Halloween

For Halloween this year, Mike and I dressed up as Mario and Luigi, the Super Mario Brothers! It was quite a hit! Here we are at the Annual Zarbock Family Halloween Party:

(It's hard to tell I'm smiling with the mustache)

We're off to collect gold coins and stomp on some mushrooms!

This year, Mike's family dressed up as superhero's (we know Mario and Luigi aren't super hero's, however they are SUPER!). We were such a colorful bunch!

Here are the rest of the families, everyone looked so good!

(TCU Fans, boooooo!)

Sadly, we don't have any photos of the donut eating contest, which I totally beat Mikie in :)

This is such a fun family to be a part of, I can't wait until next year, it is so fun to dress up!

Carving Pumpkins!

As a Family Home Evening activity this week, Mike and I carved pumpkins for Halloween. It's been a few years since I have carved one, and even longer for Mikie who I don't believe has ever carved one! It was fun to watch him scoop out all the goop from inside the pumpkin :) We listened to music as we stabbed and gutted away...

The final product, Mikie's Batman looks so good!

I am so excited for Halloween! Mike and I have our costumes all ready to go, I can't wait to post pictures of us wearing them, they are pretty sweet.

As a side note, I have been to my first BYU football game! I've lived in Provo all my life, was raised by a father who loves football, and I have two brothers who played. It took me marrying a football player who also loves football to finally get me to go to a game. Mike has been very patient with me as he has tried to explain the game to me, while I ask a bazillion questions. I have found that football it a lot more interesting than I thought it was, and I have come to enjoy watching games both in person and on TV. My mother-in-law bought me my first BYU shirt, which I have proudly worn to the two games we have been able to attend. This is us at the BYU/CSU game.

Halloween Video

I LOVE my husband! I got an email this morning with a link to this video, it made my day! I had everyone at the office around my computer laughing this morning :)

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(The characters are Mike, Zach, Calvin, Me and my Dad)

If you haven't seen Fox's new show, "Glee", you should tune in and watch it tomorrow night. It is fantastic! Here's a clip from last week's episode:



I highly recommened tuning in on Wednesday nights to watch it :)

We're Homeowner's!

We closed on our house earlier today, yay! Hopefully we'll get the keys today or tomorrow, the sooner we can quite our long commute, the better! I'll post pictures as soon as we're all moved in and settled.

Our New House!!

Mike and I are currently in the process of buying a house. We've been under contract for about 3 weeks now, mostly waiting for the completion of our home. Hopefully we'll close next week! When we submitted our offer, everything was finished except for the flooring and countertops. We were able to choose everything! It has been so much fun watching as it all comes together. Here are the swatches of what we chose:

Living Room:

Kitchen:

Bathroom:

With Flooring and Countertops:

Laundry Room:

With Appliances:

Here is a video tour of our house, we are so excited to move in! We are still waiting for the blinds and mirrors to be installed, but everything else is finished. We have a fabulous clubhouse with a pool, theater room and gym! You can see in the video that our backyard faces the pool, which is pretty sweet. I'll post pictures once we move in, yay!

Just another day at the Russell house...

Sunday dinners are always entertaining, especially when Dan shows up (One of Calvin's mission buddies). The rule is, everyone new has to dance, typically for one to two minutes, to a song of Calvin's choosing. Here are the highlights from a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully this won't sway you from being a guest on Sunday nights, you only have to do it once, and then you get to enjoy watching everyone else go through it!