Meet Sam

For the a while now Brandon and I have been talking about getting a dog when we move up north. We have been doing research on it and then we actually started looking at cats. Brandon's parents have a couple of cats and even though I consider myself more of a dog person depending on the cat I actually do like them (even though no one in my family does and I am pretty sure they have all disowned me). After talking some more about it we decided while we live in an apartment we will have a cat and then when we get a house we will eventually get a dog (and keep the cat). 

When we moved into this apartment our lease said no pets; however, our landlords are getting a divorce and they are splitting up all of their properties and because of this there have been some minor changes. Brandon and I decided to take a risk and ask what the chances would be of getting a cat. At first our landlord was kind of hesitant because she had learned recently about her soon to be ex-husband saying that some other tenants could have 24 chickens in their duplex. That's right, 24 chickens. After thinking about it though she decided a cat would be okay.

Brandon and I decided we would adopt a cat, and we decided we also wanted to get a full-grown cat because we wouldn't be able to give a kitten as much attention. We found an animal rescue place in Cedar City and we found the sweetest male cat who is almost two, is neutered, has had his shots, is litter box trained, and is house trained. We decided to name him Sam.

Now, we knew that for a couple of days Sam was going to be more shy at our place than the center because it is a new environment. He explored the apartment some (and was actually very good at listening to me when I told him not to go somewhere, like around power cords) and after exploring he decided he just wanted to chill under our guest bed:

Brandon was able to get him to come out some this morning. We got really excited about this and actually ended up scaring him and he went into hiding again; unfortunately he didn't go under the bed and we couldn't find him. We searched EVERYWHERE and a few hours later I finally found him hiding in a little space in our TV stand, and by the way he is not in this picture I just wanted to show where he was hiding:

My guess is that he liked how warm the computer is. Well, I moved the computer and he sprinted underneath the bed again. Luckily, he didn't chew on any of the computer cords or go to the bathroom. Once he isn't as shy I will teach him that he can't hide back there. 

Halloween!

I normally am not a huge fan of Halloween, but this year was actually a lot of fun! The Thursday before Kenzie, Christian, and Kyle came over to carve pumpkins. Kyle actually made a casserole that was baked inside a pumpkin; it was really good! 

Kenzie getting really excited about carving her pumpkin:

 Kyle, Brandon, and Christian:

Here is Brandon and me with our pumpkin. I actually don't really like carving pumpkins and so Brandon gutted it, I drew the face, and Brandon carved it:

Kenzie and her vampire pumpkin:

Christian also did a vampire, and this is him imitating his pumpkin's face:

This is Kyle's pumpkin, which is a hillbilly:

All the finished pumpkins:

We also got cupcakes and they came with rings, and this is me wearing the rings from the two cupcakes I had:

On Halloween we went over to the University Journal's operation manager's, John Gholdston (Captain), house. He LOVES Halloween, and actually his anniversary is on Halloween. Unfortunately, his wife died five years ago, but despite that he still loves the holiday and has a party every year. He also has one of the most elaborately decorated houses I have ever seen:

 (There was actually one trick-or-treater who called it the best Halloween house.)

Captain's kid Buddy, Buddy's wife, and their adorable son John live with Captain. He is seriously one of the cutest kids I have ever met, besides my nieces and nephews:

I know everyone in my family will make fun of me for this, but we had a group-themed costume. All of us were characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

I was Buffy's best friend Willow, who is a witch, and Brandon was Willow's boyfriend Oz, who is a werewolf:

Kenzie was Buffy:

Captain was a vampire:

Kyle was Angel, a vampire who I am pretty sure Edward is based off of (except Edward is more of a wimp). I think Joss Wheddon should sue Stephenie Meyer):

Christian was a villain named Caleb who poses as a priest. After being introduced to Caleb I developed a fear of southern priests:

Overall it was a great night!

Camp Kesem Update

Sorry another solicitation; I am going to blog about Halloween this weekend.

This week we learned about Friends of Kesem, basically it allows people to make donations online! So if you are interested here is the link, please make sure to select Camp Kesem Southern Utah University with the donation.

Just an update on camp, because this is a big part of my life right now. We finally have all the coordinators we need and we are doing our FIRST fundraiser next week! We worked with Panda Express and next Saturday anyone who brings in a specific flyer Camp Kesem will get 20-percent of those proceeds. I am really excited for this and I am even going to force myself to buy/eat some just for the cause!