HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

I just wanted to give a shout out to the BEST mom in the world!! I mean seriously.. what mom would put up with all of us crazy cheesman kids!! haha I love you mom!!

my computer won't allow me to upload pictures at the moment.. sorry for the boring pictureless posts!!

Sad News

We found out this last saturday while in TN that Pete's dad Steve just passed away from cancer. We found out Thanksgiving that his dad had tumors in his small intestine and then bout 2 weeks ago we found out it was cancerous and that the tumors had spread through to his brain too. It was very surprising to us and happened a lot quicker than anyone had anticipated. But luckily we know his dad is happy now on the other side and that he did not have to suffer through the treatments of radiation for the next few months. His mom is keeping busy and doing well as well as pete and his sibilings. We will be leaving tom. night to leave to sacramento and the funeral will be the 28th and then we will make a 12 hr drive to st. george UT. and up to a burial site where pete's dad's familiy all got buried. We will then go up on the 31st for the burial in the afternoon then go up to SLC for new years and hang out with friends and family for a few days then we drive back to sacramento and fly out the 4th! It is definitely a much busier Christmas than we were planning.. but what more could we ask for for Christmas than to be with our family and the ones we love!!! Merry Christmas everyone!!

FInally a CHAMPIONSHIP!!

k so out of all the many leagues i've been in the last year and a half.. i've always gotten to the championship game.. but it seems more times than not always got runner up and never the actual championship! BUT... Thursday night for our flag football game the Jacobs Jaguars (thats us..) beat Auto Trader 27-21!! it was a very close game but it was so exciting!!! This team had previously had many troubles with fighting and getting too hot headed and such.. and they actually were the only team we had lost to in the regular season.. we were 7-1.. and there was acctually a fight that broke out at the end of our game! it was scary.. pete even had someone swing at him and they barely caught his lip! but it was intense! there was one guy on our team ready to take soemone out for doing it too! luckily it stayed somewhat under control after a few min and they just cut the game short.. Since i was captain i had a talk with them on Tuesday before the championship and told them how bad i really wanted to play them allll 4 quarters without tempers getting in the way.. and they held their end of the bargain and there were no quarells with the refs or the other team! it was sooo comforting! haha But both pete and I had great games.. We didnt get to do much on offense, but we both made major plays on deffense.. I had 2 interceptions in the 4th quarter when they were making runs down the field and pete defended the long hail mary pass at the end.. that the guy almost caught for the win... but pete batted the ball down for the win!!! It was soooo exciting!!! and we got a sweet trophy with a football on top! But anyways after a wonderful night we went home and packed to come on our vacation to Pigeon Forge with our friends Jeff Neff and Rachel Fairclough! More info and pictures to come!!:) GO JAGS!!!

CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE!!!

K so school is over for the semester.. i got pretty good grades! 3 As and 2 B s.. not too shabby i might say! The semester wasn't too draining.. it was a lot of work but it was sorta enjoyable! i mean i got to put on a softball tournament and play in it for class! as well as visit the GA dome, Cobb Energy Center, Turner Field and World Congress Center for that same class too! I did the Senior Day with elderly which was fun as i got to make balloon animals with them at my station, i learned kickboxing, aerobics, and step aerobics. I got to make a media guide for one of my friends on the womens basketball team. And got to sit through a crazy semester of world lit with a theorist/psychoanalysis for a teacher and read books like The Inferno, a bit of the Odyssey, and watch a bunch of documentaries i would have never watched.. my two favorite were "the King of Kong" and "God grew tired of us" i really enjoyed those and i was not expecting that at all!! But overall it was fun semester as i got to also go to Athens for a conference and really got to become better friends with my classmates!
Christmas time has also come as i have gotten pretty much all my shopping done.. i mean i just couldn't help but jump on that as soon as possible cause it gave me an excuse to shop! i have never thought of myself as a shopaholic or anything.. but i really don't mind shopping!! i just dont' have money... tends to be a problem sometimes! Anyways I have already started my christmas music listening all the time and got to make chocolate covered pretzels with my fellow husbandless friend (just for the day/weekend) Michelle! We also watched P.S I love you . .might as well since the boys were gone.. pete doesn't like Hillary Swank either..
Flag football has not finished yet.. weather has made it a lil crazy so who knows when we'll finish the tournament.. it might just all be on monday.. and hopefully we got to the superbowl and win it all!! :)
But i hope everyone else is enjoying this wonderful Christmas season as much as I am! I have gotten to read/hear a bunch of touching stories already that show others Christmas miracles and how Heavenly Father is always there to help you and answer your prayers! They are really touching and of course the scriptures always share the most special stories of them all!

