Creepy

So we have this back room in our apartment that we just use for storage. I usually check back there before we go to bed for "bad guys" and to make sure the door is locked. (Okay, usually I make Shaun do it). Well, one time when I went back there, this is the shadow I found!!!

Is that creepy or what????

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It was really just this cute inflatable monkey that is randomly hanging off of the light with a strip of rubber over his arm. He is still there, and I have stopped getting startled by it finally. :)

For Christmas, Jess suprised me with some tickets to the winter national monster truck show at the maverik center in west valley. They were big and very loud. We had a fun time watching those 6 ton machines fly in the air!

The California Kid is driven by a 21 yr old from Cali. He did pretty good with his runs but wasn't the best.
They had races to see who could jump and get over the cars first.

Bigfoot won every event they had.

WATCH THE VIDEO!!!

Happy One Year Anniversary to us!

Our anniversary was December 22. It was great! Shaun surprised me by deciding we should each open one Christmas present early and call them "anniversary" presents. I was all for it. I was having such a hard time waiting till Christmas to exchange gifts! He got to open a......

hammock!

We've wanted one for awhile and we can't wait to try it out this summer! I got a Carhartt coat. I've also wanted one of those for awhile. It is very warm!

We headed to Salt Lake to celebrate, and first thing we did was go to the Salt Lake temple.

Afterward we changed out of our church clothes in our car in the conference center parking garage. We felt kind of suspicious, ha ha!
Then we went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I'd never been there, and even though I'd heard the menu is huge I was not prepared for it! I ended up getting bbq salmon, and Shaun got caramel chicken. They were both so good! We also got an appetizer and the BEST raspberry lemonade ever. We were so full we didn't even get cheesecake! The food was so so good.



Then we went to Zoo Lights at Hogle Zoo. It was slightly snowing and pretty cold, but we were pretty bundled up and it was fun. The light displays were really cool. Most of them were animated. They had a light display in front of each animal's cage of that animal. We didn't see many real animals, but I guess that's not the point of zoo lights.

Red Robin is my favorite restaurant! And Dr. Pepper (Coke product) is our favorite drink!

I LOVE THIS GUY!

Sweet Seats!

I have several posts to catch up on, but we haven't downloaded pictures from the camera for a month or so. On December 10th, Shaun won us tickets to the USU hockey game to sit in the "sweet seats". He was just studying for finals in the student center and they were having a contest where you have to shoot a hockey puck into a hole in a board. The hole was about 6 inches off the ground. He did it! Yay Baby! They told us we got to sit on a couch and they'd serve us dinner. We were expecting a pizza or something. I was kind of nervous about going because I thought it would be awkward to sit in "special seats" and have people watch us eating but it ended up being really fun.

Two zambonis at once!

Our waiter :()) They didn't just bring us a pizza. We had a server from USU catering serving us the whole 3 hours. We had appetizers, main course, dessert, and any drinks, candy or popcorn from the concession stand we wanted. He kept bringing us stuff even when we didn't ask for anything. We were stuffed. We tried to pay attention to the game too, but we were a little distracted. I think I saw four goals out of nine made, ha ha.


Our easy chairs

Main course

We won, 6 - 3, against U of U

Dessert. We barely made a dent in it.

Thanksgiving Pies

This is kind of out of order, but oh well. Shaun and I made some of the pies for Thanksgiving at my parents' house. We made pumpkin, pecan, and apple. We made all the crusts too! I had never made crust before, and I was a little nervous because EVERYONE always talks about how hard crusts are! I was glad a few other people were bringing pies too, in case ours didn't turn out. We tried two different crust recipes, and one turned out better than the other, but they were both edible.

Yummy! Lotsa Crisco.

Hope this works....

Successfully rolled out and transferred to the pie dish!

Beautifying the edges.

Ta da! We got a few dark spots. Easily preventable by putting a piece of aluminum foil over them when the top is as done as you want, but we weren't paying attention...

Jamie made the other pies.

When you make them, you have to try them all!

My adorable cousin, Sheridan. She brought Spaghettios for her Thanksgiving dinner! Ha ha!

But she did have THREE PIECES of pumpkin pie. :) Love her!

Black Friday

My two sisters-in-law and I went shopping this morning. We went to JoAnn's. They were having an AWESOME sale on flannel and fleece. Flannel was $1.29/yard, and it's usually $5.99/yard! The store opened at 6:00 so we went at 5:30. It was COLD! I had on thermals, winter boots, two shirts, a hoodie, a ski coat, a hat, scarf and gloves. My face was FREEZING! The wait in line wasn't that bad, and everyone was pretty under control. I was afraid people would be trying to jump in line and stuff, but it wasn't like that. When the doors opened we got the last three door buster prizes - $4 pairs of scissors, lol. My first priority was a rotary cutting board. They were 50% off! As were the rotary cutters. Then we started looking at fabrics. It was crowded! I heard a lady nearby say something about a number - OH CRAP! - we didn't even think about grabbing a number to get our fabric cut! That should've been the first thing we did. So we sent Sarah to go grab one. She got A89. Well, that gave us plenty of time to look for fabric. Sarah wasn't looking for fabric, so she took a little break......

While Natalie and I loaded up. We weren't even close to done at this point. I think we ended up with 21 bolts. At first we didn't have a cart, so we just started a pile on the floor and took turns watching it and looking for more flannel. We asked Sarah to find a cart, and there weren't any! She had to wait at the end of the checkout line, in another line of people waiting for empty carts. She got one for us after about 15 minutes.


We decided we had enough fabric and better stop looking when the numbers they were calling were about at 30. This was around 8:00. Then we headed to the other end of the store where it was less crowded. We switched waiting spots a few times to keep ourselves entertained. Sarah ended up going out to the car to keep warm. Around 10:15 our number was called! You should've seen some of the other carts! There were people with WAY more bolts than we had. There were about 5 or 6 workers cutting like crazy! When our fabric was being cut they finally reached the numbers that started with "B", meaning they'd been through 100 numbers that start with "A". I ran into a friend who'd just gotten there and her number started with "C". After our fabric was cut the checkout line only took about 5 minutes.
We left JoAnn's around 10:30.




None of us had eaten anything so we ended up going to Einstein's and Jamba Juice afterward.

We went back to my apartment and Shaun was still in bed. He finished off the Jamba Juices and then made french toast and hot chocolate. :)

It was a great shopping experience! Totally worth it! I ended up spending $56 total. Which was the original price of the cutting mat I bought. So for the regular price of the mat, I got:

the rotary cutting mat (50% off)

a rotary cutter (50 % off)

a seam ripper (coupon for 50% off)

a pin cushion (coupon for 50% off)

2 packages of elastic (coupon for 50% off one of them)

about 14 yards of flannel

Then I had a coupon for 20% off total purchase, which only counted toward some of it, but still saved me about $8 more.

Yup, I think that's it! YAY FOR SALES!!

Shaun's Birthday

So, I'm a little late on this one.... and a lot of ones.... but better late than never, right? Shaun's birthday was on a Sunday this year. Friday night while he was at work I decided to make him some cupcakes!

Then on Saturday we went to Fat Cats in Ogden and bowled, played mini golf, and did bumper cars. Then my best friend, Cami, and her husband, Kevin, took us out to dinner at Javier's. Then we went to a Ogden Raptors baseball game! It was a lot of fun. I wish we'd taken more pictures, but I think the rest are on my phone, and they're not that great.