Black Friday

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year.

We spent it with my aunt and uncle in Alpine and there whole family. It was a lot of fun and reminded me of the Thanksgivings at my grandparents growing up. Lots of food, laughter and little kids running around!

Matt and I ventured out for some Black Friday shopping after.

Walmart was honestly crazy.

So were the outlets.

Luckily we got everything we wanted, after a solid 4 hours of standing.

Not sure if we are doing that again next year...

Date Night

Date night is something I look forward to all week long!

I love spending time with my sweetheart.

We decided to head over to the Riverwoods for the lighting of lights night.

I would say the busiest night ever at the Riverwoods.

We dined at Marleys which was delicious, minus the fact that this lady stood inches away from us staring and as I took my last bite she asked "Oh are you guys leaving?"

Like I said it was busy!

We also listened to a choir group play beautiful Christmas music.

They were great, we just didn't know who they were, but they definitely got us excited for Christmas!

We both thought it was so weird we hadn't really run into anyone we knew there. We spoke too soon of course and as we were walking to our car saw our lovely friends Jackie and Andrew. The 4 of us then enjoyed an evening of hot coco and games.

Now we are off to freeze our little tushies off at the BYU game.

Go COUGS!!!

Almost Break. . .

Can I just say Thanksgiving break is not coming fast enough!?

This week has been one of those weeks where you just pray you can make it through at least one more day. And this week I am extremely grateful for the power of the priesthood and marrying a man who is worthy to hold it. Its what has gotten me through my week so far.

I was taking a break from studying and all that jazz and took a gander at my lovely cousins blog. And that was definitely time not wasted. You will agree. . . Just watch this video and see for yourself.

I'm grateful that my trials deal with things like a tough week rather than the struggles Tessa Wingler deals with. Such an inspiration and shows the effect of a positive attitude.

Grateful

During class I occasionally get my phone out and look at facebook for a few minutes. This past week I have noticed that a friend of mine has been posting daily about different things she is grateful for, it being November and all, and because of her daily statues it would then turn my thoughts to different things I am grateful for and made me realize how lucky and fortunate I am.

So here are a few different things we are grateful for today. . .

1. Learning ultrasonic

(only my mother in law can probably relate...amazing!)

2. Dinners with EY - a day off cooking for me!

3. LA Kings Hockey

4. A comfy bed to sleep and cuddle in

5. The Amazing Race!

(Totes addicted. Go Snowboarders!)

6. A working heater

(getting out of bed in the mornings when it is 60 degrees is no bueno)

7. Our families

8. The gospel in our lives and our eternal marriage

9. We are also extremely grateful for temples close by to allow us to go often!

(Mount Timp)

And here are a couple of pictures from Halloween

We were nerds. So original right?

Lately

My grandma has been on my mind a whole bunch recently.

So I figured I write a little post about her. . .

She was my very best friend ever since I can remember.

We shared many fun times together and memories that will last me a lifetime.

She was the nicest person ever.

Every family dinner included more than just our family, she was so welcoming.

Her love was the definition of unconditional.

When my brothers would babysit me on "date night" I would call up my grandma and have her come pick me up. I loved spending every minute I could with her.

We had many tea parties and sleep overs. And with every sleep over was a trip to get an ice cream cone with my grandpa and a drive to the beach to eat them and look at the pretty ocean.

She is who I inherited my love for sweets from.

She was always such an example to me and such an inspiration.

( Not to mention her and my grandpa's story is the sweetest! )

She was one amazing person and I hope I can be half of what she was.