Winter Adventures in Idaho

On Thursday of last week, I got home from work at about 7:30 and was just sitting down to watch T.V. while I waited for Brad to get done with his last final at 8:30 and the lights dimmed and then all the power went out. I thought it was just in my house but I opened the door and the whole street was out. So Luckily I have a lot of candles, I think I ended up lighting about 30 candles. This is the coffee table I had about 7 or 8 candles on it, all the big ones and one that had 3 wicks. This is the room with the flash. It started getting cold so I had to pull out the big blankets!

This is my favorite part of my holiday decoration, it looks so cute but this is what it looked like when all the lights were out. I had the house so lit up from all the candles when Brad pulled up he thought we had power back.
Here it is all lit up. The stockings were made by Linda and the cute JOY blocks were made by Ashley for our sister presents! But I put the candles up and it looks pretty cute, just minus the mess! It's all of our games and movies!

This is the dining room! It's my wall art that had candles already on it! It was kind of fun to light all my candles but I had to light them all because I was kind of freaked out being by myself. Brad was in him last final and they were doing presentations, Brad ended up having to do his groups on a laptop and in the dark but he did well and his teacher was very understanding, he even gave them the option to not do it! He got home and we decided to go to Idaho Falls for dinner since power was out from Rigby all the way up to Teton. Which if you were driving is like a 2 hour stretch! When we got home at 11:15 the power was on. It was slightly scary but once Brad got home it was fun to go out and spend some away time together!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I really wanted to Blog like a week ago but I couldn't get my computer to upload my pictures but thanks to my amazing sister Shannon who told me to put one picture up at a time. So here it is! First off, I love Christmas! I love the colors, the smells, the food, and all the lights and decorations! I didn't realize how many decoration I had until I unloaded them all! But so much fun! Here's our Christmas tree all decorated and lit up, it's my favorite thing!! While in Washington for thanksgiving Lindsay gave me a paper to make an advent calander! It was so much fun to make and it was really crafty!! And we put 2 of our favorite things in it, York patties and cadbury eggs!

When we first moved down to Rexburg after getting married Linda sent a lot of extra things with us to have. So say hello to one of my villages! This is the first year I get to put it up since last year we were packing and getting ready to move! It's super cute and I love having it lit up!

One of my christmas presents from my mom this year (that I opened early) was this cross stitch that says Holly all framed and ready for a wall! It's super cute and looked so festive on my wall!
Last but not least I have started to make chocolate bread!! I only have 5 loaf pans so I've had to do a little more batches. I've done 3 but only have 12 loafs, Brad and I have had to test one from each batch, you know, to see if they are good or not! But I finished all my Christmas shopping today and wrapped them all! Now all we have to do is wait tile the big day!!!

Thanksgiving!

We got to Portland at about lunch time so we started off the trip with some wonderful Buffalo Wild Wings (Brad's favorite place to eat!). Then we got ourselves home to relax and get ready for the Blazers game. We all sat in different sections but after the half we went and sat with scott and ashley b/c there were open seats! The Blazers won... of course! We got chalupas because they scored over 100 points. What a good deal! Lindsay and Jeremy showed up on sunday morning which was the day we did Thanksgiving. Everything turned out perfect and tasted amazing. Linda made sure we all had our favorite thanksgiving food so everyone was happy! Brad and Scott went down to the Verizon store and got to meet Rudy Fernandez!! This is Brad when we first got the game on Saturday night!!

Some of the player hand prints on Basketballs.... I don't compare at all!! ha

Brad's compare a little better, but still holy smokes these guys hands are monsterous!!

Monday and Tuesday we just enjoyed being all together. The boys went to another Blazer game, while we did crafts and exchanged sister presents! We picked out favorite fabric, and Linda and Ashley made me an apron that is super adorable and I used it Thanksgiving at my house! We also made candy shakers for V-Day! Super cute. We went bowling as a family which was fun, even if Jeremy wasted us! The last thing we did was take family pictures together! It was a really fun trip that went by way too fast! We had a really good time and can't wait to go back! It was nice to finally see everyone all together.