Activities committee decorations

Chris and I are on the Activities committee for our ward. We were assigned the decorations for the ward Christmas party which is on Friday. We went through many stores to get ideas and finally settled on this idea. we bought all the pieces and then spent most of the day on Saturday putting them together.

before we put them together

the finished product with the lights
Pugslee exhausted from "helping" also known me screaming NO five hundred times as he tried to eat what we were putting together

stacking them in boxes

another finished one without the lights

Chris smiling while helping me put these together

Wonderful... eh!

So I have a final tonight in DRAPER... and I turn around and look out my window.... and it's fricken blizzarding... NICE. it's only 10:30 by the time 5 rolls around I may not even be able to get there... ugh. not to mention the fact that the last time I tried to drive off the hill in a blizzard I went down victory road SIDEWAYS. Hopefullly it calms down...I have to take Pugslee to the vet at 3, so hopefully by then I can get off the hill, and hopefully by five I can get to Draper.

The view or lack there of (now) out my window

picture from the opposite side of the building
Looking down from my window....

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, we went up to Idaho. Margie cooked a big Turkey and we had sooo much food. Chris and I brought Sam with us, it was a lot of fun. Margie and I cooked and Chris and Sam watched TV and talked. Chris did offer a lot to help out though, he was very sweet. We just goofed around and cooked and then had a great meal... the day went so fast though.. it always seems like it goes by so fast. by 8 that night we were all beat from cooking and eating and driving... so we went and checked into the hotel. Here are pictures from our great day.

Gerald and I... what can I say... he loves me

Sam, Chris & I
Chris & I

Margie, Sam & Chris

MMMM!! my favorite! Pistachio salad that Margie makes....

Margie & I

Chris & Sam

Margie and the Turkey... this made me laugh so hard.....

Jazz VS Memphis

So Chris and I went to the Jazz Vs Memphis game. It was a lot of fun. We have not had a date night out in a really long time. So it was nice to be able to get out and have some fun. We went to Crown Burger afterwards too. We were supposed to go home and finish getting stuff ready to go to Idaho.... but after all the excitement from the game and then the yummy greasy food... we passed out. Here are pictures from the game.

Chris is proud of this picture, he got it as the firework went off..

Here is my favorite part of the Jazz .. Deron Williams
Fighting over the ball

Nice action shot....

My man Deron again... believe me there were a lot of him... didn't want to seem like a stalker though... LOL

This is what Chris drooled over during the game... I had Deron... he had the jazz girls...

Jazz mopped the floor with them.. wahoo... GO JAZZ.

Thanksgiving & Tree decorating.....

On Saturday, Chris and I went and had Thanksgiving dinner with his mom, brothers and sisters, and Cecil and his family. It was way fun. Good food and then everyone was watching the BYU and Utah game. UTAH WON!!. While Chris was watching the game, I did a puzzle with cecil's daughters and Anne. Then after that Chris and I were going to decorate the house and our tree. He told me I had to wait until after Thanksgiving, but, he never specified which one. hee hee. So we came home and decorated, and then had ice cream and watched National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, or at least we tried. It had been such a long day, that 10 minutes into it we were both sound asleep. Here are some pictures.

Putting the tree together

Chris
Me

Puckering up...

The finished tree

The 2008 ornament we got on our honeymoon

My little candle holders all decorated.... I love how they look

Twilight.....

So The movie for twilight finally came out this weekend. I had been waiting since May when I finally became a "Twi-hard". I LOVED, LOVED , LOVED it!!! The book is certainly better, but they did a good job with the movie. they stuck to the book, you just don't get to see everything obviously, there is not enough time for that. We had a huge group that went. Sarah & her aunt and cousins, Carla, Kellie, April, Amanda, Chris's sister Anne and some of her work friends & of course, Chris. He was one of only a few men who went and he is the best husband in the world for letting me drag him. Also I made him come with me and see it again on Sunday. I loved it even more the second time.

The girls at the pre show festivities

Kellie & Lala
The best husband in the whole world

the girls while we were waiting in line to get into the theatre

Lala making a face at the nasty smell in the theatre

Lala & I

Amanda just getting there... we had an extra ticket at the last minute

I had so much fun at this movie. Chris took some pictures of Anne and her friends as well, but he didn't focus them so I couldn't use them.

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas

Today was a blizzard. This is what my work looked like when it was done. I cannot belive it went straight from a blizzard to sunshine. I guess that's Utah for you.