Christmas Came A Month Early

We had a super yummy Thanksgiving dinner with my family on Thursday...and I was very proud of myself because I didn't eat myself into total oblivion. After dinner Neil and I planned out our Black Friday travels and at 10 o'clock p.m. Neil and I started our Black Friday adventure at Toys R Us.

It was my first Black Friday ever, but luckily Neil was a veteran and prepared me as best he could. Toys R Us was a mad house...the line wrapped around the store and went down the street quite a ways. After Toys R Us we went straight to Walmart and I thought I was prepared, but I was not at all. The deals we were there for started at 12:01 a.m. and they were all on crates wrapped in plastic wrap so people couldn't start grabbing them before the appropriate time...but at like 11:56 p.m. everyone started ripping the plastic wrap off and I started freaking out. Neil only put me in charge of grabbing 4 things while he got 10 things, haha,and luckily we got everything we wanted!

Our next adventure didn't start until 3 a.m. at Kohl's but we went home after Walmart and fell asleep by accident and didn't end up getting to Kohl's until 6 a.m. and then Neil went straight to Pep Boys and we finished Black Friday with True Value and Ace Hardware.

After a full night of shopping Neil and I were very excited to look at all of our presents we got :)


This is me and all of my presents :) I got the movies 17 Again and 27 Dresses, as well as a vacuum cleaner, crock pot, 10 piece frame set, a mini chopper, and a spice rack!


Neil with his goodies...he got 2 portable power systems so we can jump start our cars and one has a tire inflator, he also got a dremel set, some extension cords, and he got the movies Spider-man 3, the first three Fast and the Furious movies, X-Men: The Last Stand, and I Am Legend.


Together we both got the games KerPlonk, Chinese Checkers, Othello, Scrabble Slam, and Yahtzee. We also got a few movies that we both love like Batman Begins, Walk the Line, Ice Age, Casino Royale, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, we also have The Dark Knight and all six Harry Potter movies on their way.

We saved over 330 dollars so lets just say I am converted to shopping on Black Friday!

No Work So I'll Knit Instead...

My work is kind of on the same schedule as the Alpine School District, so we get a Fall and Spring Break, two weeks off for Christmas, and three days off around Thanksgiving...it's really nice.

Since it's been getting cold and the holidays are coming up I've been knitting a lot, and since I didn't have work today I pretty much knitted all day and between gifts for other people I decided to make a little gift for myself.



I've seen the headbands on various craft blogs and decided they couldn't be too hard to make, so I made one. It is really easy and took me less then ten minutes, so I decided I that I'm going to make a lot of these in various colors because they're comfy and they make a pony tail look cuter if I may say so myself.


(Just ignore that I'm not wearing any makeup...it's my day off)

Thing's are Getting a Little Hairy Around Here...

When Neil and I met in 2007 he was always clean shaven, and then when we started dating in 2009 he like never shaved and this trend has continued, so today was the last straw and Neil had to cut his hair and shave off his beard!


(Neil wanted me to add that he was trying to look crazy in those pictures...but he's just letting his true colors shine, haha. Oh and the pictures on the right he combed his beard to make it crazy puffy and yucky looking...which he thinks is funny for some reason...)


And finally the scratchy beard is gone! He looks like a completely different person...I'm constantly looking over and then remembering "Oh yeah, he shaved off his beard." He kinda looks like a baby without all the facial hair doesn't he? Haha.

...so Neil and I will be making our way there for our 1 year anniversary and also for Christmas, and we're so excited!

A Magical Halloween

It's so crazy that Halloween has come and gone already! Neil and I had a very good Halloween season.

First of all we carved a pumpkin. It was Neil's first time carving a pumpkin so he was very pumped about it, haha. He gave me the pleasure of taking all the gross goo out of the pumpkin. His excuse was that he didn't know what to do since he'd never done it before.


Neil then carved the pumpkin, and he did an amazing job. He made sure it was perfect, and as you can see (hopefully) our pumpkin turned into Pirate Jack. Neil was so excited when it was done and we put a candle in it. He'd look out on our porch constantly and kept talking about how awesome it was...it was really cute. And as you can see in the picture below Neil wanted to bring the pumpkin in every night because it was cold/snowy, and Neil even watched television with the pumpkin :).


I'd been bugging Neil about what we were going to dress up as for Halloween, but he didn't want to dress up and claimed we would have no where to go, so I took care of that problem by signing up to bring dessert to our Ward Halloween Party. Since it was Halloween after all I decided to make a Pumpkin Cookie Cake. We had to borrow the pizza pan from my mom, and after I'd made the dough and put it on the pizza pan I went to put it in the oven, and it didn't fit! I was stressing out like crazy while Neil of course was calm and rational. He called his cousins who live on the next street over and we went to their house to cook the cake, so our crisis was averted.

Our costumes for the Halloween Party were a bunny (me) and a magician (Neil). The entire week before the party we were shopping and brain storming about what we could be, but since we were incredibly short on time most of our ideas weren't possible, so we started thinking of the easiest costume we could do and decided on a magician and bunny.


The Halloween weekend was so fun! Full of parties and eating sweets while watching movies like Ghostbusters (1 and 2) and Harry Potter! We already know what we're going to be next year and I'm going to get to working on it ASAP :).

Not Ready For This One

This morning I woke up at my usual time to get ready for work, but as soon as I woke up I knew something was very wrong. I innocently peeked outside and I saw it...six ugly inches of white, fluffy, disgusting snow.


I should have seen it coming...it's been flirting over falling for a few days, but I just really wasn't ready. And sure, it looks nice and inviting...it's saying "Make me into a snowman" but what it really means is "When you're driving I'm going to get you stuck on hills and make you spin 360's just to laugh at you!"

So I'm cautioning you, snow is armed and dangerous, and yes he's here and here to stay.

Just Pokin' Around

Neil and I came home from shopping tonight and saw something crawling around under our front stairs. We weren't exactly sure what it was, but then we noticed some very large spikes coming out of it's back and saw that it was a PORCUPINE!


At first we freaked out because we weren't sure if it was going to charge us or run it's pokey bum into our ankles so Neil, being the brave husband, got out of the car and crept up the stairs to see if it was safe. The porcupine was completely still for a while and then it started crawling out from under the stairs-during this I was sitting in the car helpless and screaming my head off telling Neil not to go near him because I was fearing the worst. When it was on the move I was freaking out thinking that he might go up the stairs and attack my poor, courageous husband who was stranded up there with no keys because I had them in the car so that the headlights were shining towards Neil for safety precautions.

The porcupine luckily didn't go up the stairs, but went and hid in a bush instead. He is really quite cute when he's a fair distance from you and his bum is facing away.