Our First Thanksgiving

Our first Thanksgiving together was a blast! First, we ate a truly fantastic dinner with the Sorensens (& company). Highlights included my first-ever deep fried turkey, AND a brined turkey using the Pioneer Woman's recipe. Yum!! Later, we stopped by the Jacobsens for some dessert. I tried a sliver of all 5 pie flavors (and gained 5 lbs to prove it), and D ate way more than his fair share of my cousin Kimber's pumpkin roll.

It was a great day.

Just some photos of our day. Most of them taken by Daniel.

(He's kind of an awesome photog, huh?)

p.s. D has been so into classical music lately. Right now he's plugged into his laptop [with his big Skull Candy headphones, mind you] jamming to some symphony video he's watching on YouTube. I really hope it's for his music class...do you think they require you to learn to lead the music with a pencil?

*update* I must apologize for speaking prematurely. I have just been informed that it is not just some symphony, it is Beethoven's Sympony No. 7 in A Major. Go ahead, see what I'm dealing with right now.

give thanks.

(Daniel took this photo of one of his mom's cute decorations.)

I love this time of year. It gives me a chance to slow down and appreciate the little miracles I take for granted every day.

I have so much to be grateful for.

family

friends

a job

technology

our apartment

love

good food

health

faith

freedom

my husband

& so much more...

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

blizzard?

Just wanted to let you all know that D and I survived the "blizzard" that hit SLC last night. It may have been just a little over-hyped, but I've never loved snow so much in my life! We both got off of work early, and all of our classes at the U got cancelled. I was beyond excited. They told everyone to stay inside because of the storm but we went shopping anyway. We might have also done a few donuts in the parking lot. Just sayin'.

p.s. if you're feeling bummed about winter, I may have discovered a cure:

Starbucks Peppermint Hot Chocolate.

I'm serious. Go get some. Now.

(the caramel flavor is also recommended).

weekend fun.

D and I had a lot of fun this weekend. We both got off work on Friday and decided we needed to have a mini date night. We took a little road trip out to Draper to grab some In-N-Out burger (romantic, huh?) and it was so yummy! It's one of the few places I order a hamburger instead of chicken strips. Come to think of it, I don't think they even have chicken strips there...

After In-N-Out, we decided to pay a visit to IKEA while we were out that way. We saw online that they carry these cute red pillowcases that measure 26 x 26". You see, D and I bought these awesome euro-style square pillows for our bed when we first got married, and our vision was to have them covered in red pillowcases. You'd think they'd be easy to find, right? WRONG!! It's been 3 months, and we've turned up nothing that costs below $50.00. For. Each. Pillowcase. *sigh*

Well, our visit to IKEA just led to more disappointment. We saw the perfect pillowcases on a display bed, and the tag said $11.99. We were thrilled!! When we got down to the textiles area, we couldn't find them anywhere. Finally, D noticed a comforter in the same fabric so we went to check it out. It turns out, the pillowcases are only sold in a set with the comforter! And it was far above $11.99. We figured out that the tag we saw was the price for the actual pillow inside the case. It was a sad day. We had to buy one of the IKEA chocolate bars on the way out to cheer us up. It kind of worked.

What really helped to cheer us up was our quick stop at FYE on the way home where we purchased Napoleon Dynamite. We watched it when we got back to our apartment, and got some good laughs.

Although our date night was fabulous, we both kind of wished we had gone to see Highland High School play in the State Championship football game at Rice Eccles Stadium (D and I are both Highland Grads). Highland ended up winning in double overtime!! It would have been an exciting game. We're proud of our Rams!

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

sometimes class gets cancelled

And sometimes you have to cancel class yourself. Which is exactly what I did today. Oh...and last week too. (Shh - don't tell D!) In my defense, I was extremely productive without class distracting me.

Oh, and is it wrong that D and I have this song on full blast? Because we may or may not have just had a small dance party in our apartment.

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i've found myself saying something a lot lately, and that something is this:

"we should totally save up our money for [blank]."

nothing wrong with that, right? well, except for it's a different word in the blank every time i say it.

a few things i've put in that blank in the past little while:

1. invisalign (is that weird?)

2. touring europe

3. a mediterranean cruise

4. a nice house

5. a rainy day

6. a new wardrobe from anthropologie

7. christmas

8. a new (bigger) car for D

9. next semester when i can't work as much

10. a smart phone

i know, i know...it's going to be a while before any of that cool stuff gets to happen. i should probably at least graduate before i fill in that blank with anything other than a rainy day.

a girl can dream, though!

it's all in the details

i can't believe it's already been 3 months since our wedding!! it honestly feels like it was just yesterday. if you've gotten married, you know how fast that day goes by. we spend months and months stressing and planning, and everything has to be perfect. yet when the day actually comes, it's over all too quickly in a rush of emotion. that's why i'm so glad we had a wonderful photographer who captured all the little details that made our wedding special. here are some of my favorites.

it really was the perfect day from start to finish.

happy 3 months, D! i love you more than anything.