Home for the Holidays

Preston and went home to Seattle for Thanksgiving. It was our first time spending Thanksgiving with my parents and boy did we have a blast!

My parents had no idea we were coming up so when we walked into my Dad's office at 10am two days before Thanksgiving, you can only image how shocked he was to see us. We had traveled all night in a horrible snow and ice storm and with lots of prayers and blessing, arrived safely at our destination. It was a stressful and tiring drive but more than worth it when we saw the look on my parents faces. After surprising my Dad, we all headed over to my mom's office. Boy was she thrilled! I must tell you that surprising my mom is not an easy task. She always catches onto some little hint or clue (I guess she's where I get it from) but this time I totally threw her off. I had called her a couple days prior to hitting the road to get a hint for exactly what their plans were for Thanksgiving. I gave her in depth details of our Thanksgiving and Christmas plans leaving her to fully expect that we were spending Thanksgiving in Utah.

(I only took pictures of everyone in their PJs on Thanksgiving so I will only embarrass one of us on the blog although this is hard to do with Preston's massive muscles and striking good looks. I love his morning hair although I think he fixed it before this picture was taken.)

This was without a doubt the best Thanksgiving I have ever had. The only thing I would have changed if I could was how long we stayed. I wish we could have stayed through the weekend but instead we had to head back the day after Thanksgiving. It would have been a lot more fun to have Bret with his family and Evan there as well. Hopefully next year we will be able to get the whole family together on Christmas or Thanksgiving. It's been a few years since we have been lucky enough to do that :(

We're looking forward to spending Christmas with Preston's family this year and most of all, Landon's last phone call home before he returns in February! YAY!

We are so blessed and grateful to have all of our friends and family in our lives. We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Picture Perfect

Preston and I had some Fall pictures taken in October. We love them! Our friend and photographer Whitney Lewis was able to get us a few of the pictures as a little preview to the shoot this morning. We're looking forward to seeing the rest of the photos next month.



I have a little project in mind that I want to do with these pictures but I'm afraid it won't be executed for a a couple of months. I'll be sure to post pictures when I get going on my project. :)

The Holidays are Upon us

We are very excited for the holidays at our home. Yes, the tree is not only going up this month but this week! Call me crazy but I love Christmas that much. I consider the tree to not only be Christmas decor but Thanksgiving as well. Absolutely essential. I love the feeling of giving and love the tree brings into our home. You can't argue with that!

There is no better time of the year that I love more then the holiday season.

Pup

Our pup isn't so pup like anymore but he always will be in my heart.

We don't feed him anymore so he eats grass now.
We figured it was a good strategy to keep the lawn mowed without having to do more yard work.
haha :) Just kidding.

New Office!

Preston and I have been working on the back room for the last month. We painted it (I'm in love with the color), put a new light fixture in, put baseboards in and curtains (yes, I made those curtains and I'm dang proud of them!). I am also very proud to say that I did all of the caulking :D and dang it looks good. Seamless. You can hardly tell it's there. While Preston was away in Chicago on business I decided to surprise him. He was planning on caulking when he got home and was thrilled to see that the job had already been done when he returned.

Last week I went home to Seattle to visit my parents and while I was gone, Preston decided to do a little surprising himself. He installed the carpet that I had picked out 2 months ago and built me a computer for my photography work.

Take a look at the almost finished product! We've added the keyboard and chair since these photos were taken.

(I know I havn't posted any pictures of Preston and I in awhile. I'll have to do that soon!)

The "Fruits" of Our Labor

We don't really have a garden this year but we have kept up on our apricot tree and white grapes. Yum! Can anyone say, "delicious apricot cobbler and grape juice"?

Strawberry Days!

We are officially members of Strawberry Days!! We have owned our home here in Pleasant Grove for a year now. We're having a blast and making the most of it :D

Last week we went to the Strawberry Days Rodeo with our really great friends, Cherylyn and Matt. We love hanging out with them!! We have some great activities planned for the summer that include camping, hiking, out door movies and more! We're excited for the summer!