October - last month before cold

We have been slacking on our blog, so here is an update for the past month. 

Matt has finally gone to a sleep doctor and has been working with specialists to improve his sleep. As part of this, he did an overnight sleep test at the University of Utah and he sent me this wonderful photo below of him after the techs had hooked him up for the night.

The test basically told us what we already knew - that Matt has sleep apnea among other issues. So now he will be going back to do another overnight sleep test, this time hooked up to a CPAP. We are looking forward to getting him a new CPAP with a custom fitted mask and the proper settings. I think Matt might be the youngest person to wear a CPAP - and let me tell you it is sexy :) 

I was given the opportunity to sing in the Saturday afternoon session of General Conference the first weekend of October. My stake, along with several other stakes from Sandy & Draper, put together a special family choir for this session. 

I loved the experience and the people that I met while doing it - although I ended up get a nasty head cold a few days before. My favorite part was sitting in the Conference Center after the session ended and watching everybody wave to President Monson as he walked out and waved to the audience. You just should have seen the huge grins on everyone's faces - they looked like little kids on Christmas morning. Being in the choir was a lot of work and a lot of time - not to mention the challenges it posed to me with the strict appearance restrictions - but it was definitely worth it!

Many people missed me as they showed me during the very first song so below is a screen shot from the session. I am in the bottom right with a dark blue shirt - next to a blonde lady.

Keri, along with the other 4 singers from the ward (Sister Rhay - bishop's wife, Brother Houggard, Bro. & Sis. Buhleman). Each ward was only allowed to select 5 singers.

Matt has been enjoying both BYU & University of Utah football this season. Since he is now a student at the U he has begun to appreciate the U and we even went to one of their football games. Below is a pic of Matt watching the game at the Rice-Eccles Stadium. He is sporting his new Steve Young jersey. His friend C-Bass hooked him up with a contact who gets authentic jerseys for cheap so we went ahead and got Matt 4 - yes 4 - new jerseys. He got this Steve Young 49er jersey, a throwback Gwynn Padres jersey, a white Phillip Rivers Chargers jersey and a Dwayne Wade basketball jersey. He is just lovin his new threads!  

We are looking forward to Halloween coming up - well I am mostly - since it is my favorite holiday. I had to spend almost 10 minutes this morning convincing Matt to dress up with me again this year. Initially he said no because my idea was "just too crazy" for him but thanks to my relentless persuasion he agreed to do so. I just have a great idea for our costumes and it wouldn't be as good without him. Stay tuned for pics of our fabulous costumes :)