What a wonderful Holiday Season!

We really did have a wonderful holiday season! :) At the beginning of the season, we had to put up our awesome christmas lights!! Because we now have our own house to do that with! It's so silly what seems so exciting the year you first have your own house! It's magical!...and I am sure that it will someday become a chore, but it was exciting for now! :)
                                                         
                                                         
                                                         
                                                                  

Moose wasn't very helpful when we were raking leaves... He jumped in EVERY pile!

And we put up our Christmas tree too! :)

                                                                                                      

Thanksgiving was with the Kieffer's this year!

And then we went black Friday shopping!!!

Can't forget those Utes!!!

And Tara and I had quite the encounter with some wackadoodles on the train home.. :) Hi awkward man in our selfie...

AND CHRISTOPHER GRADUATED!! Yay!!! This is from our awesome family! Thanks Cindy Kay, Chandel and Cyrus! :)

  Don't know if this will become an annual tradition or not, but this year, I directed Herriman City's Community Choir! It was such a great time...and stressful! But we pulled it off with many thanks to all those who participated and helped!! :)

                                              

And what would Christmas be without decorating gingerbread houses!?!?! :)                                                               

                       

And here's some of the family joining in on the festivities! :)

Marianne and Mckay are building their first home! How cute!

Hey Cindy! Look over here, dude! :)

We got some Star Wars Mac N' Cheese for Christmas from Seuss and Grandpa! Yay for Mac N' Cheese on Sundays!

And...When cleaning one Saturday, Moose played king of the world...

AND FINALLY! After waiting for a month for our silly black friday purchase to be delivered, we finally got our new washer and dryer which ACTUALLY dries on the FIRST cycle! WHAT A CONCEPT! :)

And our annual Nativity with the Roylance's put us as an angel and a wiseman! It just happened to be the day of the Ute vs. BYU game and we weren't liked very much when the Utes won. I wore my hate to make a statement. :) You can also see my Utes shirt underneath...tee hee! It was also funny, because most of my cousins are BYU fans, but my cousin's husband Skyler and my other cousin Nate are some of our only allies in the family and those three were the wisemen. Grandma didn't really appreciate that comment. ;)

And here we are at our first doctor's appointment for our newest and greatest adventure! We're due on June 30th, 2016!!!! Yay! Right now, I think it's a boy. Christopher says that he thinks it's a girl! One of us will be right! 

Names we like as of right now:

Boys: #1-Lincoln, Clarkson, Graham and Jameson

Girl: #1-KelliAnn, Cambrielle

Yay! We're ready for a fun new year! 

Halloween Loving!

Hey! This week was pretty great! Halloween always brings a sense of fun and excitement! We decided to be rather "Incredible" for Halloween this year! We thought it was a fun and easy costume! Print out some logo's and put it on a Utah shirt inside out!

We also ran into the Alice in wonderland cast, a Smore, some bedtime buddies and a bunch of Star wars people!  :)

Watch out for the white rabbit! 

What? Movie Cross?

Look at the kitty in the tree!!!

Oh and we made some fun colored rolls for the Halloween extravaganza!

Later in the week, I got invited to a fun witches party! I LOVED that yummy food and fun treats! What fun! Look at this awesome friend of mine!!! :)

And Friday, we carved pumpkins! Just in time for Halloween!

Oh and Moose decided he needed to help too!

And...dun duh duh dun!!!! Here is our cute Mr. Snowman! :) 

And we needed to go to Costco. Look at how huge this thing is! Then that night we got to go to the Ward Chili Cook off which was great! :) And went to go hang out with family and watch Jurassic World! Still love that movie!

And for Halloween night, we watched the Utah game and played a new game called Gobblet! It's a variation on Tic-Tac-Toe and I really liked playing it! Then went and played a game at the Neff's and came home :) A great Halloween week! :)

Tonight we went to our family FHE where we talked about appreciation. It is the number one trait of successful marriages and family! We were encouraged to recognize the "invisible work" that our family members do each day! It was really great! We were able to talk about how when we are appreciated it helps us to continue on in a positive manner! :) There are so many wonderful things for us to be grateful for and especially being grateful for the people around us! What a great way to start off our wonderful November! A month of Thanksgiving! I got to make rolls again and it was kind of awesome! I love making rolls! I feel like it is the one thing I can actually cook! :)

Anniversary Weekend Away and Fun!

So! We decided that we would have an Anniversary of a lifetime! We wanted to have fun and to let it be about us and only us! We had so much fun!

First! We went to Thanksgiving pointe's Scarecrow Festival! We love this place so much! Such an incredible garden and it is a very fun place! These are a few of our favorites!!

Chewy was a little popular. We were able to get a picture far away, but too many little kiddos were in love with this guy!

We did have to stop by our favorite team to show some spirit!

And the heart is always important!!! :) Tin Man Love!

Look at this super cute burlap maze!!! It was so funny because we saw all these cute little kids going through it and they really were getting lost and we went through it without any trouble...because we could see the finish line from the very beginning :)

Darth...Scare...Vader!

And then we went and got some amazing Peruvian food at the food trucks near the waterfalls!!! :) They had an incredible stuffed potatoes! Never had one before and it was AMAZING!!! 

Umbrellas!!! :)

We checked into our hotel and then went to Senebello's Pizza for dinner! :) So yummy! These were our meat ball appetizer! So yummy!

And after they had an incredible and amazing gelato!!! Christopher paired a chocolate and berry! And I got a hazelnut with some pumpkin too!!! It was so incredible! Best ever!

And later after playing some wooly world at the hotel, we went to see The Off Broadway Theater's Laughing Stock Improv Comedy Show! It was great! I really liked it! They are quite great!

The next morning we had a great time shopping at the farmers market! We got some incredible tarts and asiago cheese bread.

And baklava!

Chow Mein!

Then we went to City Creek and played some of the awesome games downtown! :)

And then went to the best place in the city! It was my first live session! It was an incredible experience! I want to go back all the time!

And walking back to our car through city creek was an adventure! haha! Chrisfer looks great in this..weird...hat thing...

The fountains!

And!!! We saw my really good friend Kenzie and her husband! So fun!!! :)

And for dinner we went to Blue Lemon! One of my favorites!!! Christopher got the amazing pulled steak/rib something cheese sandwich. It was amazing! And I had some great chicken curry, but the butternut squash soup was TO die for!

And then Rita's custard for dessert!! 

And we had to go grab pumpkins at the pumpkin patch!!! 

Christopher is cooking up a fun idea for carving this year! He needed three pumpkins. Can you guess what he is making?

And the only really fun thing we did this last week was making caramel apples with Eric, Skylee and family! So much fun!!! 

We are having a great time this fall! Bring on the fun for the rest of this week! :)