California Christmas party!

Cutest baby Afton

We played Minute to Win It... Wreath Toss

Cup stack (notice the 2 cups stacked together in the second row, oh that was funny)

Golf ball stacking

Candy Elevator

Ball balance

Booty shake (our favorite) You have to shake the golf balls out of the kleenex box tied to your bum.

Another favortie, get the cookie from your forehead to your mouth without using your hands

The elephant march. Put a golf ball in a pair of panty hose and knock over empty soda bottles

We went to Rosemary's

We ate dad's biscuits and gravy

Bryan helped Caleb build an F-16 out of paper

 We played with moms new Aladin and Jasmine dolls

 We had a mini Chistmas program

 Mom got the magic sword from Ben

 Ben thought it was a great idea, Janae did NOT

 Mom opened the rest of the gifts with her sword

 Merry Christmas from CA!!

Our own little Christmas

We picked out a tree!

The tree man gave it a fresh cut.

Bryan carried it up 3 flights...

Our first Christmas tree!

We ate a "Jerusalem Dinner" for our Christmas dinner.

Fish, bread, goat cheese, oranges, grape juice

We got a griddle from the Baldwins!

Knife set from the Baldwins!

Our Temple! From the Mackeys!

Joy!! From Mom

Bryans gift to me, our own tree.

Bryan got some new ties

Merry Christmas!!

Minute to win it and turkey comas

We spent Thanksgiving at Bryan's dads house with his brother Derek (the one sleeping under the pool table) and his sister Nikki and her husband Tanner and their baby Jett. It was delicious and fun. We played "Minute to Win It" after our food had settled and then passed out on the floor for turkey comas.  Of course I forgot my camera so I'm lacking quantity and quality photos.  I love Thanksgiving. Food and family and naps, what else is there?

New Addition

It finally happened. The day I have been waiting for. The day I no longer fear recipes calling for creamed sugar and butter and "stiff peaks" of whipped cream. I can make bread, meringue, and frosting with lots of powdered sugar. She is perfect, she is white and clean. She is not bright or flashy. She's not cinnamon red, bay-leaf green, or pistachio. She will always match my kitchen and look classy. She is my Kitchen Aid. I shed a small tear as I put her up on my counter and devoted that corner of valuable counter space to her. So while my other friends are blogging about their baby's chubby wrists, I am blogging about my stand mixer. And I love her. 

Happy Married Halloween!

Most holidays are better married I think. I haven't been through many of them yet but I'm just guessing that's true. The one exception to this might be Halloween. Halloween has been my favorite holiday for the last few years. Probably because it was so fun at BYU and with my crazy roommates. But in the single world, Halloween is your excuse to wear something crazy and break out of your shy-bubble and talk to lots of guys. And it worked, I met Bryan last Halloween and now we're married so this holiday was pretty special to us. We wanted to go all out and dress up etc. but good costumes usually take a lot of time/effort/money which we're running short on these days. We did come up with a cute idea that wouldn't take a lot of resources. (See our t-shirts below, I'm pumpkin, he's pi, get it?)  So we put on our simple costumes and got all ready to go and went....  nowhere. We realized we couldn't really go to our single friends parties because single people don't want to hang out with married people and we don't really have any "couple" friends yet (we're working on it) and we don't have kids to take trick-or-treating. It was a pretty funny realization. We did walk over to our ward Trunk or Treat and talk to the few people we knew. But mostly we went home and carved pumpkins and ate soup. It was perfect. I still love Halloween and being married.

Surprise!!!

Bryan is a Utes fan. He used to go to all the home games but this year he is a poor married student so he just listens to them on the radio.  Then one day at work the idea popped in my head that I should surprise Bryan with tickets to a Utah football game so I got on KSL and found a guy selling his season tickets for that game in a great location.  So I sneaked out on my lunch break and bought the tickets! We had planned to go to the Salt Lake Temple with our ward so I packed a bag filled with warm clothes and hid it in our car.  As we got back in the car after the Temple Bryan said something like, "well what should we do next?" and I said "lets go to the football game" and handed him the tickets! His face was priceless. He just sat there and stared at the tickets. Too bad I forgot to get a photo...
But I did get this one of him during the game. Can you tell he was excited? It was a great game mostly because the Utes won which was pretty rare this season.
I loved surprising Bryan and it was a great night until our car got towed. But that's a long story. The bottom line is NOT to park in St. Paul's episcopal church on a Saturday night, they will tow you. And it's expensive.

It was a great game and Utah beat Cal Berkley. I just loved seeing Bryan so happy.