Saturday, November 19, 2011

October gone, November in the making....

Over two months!! Wow, I just cannot hit my once a month goal but I am getting closer. Where do I even begin in October? I feel like the month flew by! It was such a fun/busy month. And the trees and their leaves---oooo I could go on about the leaves forever. I LOVE living in Utah. And now we have SNOW!! I love the snow only because it means the holidays are almost here. These next few weeks means Thanksgiving, my birthday, and Christmas. What could be better!?

My sister and her husband and I all flew out to visit my mom over the first weekend in October. It is so good to see my mom and she always pampers us when we visit :) The weather in Arizona was still in the 100's! I just love the hot, dry heat. We went boating and jet skiing the first day we were there which was perfect. The rest of the trip we just hung out and enjoyed the time we had together. I wish we could see her more but she loves it in Arizona and we love it in Utah. I also got to visit my friend Holly while in Arizona. We had our normal lunch at La Grande and shopped our little bums off at Last Chance. I bought like 10 pairs of shoes!! My size was on sale for 1/2 off the already discounted price so most of my shoes were only $9 a piece!! I just couldn't help myself! Not that I need anymore shoes and I have no room to put them but o well! It was a surprise to Mike when I got home that I had a whole bag just for my shoes on the plane haha. Mike wasn't able to make the trip because he had school so I really missed him.  Two weeks later though was Mike's spring break and we headed off to St. George! We hadn't been back to the new house since May and we couldn't wait to go. Zac, Jordan, and baby Samantha were down there and Mike's friend Parker and his wife Bri and our friends Shawn, Ashley, and baby Cooper all joined us too! It was such a fun and well needed weekend! Jordan and I got to go on our bike rides and do a little shopping and we played LOTS of games! The week went by too fast but the next weekend I was making my way down to St. George again for our Wish 100 bike race with the girls. It was just a girls trip so I left Mike at home for the weekend once again. It was so much fun just being with all the girls though.

Halloween was next! I was an oompa loompa and Mike was, well, he didn't have a costume so we threw something together at last minute. He thought he was going to be in class all night so we grabbed a hippie costume from my dad.

And then November.... and we have officially marked 1 year of being married! Happy anniversary to us!! We spent the weekend up in Park City and stayed at the Chateau at Silver Lake.  It was so much fun just spending that time doing nothing again...just the two of us. Life has been so busy lately with school that we forget how much we love having nothing to do and hanging out just us two. Our anniversary also was the day my dad and my little brother won their first little league championship football game. We were so excited! My little brother is such a stud. Even though we drove down from Park City to West Jordan in a blizzard it was worth it to see them win and we wouldn't have missed it!

Last week Parker and Bri got married. The wedding was beautiful and we are so glad they are finally married! All of Mike's friends are starting to make the big move and get married which means more couples to hang out with!

I saved the big news for last. I got a new job at a public accounting firm in Salt Lake! No more Orem!! It is bittersweet but I am SO glad I don't have to go down to Orem in that construction anymore. It was making me insane! Mike and I are keeping our place in Draper until our lease is up in May but then hopefully we will get into a place of our own. I have house fever right now :) Our next few months will be just as busy, if not busier with the holidays and now my new work busy season but we look forward to every day of being together.

We did much better at taking pictures these past couple months :)

Taking a nap with Sam in St. George


Planet Play

Mike over coming his fear of roller coasters

Girls weekend in St. George

Happy Halloween!

Frightmares!

Our Life So Far