Wouldn't want to be anywhere else!

So this year for "Black Friday" my bud Kathy and I decided that instead of dealing with all the craziness and insanity that a typical "Black Friday" entails we decided to spend our morning doing something quite opposite...we did a session at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple and it was wonderful!

We met at 6am and did the earliest session I've ever done and it was such a wonderful experience. As you might expect it was quiet sparse in the temple and one of the cute little temple ladies thanked us for coming since it was a little lonely. We entered the temple with it still pretty dark outside but as soon we entered the celestial room the sun had rose and it was breathtaking how beautiful, bright, and white it was. Such an amazing experience I am so grateful Kathy was willing to share with me!

After our session at the temple we went back to my place and made a very tasty breakfast. I made us some yummy pecan pancakes while Kathy cooked up some delicious scrambled eggs. We enjoyed our breakfast and just chatted for awhile and it was so perfect! Thanks Kathy, you made my day!

Thanksgiving with Mom!

On Monday, November 23rd we celebrated Thanksgiving at my mom's house and it was SO GOOD! We had amazing food, great company, and I couldn't have asked for a greater Thanksgiving! It's hard to believe that this is Matt and my 5th Thanksgiving together. The time has just flown by and I've been grateful for every minute of it! I am so grateful for my amazing and wonderful family, my friends that are always here for me, and the gospel that sustains me during every moment of my life whether high or low. I wouldn't be anywhere without the love from my Savior and words can't begin to describe how thankful I am for his companionship in my life!

Ryan cheesing it up!

Matt and I carving the turkey, what a team!

Wes and Chelsie making some tasty gravy

Mom and Austin ready to eat!

Matt enjoying the grub!

Our YUMMY Thanksgiving dinner!

Me and my hubby, what a cute guy!

Austin and Mom, very classy sweater Oz!

Wes and Chelsie getting ready to eat

Me and my bros, gotta love this guys!

I made apple, pumpkin, and pecan pie! YUM!!

I think Austin ate too much, lol!

Matt just kicking back and relaxing

Wes trying to hide, silly guy!

Not a bad weekend at all!

So this weekend found Matt and myself in anxious anticipation of the grand opening of the Orem In-N-Out. We even planned on meeting up with our buds Kathy and Greg on Friday to check it out. Well little did we know (though it makes perfect sense now) that it was going to be completely packed there! When we drove by on our way to meet up with Kathy and Greg we realized that none of us wanted to wait in line for hours and decided we better go some where else. We headed over to "Five Guys" in Orem near the new Cinemark and it was pretty dang good!













After the chow and some ice-cream (courtesy of Cold Stone) we went to Kathy and Greg's place and just talked for about an hour. We love spending time with them (you guys rock!) and can't wait for our next outing!! What an awesome way to spend our weekend!

Guess it's about that time...

Last night we took family photos for my mom's annual Christmas card and I just can't believe how fast this year has gone by! I'm getting pretty excited for Christmas (and the fact that I've gotten all of Matt's presents already!) and I can't wait to get our Christmas decorations up!

Here are some of the photos we took, I think they turned out pretty cute!

Me and my cute hubby!

Matt trying to steal a kiss, lol!

Austin being a goof!

Chelsie and mom

The family!

The kids (plus the hubbies)

The kids (plus mom!)

I'm still alive!

It's been almost two weeks since my last post and in blogger world that's like a lifetime (well for me anyways). I was waiting to get some pics from Halloween posted but I think now it may be a little too late, lol. Oh well what can you do?

So besides Halloween there really hasn't been a whole lot that has been going on. Matt and I are still doing the whole school thing. We are a little more then half way done with our semester and I think it's starting to get to that point where we just wish it would finish already! True we're only taking one class each right now (which by the way is wonderful!) and our class load isn't too bad at all, it would just be nice to be able to move onto a new subject and get all these classes done with.

In the work department things are about as boring as ever (which can actually be quite a good when having a job right now isn't always a sure thing). The one thing that I am really annoyed with is that Matt's job wont let him take any time off for Thanksgiving or Christmas so we could go out to California to visit the family. We have yet to spend a Christmas with the DeGriselles family and it's a complete bummer. We love you guys and wish we could come visit!

Speaking of Christmas I am very happy to report that I have almost all of Matt's Christmas presents! There are a couple of things I still want to get him as well as a couple of stocking stuffers but the bulk of his Christmas presents are bought, and it feels good! Last night I had a dream it was Christmas morning and I forgot to wrap Matt's presents. Ryan and I were frantically wrapping all of his presents (thanks Ryan!!) Christmas morning while the family was having hot cocoa or something...it was weird. Anyways this morning the first thing I thought was "Awh crap I need to get Matt's presents wrapped!" waking up Christmas morning without a thing wrapped would really suck!

In other news this past Saturday (the 7th) I took my brother Ryan to the ER. He had been having flu-like symptoms for a couple of days and when he told my mom (who is a nurse) that he was having shortness of breath she told him he needed to get to the ER. We met my mom at Utah Valley's ER and spent the next couple of hours making sure Ryan was feeling better, poor guy. He got an x-ray, some fluids in him, and some rest. He's home now resting up some more and hopefully he'll be getting well soon! Love ya Ryry!!

Well I think that about wraps it up...things are pretty much same old same old for us. Now if only my next post could be about a vacation, that would be nice!