Thanks Megan & Court for the fun evening! And really, we should thank Elliot for the entertainment, since he really was a blast to watch and play with! We wore him out.
Saturday December 15, 2012
Clarks 2013
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Sugar Cookies & Roomies
We had a Christmas party with the ol' roomies... We did pizza, sang songs, and then made sugar cookies - and frosted them, of course! If only we could have parties like this more often. It's always fun to think about some fun days and then still keep up with the now days together.
Thanks Megan & Court for the fun evening! And really, we should thank Elliot for the entertainment, since he really was a blast to watch and play with! We wore him out.
Thanks Megan & Court for the fun evening! And really, we should thank Elliot for the entertainment, since he really was a blast to watch and play with! We wore him out.
Quick AZ trip
Warm - Relax - Sun - No coat needed - Sleeping in - Shopping - Swapping Presents
We took a quick trip to AZ between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so David could interview at Midwestern on Dec 11th. We did the 1/2 at dads and 1/2 at moms again as always. Here are a few pictures from our events...
Thanks everyone for hosting us and planning the fun activities :) It was nice to enjoy the slightly warmer weather. D was in shorts, I still needed a jacket and a blanket at night. I guess "cold" is relative...
We took a quick trip to AZ between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so David could interview at Midwestern on Dec 11th. We did the 1/2 at dads and 1/2 at moms again as always. Here are a few pictures from our events...
These were the gifts we packaged for the Everts clan - mostly food products from Utah like Stephen's hot cocoa, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, lion house rolls, flavored honey, salt water taffy, raspberry sticks.... YUM!
Dinner @ Briand & Justin's home
The McNeace kids (our nieces and nephew) - they grow so fast!
Chipotle with the other side...
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Festive at Home
Well, since Christmas is over I better get a few more decoration pictures up, right!?
We had a blast decorating, no shock there, and it took us 3 days to get it all up, also no shock. :) We had a little more than our usual decor thanks to Grandma Ginny and a few keepsakes. David is always excited for these holidays so he was ready to get stuff up right after Thanksgiving. I wasn't as motivated because of the tree - such a daunting task. Well, the cool thing was - apparently when we packed it away last year, we didn't take it all apart, but basically just shoved (lovingly) it back into it's box - lights and limbs and all. So David basically pulled it out and BAM, it was done!
Our outside lights are on a timer, and whenever we're home we turn on all the inside ones and I catch myself just sitting and enjoying looking at the tree and ornaments and decor. So when we someday have too many ornaments does that mean a) buy a bigger tree or b) it's time for some of them to retire? I already feel we could approach that decision in a couple years, am I old enough for that?! David's not :)
Almost all of the towns are from grandma, and we were very happy to get some this year! We have trees and light posts and even a few people - some may be a little too big for the houses, but that's how it is right? Plus we didn't get a full set, but just a bunch of random, but great, ones. We loved setting it up this year and are looking forward to having a future home with more shelf space so that you can really see the display. Our willow tree nativity set is almost complete, but its fun just having something to add to it later on. And then the santas are grandmas too. The pictures didn't get him all from his best angle (he he) but we love them and didn't have room for all that we have...
Merry Christmas! I know I'm late, but still needed documenting - along with a few other December events - to come shortly....
We had a blast decorating, no shock there, and it took us 3 days to get it all up, also no shock. :) We had a little more than our usual decor thanks to Grandma Ginny and a few keepsakes. David is always excited for these holidays so he was ready to get stuff up right after Thanksgiving. I wasn't as motivated because of the tree - such a daunting task. Well, the cool thing was - apparently when we packed it away last year, we didn't take it all apart, but basically just shoved (lovingly) it back into it's box - lights and limbs and all. So David basically pulled it out and BAM, it was done!
We made our own light pattern!
