The Festival of Trees

Kasey, We really missed you and were thinking of you when we were at the Festival of Trees. We had a really fun time!

News from the Amy & David Merrell Clan

Hi Everyone! Things are going good here! David is very busy right now. This semester is coming to a close and he is working very hard to be sure he has everything finished. I am just working, the nail industry is picking up now that the Holidays are coming! I had a Yard Sale this weekend. I made sixty whole dollars! Woo Woo. We recently had family Fall pictures taken. If you would like to see more check out our blog. We hope all is well. We love you all!

love, Amy & Davey

Life in Orem

Everything is going well. I have an english midterm tomorrow and a couple more next week but hopefully it will go well. Amber had her surgery last week but it went really well and she's feeling a lot better. We've both been keeping busy with school and work. I'm just glad that I have a couple of night shifts during the week. It makes it so that I only have to do two 3:00-11:00 shifts making more time for Amber and I to do stuff together. Not that we've done much in the way of exciting activities lately.

We did go out to eat with some friends the other night. It was a lot of fun. Our friends Jackie and Candice from high school live in Salt Lake and came down to visit so the four of us as well as Sean and Dallas went and got some food at Golden Corral. It was really good to see them and the six of us just talked for hours about high school memories and what we have been up to since. They finally left out apartment at about 10:45. It wasn't to late but they had originally planned to leave by 8:00 or so...

We're also planning on going out for ice cream Saturday night after priesthood session with a guy from my mission and his wife. So hopefully we'll be able to get that organized. He's a really cool guy.

Life in Denver

Life in Denver has been treating us well. We are enjoying our time getting to know new people, and have been staying pretty busy. Here are some of the things we have been doing.

1. We have been introduced to the wonderful world of Nintendo Wii! We went over to our friends house the other day, and had a night of fun. My favorite game was the boxing game (I am playing it in the picture below) I have a pretty mean upper cut!!! I totally domintated that game. Bryan and I have talked about getting one because for one I DO NOT like XBOX and for two it is something Bryan and I can play together!

2. We were asked by our friend Wade to help out with the Stake Fair. Our ward was responsible for husking and cooking 460 ears of corn!!! Can you believe it???! So Bryan and I woke up at 10am on Saturday and went to the church to husk us some corn, luckily some other member's showed up, it only took us about 1 hour to husk. Cooking it was another story though... we ended up cooking corn from 2:30pm to 6:00pm... we were beat! We did find some time though to do a little old fashion stick pull with some other Tremontonites, the Menloves. Bryan beat Taylor, and Marisha totally beat me. Here are some of the pictures from the night.

School

All is well in the land of Orem. I still haven't bought all of my text books because I am a little low on cash. But I'm getting by. I should be a little better after the first of next week. I get paid on Monday and I'm expecting a larger check this time around seeing as how I did a good chunk of overtime this last pay period.

I had my brakes give out on me the other night. They're fine now...Amber's dad figured the brake drum just got to hot. But it sure was scary. I was coming down the hill towards my apartment and had no brakes whatsoever. I managed to make it home ok...I had to use my E brake to park though. So even though it's working ok now I'm going to have Amber's dad look at it for me when we come home this weekend.

Amber and I went up and went on a hike by bridal falls a couple days ago. We got some good pictures. I'll see if I can find my memory card reader at mom and dad's house and post some on-line.