beyond we went to the mall and Bryce pulled me inside the photo booth, then said take out your camera. We had our own photo shoot, but it was way fun!

After hanging out at the mall for awhile, Bryce's mom called to see if we wanted to go with them to Brian Head to see the fireworks. It was freezing up there. At one time the temperature was -11 degrees. There was also so much snow as you can see from the next picture.

After watching the fireworks we ate at a little pizza place at Brian Head. It was a crazy place. Every time someone opened the door to come in, you could feel the freezing temperature outside and by the time you finally warmed up again someone else was opening it again. We looked a little out of place because at every table, at every seat there a bottle of beer, except for our table. Kinda crazy, but it was a fun night. Afterward we went back and played some games until the ball dropped at midnight.

Christmas with the Carters

This year we spent Christmas Eve with Bryce's family. They have a party with his immediate family as well as his mom's sister Stacia's family. Everyone gets together at Stacia's house for a big dinner and then people take turns playing various Christmas songs on the piano. It was a lot of fun and allowed the Carters to show off their amazing piano skills.

Christmas morning we had Christmas at our house first and then went over to the Carter's house for Christmas. We opened presents then had a huge cinnamon roll for breakfast. Jesse called from his mission and it was really good to talk to him for a few minutes. It sounds like he is doing great and loving his mission. Later that day we had a big Christmas dinner, then unfortunately Bryce and I both got sick and were sick for the rest of the week. No fun. Thank goodness we weren't sick during all the Christmas festivities.

The plaque I made for Emily. Carter Family Est. 1978