80s Party!!

K so i think i did not play dress up ENOUGH as a child.. i mean i did.. and always seemed to have some kind of "make up" on my face... but i just love any chance i have to dress up and help others as well!! My friend Carol had a birthday this last weekend and it was 80s themed... and requirement to dress up.. oh darn! Of course pete was working this day because he misses all fun parties like this! and Dallin was out of town.. so me and michelle had a whole day date! but the night was fiilled of pictures with friends, 80s kareoke- i sang some Madonna, Capri Suns, Ding Dongs and other food from the 80s. Overall it was a great time!! I am just so gratefull to have fun wonderful friends that enjoy dressing up with me too!!!





Ps... all of mine and michelle's items came straight from our closets!!! hehe

Been a while...

So the last month has been a lil busy for the Forsyth's!
Along with school and work we've been playing of course!! I have this new lil job i do on Saturdays which is just sorta perfect! i was just in the right place at the right time and i am doing these Volleyball Clinics in cobb county at the All Tournament Players Park. it is 4 weeks of 2 hr sessions with 5th-8th grade girls learning the fundamentals of volleyball! I figured hey.. i can do that!! and then i'm supposed to be getting trained one day to become a site supervisor and be able to help oversee the whole thing make sure the tournaments are running smoothly and watching over the other workers at the time (im a lil nervous bout that job.. but excited cause it will help BIG time for the future!!) But the volleyball clinics are with this high school coach from Woodstock High and she makes up the itinerary of what to do and i help! BUT last week i did it all by myself with the help of 2 high school girls. But anyways the girls are surprisingly good at volleyball and it has been so much fun!
Pete has been of course staying busy with his bball leagues and hes lookin into maybe getting us into a co-ed soccer league... idk if it will happen or not.. but i've been getting better at soccer from class.. haha someone actually asked me if i had played before in class today... and i laughed in his face!! But is all about improving!
We would also like to congratulate Brooke and Justin as well as Matt and Laura for getting Sealed in the Temple!! It was so exciting seeing both them with their pregnant bellies kneeling at the alter!
For Valentines Day we spent the day catching up on sleep (which pete needed desperately from a long week of work with like 3 house fires that he got to put out!!) went to a sealing and then dinner.. followed by the NBA dunk contest.. But our valentines presents to each other were our tickets to go the lovely island of HAWAII!!!! and i'm not excited at all to go!!!:):) hahah but that will cover presents for the whole year basically... birthday, christmas, anniversary.. good enough for me!!
But until next time... Remember to always be SMILING!!
Here are some pictures from hanging out with Amber in ATL and the Miss America Party! Michelle is such a natural! haha

PHOTOS FINALLY!!!!

ALL inclusive photos from December of 2008! Starts of with Flag football.. Pigeon Forge indoor skydiving and Magic Show... to Nashville and the Steelers game... to Pete's Dad's Funeral in Sacramento.. to Teasdale UT and the burial site... enjoy! sorry it has taken so long!! My computer just all of the sudden worked!

Busiest Christmas Yet!

Well as I had previously posted we found out that Pete's father passed away from Melanoma cancer in his stomach and brain. As it came a lot quicker than expected he also did not have to suffer. This also got to bring the family together which was so great! We flew out Christmas night to Sacramento and spent a few days catching up with all of pete's brothers and sister and their family as they got in town. This also included a couple fun card games and lots of food. The boys also helped make a new stable for the horses as the old one collapsed... it was way past its time! Pete and 3 of his brothers got to dress their father which was a very spiritual experience for all of them as his right elbow that was always a lil stiff and didn't bend well.. well it still didn't bend well! hehe they got a chuckle out of it, but we know his elbow is now fully functional up there! We had a viewing sunday night for 3 hrs at the funeral home... note to self.. viewings only need to be 1-2 hrs at max (i kept the kids busy with treats of course!) Then on monday we had a funeral service at the church which was perfect. All the kids got to participate.. Ray and Mike spoke, John gave the eugopgaly (from zoolander) Mary and Janice's grandma Sang "I believe in Christ" as well as the grandkids who sang Familes can be together forever. The song that probably touched me the most was our closing song (which i conducted.. oh boy..) "Each life that touches ours for good." The best part about the meeting was that it really made you think about how important our families are in our lives!
On Tuesday we ALLL drove to St. George which is about 12 hrs or so from Sacramento. Pete decides after playing a game of hand and foot with the fam.. that we were going to leave THAT night instead of waiting till morninig with everyone else! haha so we packed up our stuff and brought our 12 yr old nephew Mitchell and made our way! I had the worst part of the drive from 3-5 am through the Mojave desert... eehhhhhhhh it was just dark for miles and miles and i had to wind up and down a mountain going sorta slow too... it was interesting. We also stopped by Vegas at 8 in the morning and i drove round vegas for a couple hours. I also got to do a few slots... i didn't get to do any gambling last time i went to vegas cause i wasn't old enough! so we did like a total of 5 bucks our whole trip and didn't have any luck.. oh well.. We finally made it to St. George around 3 and ate some panda express for lunch.. then slept in nice hotel beds for like 4 hrs after that! haha When everyone else started catching up with us we went swimming at the pool/hot tub at the hotel which was so nice!!
Wed. (new years eve) we woke up and went to TEASDALE UT! haha aka middle of nowhere.. but it was very pretty and very country!! But we got there before the rest of the group.. again.. and we got to play in the snow and on a little playground right by the cemetary before the burial service. The service was great with the 21 shot sallute (whatever its called) with our little neice playing taps on her trumpet- which she taught herself how to play! i was proud of her! The service was shortly ended and we took a little walk through the town with the 3 town dogs.. haha who knows whose they were.. and had a lunch at a cool church building built in 1918. After a few goodbyes we then made our way up to happy valley and met up with my bro Dean and his girlfriend Natalie who we had never met before.. and we had a good time eating some hibatchi and went to a weird artsy party for new years eve... it was different- but it was fun. We also saw Grandma cheesman and mazy along with my uncles Ross and Jay and their wives which was a treat! Then we made our way more north to watch GA football with petes' best friend John Davis from high school and got a huge Iceberg milkshake!! mmmmmmm
Then back in the car again for the forsyths up to Hill air force base to visit Brooke and Justin! we acctually stayed with them an extra night due to my illness.. ehh i hate being sick and it doesn't happen often.. but mommy to be brookie took care of me! and then i felt alll better!! :) mom would be proud! And then it SNOWED .. well in UT it always snows.. and it was alot! and it left us a nice layer and frozen wiper fluids before we made our way back through the desert of Nevada, and over the Sierras back to Sacramento! But before our beautiful trip to Cali ended we had to eat at In- n- Out just one more time!!
We also ran into a few surprises on the flight home as we volunteered our tickets in Pheonix and got 2 free round trip tickets for later when we return to UT for the forsyth family summer camp out! But all in all it was a wonderful trip and thank you for all your concerns and prayers for the forsyth family! We love you all!!

(pictures still aren't working on my computer.. sorry! and i have some really good ones too!!- check facebook!)

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!