I'll try and post some pictures later.. my computer is bein funny..

watch out stacy!! haha just kidding

K so i have a new camera and i got to take some pictures of our friends Steve and Leslie and their 5 month baby Hailey! And other fun things- i just didn't spend the time to edit like stacy does.. :

Peter goin after a reboundTurner Field
Collins Family

Tanks Gibing!

Well it's been nice having some days off school to hang out with friends and family! Me and pete went to my parents for our annual Pie night wed. with Dallin and Michelle where we have bunch of friends come over and bring deserts and pie and eat and enjoy our pie before you get too stuffed from thanksgiving! Then on thursday we got a typical Lawrenceville 2nd ward Turkey bowl game goin and it was some good times- minus pete working and couldn't come and i got a kink in my neck.. but it is always good to see the little kids getting involved with football and learning how to play. Pete did get to play football friday morning after he go off work and we got a good game goin on some astro turf at northview highschool and played the length of the field which is always fun! But both of us had some GREAT thanks giving dinners on thursday- at the fire station all the guys brought stuff in to eat and they had a big ol feast- so he didn't miss out too much by not bein home for thanksgiving!
But i'm greatful for my little fireman and for all the hardwork he does for our little family! We have been having so much fun lately! But i love him with all my heart. We are also so greatful for all of our great friends and family!!!
Our co-ed football league is going great- especially since we are undefeated!!! I also got to play softball last weekend for my Facility and Event management class- we put together a softball tournament to raise money for the Jerry Worthin Childrens charity to give money to kids at christmas time- and we raised over $1,000 for them!!! and another $1,000 for our sports management club! it was sweet! and we got to play- surprisingly our team was pretty good for being random people from my class- but we still lost to these GREAT teams who could hit homeruns everytime if they wanted to... I also finished my other big project for rec. and leisure class with a Senior Day with elderly seniors over 60 yrs old.. and we got to put on little activies for them to keep them active and it was a big success- they had a great time!! Now next week is just finals time!! wish me luck!

i'm locked in my house!

So pete has my keys in his car and pete is at work for the next two days... so therefore i should be doing homework, but i'm just going to blog instead!!!
So Nov. is always one of my favorite months cause the beautiful weather, football season, and my birthday!! whoo hoo! So for my 22nd bday i was actually away in athens from that monday till wed. afternoon at a Conference for GRPA- the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association. It was very cool cause it was all paid for by Kennesaw State, and my teacher was speaking at one of the classes, annd.. i got a ton of free stuff along with some good networking experiences! We had a good time! There were 7 KSU students total and we make a good impression wherever we go cause we have lots of fun but are pretty professional at the same time! But we got to hang out round athens both nights and watched the elections and got to see some crazy Obama supporters running around screaming with signs.. it was interesting/annoying... But what can ya do.. we just all need to get along now and make it work for the next little while!
I celebrated by birthday the sunday before i left for athens and it was just soo much fun! Dallin and Michelle Thomas came with us for dinner with the fam, and then Nate, Markus, Cory, and Mary came over and made a huge poster with all sorts of funny do-dads about me being "pregnant"- which im not... but it is just a fun joke they like to play. They had all sorts of baby names with storks and such and pictures of me and pete and fun drawings which made me laugh. But they put a lot of hard work into and i'm greatful!! Pete got me a sweet new digital camera which i love and i'm still playing around with- he's the best!! My mom got me a cute little sewing box kit and a book on how to sew skirts- This is going to be one of my new hobbies! :) Granny made me some homemade snowflakes she crocheted.. and they are really cute too!! But overall it was a really fun birthday and it all ended with a good game of cards! But thank you to all who wished me a happy birthday! I have some great friends and i'm very greatful!!!
It was also my little sister Kristi's birthday this last week and she is the good ol Sweet 16!! boys watch out!! she takes after her sister!! :)

