What would we do without camera phones?
I have a love hate relationship with the fall. I LOVE the beauiful colors, I don't love knowing winter is around the corner and the air is cooler. But of course, nothing could be better than the fall in Pittsburgh! My favorite are the red trees.
After the spa, we found a cafe with chocolate taste testing. It was fun to try these chocolates from around the world. It was surprising that they all weren't absolutely to die for.
Side note: we saw this house in Hershey and someone said it looked like a chocolate/vanilla swirl house. How appropriate for the land of chocolate.
a movie that has made me feel the way this movie did; inspired and full of love. it has definately made it to my top ten list, "El Tigre y la Nieve". if you loved "Life is Beautiful" you will love this one too!
I love that there are so many kids around me! I love hanging out with them and acting like a kid with them. It's always fun to get them rallied up and not have to be the one to put them to bed.
We decorated cookies and played during Priesthood session a couple weeks ago. Love these kids!
Amber, me (with orange frosting on my nose), Xoie (love her, but she doesn't feel the same about me), Payton, Jane, Matt 
I don't know how I forgot to put these pictures on Darren's birthday post, but now I am making up for it. These were taken at the Dorny's house. Jane and I did makeovers, I wish you could see my green eye shadow.
Notice the votive candle on the cake. I forgot birthday candles. Oops
...for Darren and his waffle maker gift, don't!
The festivities started with Cirque du Soleil. At the last minute, my work gave me tickets and we were spoiled in a suite. It was a great show and thanks to the Wegeners for joining us. 
The next morning we got a call from the Dornys inviting us over for dinner for Darren's birthday. They are so great at these birthday dinners. They include us in all of theirs and I should have thought to have them over before they had to call us. I am a horrible person. Anyway, of course we took them up on it, Megan is an amazing cook. When we showed up, CJ and the kids had decorated Darren's seat, including this lovely collage.
As we were eating Darren's favorite cookies 'n' cream ice cream cake, we decided to share our favorite things about Darren. He hates to be the center of attention, but we did it anyway. We started with cute Matt. "Matt, what is your favorite thing about Darren?" He said, "nosing." We all know he loves Darren, but was too busy eating his ice cream cake. CJ said, "he never says anything bad about anyone." Megan said he pays attention to the details and makes others feel good by remember the little things. I mentioned his optimism. I love all these things about him and so much more! It was a great night, thank you Dorny family for being so great to us!!
The next day was his actual birthday and we found a new Mexican restaurant to eat at, yum! I gave him his gifts to end the night. He was hoping for this when I handed him a big wrapped box
can you blame the guy for being disappointed when he unwrapped this?
maybe next year.
Though Darren doesn't like his birthday, I sure do. We did both have a blast of a weekend. I love my sweetie!!
as a young women's president, i would like to brag about how great of job i am doing, unfortunately that's not the case. i can only get one girl to church and she is moving this week. i will be down to zero. but for journaling purposes, i wanted to document how cute the little youth group is in our ward. for mutual the other night, we carved pumpkins and it was a struggle to get everyone to hold still for a picture. so we have one fuzzy and one clear picture. the clear picture is the actual youth in our ward plus joseph (ym leader) and almost minus colleen, boo. the fuzzy one, if you can see in the back right side is dana, she used to be in our ward and broke my heart when she moved away from pittsburgh. why do the keep moving away from me?? i LOVE being in young womens, but it is sure different out here than where i grew up!
... I would see muggles playing Quidditch, with sticks between their legs as brooms and a homemade goal. These people were dead serious in their game with onlookers gathering. I wish I knew what they were all thinking (players and audience). Strange!
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My name is Tiffany and I LOVE action and excitement and last week brought it all right to my city. It was so exciting to hear the action from the window in my office and I just had to join the craziness. I checked out some protests, and chanted with a few (while embarrassing my co-workers) and had some conversations with the officers surrounding campus. Thursday, the University hosted a lunch for the European Commission President Barroso and then a lecture with the Russian President Medvedev and my office got to put it all together. By the end of the day I was exhausted. I was upset that I wasn't invited to the dinner that night where Obama was. It was at Phipps, my favorite place in Pittsburgh. That should have been enough to get at least an invitation. After all the drama, damage and everything else that happened, it came to an end, goodbye important people from around the world. Pittsburgh ROCKS!
The craziest protest included 9 people hanging from a bridge, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to get your voice heard
I am just having one of those days that I can't control my anger and someone's face here at work might turn into a punching bag. AARRG! I am in the worst mood and I want to crawl back into bed and sleep it off. Too bad work is always getting in the way!
He eats them, he breathes them, he sleeps them...
They have always been Darren's passion and it was hard getting used to being #2 on his priority list. I have gotten more into them then ever in my life just so I can spend more time with him. He even has a special place in his heart for the Utah Jazz (we are sporting a license plate holder on our car for them), I am sure he is their #1 fan and if he could marry them, I think he would have.
He has found a lot of friends here in Pittsburgh that feel almost as passionate about them as he has and it seems they spend all of their extra time doing something with them. As wives, we feel neglected and try to make an effort to support this love of theirs. We get together to watch games often and as a result, this is what you would see.
Boys surrounding the TV shouting in hopes the players, coaches and referees will hear their pleas...
Girls surrounding the food in deep conversation about anything and everything, give us food and we will be happy...
I have heard multiple times of people shocked at the amount of food I can shove in my face at one sitting. I love my food!! I guess you can call that a passion of mine
