FINALLY!

We are finally done with Fall Semester!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This has been a very busy couple of weeks. Finals took over our lives for a good 2 weeks, and we couldn't be happier to be done. We kept saying "I seriously CANNOT wait until finals are over." And now they are! I love winter break because it is so stress free!

Here are some happenings of the last few weeks that i've gotten pictures of.

I made these delish cookies a few weeks ago...chocolate candy cane cookies! They were super good and super cute. You can get the recipie here.

I really love Christmas time and therefore Christmas decorations. We used some of our Crate and Barrel money from our wedding to buy some Christmas stuff online :) One of the things we got was this super cute doormat!

I also put together this little basket of cinnamon-scented pinecones to go on our coffee table to make it more festive! I'm very proud of it. And it smells delish!

Billy's Nu Skin work party was on the 8th. Brian Regan came to perform at it!!! It was way fun. He is HILARIOUS. I loved it. We invited Garrett to come with us, so he came all the way down from Salt Lake and it was way fun seeing him as always! The party was HUGE as usual, and they gave away some sweet prizes as usual, but we didn't win anything as usual :( But that's ok it was super fun just seeing Brian Regan!

Our 4 month anniversary was on the 12th! Billy got me flowers again :) He's the best. They're pink on the outside and red on the inside! So lovely.


Ok you will not believe what else happened. We went out to dinner one night I think the weeked before finals week and we were driving out of the parking lot and were stopped at a stop sign and someone REAR ENDED US AGAIN! We were just patiently waiting and bump! Such a bummer. Luckily we were in the 4-runner, so it didn't do too much damage, but it did bend the bumper down. I forgot to take pictures and it's raining outside right now so I don't want to but I will later and I'll put them up. At least we knew how to handle the situation...


So it has been oddly warm here lately (like 50-55 degrees) until we woke up one morning last week and there was snow everywhere! And it's been freezing ever since. This is now the view out our back window...snowy and constructiony. The mountains are pretty though!

So finals week was crazy. I had 2 scheduled finals, one on Wednsday at 2:30 and one on Thursday at 7 am!! And then I took one on Friday at like 8 pm. Billy took one on Thursday (and got a 97% on it!!!!) and 2 on Friday. It was a crazy week of studying for sure. To add on to it, one of the girls I visit teach had her baby! So me and my companion wanted to bring her dinner. I've never made dinner for anyone besides Billy before, so I was very nervous. But it turned out great! I felt like a real Relief Society woman! I'm really proud of it! My little dinner all ready to go...

So on Friday after finals, me and Billy were very relieved and stayed up late watching The Office, just what I had been waiting weeks to do :) And on Saturday we planned the whole day full of fun things! First, we slept in. Then, I went running and Billy cleaned the house :) I helped too a little! Then I made waffles and we watched Star Wars. Then we finally showered and everything and were ready for the day by 3 pm! Best kind of day. Then we went to the Dinosaur Museum up at Thanksgiving point! We've both wanted to go for a long time, so it was super fun to finally get to go.

Waiting for the 3-D movie "Sea-Rex" to start...

Billy and the chest/part of neck of a Supersaurus (I think)! It's huge.T-rexes fighting...Billy and his little buddyTheir Christmas tree had little oragomi dinosaurs all over it!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO CUTE!!! I want that tree.After the museum we went to Nordstrom Rack, then to dinner at Sweet Tomatoes aka Souplantation! It was delish and made us both very happy. The blueberry muffins are seriously the best thing ever. I need the recipie. Then we went to Matt's house for a game/movie night, which was way fun as always! We played Uno and POUNCE! Love that game. Then we watched Inception. It was more confusing the 2nd time.

Today it's been cold and rainy all day, which I love on Sundays :) Before this I sewed 4 buttons back on my work pants! I'm such a little seamstress.

OH me and Billy have gotten a few presents for each other, and they have just been sitting under the tree. Impatience finally got to us and we decided that we would just open 1 present each per day...and they're all gone now :) We knew we weren't going to be in UT for Christmas anyways, so we had to open them sometime before we left, might as well be now!

I got Bill 2 shirts and Star Wars 4, 5, 6 on DVD and Bill has gotten me a cute little silver flower necklace, a scripture case and a pair of vans! What a great pre-Christmas Christmas!

Well, that's all I can think of that's happened lately. We go home to San Diego on Wednesday for Christmas and then to Arizona for after Christmas fun and New Years! We are way excited! Ok bye!