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.

Halloween Midnight Trip

Halloween was not as much fun this year because Eric and I both worked late that night. We missed all the trick or treaters and all our Halloween candy went to waste. :( So after work, I decided to get all cozy and got in my PJ's and washed my face and teeth and got all ready to crawl into bed, and the next thing I knew Eric was busting through the front door with tons of energy and talked me into getting all dressed again to grab something to eat. So there we went at 11pm to find somewhere to eat. The only place still open was Applebees, yeah....I-hop wasn't even open. But we ended up having a blast being one of two people in the whole restaurant!!! bahahaha! Anyways, despite working all day, Halloween turned out to be OKAY! Eric kept making me laugh, saying he felt like we were back in college again strolling the streets at midnight for places to eat and just hanging out together!!! I just love that we've reached that point where we say that now..."back when I was in college"....hahahaha.

Our fun outing at Applebees

Everyone at worked kept asking me all day if I was dressed up as anything...well Eric and I decided I should have dressed up like Wednesday Adams with my hair braided like that. So this is me making my very serious Wednesday Adams face. 

Hope you all had a very Frightening HALLOWEEN! :)