Happy Holidays

I'm a bit behind on the blog! It's been a busy season for us. Here's a kind of long update. On Thanksgiving Kyler deep fried a turkey for our family Thanksgiving party. We borrowed Steve's deep fryer to cook it. After a few technical difficulties that thing worked like a gem!! It was delicious! Nice apron eh!



My family celebrates Thanksgiving the day before so when the actual holiday rolled around Kyler and I spent the day together. Like i've said before, I couldn't wait to put up our tree. I got it all set up while Kyler was studying and when I was all done I made him put the star on top! He did a fabulous job!

We had a FHE with Kylers family a couple weeks ago. We went to see the Ogden Christmas Village over on 25th street. It was freezing. Once we were frozen we were okay. We even got to talk to the Big Guy! Sweet!!!

We spent Christmas Eve with Kylers family! It was so fun. Kyler and I did a couple of musical numbers at the party but I didn't have anything to record it with. I'll redo them so you can all see. I played Silent Night on the accordion and then we played Baby its cold outside on our iphones! After that was all over everyone got a present. They turned out to be nerf guns and we had a huge gun fight with them. It was a blast :)

Merry Christmas Eve...
It was a tradition in Kylers family to open gifts on Christmas Eve. I loved it!

I got this one from Kyler and Craig. Craig designed it up for me. Its a wedding album that looks like a book box. It holds 4x6 pictures inside. I love it!!

Heres a couple more of some of our favorite gifts! I also got a new camera from Kyler! He is so sweet! Now hopefully I can update our blog a bit more. We're also very excited for a couple of cook books Kyler got! Thanks Michele and Joe!

We got this mixer from my parents. Its been broken for a really long time and my Dad fixed it for us! So SOOO glad!! No more handmixer


Steve and Camille bought this one for me. I've wanted this for years!! Really years!! Thanks so much Camille and Steve. I am so excited!

We had a fun first Christmas together. We are so grateful for all the love and support we've had this year, especially from family and friends. We are so blessed to have you all in our lives! We love you and we hope you all had a very Merry Christmas this year as well!

Take A Vote...

We made gingerbread houses on Saturday with Mark & Bry and Bubba & Traci. It was a lot of fun and they turned out really cute too.... So we've posted them so you can vote for your favorite. Leave a comment and let us know what you think!!

Oh Christmas Tree!!

As most of you already know, I'm so excited for Christmas this year!! I'm excited for one because its mine and Kylers first Christmas together, and for two, I have all these Christmas decorations that I've collected that I cant wait to put up! On Saturday we bought our first Christmas tree! I had to make sure the lights worked on it so I put it up when I got home. Kyler was laughing at me because I was so excited to get it up that I didn't stop to read the directions (which I did read, I just couldn't figure out what layer was which) It took me a few try's but I made it!!



Oh and Joe finished our wedding video's for us. They wrapped it up all cute and gave it to us on Sunday! I'm so grateful to everyone who helped with our wedding. We were so happy with how it turned out all together and we know it wouldn't have been so great if it weren't for our Family and Friends!! Thanks again for all you do for us! We love you all!!

Tutu's, VHS, and Accordions

Every year on Halloween we get to dress up for work. We aren't allowed to go too extravagant on our costumes so we always decide on a simple costume. Letecia and I started doing the same thing 3 years ago and now its kind of a tradition for us. So this year we decided to be ballerina's, and we got some other Front End girls to do it with us. It was really fun when we all got together. They turned out really cute. We just cut an elastic band to go around our hips and tied on strips of tulle. And the finished product.... Ta Da.... Four really cute ballerina's!!



On Sunday we went to Kyler's parents house. It's been a while since we've spent some time with them (We've had lots of family things going on last month) so we went over to have dinner and hang out. We started talking about this video interview that Steve and Camille had with Kyler when he was around 3 yrs old, and I really wanted to watch it. We ended up running over to my parents house to grab a VCR so we could watch it. It was really fun! We had a blast watching a couple different home videos. Eventually though we stuck in a tape of some of Kyler's old High School football clips. I learned a couple different plays they used and heard a couple stories they all remembered about his Senior year playing. I actually have to admit that I hardly ever went to the football games. I didn't even go to his state game my Sophomore year. I wish I would have. Those games looked like so much fun!



This picture below is one of my absolute favorites! Love it!!


Oh yes... you guessed it... I'm going to learn to play the accordion! Kyler's Great Grandma Smith played this accordion (actually my great grandma played an accoridon too), and now I'm going to give it a go. I found out today I was holding it backwards though. I'm already off to a great start! :)

The Gateway

We went on a date on Friday to go see the new iMac's at the Apple store. I think this iMac has jumped to the top of Kyler's wish list.... He is super super excited about it. I do have to say, they are pretty snazzy!!! The screen is 27" big (its huge!!) and its got a cordless keypad and mouse. Someday we hope to have one!! :) We also ran into this kitchen store right off to the left as you come out of the Apple store. It was pretty fun to see all the gadgets people use to cook. Kyler got to play around with a $200 Japanese chef's knife. That thing is impressive too. He's chopping a potato in the pic. We had a really fun night just hanging out together!

The Carving of the Pump-a-kins

Bet you can't guess what that is....


So we had a date night at our place last week. We had Jenny and Mitch, and Craig and Jackee over to carve pumpkins with us. It was a blast. Its been a long time since i've carved a pumpakin! We went over to Macey's (like 2 seconds from our house) picked out pumpkins and headed home to carve em. We also made caramel apples. (Don't they look pretty).... yeah uh..we couldn't eat them.... I heated up the caramel too hot and it made them hard as rocks. So learn from my lesson and don't heat caramel to the boiling point when making caramel apples. The pumpkins turned out well as you can see. When we were done we watched the Secret Window with Jonny Depp. That's a great scary movie, if your lookin for one. Thanks Jenny, Mitch, Jackee, and Craig for coming over! We had a great time.




Like I said inedible - but pretty!


Craig & Jackee Pumpkin is Marzipan and Strong Sad from Homestarunner

Jenny & Mitch Pumpkin is Jack the Pumpkin King from Night Mare Before Christmas

Angie & Kyler Apple Nerds!!

Peaches!!

This last week we were able to get peaches from Camille & Steve! We had to figure out something to do with 2 5 gallon buckets full of peaches. So we decided to try our hands at canning them. Kyler was much more excited about it than I was. He canned a lot more than I did. When I grew up canning was the worst chore. My mom canned almost anything and we were put to work. We had to have planned days to get all of my siblings and I outside to shuck corn, or days that we had to sit in our kitchen and pluck grapes and pick tomatoes. I never looked forward to canning season-- until after it was over of course and then I was glad. But like I said, Kyler was super excited (I love being married to someone who gets so excited to cook) :) We canned quite a few jars of peach jam and made about 28 jars of regular peaches. We also got a bit creative and made a peach pie- all by ourselves. Definitely a lot of work, but I'm glad we canned!



Here's Kyler "dotting" our pie with butter... Whatever that means...

I think we did a pretty good job!


We went to Kyler's parents on Sunday and we all brought a peach dessert. Camille made a cookie kind of crust out of macaroons and coconut and topped it off with peaches. Michele made a peach pie that you put into a graham cracker crust and top with sweetened condensed milk. We loved dessert that night!!

Finished Project

Alright so here's the pic's that show the finished paint job. I know I promised them a long time ago. Sorry it took me so long and there are a lot of pictures. Hope you like it!
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