Carving Pumpkins

Today Carina and I carved pumpkins. I think I've carved pumpkins with her on all of my fall breaks so we continued the tradition. We were also home alone on Monday and today so we did a little sucking up by carving our pumpkins to say I <3 mom and I <3 dad so that will be a wonderful surprise for them I'm sure when they come home :)

Weekend Recap

Friday:

• Fall Break officially started for me at 11:50 on Friday
• I went to my dermatologist appointment
• Went to work
• Packed and hung out at the DG house for awhile
• Went to Courtney's and watched The Blind Side with Courtney, Jill, Amanda, Elizabeth, and Ann
• Picked Carina up from the bus stop at approx. 12:40 am
• Drove to the campground in Jewell

 Saturday:

• Attempted to sleep in-but was continually bothered by my dad
• Ate a little breakfast then went to my grandparents house to help split wood
• Carina and I attempted to split wood with an axe, which didn't go over to well {she was better at it then I was, but still not great}
• Went to Ankeny and my aunt needed some yarn for knitting
• Then I made them all go to Yellowtree for some froyo
• Went back to the grandparents to check on the boys and they were just done splitting all the wood
• At the campground we then ate supper, which was really good: steak, cheesy potatoes, bread, and apple pie
• We then build a giant fire with all of the 'junk' firewood from splitting the wood
• I then watched part of an episode of gilmore girls before going to bed

Sunday:

• Slept in, and woke up and had breakfast
• Hung around the campground for the morning and helped my dad take things down
• Headed home and stopped in Iowa Falls on the way to get some groceries and also pumpkins for Carina and I to carve
• Watched some Gilmore Girls when I got home
• Ate frozen pizza for supper
• Carina and I then went to Iowa Falls to the movie Dolphin Tale (we both really liked it) and on the way home I hit a raccoon. {I haven't had much luck with scary raccoons lately I don't know if you remember this summer's raccoon incident}
• Carina and I then watched the movie Beastly, which I also enjoyed

Worship Wednesday-"Marvelous Light"

Weekend Recap

I think that my blog's new name could be Emily Eats Frozen Yogurt, but I'll stick with a 'Day in the Life of Emily' for awhile ;)

Friday:

• Went to class and work
• Had the Anchor Splash Alumni Dinner at the house
• Went to the launch of Project 10 for Beza Threads (If you've never heard of Beza Threads you should click on the link and check out their website)
• Did a little homework
• Went to Orange Leaf with Nikki, Nikki, Erin, Tom and Marc

  

Saturday:

• Went to Anchor Splash in the morning
• Studied at the library with Erin
• Went to Marc's with Erin and we ate pizza, watched Iowa State lose, and then went to Celebrate Drake. At Celebrate Drake we planned some game show things and I won a coffee mug.

Sunday:

• Went to church
• Went to the World Food Festival with my mom and we ate lots of foods and saw Ken, Wade, and Erin (my cousin)
• Studied at the library again with Erin 
• Had chapter, honor board, etc.
• Went to Menchies with Courtney
• Studied some more and watched Gilmore Girls

Some Ethiopian food (Wot and injera)

Crepes

Baklava

I don't remember what this was

Some Greek chicken

Some Russian food

Worship Wednesday-"Beautiful Disaster"

Iowa State Game

Today I went to the Iowa State game with Michelle and my mom. Even thought it wasn't a great outcome it was still fun to hang out with both of them. It was great to talk to Michelle on the car ride there and back as well as all the other chats we had throughout the day. It was good to see my mom as well. We also went to Isaac's frat after the game for soup. After that is when Michelle and I went to orange leaf for some more froyo because we hadn't eaten enough already. Here's some wonderful pictures of the day:

Frozen Yogurt

I've found a new obsession and it is self-serve frozen yogurt. It was the first or second week of school when Erin showed me Yo2Go in Urbandale. It was great-there were a few varieties of flavors and lots of toppings that you put on yourself. Then you weigh it and pay based on the weight. It was really good and we went at least once a week since that first time.

I then found out about another frozen yogurt place in Ames called Orange Leaf. My mom and I tried it out a couple of weeks ago. They have a ton more flavors-I tried red velvet and wedding cake. They were both really good and all the fruit toppings were really fresh. Also the building is really cool and very modern. I prefer it to yo2go.

On Friday night after the Fall Kill Exchange Nikki, Nikki, Sarah, Erin, Michelle, Jessica, and myself decided to try out a new to us frozen yogurt place in Ankeny called Lemon Tree. We took the van and headed there. I got peanut butter and cupcake flavors with some random chocolate toppings. It was also really good. I liked their variety of flavors. I do still think that orange leaf is my favorite so far.

Then today after the sad ISU game Michelle and I went to Orange Leaf today in Ames. As we were looking up the hours to see if they were still open after the game we discovered that there's one in West Des Moines that I'll definitely have to check out. Today I got a bunch of different flavors: peanut butter, white chocolate, red velvet, and wedding cake. I really liked the peanut butter-it tasted way more like peanut butter than lemon tree did. The wedding cake though I didn't like as much this time. It pretty much just tasted like frosting, which I was not really a fun of. Overall though the froyo was really good and I do think that it's my favorite place of froyo.

Here are some of the pictures of our wonderful trip to get froyo at lemon tree.