Belle on the Ball and The Ryder Cup

This last Saturday Brad and I went to the Belle on the Ball (It's actually Ball on the Belle, but I kept getting it mixed up so now I just call it Belle on the Ball).  This is basically dental school prom.  It's a big dance on the Belle of Louisville, this really old steamboat.  Everyone loads onto the boat and they go up and down the Ohio River.  At first I didn't want to go (I hated going to dances in high school so why would I like them now), but the girls in my ward talked me into it and it ended up being so much fun.  Everyone got all dolled up and danced the night away.

This is some of the gang that went to "Prom".  

Lt to Rt: Wyatts, Mills, Courtrights, Bakers, Youngs

Kim and I trying to do our sexy model faces.  

Some of the girls in my class

Lt to Rt: Lauren, Mary-Kate, Me, Rachel, Liz and Jill

Natalie and I had to get a shot of our sweet shoes.  Mine are on the left, hers on the right.  I have to say that I LOVED her pointy-toed shoes!  And the best part is we have the same shoe size......  ;)

Mike and Kimmy getting their groove on.  Can I just say Par-Tay Animals!!!  These two made me laugh so hard.  They were AweSomE dancers and totally made the dance so much fun.  Thanks guys for a Fabulous night!  You have to check out the Courtright's blog for even more pictures, especially the one where Mike is pretending to be a pole.  My cheeks hurt from laughing so hard!

This last week the Ryder Cup was in Louisville.  They played at Valhalla, which isn't too far away from where we live.  Our Bishop called Brad one night and asked him if he wanted to ditch school and go to the Ryder Cup with him.  He got some tickets through a friend.  Brad was stoked and would have gone no matter what, but was nice enough to ask my permission (like I could have stopped him).  I MaDe him take the camera so he could take pictures, for blogging purposes of course.  Thanks Bishop for asking Brad to go.  He loved it and had a great time.  Here are just a few that he took.

This is the little pass that they wore around their necks

This is Phil something or other (I'm not really into golf).  I guess he plays for the U.S.  Brad thinks that he was giving HIM the thumbs up, but really I think it was to the guy next to him.  

  I don't know who this guy is but I posted this picture because I thought he had sweet hair for a golfer.  

Lately.....

Since it seems like I have been out of touch with everyone the past couple of weeks, I thought I would post about what has been going on with the Wyatt's lately!

First, we survived the windstorm that Hurricane Ike sent our way!  A week ago from Sunday the wind was blowing when we left for church in the morning and by the time we left it was blowing like crazy!  We got home and around 2pm our power went out.  We thought, "oh it will be back on later tonight."  Nope!  Not us anyway.  We didn't get power back until Friday evening!  And one of my teachers at school still doesn't have any power.  I can't complain too much because we were totally taken care of by our amazing friends.  We were well fed and even had many offers from friends to let us use their warm showers and do our laundry at their house.  Thank you everyone! I would have not been able to make it through the week sane if we didn't have so much help.

Let's see, what else.  Oh, Brad and I ran a 5k last Tuesday.  Of course I hadn't done any running leading up to the race so I didn't do good or anything, but it was fun.  The course was great and it is a race that I will definitely do again.  

School is going.....well it's going, we'll just leave it at that!  I really do like the program.  It really keeps me busy.  We've had a ton of tests lately and I just finished my third and final test for the week today (we had three tests and a quiz) .   And I only have one test and one quiz next week so I feel sooo relieved!  I feel like I've just made it through finals week, but really it's not even midterm!  Anyway, I'm just glad this week of testing is over!

This is just a picture I had of Brad and Ella just lounging around.  Too cute!

Labor Day

I know this is a week late but I wanted to post some pictures of the Bats game we went to on Labor day. It was BLAZING hot and we were all sweating to death but it was fun to get out to a game.  We have lived in Louisville a year and haven't made it out to a game yet, so we invited the Clowards to brave the heat with us.  Even though I spent more time chasing Ella then watching the game it was still a good time!

Our little family at the game during the 7th inning stretch.  As you can tell Ella looked thrilled to be there.  She did act a lot happier than she looks in this picture, I promise.

Ella and Brad posing for a picture in between innings.

Ella and Tessa.  These two are so cute together.  Tessa is so sweet to Ella and Ella just loves her!

The Clowards stretching their legs and probably wondering why they agreed to come to the game when it was so ridiculously hot!

After the game they let the kids run around the bases on the field.  We decided to let Ella do it, but I think Brad was the one that really wanted to do it.  She was so funny to watch.  She would get so mad when other kids came around and passed her.  She wanted to be out there all by herself.  

This is Ella on the home stretch.  She was totally pooped out but made it the whole way.  It was a fun relaxing Labor Day and it made for a short week which was FanTastiC!  I can't wait until the next holiday :)

Do You Remember My Plant...

I don't know if anyone remembers an old post I did about the planting kits I bought from target, but I wanted to do an update.  The kit came with a tiny little pot, soil, and seeds.  You were supposed to plant them in the tiny pot and then when they got bigger you could move them to a bigger pot.  Anyway, I wasn't hopeful but I am very proud to say that ONE seed did sprout and the plant is still alive and going strong.  

This is how the seeds started. 

And this is a picture of our plant that was taken a couple days ago.  It is a tomato plant and even though we will never get any tomatoes in it I am still so proud that it is still alive and GroWinG like crazy.  I don't even water it that much anymore and it still just keeps growing.