Birthday Season

I love the Christmas season. I love it for obvious reasons but I also love it because my birthday always kicks it off. This year I had to take two final on my actual birthday but my adorable husband surprised me with a beautiful dinner and a gingerbread making party with all my girl friends. On Thursday when finals were over for both of us, we went to dinner and the MoTab performance with David Archuleta!!! IT WAS AMAZING!! I was on the fence about David before but I am a total fan now. His voice is amazing and so clear. It was incredible. The following day we had another gingerbread making party with family and watched Christmas movies and it has been nonstop parties ever since. It has been an awesome Christmas season so far and it is not even Christmas yet!!

What happens when you don't do any homework over Thanksgiving break?

Sunday night study sessions until 2:30 Am

(picture not taken at 2:30 because I went to bed)

Apple Pie

Over Thanksgiving I was able to make an apple pie for the family and well it didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted it to. Ethan made the filling and that was great. The pie crust itself tasted good but it looked terrible!!! I don't think that I put in enough apples because the apples were about 2 inches away from the top so when we went to cut the pie the whole top compeletly fell. I don't know what went wrong, but something went wrong. At least it tasted good. I forgot to take a picture so here is the beginning stages when I was happy to be doing it.

Oh Christmas Tree

OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!!!!!

Now all we need is snow!

Do these jeans make me look fat?

So I have always known that men have smaller hips than women, men don't have butts and women do, and men have skinnier thighs than women, but when your husband fits in your jeans more comfortably than you do and tells you that they are loose on him, all those factors sorta get forgotten as you just sit and stare, evaluating your self esteem!!!

4 out of 6

So a couple of weeks ago my older brother Scott was in town meaning that 4 out of the 6 kids were here. I just wanted to put some pictures up. It was a lot of fun. We went to a nicklecde, had a sports night, went to the BYU football game, and had a pizza night. It was so much fun to have so many family members close.

(And yes we know... you can only see the eyes of those who married into the family while smiling:)

Ethan

So Ethan and I were really excited to start our blog, Ethan maybe more so than me and today Ethan brought to my attention that the blog so far is everything that I do to keep myself busy while he is doing homework or working or grading papers. So here you go Ethan. This blog is for you!!!

I go to school, but because I am in my last semester all my classes are focused on learning how to teach. I go to a lot of schools to observe but outside of that (and my family finance class) I don't really have a lot of homework. Ethan on the other hand IS ALWAYS BUSY!!! He helps the young men, researches with 3 professors off and on and is a TA for an American History class at school. He does his homework, grades tests, plays on a soccer and football team, is applying for school after undergrad and still makes time for me!! He is a very busy man.











(this was attempt number three when trying to do his reading!)