Looks like we made it!

We have been married an entire year! We got our anniversary cake from our baker, not as good as the original, but better than frozen year old cake :) I can't believe how fast time goes by!

Christmas in Idaho!

Dan and I spent Christmas vacation in Rexburg and Boise Idaho. This is us Christmas morning with Dan's parents and his sister Alaina and her husband Landon. Please notice our matching pajamas. I never had this tradition of getting new matching pjs on Christmas eve, but I thought it would be fun...and I wanted new pajamas :)

Dan's dad trying to clear the snow! The snow blower broke like a second after I took this picture, but I promise it wasn't my fault! To try to make up for it Dan and I shoveled the back porch, we shoveled more snow than I ever had my whole life of living 15 years in Colorado! That may be a slight, very slight exaggeration :)

This me with Shane and Stephanie's 2 daughters that don't hate me :) Thats Jessica on my lap and Lily. They are so cute! We had so much fun staying at their house in Boise, playing wii, going sledding, they are a great bunch!

Dan with Shane and Steph's youngest Violet. She loves Dan but I have yet to gain her trust :) We had a blast watching her run around like a tornado our last night there, she had us all in hysterics! I wish I had a video of it! It made me tired just watching her run back and forth and jumping in and out of everyone's lap, what a ball of ENERGY!!

This is me with Jamie and Brooke's kids, well at least 3 of the now 5. Rowan, Aiden and Noah. Eve, their only daughter just wasn't feeling the pictures that morning. She is a gem of a little girl. Brooke had another little boy, Cruz a few days after we left.

Dan took a fly tying class in high school, so he was teaching his dad how to tie a wooly bugger and some others, I just thought this was a kodak moment :) We also got to visit Wendy, Paul and their three kids, Matthew, Megan and Carly. Played some games and I shot a paint gun for the first time. It was a lot of fun, I wish I had taken my camera!

Stephanie's friend made her these cute Christmas decorations. I took pictures so I could try to duplicate these next year :)

Jokes on Me

Friday morning, getting ready for work, me trying to be annoying... "Daaannnn, do you know what today is?"  Me trying to put on a very convincing -I know something you don't know- look, even though there wasn't anything especially special about the day.  This is his response - "Lets see, today is friday, December 12th...our 11 month anniversary?"  Oh my gosh!!!  It is our 11 month anniversary!!!!!  I didn't get a very funny response, but yay we get to celebrate!  

So we decided to get a pizza, 

Watch a movie, (which seems a little more disturbing the 2nd time around)

and go to bed early...So we could get up early and go skiing!

We got our season passes which includes 10 times at Vail.  And since it is by far the best resort in Colorado - according to us - and one of the more expensive, we decided to take full monetary advantage and try to use all 10 times.  We WILL get our money's worth this year!  Its a long drive for one day, but Dan's a good sport, although I do offer to drive :)  And thank goodness for Dan's good driving, he managed to avoid another accident on I-70 while the huge Dodge truck behind us was fish-tailing so badly that he almost spun around completely!  Yikes!

1 down, 9 to go! 

HAPPY 11 MONTH ANNIVERSARY TO US!

First Christmas!

The Thursday after Thanksgiving I went into work and they told me to go home...which is great, and not with a pink slip...which was even better!  We had too many people scheduled so I got to have the day off.  CHRISTMAS DECORATING TIME!  So Dan and I did some Christmas Tree shopping.  I am all about the fake Christmas Trees!  We found a pretty good deal at Lowe's for a kind of skinny tree which of course we ended up getting even though we had to go to Home Depot, Michaels and Hobby Lobby first to make sure we were getting the best deal!

AND...it is pre-lit! 

Although we got new ornaments for the tree - we did keep Dan's snowflake/star tree topper.  I like it!  I am excited to start collecting/making cool ornaments over the years so we have a better assortment - We helped my Grandma decorate her tree this year and she has 2 or 3 ornaments from her first tree with my Grandpa many many years ago!!  I guess we will have to save some of the Christmas Tree balls I bought at Michaels :)

Notice Dan's beaded necklace :)  Those were the leftovers - you don't need that many decorations on our little baby tree!

The tree looks a little puny there, but it fits quite nicely in our family room.

Turkey Rolls!

This is the reason that Dan bought a 20 lb turkey for 5 people.  He had to have turkey rolls...and a lot of them!  We had so many that we had to freeze pan full.  We had a little assembly line and it was pretty fast and a lot easier than I thought.  I guess this is the first year of our tradition of turkey rolls, and I am sure Dan wouldn't have it any other way!

Thanksgiving 2008

Dan and I hosted Thanksgiving this year for the Burgess Family, although with Brooke, Keith, Jay and Andy in Germany and Ty and Makamae in Utah, there wasn't a very large group!  We had a great time though!  We spent a large portion on the afternoon watching the Movie Australia...it must have been like 3 hours long, but it was fantastic!

So since we got out the movie later than we anticipated, the turkey didn't get in the oven as soon as we had planned - I guess we aren't that good of planners :) - we had a very late Thanksgiving dinner!  

That stupid red thing popped up finally!!!  Notice the hour :)

We don't know why Dan looks kinda like a hologram in the picture below.  We used the timer thing on our camera for the first time, but what difference would that make?

Dan just pointed out to me that we have posts on our blog!  Woops I didn't realize :)  Thanks for your comments!  Its fun to hear from you!!