Last night me and Pete got to go to my old roommate/teammate Amber's Senior night at University of West GA!! it made me sorta sad cause i could have been out there with her!! And there team is still not very good... haha which is also a bummer... but she played GREAT and so did the other senior also another one of my old Teammates/roommates Lauren Schmidt! But it was fun being with amber and her family again!!

So we also had our first co-ed flag football game on monday and we won! miraculously... but we won!!! i got to be QB for a little bit, but it was no bueno... haha i was not mentally prepared for the game cause i thought i'd have a vball game... but it got moved back to this next monday... but it doesnt matter... a W is all that counts! haha

But anyways this week has been crazy with elections and such... i had to vote a week early because i would be in athens- and i had to wait 3 1/2 hrs to vote!!! Pete voted on tuesday when it opened and he only waited for like an hour. .but we had to do our civic duties! And now we our 44th president is Barak Obama... as my friend nate said.. "if he's the one that makes the democrats and republicans work together... then it doesn't matter who it is!" which is true! lets hope it works!!! :)

"i'll make every last moment last as long as you're mine"

(picture of little girl at work- she's great- sorta reminds me of.. me!)

So We haven't posted in a while cause there hasn't been anything super exciting in our lives different than any other time... minus the fact that volleyball is going so much better and we are winning a little more since we have two setters and run a 6-2 and we have been playing much scrappier than before- it's been great!! Softball i have gotten back into a little slump after hitting quite well for two games or so.. but its hopefully behind me now:) Pete's basketball leagues are going ok.. he had quite a frustrating game where the ref tried to kick him out for asking "where was the foul?" and no swear words, no extreme yelling, invading personal space or anything! And he told him he's kicked out and it was still the first half of the game! It all got fixed and the other ref said he couldn't kick him out.. so pete got to go back in.. but still ended up fouling out-and their team had a chance to win but didn't make an easy lay up at the end.. so a little frustrating!

The two MOST exciting things we did get to do this last week was
1) See the UGA Bulldogs Football team beat the Tennesee Vols in Athens!
it was a blast! we rode up with our friends Matt and Laura Adams, then hung out with one petes friends from the fire station and their condo when they were tailgating. We got some tickets from a friend in high school that goes there and we ended up being able to go and sit really close to the band in the corner of the end zone- it was sweet! Even though we got alcohol spilled on us twice- we had some really fun people around us to watch the game with too- and we won! whoo hoo!

2) We went to see the play Wicked at the wonderful Fox theater which was A-MAAAZZZINNNGGG!!! Oh how i love the music and the story of Wicked! I think i had goosebumps through half the play as the singers were top notch and added humor and personality throughout. But i have about 4 songs that are my favorite : "the wizard and I" "Defying Gravity" "As long as you're mine" and "For good" all are songs sung by Elphaba .. cause she's got the best voice- even though i was VERY impressed with Glinda's voice in the play.. she was just spectacular! But i sing these songs all day long in my head.. and sometimes a lil out loud.. and sometimes a lot out loud.. i just can't help myself!
But we had a great time with our good friends Mark and Noelle Brondau as we ate at RouSans- a sushi place in Buckhead which was also good and had a good price too! then following the play got ice cream at McDonalds!

