Tis The Season

I absolutely LOVE the holiday season! Fall is my favorite part of the year, followed closely by winter. Plus, all my favorite holidays come right then: my birthday, Trevor's birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas. What's not to love, right? So we are trying to live it up as much as possible. Here are some of the fun things we've been up to:

We bundled up at 2:00 in the morning to watch a meteor shower. I think we missed peak watching hours, but it was a lot of fun. The picture isn't very good, though, because the only light was from our car headlights. Sorry!


Trevor cooked his VERY OWN turkey this year! Even though we went to his parents house for the real feast, Smith's had a great $6.00 deal on turkeys and he couldn't turn it down.
Posing with the bird. Isn't he cute?
All ready for the oven.
The finished product. Sadly, I was at work the whole time and got home just in time to see it like this. But I have to say, the house smelled amazing and it tasted even better. Turkey attempt #1 was a success.

And, last but not least, we got a Christmas tree last night. All the trees were $23.00 at Smith's Marketplace (we love that store!), so we decided to get the most bang for the buck. It's a little fat because we gauged it by the size of our lovesac and I think we underestimated the space in our little corner just a little. But it was so fun to decorate and our whole house smells like Christmas. We are both so excited for all the festivities and family time ahead.

Let It Snow...

Most people know that Trevor and I LOVE snow. Since I was in California 2 weeks ago and missed the first official snow of the year, today was my make-shift first day of snow. We decided that in order to celebrate, we should go touch it. We drove up to the Y Mountain trailhead since that was the closest place we could find.


There was about an inch or two of snow everywhere we looked. We got to touch it, we ate a little (it was yucky), and reveled in its beauty. We are both so excited for the real snow to come this year and all the fun that it brings with it. Happy first (or second) day of snow!!

Projects

This past month has been so busy for us. Trevor has had tons of homework and school, while I have been working and traveling. My mom and I went to Napa Valley, California, for a week to see family and some amazingly beautiful countryside. This past weekend, Trevor and I went to Idaho for a cousin's wedding and had a blast. But in between all the craziness, when Trevor's studying, I've been working on some projects to keep myself occupied. Here are a few of the most recent ones.

This one is an older one, but it's one of my favorites. :-)

Here's a close-up so you can see the design pattern behind the letters.

We found this shelf on KSL for $10. Trevor's mom helped me refinish it, and I love it! I love that I have the time to be able to do all these projects and that my sweet husband helps me with all the power tools needed to make some of them. He's the best.

My First Blog

Personally, I've always been anti-blog. Not because I don't like them (I get sucked into them all the time), but because I had nothing to write about.
Today, however, I read a book about a guy who blogged (Brianna, My Brother, and the Blog--it was great), I watched a movie about a girl who blogged (Julie and Julia--loved it!), and talked to friends about their blogs. After all this blogging, boredom took the reins and I decided to blog. So here it is: My first post on my first blog. Exciting, right??
I'm sorry I don't have a good story or anything like that to report...hopefully the next one. For now, I'm just excited to have gotten our wonderful pictures from Carissa! She is one of my good friends from high school beginning her photography business. It's called Dulce Photography and she is amazing. So fun, so knowledgeable, and the pictures looked great. Here are a few of my favorites.