There and Back Again

This is the first weekend we have gotten to stay home in a long time!

Here's a quick review of our travels:

November 7-9

Burley - Turkey killing!

I already blogged a little about it here.

November 21-23

Rexburg - I took my sisters family pictures!

These pictures would not have turned out half as good without my fabulous assistant, Clayson.

He is the best  :)

One day Allison Kay Photography will be alive and thriving!

(There is still a lot of work to do on it)

One day....

We told Bennett if he was good, we would take him to see the Mario wall.

I don't think he was impressed with it as we were.

November 26-30

Rexburg - Thanksgiving!

It was so fun to be with family!

(Again, I already blogged about our craft project here)

Bennett is the master of the block towers!

Too bad Patton is the destroyer of block towers.

We went bowling!

The only down side was that Clayson and I both got sick Sunday, so we quarentined ourselves in the bedroom all day.

December 1-2

Salt Lake - Jazz game!

For Clayson's Christmas present, we went to a Jazz game. 

It was made even better because Carlie & Tyler came with us! We love getting to spend time with them.

The Jazz lost to the Nuggets, but it was a close game.

It got so loud!

After, Clayson and I walked around Temple Square and looked at the lights

This is Clayson's picture with the "sun" (Temple) moon and star.

It's symbolic....

We stayed at a hotel that night. Such a fun get away!

December 5-7

Burley again

December 12-14

Rexburg - Melissa's Endowment

December 19-21

Burley - Nathan & Melissa's wedding!

We had Sydney, Lynzey, and Annalese in our car to and from the temple because we are the fun car!

They wanted to stop at McDonalds. 

I told them that when I was growing up we only got $2 each when we went out to eat. Luckily, Clayson is nicer than I am and got them Happy Meals.
He justified that the dollar was worth more when we were growing up. 

That made me feel old.

Then the girls were blown away when we told them that we didn't have a TV in our car growing up.

 It's a miracle we both turned out ok  :)

I didn't think the "back in my day...." stories would start this soon in life.  

It was a long day of wedding-ness and by the end I may have been losing it a little....

I should have goten a picture with Nathan & Melissa, but alas, I did not. 

So here's a picture of us instead  :)

December 23-25

Burley - Christmas!

They have a recent tradition of having an Nerf war on Christmas day.

Last year was Nerf Guns, this year was Nerf Bow and Arrows.
They whistled as they flew and hurt more than the guns. I'm afraid of what's coming next year.

I was afraid we wouldn't have any snow, but it finally came Christmas day! 

The bad news was that we had to drive home that night and there were some pretty bad drifts. 

It was slow going, but we made it home safe!

This Weekend - Logan!

We are happy to get to enjoy some time at home!
But it won't last long....

Next weekend - Burley again for a baby blessing!

Stay tuned  :)

Full House

I am so grateful that we have a house where we can have people stay with us!

We had another full house this weekend.

can you find us?

Troy and Aubree were sealed, so everyone came to celebrate with them. 

I loved getting to see everyone!

I was really excited to see a family sealed. It was such a neat experience!

Maysa was so good and so sweet through the whole thing.

 

I am so grateful for temples and that families are forever!

us with Maysa

She is so good natured and Aubree always has her looking so cute!

My family stayed at our house with us, as well as Colby & Mykel. 

It was so much fun to have them and we wish they could have stayed longer!

The Boys

The Girls

 We loved having you visit.
Come back again soon!

The Newlyweds

We're Married!

It was perfect  :)

Our photographer was the amazing Kylee Ann. 

Click on the above pictures to see more from our wedding.

We headed to Park City for our Honeymoon!

We had originally planned to do something more exotic or a cruise, but when it came down to it, neither of us really wanted to travel that much.
We're such homebodies  :)

Some of the highlights:

Get ready for a whole lot of selfies....

We went to the Olympic Park!

On the lift up

The Alpine Slide was our favorite. 

There was no line so we did it a million times!

View from the Zip Line

I was so afraid to zip line, but it was so much fun! We did this one a ton too.

Ready for the Ropes Course!

Ropes Course #1

Ropes Course #2

The Drop Tower!

I was so afraid to do this.

We loved the Olympic Park!

We took a walk

and this is what we saw....

It was beautiful!

I took a lot of pictures....

and I mean a lot of pictures.

but, seriously....

how could you not love that sunset!

I may have been just a little picture happy.

Clayson was good to humor me  :)

Love it!

We went bowling!

It was the fanciest bowling alley I have ever seen!

They had couches!

and menus!

people even came around to take your order.

Clayson is a better bowler than I am....

but I beat him in basketball  :)  

believe it.

We ate breakfast at The Eating Establishment

It was good

We went to the Nicklecade. 

We probably spent like $8 on this game.

I hit the Jackpot! 

There were lights and sirens and I was screaming and we drew a crowd of little admirers around us. 

It was amazing  :)

This is what we got with our winnings

And this is what we looked like after eating all our winnings.

We are rich in Olive Garden gift cards, so we treated ourselves to dinner.

We walked around Temple Square

We went to Wicked! 

Neither of us had seen it before and we loved it!

Not pictured: we went to an art festival, ordered pizza and watched a movie, played cards, ran from the police, drove through fancy neighborhoods, swimming (Clayson finally saw me go underwater) almost died driving home in an almost flash flood and enjoyed being with each other immensely.

Now we are home sweet home! 

Clayson's pantry!

Since returning, we have opened a million presents (the floor was covered, you couldn't even get to the couch. thank you everyone!) organized, played softball, Clayson built an amazing pantry for us, organized, Abbi and Jared's wedding, Clayson's brother came to visit, organized some more, went to our new ward, Jana and Karissa came to visit, and did I mention organizing....

Life has been busy and I am ready to get back into the routine of life.

Things are good and I couldn't be happier  :)