Christmas at the Carroll's

We celebrated Christmas early down at Matt's house.

It was quite the eventful day!

Baking, lunch, Wii gaming, movies, games, delicious dinner and lots of family time!

Jen (Matt's sister) and her family came for dinner and all the Christmas festivities.

We had a blast with the games Jen planned for us and having Santa call the boys and even visit them!

And our sweet little Mason made us our very first ornament for our future tree!

Wicked

One of my early Christmas presents was to go see Wicked!

I was so excited!

Matt was too but this was his second time.

I would highly recommend going to see it to everyone!

Quite the interesting crowd walking around the streets on Hollywood.

Wicked was absolutely amazing!

The singing, the dancing, everything!

Our Glinda totally stole the show though. She was incredible!

Oh hey Hollywood!

Beach Day

We had to take advantage of the beautiful weather down here and took a walk on the beach. The weather was quite perfect during our stay!

So clear and so warm!

Matt's so presh isn't he?

It's Official!

I am now officially a "Carroll"

We left a little earlier than planned to CA so we could change everything over.

(Due to the fact that the lovely people lost our request to get our marriage license.)

It was quite the experience!

Upon changing everything over, while we were at DMV I was informed I had to retake the driving test.

Lovely surprise.

I passed thank goodness.

Needless to say we are very excited to now get my passport and get ready for our "honeymoon" cruise!!

Hello Cabo!

Stressed to the Max

Things are getting pretty stressful around the Carroll home. Emma is slammed studying for all of her finals this week, and I am finishing up end of the semester projects and beginning to study for my finals next week. So once Emma finishes up and starts celebrating I will be the lucky one starting to take finals. Needless to say we are both looking forward to having another semester done and under our belts. We each will have 3 semesters to go until we both graduate.

We are both super stoked to be heading to California for Christmas. It is freeeezing in Utah (currently a blistering 19 degrees, with a low of 7 tonight). Yah not too much fun. Also, I just got over my head cold, and Emma is now just starting to feel symptoms :( All in all we are just a super happy house right now!!!

Here is a picture so you understand how cold it feels outside:

I Swear I Can Cook

As some of you may know, or have experienced, or have heard me complain, our oven burns everything. For the first while I completely took it personally.

The breaking point was the day before Thanksgiving when I needed to bake things of course. And yet another batch was burnt, even though I set the oven 50 degrees lower and baked it 10 minutes less than the what the recipe called for. I was so frustrated. So frustrated in fact I emailed our landlord right then.

Long story short:

Someone came out to look at it. He informed us that our oven is 100-150 degrees too hot and that one of the burners is always on apparently.

And with that our landlord decided its time for a new oven!

Hallelujah!