Christmas 1.0

Eric and I had a wonderful first Christmas married this year! Friday night we drove up late from Salt Lake to Star Valley. It was pretty darn cold when we arrived there at 1am. It was a wopping -8 degrees. Snow was on the ground, and it was a clear night, meaning you could see every star in the galaxy pretty much! We stayed up and hung out with the fam till about 3am, and then finally hit the sack.

Christmas Eve day, was spent mostly lounging out in our jammies, snacking on lots of yummy treats, and playing our new wii we bought ourselves for christmas!!!! That night we had manicotti for dinner and it was DELICIOUS. Then some of our family friends, Raliegh and Sharyl, came over and we opened 1 gift each, as tradition dictates. :)

Kyli, Dan, Brooklyn, and baby Scherbel

Mom and Dad Hale

Oh man, we were soooooo tired, check out those bags under my eyes hahah

Ralrigh and Sharyl!

 We all got christmas jams, so we all put them on and then played 1 hardcore game of cranium, boys vs. girls. Us girls made an awesome come back and almost won. It came down to the last question and the boys got an easy one, so they won, yes I'm a little bitter about that. hahahaha

Christmas morning, we all slept in, went to chruch, and then came home and opened presents!!!!! We were extremely spoiled this year!!!

Watching Brooklyn open up gifts was so fun!!! Can't believe she is 2!!! I remember when Eric and I were first dating back in 2009, going to see and hold her in the hospital!!! CRAZY!

Brooklyn with Grammy after Church

Scherbel family opening up gifts!! We are going to miss them when they move to Rexburg next week for Dan's schooling. No more sunday dinners together :(

more of our super duper cute niece Brookey! :)

He LOVES Christmas!! 

"Will Cook for Shoes" Perfect Apron for a Shopaholic! bahahaha

Caeliie, Maddie, and Kamdyn made it over for presents too!!!

Gifts we got, well there is a huge list but these are a few I can think of off the top of my head: Chi hair straightener, fossil purse, electric juicer, a wii and lots of games and accessories, the hale family cookbook, a lot of money and gift cards to best buy, a gorgeous monogrammed glass framed to hang on the wall, clothes, fishing gear for eric, head lamp, camping stuff, golfing stuff, candy galore, and more and more and more!!!!!!! :) We had to come home late last night to get Eric back for work in time today, but all in all, it was an AMAZING official first Christmas with the love of my life! Can't wait for all the other christmases to come!!!

"MESSAGE FROM SANTA"!!!!!!!!! I KNOW HIM!!!!!!!

SANTA'S MESSAGE  to Eric. It was so sweet of santa to send Eric a message, I'm kinda jealous! Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!!

6 Months Going on Eternity

Thursday Dec. 8th, was Eric and I's half way mark to our 1st year Anniversary. So of course we had to make it special. So Friday night Eric and I celebrated with dinner and a movie. We went and saw the movie New Year's Eve, because he proposed on New Year's Day. It was really fun and Eric also surprised me with a couple little gifts. He bought the movie THE HELP for me, and he gave a really yummy edible arrangement. He is so sweet!! I have the best husband and I can't wait for the rest of eternity to spend it with him. :) Here are a couple pics from our fun night out!

Tis the Season

Winter is fast approaching, and Eric and I have been very busy getting ready for the holidays, and enjoying the cooler weather. So last Friday night, yeah I'm playing catch up, Eric and I went to the South Jordan Plaza with our friends Jeff and Jessica from our ward. It was opening night so there was free ice skating and free hot chocolate for everybody! It was cold, but it was so fun, and once I got the hang of my ice skates, I did pretty good! :)

Sorry for the blurriness but our camera died within seconds after we got to the rink so we had to use eric's phone :(

We had so much fun! And I think Eric liked showing off his mad skills on the ice...I on the other hand looked like a baby giraffe trying to stand for the first time haha!

Saturday morning Eric and I woke up and drove right up the road to pick out our very first Christmas tree!! I of course was looking for tall, and Eric was looking for fat, so yep!!! You guessed we ended up taking home a tall fat tree! But it is seriously the most perfect christmas tree and smells AMAZING!!!

Eric had to cut the top off so it would fit!!!

I love my tall tree :)

The rest of the day Eric and I Spent decorating the house and the tree and listening to christmas music. and then Kyli & Dan Came over and we watched Four Christmas's with us! It was a really great day, and it is definitely beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in our little home!

Eric and I chose to do red and gold on the tree this year. The tree is still a work in progress but it looks very pretty when all the lights are off.

