Happy Holidays

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving weekend...

On Thursday we went up to Logan for Thanksgiving. My Aunt Annette cooked a great dinner for all of us, and it was really nice hanging out with the family. For pictures from Thanksgiving check out the family blog.

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Saturday we went up into Idaho to cut down a Christmas tree. The snow was really deep this year, but we all had fun.

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A little after 3am on Black Friday morning Heather picked me up at my house so I could get Bryan his Christmas gift. She really is the best sister. We got to Target at 3:30am, and had to stand in the freezing cold for half an hour. The only words we spoke were "What time is it?" and "We won't do this again."

When we got into Target we got a little ugly. Heather told me "Just go and get it and I'll get a cart." At which point I pushed the very nice man in front of me that I had joked with before the store had opened.

Heather got the cart and used it as a people mover to make her way to the location of Bryan's gift. She finally ditched the cart in the middle of the all the people.
Luckily, I grabbed one of the last gifts available for Bryan and I really was so happy that I felt like crying.

We quickly decided we did not want to do anymore shopping. So I cut-in front of a lady on her cell phone in the check out line, and Heather and I were in and out of Target in 16 minutes.

And yes we were surprised and ashamed at ourselves :-)

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Sugar Cookies.I'm still making Cookies. Here's one of the latest. More to come.

You need: 3/4 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup sugar

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
sugar (for the tops of the cookies)
mix flour, salt and baking powder in one bowl.
mix everything else in another and mix until smooth.
Than mix the two bowls together.
Spoon onto cookies sheet, sprinkle on the sugar and bake for 5 to 7 minutes at 400 degrees.

Cookie time....

One of my favorite things to do around the holidays is to make cookies. I love trying new ideas and different recipes. This year I tried one of my Grandma's old crowd pleasers...these little turkeys were very time consuming.

So Heather came over to help me with them . To make them you need: Double Stuffed Oreo's, candy corn, Whoppers, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, frosting and a sister that doesn't mind helping. Put it all together and this is what you get.

Happy Thanksgiving...

Happy Halloween....2010

The decorations are up around the house,

the pumpkins are carved and in their places,

and the costumes have been picked.

Happy Halloween!!!

The Hills are alive...

Last weekend Bryan and I took his jeep on a drive up into the mountains to see the changing colors.

It was are really beautiful weekend and a nice drive.

Fall at Red Butte...

This weekend Bryan and I had been working on our basement, but on Sunday we took a break to go to Red Butte with my mom, dad, and Heather. We all had a lot of fun walking around and taking pictures.

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These are Bryan's pictures.

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These are my pictures from the day.

Fire Red...

So I promised Bryan that after the wedding I would dye my hair red. Well after a few tries to go light red, I decided to try a little darker.

It's a little crazy...

Vaughn and Vicky

Our good friends Vaughn and Vicky are moving to California for an amazing job opportunity. We are so happy for them. But we are going to miss them like crazy.

Thank you for always being there for me and for being such good friends. We wish you all the best. Vaughn, you are going to be great at your new company. Congratulations.

Weekend Adventure...

Heather, Bryan and I decided to go on a little road trip. So we loaded up Heather's car and we were on our way to Yellowstone.

After Yellowstone we made our way to the Grand Tetons.

This is the very beautiful Jenny Lake by the Tetons. We got there at sunset.

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We saw all the sites and the total round trip time was 24 hours. We got a lot of great pictures and we had a lot of fun.