Merry Christmas!? Happy Holidays!

That's right... this year we have been a little overly excited for Christmas. We had a talk a few weeks ago about when we were going to put up the tree and we decided the weekend before Thanksgiving, that way it was a little early but not insanely early. Well, last Sunday we were hanging out at home and we decided that we didn't want to wait. So... our Christmas tree has been up for a week now! I LOVE it! We leave the lights on all the time and it just make our living room so much happier. It also has a few Christmas presents already (I'm trying not to procrastinate this year). After the Christmas tree was up and decorated, we make cinnamon sticky buns and watched Home Alone, Dustin's all time favorite Christmas movie. We figured that if we watched it this early, we would be able to fit it in one more time this year. It was so nice and cozy, all that was missing was a fireplace and the snow! Ha ha! I LOVE Christmas!
P.S. Don't worry, we are still going to celebrate Thanksgiving, and we are really excited about it, we just feel that Christmas can be celebrated for longer than a month!
Happy Holidays!

Happy Halloween (a little late)

I used to not like Halloween as a kid. I HATE being scared. Scary movies, masks, haunted houses ... count me out. I did always like dressing up and going trick or treating (what kid doesn't). Since I've been teaching first grade, Halloween is quite the big deal. The kids get excited about it about a month before the big day. The past two years I have been a witch and I decided to change it up this year. Not only that but I got bit by the crafty bug and decided that I would sew my own tinkerbell costume. It was SO much fun and I think it turned out alright. I was SO excited to get all dressed up this year, I woke up 30 minutes early and couldn't fall back asleet, which if you know me is hard to believe! Here are my adorable first graders! They had some really fun costumes. My favorites are the robot and the strawberry. I was tinkerbell (couldn't find any white wings so they are pink). I had a close up of my costume but my computer's hard drive totally crashed and they are trying to fix it right now. Keep your fingers crossed that they can retrive some of the stuff.

Go Cougars!

This past weekend was a lot of fun. Saturday we went to the BYU vs. UNLV game. Dustin's been wanting to go to one all season and we finally got tickets. The weather was perfect, we had great seats and our Cougs didn't let us down. The night before the game we went to Macey's and found some BYU hoodies so we could show our school pride. You can sort of see them in the first picture.

Our New Looks!

What do ya think?
Ha ha! Give it a try... dailymakeover.com

Great New Website

Dustin and I were getting ready to read scriptures and we went to lds.org to pull up the scriptures but got side tracked to this new website that the church has put out. We looked around and read President Hinckley's talk about the Savior. It was really really good. This website has tons of good talks testimonies from prophets and apostles. I'm excited to explore it more! Here's the link... jesuschrist.lds.org

UPDATE!

Well it's about time for an update. I have just had a total block on what to write about. Life around here has been pretty 'blah' for the past week or so. Dustin and I both caught a nasty little bug that came in with the cold weather. It knocked both of us down for about a week. We have watched lots of movies and taken lots of long naps. It's been nice to spend so much time together even if we didn't feel 100%.

This last Wednesday all the girls got together and made Halloween care packages for all of Dustin's family that was affected by the hurricane. There were socks and books for the kids, pencils and school supplies, vitamins and common cold medicine, stuffed animals and TONS of candy! People brought over bags of candy and we dumped it all in one giant pile to mix it up. It was CRAZY!!! The pile probably stood almost a foot high in the middle and was about three feet in diameter. The air around it smelled so sweet and my little niece Lexi thought she had died and gone to heaven. Ha ha. She helped me fill a couple of bags but then she started grabbing handfuls of the pixi sticks. It was pretty funny. The families down there have been kind of stopped as far as progress goes. The insurance adjusters are dragging their feet and they can't fix anything until they come assess the damage. Luckily for our family they have other places to stay.

Fall break, UEA weekend was yesterday and today. I just love holidays from school! All day yesterday I was thinking that today was Sunday and my weekend was half over but it's only Friday! That's the best feeling. We are going to see Into the Woods at the Hale Center Theater in Salt Lake tonight and I'm really excited. I haven't seen this play since I was in Elementary School and I really liked it then.

Totally Free!

So there is this website that is giving away 24 purses within 24 hours. All you have to is go to handbagplanet.com and give them your e-mail address. It's on October 15th and there are some cute bags!