Some more little decorations

"And the stockings were hung on the mantel with care."

Our beautiful wreath... We had to do the classic beautiful white light this year. Still working on decorations but these were a few we have up for now :)

Turkey Day

A lot has happened since the last time I posted. Eric and I sold our car, bought a new one, had some fun weekends with the Hale family, and most importantly THANKSGIVING and BLACK Friday shopping. This year Eric and I knew with him working holiday hours there was no way we could go anywhere for Thanksgiving, so we brought Thanksgiving to our house! Eric and I invited the whole Hale family plus some of his cousins to our place this year for Thanksgiving and it was a blast. Yes at times trying to squeeze 13 people into a small one bedroom apartment was stressful, but we made it happen and it was a blast having the in-laws and all the nieces and cousins at our place for dinner. I promised my dad I'd take lots of pictures but I got busy playing hostess and forgot to so I only have a few but enjoy!

My turkey turned out AMAZING!

So Eric had to get a picture of me because I'm such a science nerd, and he said I was treating the turkey like a science experiment. ( honestly, I just had the gloves on cause I was afraid of getting burned hahaha) And I work in a laboratory, science is just what I do, don't hate because I know how osmosis works and used a method of it to make the turkey taste ten times better! hahaha

Eric carving our first Thanksgiving Turkey 

We of course had to do a little black friday shopping!!! We only stayed out till 4am this year which was a pretty early ending compared to last year. These are the girlies who didn't come cause they thought sleeping was a better idea hahaha.

We were able to drag my 6 months pregnant sister-in-law and my mother-in-law shopping though, and we had a BLAST!!! Thanks ladies it was fun. Deals I got: the movie RED for 5$, 4 bottles of soap from BAth and Body works for $15, and a pair of super cute moccasin shoes from target for $10. Hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! Gobble Gobble!!

Weekend Traveling

On Thursday Eric and I left town for a long weekend to getaway before the Holidays get crazy and take over our lives. So that night we traveled to Mendon, Ut. where Eric's aunt Vicki lives. She has been asking us to come visit for some time now, and we finally decided this was a good weekend to go. Her house is HUGE and very beautiful. We both love all of her land and animals, and her home. It was so fun to visit with her, and for me to get to know her better. And she gave us the newest addition of the Better Homes and Garden Cookbook!!! I am so EXCITED to start using it!!!

Aunt Vicki's house, it's so big I couldn't fit all the house into one picture!

The barn/stable for the horses

The view from the top of the drive

Her beautiful kitchen...there is a hidden room where the pantry is!

Sitting area

Her huge tub, wish this picture could depict how big it was, and I loved the windows surrounding it. They overlook the mountains right in her backyard.

This is her sitting area in her bedroom

The yummy dinner she left us..so sweet! 

Hanging out in the loft were we stayed while we were there.

As we were leaving Vicki's house that morning heading into logan we came across all these wild turkeys!!! Perfect just in time for THANKSGIVING!!!

So after we left Vicki's friday morning we headed into Logan, Ut. to look for a car and run some other errands. I have never been to the logan temple so that ended up being the first stop! 

You can't tell here really... but it was so windy and cold..I had 3 jackets on!!!

My Handsome Prince Charming!

Side View

The front of the temple!

Next, we headed up to star valley and on the way we passed Bear Lake, also a place I've never seen or been to, so I took a couple shots! It is the closest thing Utah or Idaho has to a beach. We also went through Logan canyon and it was gorgeous with all the different colors of the leaves on the trees on the mountains, I wish I would have taken a picture.

More of Bear lake shoreline 

The Open Road

Once we got to star we visited with the parentals and Eric's nieces, and went bowling with Eli and and the girls that night. SO FUN!

Maddi

Kamdyn and Eli

Maddi with Aunt Lesley

Kamdyn was so excited to knock down 1 pin

ME

Maddi sad she didn't get more

Eric

We woke up Saturday morning to this! We left early that morning to head into Rexburg and IF. We also brought our niece Caellie with us. We went car shopping ALL day with no luck, but it was still an awesome trip and we got to go to dinner that night with all our friends at Texas Roadhouse, I even got to watch a little of the Bama Vs. LSU game. Purchases of the weekend included a new Iphone 4S for me, and I also got a beautiful new coat for the winter. Eric purchased a new leather hand bag to carry to the temple. We drove back to star valley sat. night went to church with the fam on sunday and then headed back to Utah.  

Caellie drew this for me and Eric

Us headed back to Utah so Eric could get to work. :( But overall the trip was great but we wished it could have been longer.