3) Whit Tutt=My best friend ever since i was in 3rd grade, is leaving me for 18 monts to serve the Lord on a mission in Porto Rico! I am so excited for her but will miss her! She gave her farewell talks on sunday which me and pete attended and tomorrow me and whit and our good friend nate are going out for brunch before she leaves this weekend to head out to utah for the MTC! But we sure have had so many fun times together which make great pictures and stories! But i love her so much and couldn't be more excited for this decision in her life!!


till next time!

good food, lots of laughs

Well life has been great for the Forsyth family. Classes are going pretty well for me at Kennesaw and i am really enjoying my new professor i have for 2 classes. I have told a lot of you about him and how many hook ups he has and the many places he has traveled for free! We get to go back stage and see how the facilities are run at a few places downtown too which is exciting like the aquarium hopefully, Phillips, Georgia Dome, World Congress Center, and Turner Field. We are also setting up a co-ed softball tournament for a fundraiser for the class/major and also for charity which will be really fun! For another class we also have to put on this Senior Olympics type deal or even a carnival or Great race type deal with people over 60 which will be lots of fun! Another one of my classes we are learning how to teach aerobics and learning all sorts of fun moves. And my World Lit class is still quite strange, but sorta easy so far. Pete has been busy working, for his part time job as an EMT he got to get paid while watching 2 highschool football games this last weekend which was great. We also got to go to another firemans wedding down in Mcdonough then followed up with watching some UFC fighting at a friend in the wards house. Some might think it is disgraceful to watch these fights.. but i find quite a bit of entertainment out of them by making fun of them the whole time! haha AND supposedly in Joseph F. Smiths biography he was definately a boxer lover and no one was allowed to enter his office on Wed nights when boxing comes on... so obviously it isn't too bad!? well if anything it was a good excuse for good food and lots of laughs which i'm always down for!! Well anyways hope everyone has a good week! Our volleyball league is starting up on Monday and we have a new league on Wed. for softball that is harder.. and we lost our first 2 games... but we can beat these teams! No more losing!

"Why I didn't make the Olympics"

Mom you wont' like this one. Dallin and Michelle showed us this and we thought it was great!

Local Area Connection!!!

Woooo hooo i got a computer again!!!! Me and pete have been quite sad without the easy access a computer has. We even used a phone book one time to look up a dairy queen (and the phonebook was wrong!) But I finally just decided to get one off ebay cause the guy from craigslist didn't reply fast enough. But with shipping and everything it ended up being $291... not bad! we didn't want to spend over 300 so we reached our goal. And hopefully in the near future we will be buying a nice macbook from my cousin. But i am quite pleased with this computer and nothing was wrong with it! the only thing that was bad switching to a new computer is i thought i had my pictures and some things backed up from my last computer... but when i tried to restore it to this new one.... of course it didn't work. But oh well i do have most of my pictures that i need on facebook. I also have to get all my music back on but at least it can be filtered a little better to the music i really want instead of a bunch of music i never ever listened to!
Anyways school has started for the elementary school and ASP has the new kindergartners who are quite cute... but it is a little annoying due to the fact many are spoiled only children who still act like they are babys. One girl has even pooped her pants EVERY single day of this week! and she hasn't had clean undies in her book bag since that first day! We are so fed up with how these parents didn't get this girl a little more prepared for school. I totally understand when it happens every now and then as an accident.... but every day! today she even had an accident right after she was IN THE BATHROOM! seriously it stinks.... literally! but she is still the cutest girl ever even though she might be a lil stinky.
To respond from last post.. Pete's team did win the championship game last wednesday and they creamed the other team as well! It was great! And our softball tournament will be starting the 25th as we will also be starting a NEW softball season at a different park on wed. nights. So we will be double timing it! But i love being involved in sports regularly again! I feel like i've been a part of a team as me and pete watch the olympics every night and almost every morning now since i haven't had classes just yet! This equals just lots of watching TV (which i am doing while typing this! go USA!) I just love the olympics and all the great stories of the athletes!

