Anniversary Trip

This past weekend Ryan and I took a trip to celebrate our anniversary. We especially wanted to do it knowing it was our last one without children, which is not a bad thing! We didn't pick a very good weekend because of the big storm and bad roads, but we made it. We went to the Salt Lake Temple Friday and then walked around Temple Square to look at the lights. Saturday we did a little shopping and hung out with my brother and his family in Provo. I have to tell you about my find! I was wanting to buy some maternity clothes because there is no where here to shop and I knew I was going to need them soon. I especially wanted some dress pants for when we go on our cruise in 2 weeks. I went to Old Navy to find ALL their maternity clothes on sale 40% off! I got 3 pairs of pants and 5 shirts for $122.00! It was a great buy! Saturday night we went back to SLC and went to a Jon Schmidt Christmas concert. I love Jon! He inspires me. That night we stayed at the Armstrong Mansion Bed and Breakfast, which are what the pictures of. It's a great place to stay for a get-a-way! We had a great trip.

Here's a couple overall pictures of the room.




And here's a close up of us!

'Tis The Season

We also finished putting up Christmas lights on our home today. I thought I'd post a picture of it because I thought it turned out very nice. Thanks Ryan! And yes, that is lots of snow! It snowed from 8:00 this morning until about 6:30 this evening. We are loving the snow and grateful for the moisture!

Saturday, that's play day

We had great plans today to go up the mountain with some friends to cut down a Christmas tree, roast hot dogs, and go sledding. However, by this morning, all of our friends had backed out on us. We don't have a 4 wheel drive vehicle and it would have looked funny driving our little car with a tree on top. Also, with me being pregnant and can lift a whole lot and with Ryan's injured back, we decided it probably wouldn't be the best thing for us to do by ourselves. I was pretty disappointed. Everyone decided to go up next weekend, but we'll be out of town, so we ended up going and buying a tree. It's a tradition for us to go cut one down every year. This is the first year we've had to go buy one. Anyways, we still decided to do dinner but it turned out to be a BBQ. We had six families at our house and lots of little ones running around wild. We ate and then played Battle of the Sexes. If you've never played that game with Ryan, I'll warn you now: he's good at it! Needless to say, the girls lost. But it was close! Ryan also had fun playing with the kiddos and got beat up a little. Here are some pictures of their dog pile! We had a great night.