Happy Holidays!

Well well well....Hello again :) and Happy Holidays!  Seth and I are getting closer and closer to our going to SouthCarolina date (20 days-for those folks that didn't know)-and we both are getting rather excited!  Seeing parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins-aunts-uncles, and friends--whew we will have our hands full--We are trying to plan everyday to the T to make sure we have time for EVERYONE!  But (of course you all must know) I had to first write of the days left and how excited we both are-Seth is even starting to make comments about seeing our families and how pumped he is! So-moving on to the more important stuff huh!


Thanksgiving-we stuffed our faces and enjoyed ourselves with Gina and Joe.  Gina took on a load of things to cook (while working 12 hr days and going through a blizzard) and made us a DELICIOUS MOIST turkey (her very first one-and we all were so excited and raved about how yummy it was).  We had a fun time celebrating with friends and enjoyed bragging on how we made everything on our own (again Gina more-so than I-but we contributed a little).

Our Cook Bag-That we Transported our Cooked goods In :).

My Favorite Mountains-Fog and Snow Covered-but Still Beautiful.

Gina's Delicious Turkey...

Seth carving off the Leg-Dark Meat.

Our food-Yummy.

 So-Funny Story.  Seth and Joe went to walk some dogs and they were gone for about an hour-and mind you it was -11 degrees Thanksgiving day.  They both have beards and when they walked in they both had icicles in their beards!  We thought it was pretty funny-I wish I would have gotten a picture of it.


Seth and I tried to get out in the snow this past weekend to play-didn't work out as we planned :).  The snow went up to almost my knees, but it was sooo powdery that we couldn't have snow ball fights or build a snowman-so I opted to make snow angels and skip around in the snow.  And of course I had to take pictures!

Crazy amounts of snow.

Demonstrating how deep it is.

Snow Angels..

He LOVES when I take his picture :).

View from our apartment.

The day after all this snow came about-I couldn't get my car out of the parking lot of our apt.  Seth tried to shovel a pathway for my car-but it wouldn't budge and I got stuck.  So-while Seth was pushing and heaving my car into a parking spot-I was luckily able to call a co-worker to come and fetch me :).  How wild is that though-my car getting stuck in the parking lot!  I thought it was hilarious-Seth not so much.  He was so frustrated-that he wasn't 'prepared' and that 'I' was put in a predicament.  Poor fella-he has so much on his plate with school-me :)-and trying to make sure we are taken care of-and we are safe while traveling.

Christmas is on its way!  Whoop Whoop :).  Unfortunately we left ALL our decorations at home-just being forgetful about them while packing-so we were unsure if we would buy any decorations.  Of course we had to.  We bought a small tree--didn't want to buy ornaments or a tree skirt--so with the help of my mother's idea we purchased ribbon for decorating our tree and Christmas fabric as the tree skirt!  It looks simple and quaint and I've thoroughly enjoyed it.  While shopping-Seth said that he REALLY wanted an advent wreath.  He has always had one and wanted us to continue the tradition that his family did-and luckily Seth's mom had sent us a storybook for Advent-that we have been using daily since Advent started :).  Another thing that I've enjoyed.  Today we received our first Christmas stockings from Seth's mom---with our names!!!  Whoop!  

Our cute quaint Christmas tree :).

Our advent wreath..

Our lovely stockings-Seth's Mom made!  Beautiful!

So, Seth and I are prepared for Christmas-We have a Winter Wonderland in Utah!  Although-it may get old quickly-we are enjoying it now!  We are looking forward to coming home and being in the 30's in SC rather than in the 10's in Utah :).  

The Cook's :).