Turkey Day

This year we made the drive to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with my dad's side of the family. My parents went, too, and Brooke and Greg already live out there. It was so much fun to be with everyone!(too bad Brandon wasn't there, too) We had a wonderful dinner at my Aunt Emilee's home.

 

Sisters!!

I made a pumpkin pie and an apple pie the morning
 of the day we left. I transported them in a cooler to Utah. They survived the trip!!

 

 

This year was the first Black Friday since I can remember that I did not go to a single store! Instead, we went to breakfast with my parents, went to the Provo temple, decorated my Grandma's house for Christmas, and went to the lighting of Temple Square. I have been many times before, but it was BEAUTIFUL!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Macy's in Downtown Salt Lake had Christmas window displays! They were giant ornaments made of candy.

 

 

 

When we returned back home to Colorado we transformed our home for Christmas.

 

 

 

 

Halloween!

This year we got invited to our friends' Halloween party. There was a costume contest and we were supposed to bring a "spooktacular" dish to share. I made a spider web chip dip.

 

 

If you are familiar with our engagement story, you know that Mario and Luigi are kind of special to us! (If not, you can find it HERE). We spent all day before the party creating our costumes. Here is how they turned out!

 

By the way, we won the costume contest!! :)

 

We had a lot of fun carving our pumpkins together, and I was happy with how they turned out!

It's not Halloween without roasted seeds! (This was before we cleaned them, though!)

Lucas carved the witch and I carved the Tinker Bell

 

Lucas added bats to the back

 

 

 

 



Anniversary

For our Anniversary I was told to take Monday and Tuesday off of work. I had no idea what was planned, but did as I was told. Monday morning we slept in late, then went and had Noodles & Company for lunch (which I have been craving for like 2 months now!) We were just being casual and Lucas was playing it off that he didn't really have anything planned and would just play it by ear. On our way home I commented on how beautiful the leaves still were. Little did I know, this played perfectly into his plan. A couple hours later we were just relaxing and watching some TV when Lucas asked if I wanted to get my camera and go on a drive since the leaves were still pretty. So we left and started driving toward the mountains. Our drive took us to Black Hawk. I had gone to the Ameristar with Lucas over the summer to do a glass job, and while we were there we put a dollar in a slot machine and had a little fun.

 

So as were pulled up to the Ameristar he asked if I wanted to go in and put a couple of dollars in for something to do (we aren't gamblers, but we figured it was the cost of some entertainment). As I was sitting at a slot machine Lucas had to go to the bathroom. He came back asking if I was ready to go and said a guy told him we had to check out the view from the 28th floor. We rode the elevator up and Lucas pulled out a room key. (Ya right, going to the bathroom was really checking in!) We walked into the most amazing hotel suite! (Lucas got a deal since he does glass for the hotel!) He even had secretly packed an over-night bag for the 2 of us, swimsuits included! We had fun swimming, relaxing in the hot tub, and just being together!

Jet tub in our room with a view of the mountains!

Sitting area



Eating area

Yes, there was even a TV in the bathroom



This bathroom was huge! It was the size of a bedroom.

A 2 sided fireplace with a big screen
TV on each side

 what kind of hotel room has it's own "guest" powder room?

 

We had sparkling apple cider brought to the room to celebrate and we ate the top of our wedding cake, (I wonder where that tradition started??) which actually still tasted pretty good!

 

 

It was a wonderful anniversary and I am so blessed to be married to such an amazing man!

 

It's Not What It Seems.......

I know that by looking at our house, it appears that we have totally neglected our yard for weeks. Really, I promise, we cleaned up our leaves just a couple days before this! Welcome to Fall at our house!!!! (good thing my parents and I got Lucas a leaf mulcher for his birthday!)

 

The Beauty of Autumn

The school I work at had an early release day, and it just happened that Lucas needed to go to Granby that afternoon for work. I was able to go with him and I took along my new toy! (a new DSLR camera!) Since fall is my favorite time of year, I was really excited to take pictures of all the leaves changing colors! Some of the hills looked like they were on fire from the boldness of the colors.

 ---Most of these photos were actually taken from the moving car.---



There was even snow when we got up to timberline!

Bridals

I know it has been about a year, but here are some of my bridal pictures. (since I never got around to posting them before now!)