Thanksgiving 2008

Once again, we were on our own for Thanksgiving this year. With finals around the corner, we couldn't afford to take time for the drive to Utah to see family. Despite the fact that we spent the day away from family, we fixed an entire Thanksgiving dinner and enjoyed spending time as a little family. Ethan was definitely great help with the preparations. We didn't realize how time consuming fixing Thanksgiving dinner could be.

Urban Camping

Happy Anniversary to us! Cory and I went out to celebrate our special day over the weekend but spend our actual anniversary chilling out at home. After dinner, we built a fire and roasted marshmallows. That's what we call "urban camping." Our roasting sticks are stored in Utah so we improvised by soaking bamboo skewers in water and taping them together. Hey, it worked, and the marshmallows were delish!

House of Bounce

For playgroup, a bunch of us in the ward took the kiddos to a place called House of Bounce. The kids and parents can play on several inflatable bounce thing-a-ma-bobbers. We had our first snow today so this was a perfect activity to keep the kids active and warm. In addition to being fun, I think we got a good workout.



Ethan was too scared to go down the slides forward so he slid down on his stomach.

Food Storage Mania!

So we got some early Christmas money this year that was to be used only for food storage so a few of us in the ward got together to stock up on the basics. I had never been to the cannery before and thought it was quite fun. We were there for 2 or 3 hours and really accomplished a lot. I feel so happy and relieved to have a little food storage now. And really there is nothing sexier than women wearing hairnets! Yeah, baby!

My First Fire

I couldn't resist taking this picture of Cory and Ethan while they stared at the fire in the fireplace. It's the first one that we built this season, and Ethan kept saying, "This is my first fire." He was fascinated, and we all enjoyed spending some family time in front of the cozy fire.

Go Cougs!

We made the hour or so trek to Fort Collins for the BYU/CSU game with the Langstraats, friends from our ward, and a group of the Langstraats' friends. We were beginning to think that our trip had been in vain, but the Cougars pulled out the victory in the end. It definitely was a nail-biter and well worth the trip! We love BYU football!


Here are the cougs preforming the Haka before kickoff.


Here's our attempt at a picture with Cosmo. Ethan was too distracted by the game and surroundings.


True blue fans all the way!