splurging

When we got married we were lucky enough to inherit my parents first washer and dryer. After 26+ years, it was still in great condition!

We all know appliances don't last forever; when it started to sound like it was struggling (and we found a leak) we knew it was time to look for a replacement. Luckily Black Friday sales were approaching, so we held out and found this little beauty after Thanksgiving :)

We couldn't be happier with our purchase!

We're loving doing laundry and I don't think the excitement will go away for quite a while!

Thanksgiving 2011

This year we spent Thanksgiving with our Hussey side. We had such a good, relaxing week. We went to Roosevelt Tuesday evening and enjoyed the ride out with Mitch and Grandpa Rogers. Nick and my dad went pheasant hunting, we all caught up and played games, watched movies, and ate yummy food! I think Thanksgiving may be one of my favorite holidays.... :)

Nick with some pheasant

absence....

I have not been a good blogger lately - my biggest reason for having a blog is that this is a type of journal for us. I have never been good at keeping a journal, and it helps to be have pictures with a post.

The last few weeks have been CRAZY! Nick is trying to stay afloat with his schoolwork and I have been traveling for work. We haven't seen much of each other these past two weeks, so our upcoming Thanksgiving break is much needed!

When I came back from spending 3 days in Salt Lake last week, this was waiting for me :)

More Halloween :)

Although we didn't end up dressing up this year, we did do a few really fun things for Halloween.

First, we volunteered to "chaperone" (not let anyone through a certain door) at the Howl last week! We were in a very quiet area so we didn't see much of what was happening at the party...

We did play quite a few hands of Uno though!

Happy Halloween!

Last weekend our friends Kristen and Trevor Laursen invited us to carve pumpkins with them. We had so much fun! Most of us were lazy and used patterns.... lame huh! That's okay, they turned out cute!

Fall Vacation

We returned from a great vacation with the Brito's Tuesday night. Nick and Rob had a couple days off school so we decided to head to warmer weather in Cali. Not only were we excited for 80 degree weather, we found an AWESOME vacation deal through Get Away Today that packaged our hotel with Disneyland tickets!

Saturday we ventured to Disneyland and we had great weather and tons of fun park hopping. We ate churros, worked the fast pass, and played really really hard!

Conference

For conference weekend we headed up to Salt Lake - we got tickets for the Sunday afternoon session so we could go to conference with Nick's family. They live in Salt Lake but have never had the opportunity to go to conference! Glad we could fix that for them :)

We had a way fun weekend! We went to two movies (Contagion and Abducted - both good!), hung with my family for a bit at my parent's condo, went to conference with the Shober's, and [sort of] relaxed. It was so fun to see our families - it seemed like we hadn't seen them in a long time!
Lets meet up again soon, okay families?