November 2014

November.....was fairly normal. I was taking Spanish 1010 this semester so life seemed REALLY busy. We hosted Thanksgiving again this year, but this time with my family. Thanksgiving was so late this year it really felt odd. So here you go, our November adventures!


Allan has been going to Crossfit for sometime now and has been getting stronger! We're trying really hard to live healthier lifestyles, and for him this is how we works out. :)

Granted, living healthy is hard so every once in a while, we need a deep fried fix. :)

I made some new thanksgiving decor for my house. Love these banners.

We went to a silent auction the YSA ward put together for a fundraiser, and I got these SUPER delicious cupcakes that looked like a tv dinner.

 Just enjoying a lovely fall day

Veteran's day! We always go out to eat, and this year was so no exception...

After a dinner and games party with friends we got the lovely opportunity to drive home through the canyon in the snow. NOT my favorite thing in the world.

A new fall wreath for my door:

 Cotton Candy!

 We finished our laundry room project in November, but I already did a whole little diddy on that project here....

Thanksgiving prep! I made my favorite cranberry sauce and a brine for the turkey.

Our thankful turkey with thankful thoughts from everybody on it.

 Rusha!

Games while we waited for the food to be done...

The golden bird.

My favorite thing about fancy meals is getting to set the table all fancy like. :)

All the girls went out shopping early for Black Friday. Gotta start them young!

Fun times with Rusha and Sammy!

We went to visit Allan's mom and she had the most adorable kitten....

And that folks, was November! On to December!! :) Just a warning, I think I'll do December in two chunks....just so it's not so long. ;)

October 2014

I really want to be a better blogger, but have felt that I can't post anything current until I get caught up. So this is me, trying to get us caught up. :)

After a very eventful September, we tried to keep October decent.....well, that sort of worked. We just like to be social, so we tend to be busy....

Here's October in a nutshell:

We watched the USU vs BYU football game....it was intense, and then the BYU QB got hurt and it was sad. :( but we had fun watching it together!

 Beautiful Fall scenes at my office:

 We went to our very first WSU football game. We didn't win, but it was a fun game regardless.

 I got to spend some one-on-one time with Sammy. :)

I ended up in the ER at the end of the month because of some weird hives I was getting. They were out of control, and we still don't know what caused them....

a cute sign I made for our house:

For Halloween this year I went as a super hero (Galaxyia) and my husband went as my arch nemesis villian (Black Hole). We had way too much fun.

Lindy sent us a picture of herself before she went trick or treating, she (like most little girls her age) went as Queen Elsa. :)

There you go! October in a nutshell! We had fun times with friends and family and started to gear up for the holiday season.....on to November!

September 2014

I am determined to get caught up, and there's lots to tell you. You got a spoiler last post and so you can probably imagine that September was quite the exciting month for us. But I digress. Let's start at the beginning shall we?

 At the very beginning of the month we went with the Moores and Daelynn (not pictured for some reason....) to the Ogden Temple Open house. This is such a gorgeous temple and I feel so blessed to have so many temples in easy driving range for us. We had a glorious time.

 Sammy was extra cute in the little mini museum thing they had where they had a replica of the Christus on display.

 Also at the beginning of the month (right around the 6th, Daelynn's birthday) we went up to Brigham City's Peach days. We let Lindy ride on some carnival rides (Sammy didn't want to ride....) and two cousins had a glorious time.

Allan and I had the opportunity to help our youth get ready for the Youth Cultural Celebration that was the night before the temple dedication. It was an amazing experience and we loved getting to be a part of it!

 In the middle of September I took Daelynn up to Rexburg to start her first semester at BYU-Idaho. It was a fun day. :)

Rexburg Temple - right by Daelynn's Apartment

Daelynn is officially a student!

Daelynn in her dorm!

 This was the last rehearsal we had with our youth right before the celebration...so much work!

 Lindy was still in UT during September before heading back to Canada and so we went out for Pizza....

Most of our youth right before the cultural celebration began. They were amazing and it was such a neat experience to be there with them!

On the last weekend we had Lindy before she left, she and I made a bunch of Halloween decorations for the house. Spiders and Ghosts, oh my!

We also got to go to Sammy's 2nd Birthday Party. It was Daniel Tiger themed. :D

Rusha was obviously thrilled with all of the celebrating...

 On our last day with Lindy we were able to get Allan's sister Liz to take our family pictures for this year. I played around with some fun editing things in Photoshop and am quite happy with how they turned out. Here's a small sampling:

Finally the last thing we did in September, on the very last day to be exact, was to sign a bazillion (more like 150+) pages to close on our condo.

We are very happy to officially be homeowners and as you saw previously, have already started on the home improvement projects. :D

And that, my friends, was our September. Very eventful. Now hopefully to get up-to-date with our lives....stay tuned!!!