HOLIDAYS

This year was a great Thanksgiving as were the years past. We enjoyed the company of the Wilson family, the Agnew family the Thomsons and the Noto families. Everyone brought a little something to fill the food table with yumminess. We ate SOOOO much food! Then we moved onto pies, and ohhh boy, they were amazing! Now we all have to go exercise for 6 days strait. I didn't take pictures when everyone got there, but I sure wish I did because I was so excited to host this Thanksgiving and would love to do it again and again in the years to come.
Next is Hyrums birthday on Dec 5th! I'm excited for him to finally reach the ripe age of 25 with me! Then CHRISTMAS! I have been looking EVERYWHERE in our house for our decorations but could not find them. I think Hyrum was afraid I would jump the Christmas decoration gun and decorate a month in advance and skip over the T day decorations. But out of the blue, there was my bag of Christmas decor sitting at the top of the stairs this morning!! HURRAY! Hyrum "found" them. I think he just pulled them out of his hiding spot. For his punishment Im going to leave him on the roof with a handful of Christmas lights:) We're gonna geek out on Christmas this year!

Lil bit of this and a lil bit of that

Sorry there hasn't been much of an update, I'm finally to the point where I don't feel like laying down and sleeping my life away when I get home from work. The baby is letting me have energy once again so I'm hoping to establish a life again.
Hyrum had to work on Halloween so we partied it up the night before with some pumpkin seeds, pumpkin carving and jack-o-lantern pizza. I decided to stay in on Halloween night and pass out candy for the first time. Growing up we never had trick-or-treaters so I was sooo excited when the doorbell rang, Laura was there, she'll tell you how happy I was to pass out candy. Besides I had also been up since early that morning to go wait in line for the H1N1 shot, that would make a total of 6.5 hours in line, and I finally got it!
A couple weeks later we ventured to Utah where we threw rocks in the lake with our nephews and helped put stuff together for Hyrums sisters wedding. It was fun to see everyone, we hadn't been to Utah since we moved to Idaho over a year ago.
Now we move on to Thanksgiving. This year Hyrum and I will be hosting and I'm soooo excited to get everything together and entertain our 17 guest. I think being around a lot of people at the holidays remindes me of growing up with lots of family and friends. Now all we need is a trampoline and hayrides with the tractor!

Veterans day

Happy Veterans day to Hyrum and all the other men and women who have served our country.
Hyrum served in the 173rd Airborne unit with some of his closest friends. He jumped out of airplanes made sure his "buddies" were safe and looked super handsome and tough while doing it. I'm so proud of him and how well he has done! He has shared so many fun army stories, they are my favorite to hear! He's not showered for months and has eaten some questionable goats while in Afghanistan.
He has seen so many amazing places while serving. He traveled from Georgia to Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Kuwait, Ireland, Turkey, Kirghistan (IF that's how you spell it ) you name it, he's been there!
Hyrum has been able to use the skills he learned through the military to teach me some handy things.
After he got out of the army he joined the Army national guard in Utah. Although the guard wasn't nearly as exciting as the army he still put in his time and service.
I love my husband and I'm grateful for all the hard work he has put towards protecting me, our country and others. I am so proud of him, and I'm grateful for our veterans.