A Little Update

Life is so busy! Which means i have been studying instead of blogging and actually a lot has happened so I think a little update may be needed. Here is what has been going on in the Homestead. So big news.... Natalie, our Natalie, has a boyfriend. I know!! It is exciting, she is a little wild thing running around at all hours of the night ( I go to bed by 11:00 so anything past that is pretty wild to me). She finally has an excuse to be cheesy with someone other than Mr. Freckles, so basically the whole world is happy about the match. Kaitlin got a job, joined a soccer team and is on the USU rugby team... my momma bear instincts are coming out and she is terrifying me. She already came home in need of ice packs, and she has only been on the team for a week. Her first Rugby game is this Saturday, and I am nervous, way more nervous than she is. She is excited though and will be great I am sure. Hopefully she will make it back in one piece. Marcie just returned from an exotic trip to beautiful France. Jealous? Me too. She got lost in the Louve, ( personally, I think she planned that) and had to walk home. Other than that she was safe and had a wonderful time. She experienced the food and even enjoyed it, which knowing the picky Miss Marcie is quite a miracle. Creme brulee was probably the only thing I have heard about since her return to the States. My favorite part of her trip was the fabulous scarves she brought home for us and the boots for herself that I may have plans to steal.  And Tessa you ask? Well other than my fascination with all things pumpkin at the moment (pumpkin bread, pumpkin pancakes, you name it, I want it) I had my family's annual Spook Fest and it was a blast. I was astounded by my family's wit and flexibility in the games we played. I also discovered a small addiction forming to fondue, seriously though, it is so good. Well that is life in the homestead. As wonderful as ever, with lots of excitement to come I am sure!

--Tessa

Second only to Tarantulas.

So we may have a problem in our awesome apartment... spiders. Now no one tell Kaitlin. I have never seen a group of girls go from somewhat normal to hysterics so quickly as Friday night. Well over the past two months we have been finding nature's gift through out our apartment, spiders. But these aren't just any old spiders, they are huge. Really, I had no idea spiders were made like this except tarantulas. One night however the beast came. As Marice and I studied on our couch, Natalie was in the kitchen and all was well in whoville, until Natalie screamed louder than any banshee I have ever heard, Marcie jumped on my lap (that might have been a combined effort of me jumping to her too) and started in on it too. Then we saw it. There on the kitchen floor was by far the biggest spider I. Have. Ever. Seen. We panicked, and at the ear ringing decibel we were shrieking, we thought for sure our neighbors would come and make sure that a serial killer wasn't adding our names to his list.  We were wrong. Natalie, our hero, grabbed a game box and dropped it on the terrible fiend. Well okay she missed the first time but the second time... Victory! Although we were saved from this one, we worry for the next one.( Well, mostly Kaitlin and Marice worry ). If one day we disappeared you will know what has happened to us... the spiders will have won.

--Tessa

A True Blooded Aggie from Utah

We have experienced our first Aggie Games and to quote Miss Natalie, "Everything is so big and so loud" and we wouldn't change a thing. After a couple football and Hockey games we have successfully memorized the Scotsman, and feel like we are true blooded Aggies! If only we could end every game five minutes early we would win everything. I may be the only one but a countdown to basket ball season has begun. After our first games I can't even imagine what a game will be like in the Spectrum, I can't wait.

--Tessa