Our outside lights are on a timer, and whenever we're home we turn on all the inside ones and I catch myself just sitting and enjoying looking at the tree and ornaments and decor. So when we someday have too many ornaments does that mean a) buy a bigger tree or b) it's time for some of them to retire? I already feel we could approach that decision in a couple years, am I old enough for that?! David's not :)
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Recap on November
So since I didn't write about this, figured I would:
For Thanksgiving we went to the Evans' and Clark's - and had 2 meals within 1 hour. Ahhh, its sad that we really love all this food and yet can't eat that much of it. Jan's was nice with Jeff and Andy and a few other neighbors and relatives, but we couldn't stay too long. We made mashed potatoes that morning and took them with us to the Clarks. They were a HIT, so I've decided I inherited my Dad's whipped potato jeans :) First try too! We stayed at the Clarks most of the night playing, or looking at Black Friday ads (yeah that was me). We drew names for Christmas gifts and headed home to sleep so we could get up for a few quick Black Friday things.
First off, I was against the whole "let's have Black Friday on Thursday at 8pm!" Yeah, since I was a kid, Black Friday was on early Friday morning. But for some reason the last couple years it has creeped to Thursday. Besides that it sucks for employees, my problem is that I want to
1) enjoy my Thanksgiving, watch a movie and sleep well
2) get up early with only the very devoted shoppers rather than the young crowd that was there last year
3) not have to wait in line during my Thanksgiving meal
4) and just have the same tradition as usual
So it kind of made me mad, especially since our Black Friday last year wasn't too successful plus we had a 2 hour line and the DVD player we bought was on sale for less the next week! (oh yeah we totally returned ours and saved even more) Friday we got up at like 7am to check a few stores and see what was there since we really didn't need anything. BUT, we did find Christmas lights 1/2 off wahoo! And we got the BEST gift this year from my mom and Black Friday - an electric piano!!! It really is awesome, I have missed being able to play and sing for all these years.
And then we did the Benihana tradition with the Clarks - pictures of it all below. Surprisingly I don't think anything traumatic happened that day with them all, but good food of course!
And lastly we always decorate for Christmas during the Thanksgiving weekend, this year was no different :) And we had a lot to put out so it took us a couple days. Pictures up next.
For Thanksgiving we went to the Evans' and Clark's - and had 2 meals within 1 hour. Ahhh, its sad that we really love all this food and yet can't eat that much of it. Jan's was nice with Jeff and Andy and a few other neighbors and relatives, but we couldn't stay too long. We made mashed potatoes that morning and took them with us to the Clarks. They were a HIT, so I've decided I inherited my Dad's whipped potato jeans :) First try too! We stayed at the Clarks most of the night playing, or looking at Black Friday ads (yeah that was me). We drew names for Christmas gifts and headed home to sleep so we could get up for a few quick Black Friday things.
First off, I was against the whole "let's have Black Friday on Thursday at 8pm!" Yeah, since I was a kid, Black Friday was on early Friday morning. But for some reason the last couple years it has creeped to Thursday. Besides that it sucks for employees, my problem is that I want to
1) enjoy my Thanksgiving, watch a movie and sleep well
2) get up early with only the very devoted shoppers rather than the young crowd that was there last year
3) not have to wait in line during my Thanksgiving meal
4) and just have the same tradition as usual
So it kind of made me mad, especially since our Black Friday last year wasn't too successful plus we had a 2 hour line and the DVD player we bought was on sale for less the next week! (oh yeah we totally returned ours and saved even more) Friday we got up at like 7am to check a few stores and see what was there since we really didn't need anything. BUT, we did find Christmas lights 1/2 off wahoo! And we got the BEST gift this year from my mom and Black Friday - an electric piano!!! It really is awesome, I have missed being able to play and sing for all these years.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Fall Phone Pics
Well since I joined the $2.50/month group, I wanted to upload pics while I could...
Here are a few pictures from what we've been up to lately, from my phone:
Here are a few pictures from what we've been up to lately, from my phone:
Pumpkin and Eyeball Cakeballs
First game with our new Monopoly board
Pork Chops & Rice
We found boiled peanuts at the SLC Farmers Market - David's first!
Flowers growing finally in the late summer
I won an award at work - this is me with our CEO
Homemade salsa - seriously we have the best recipe if you want it!
Beef Strogenoff - yum!
Broccoli Cheddar Soup - one of David's new favorites
Just one of our usual FaceTime's with Sophie and her parents, awe!
Gelato and celebration of our 3rd engagement anniversary, thanks D!
Our new red and green light-bulbs
And we were all decorated by Nov 25 :) More pics on that to come
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