It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

Well last weekend we finally got our Christmas Tree! Every year while we are decorating our we make hot chocolate and this year we added candy canes to our treat while we were decorating. We also finally put up our lights. Of course we wait until the day that it finally decides to snow to put up our lights, but oh well we got them up and with the snow it is finally beginning to feel like Christmas.

Temple Square

Well it looks like I need to play some catch up. On the 6th of December we went to Utah for the night. We went down on Saturday, and came back on Sunday. It was fun to see the lights even though I was a little disappointed, they didn't seem to have as many lights as they usually do, and at that time there wasn't any snow. But it was still nice to get away for the night. After temple square we went to find a restaurant that said it served South American food. After being stuck in traffic a fourth of a mile from the restaurant for 45 minutes, we finally reached the sign and saw that they didn't serve Argentine food! So then we had to go find another place to eat. Thankfully there was a Sizzler right up the road on our way back to our hotel so we didn't have to wait to much longer to eat which was a really good thing because I tend to get grouchy when I'm hungry! :)

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving weekend was so much fun. This year we had Thanksgiving at my parent's house, actually it was at my brother and sister-in-law's newly finish house in the uncarpeted basement. It was so good to get to see everyone. My brother and his wife and little girl came up from California, and my other brother and his family, including his oldest daughter and her new husband came up from Utah. My oldest brother and family didn't make it to over on Thanksgiving, but we did get to see them the next day. Since everyone was up we decided to all go in together and got some family pictures of everyone. Then we are going to get a big picture and frame of the picture of my mom's choice to hang up in their house. I am such a slacker and didn't get any pictures while everyone was up but hopefully I will be able to post one of the ones that was taken when we get them back. Well that's it for now.

New Job

So I got a new job, I started on Friday and am really enjoying it. It is still pretty stressful because I am still trying to learn how to help and set up for the procedures and to do the charting, but I think I'm going to really going to enjoy it especially when I get more comfortable with how to do everything.

Getaway

So I am finally getting around to finishing off what we did last week. Thursday we ended up going to West Yellowstone for the night. Jason's parents have a time share through WorldMark. The company just opened up a new one in West this last spring, and we haven't been to it yet so we went for the night. The best part was that because it's off season we only paid like $30 for the night, and they are the type with Kitchen's it them. It was so much fun and nice to get away for the night.


When we left there was no snow, and by the time we got to West there was about 2-3inches.

These two pictures were taken in Island Park just outside of West Yellowstone.

Then when we got back on Friday we had nice surprise. My brother Krey, his wife Brandi, and their daughter Sereniti were up for a short visit. We actually knew that they were coming but my brother Jaden and his family didn't. They had some time so they came up for the weekend to help Jaden with his house. They got a lot done and it was so good to see them. It wasn't a very long trip, but they will be back up on the 22nd for a week so hopefully we will get to spend more time visiting with them then.

Christmas in November

Jason's work made him take off this week, because he has to start teaching a class on Monday, so he won't be able to take off any more time until next year. We thought about going away for the week but decided to stay home. So instead of going away we ended up getting Jason a dirt bike! Well that's not exactly how it happened. We had been looking at dirt bikes for awhile, trying to find a good deal. We found this bike on Saturday for a really good deal, and ended up going back on Monday and getting it. It is Jason's EARLY Christmas present. But of course when we tried to load it up, the battery was dead so we couldn't pick it up until Tuesday. After we picked it up we headed out to my parents house so Jason could ride it out in my grandma's field behind my parent's house. I borrowed my parent's 4-wheeler and went out with him. We had a lot of fun and think Jason is really enjoying it. That night we also ended up raking up our back yard. We made one really big pile in our back yard.



On Wednesday we went out and helped my brother with his house and of course Jason went out riding again!:) The rest of the week will be in a different post, but here are some pictures of Jason out riding. They were taken today because I forgot to take any pictures the first couple of times he went out so these are the first pictures of him and his very muddy new/old bike.

Halloween

Well, Halloween was very uneventful for us. We only had, like 5 trick-or-treaters, and then, of course, my niece and nephews. My sister-in-law brought down her kids before taking them to her mom's house so I could see them. The younger ones had fallen asleep on the way down and were not very happy to have been woken up, but it was still fun to see them all dressed up. The rest of the night was spent watching "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix"!


Julie, Kiaron, and Koden.

Kobe and Charlee