Thanksgiving

Too much great food, great company, football, resting, and then a movie at Uncle Doug's. Overall I'd say a great Thanksgiving Day.

Turkey Bowl

Thanksgiving was spectacular!!! We had a wonderful meal and our turkey turned out AMAZING!!! After the dinner, the dishes, and some resting time, we had a mini turkey bowl of our own. Nelsons vs Wings. Thanks to Karolyn we have some great pictures of the great event. PS The Nelsons won, as Skyler reminded us several times :)

Our Christmas House

We love our house this season. We are hoping that some snow will only add to the magic!!

Our first Turkey

This year for Thanksgiving Ethan and I are in charge or cooking the turkey. Because it is our first turkey we decided to make it a little harder than just the bag and decided to do a "bucket turkey" just like my sister Carolyn.
Bucket turkey: a whole lot of spices, a whole lot of different juices, and put that together in a 5 gallon bucket and let the turkey marinate for 5 days and THEN stick it in a bag in the oven for like forever!!! We are so excited to taste this bird!!!
We bought our turkey last Wednesday, let it thaw until Saturday, made the marinade and now the turkey is sitting in a 5 gallon bucket in our fridge until Thursday. Good thing we have a small family and don't need as much food.

Volleyball Champions

Ethan recently participated in the 13-stake volleyball tournament with the ward and they won! The whole experience was new to me, but they designated two buildings to play at and after "regular season games" (which seriously consisted of one because everyone kept forfeiting) they played like 5 games going back and forth between the two buildings. That was last week and then just last Wednesday night, they had to play 2 more teams for the championship. It was just a lot of fun to watch him in an intramural type setting again. They even got a prize... a candy bar or a bag :) He went with the bag.

Halloween!!!

We had a great Halloween party with some well dressed friends and Minute to Win it games! It was a great Halloween. A very famous crowd was here!!




Nomeo and Juliette

Waldo and Carmen San Diego

Jimmer and Whitney Fredette

Softball Wound

Ethan and I played a lot of softball this summer and it was great to fill our intramural void just a little bit. Ethan played on two Overstock teams and we played on a co-ed team through Ethan's dads law firm and also played on the coed Overstock team. We had so much team despite the fact that the two co-ed teams were the worst in the leagues. However, Ethan almost hit a home run, I hit a triple, Ethan caught like every fly ball in left field, Ethan made a diving catch (literally dove in the air) as well as a sliding catching, true golden glove, and I made a double play while playing second. I also had the #5 batting average for the women, which isn't saying much but I just won't mention how many women batted.
So I love bruises... like a lot. The last game I was playing second, a ball was hit, I thought it was a grounder but it really was just a low line drive. I stepped in front of it to stop the "ground ball" but instead I got BEAMED in the knee with the ball. I thought I was going to pass out!! It was terrible, but I was sorta excited the whole time because I knew it was going to leave a bruise and leave a bruise it did!!!!

Day one



Day two


Day three
These were the best pictures that I had.. The bruise lasted about 2 weeks and I still feel it 3 weeks later when I touch my knee in the right spot!! Crazy right!!!!