trek, welcome to the us, new laser show

Well we haven't done too many exciting things lately since the last blog, but we did get to go up to Dalton GA to meet up with the Youth of our stake (Atlanta) and Marietta East stake for a pioneer trek where the kids pushed handcarts and had their own families and companies to take care of while the adults were their grandparents who weren't supposed to do much of the work, but walk. The kids ended up hiking in the mountains of GA for 21 miles over 2 days and the last day was testimony meeting and clean up day. Pete and I met up with them on the second day and hiked about 5 miles to look for them and then finally a truck caught up with us to give them their snack for the day and then we drove around in the back of this truck going super fast round these tight turns in the mountains overlooking deep drop offs... we said our "i love yous" just in case we fell out! But we finally got the right directions- due to the fact we were not told about one of the turns we needed to take! Finally caught up with them and then hiked the next five miles with them. I enjoyed it quite a bit as I was just in need of the exercise! Pete was there to be a "floating EMT" to make sure no one gets dehydrated and mend wounds. The only thing he had to do the whole time was tape up some girls knee after she biffed it when her foot got caught on the rope.

It was mine and Pete's first official "camp out" together and we got to use our tent again! but we did not sleep well due to the super hard ground that killed my back! But it was an experience anyways. After we got home we got to enjoy an evening with Whit and her family as Yvonne Tutt (her mom) finally got her citizenship in the US!!! whooo hooo! so we had a big ol party for her and whit and nate trust got her some fun festive things on sale from 4th of July to give to her.

This last weekend after a full weeks worth of work, softball, and basketball we got to play with some friends! After a sweltering hott game of tennis... THAT I WON!!! (1st time ever!) we went to Frontera and Stone Mountain with Dallin, Michelle, Jeff Neff, and Rach Fairclough and also met up with Nate and the King sisters at the laser show. The new laser show itself is quite dissapointing... i like some of the new things like how they put a few more songs in, but i don't like how they took some of the old fun sing a longs out... AND worst of all they switched the version of "devil went down to GA" to some rock singer and I really did not approve. They also added this thing that lasted forever with the chic fil a cows that did impersonations of all these movies like pirates 3, gone with the wind, and some others i don't remember and it was cheesy and made you chuckle.. but overall sorta lame. And to end it all they have i think it was charlotte church (good singer right!?) sing the national anthem but they used a version with a 2nd verse she made up to go along with todays society and it just went on and on and on! But it's stone mountain.. and they still have the Dixie song and the civil war stuff with the sword breaking part.. so once that goes... idk how excited i'll be to go to the show anymore!

Anyways Saturday Pete worked and i had nothing to do but... to read the new twilight book Breaking Dawn... yeah and i finished it that night. So i read from 10:30 in the morning with a few breaks till 1:00 that night and finished all 750 pages! it was just superb!!! I was very pleased with the book and the closure and the new exciting things that happened and it just made me so happy!!

Then sunday after church i got to see Lindsay and Alysa who i haven't seen in a long time and whitney was there while pete and nate got to play their ping pong games like they always do- it is quite competitive!

Work this week- got to watch space chimps- sorta lame (i liked walle better) just got done with Mountasia with put putt, arcade games, go karts and bumper boats- but they weren't working :( Pete has also gotten another fire lately in which he got to punch out a window to let some smoke escape and one where lighting hit a house and he had to move out a crispy motorcycle and cabinets out before they took out the roof and drywall like usual.

Sports- we are tied for 1st for softball and kickin trash lately- Stacy has aided our teams winning twice now and done a great job when we need her as a sub (and i got to play 1st like old times!!) Pete is going to be in the championship game tonight in the hammond park league and i really hope he wins cause they always do so good in the season then loose the last game... so hopefully that's not the case this time!

Well that's it! only two more days of nannying for me before the kids start school up again and i a back to ASP (after school program)!