Christmas Time is Here!

Things have been super busy this Holiday season but we have had such a fun time preparing for Christmas.

Grandma and I baked cookies and candy, I'm constantly listening to Christmas music, We've been to a couple Christmas parties with friends and family, and I was lucky enough to go see the "Christmas Carol" production at Hale Center Theatre with my mom and grandma.

I love decorating for Christmas, so not only did I decorate my house but I also decorated my mom's house and my grandma's.

I love the spirit of Christmas and I am so happy I have had such a good time celebrating Christmas this year! and it's not over yet! Christmas is just the day after tomorrow. :)

Here is our humble Christmas tree. It is 6ft tall and somewhat on the skinny side but we love it and the best thing about it is that it's fake. So there are no pine needles, no disposing of it, and it is totally the "green" thing to do :) I miss the smell of pine though so I got a pine scented candle and now my whole house smells like Christmas!

Belated Thanksgiving

Due to the fact that I still do not have a camera I have been unable to post about the wonderful Thanksgiving I had this year. My father-in-law has pictures of the whole family but we are having a hard time getting them via email.

I was looking through my phone the other day and found that I had 4 pictures from the Thanksgiving weekend. All of them are of me but at least I can document something. :)

Here was my contribution to the feast. I made a praline Pumpkin pie. I thought is was very good and it's probably because it was a Test Kitchen recipe. Test Kitchen will never fail you. FYI the side of the crust that is darker is just some of the filling that spilled out. I promise it isn't burned :)

That morning before we ate I did our lovely tradition of running the Cold Turkey 6K up millcreek canyon. It was fun to workout and hang out with the fam!

The day after Thanksgiving Jake and I left with his Dad and siblings, including Dan's fiancee, Lacey (whom I love!), for Escalante. We were there until Sunday and we had a blast! Jeff took so many amazing photos and I hope that I will get some soon but these are all I had. They are both of me and kinda silly but at least you can tell that we had fun!

Here I am crawling out of a hole and I think the look on my face is pure stupidity! haha

I dedicate this picture to Abbey, who was unable to come with us this year. Last year she laid across this same ledge and did this same pose as I took her picture. We missed you Abbey!