My Christmas Wishlist

So i saw that my friend christa posted on her blog a really cute wishlist of what she wants for christmas and decided it would be fun to do the same. I know i am not going to get ALL the things on my list but its still fun to find pics of any of the things i would love to get. some things i REALLY want, then others i know i want but im prolly not going to get right now haha... anywho, i know sam will read this so my message to him is-- these are things that i would love to have. feel free to get me anything from this list. hehe

Perfume is probably #1 on my list because i've been wearing the same scent for years and years. this first one is viva la juicy by juicy couture and the second is dkny delicious.

I really want some new boots for this coming winter. i originally wanted snow boots but cant really find a pair that i really like. the ones in this pic come pretty close. or i would LOVE some black boots like these ones:

I have always wanted a griddle. We even got one for our wedding but somehow it got returned so since then, i have wanted one lol:I really really need a new plain silver necklace chain of some sort because the one i normally use broke recently:
for some reason i have lost track of the 1 or 2 scarves i have had over the years so i really want a new scarf like this style:
Ok i love this game. its not very high up on my wishlist but i do want it someday:
Long sleeved shirts and sweaters are on the list bc a lot of my winter clothes have gotten very old. especially something like this from victoria's secret:
This is last on the list because i know it is not a necessity nor is it very practical but i really do want a Nintendo DS someday. they are just so fun!

Having these things would be really fun but i know that when it comes to christmas, what is most important and what i am most excited for is being down in houston and having tons of fun while spending time with both our famlies. i am so excited to see everyone this christmas break- especially kelli's new baby boy that she is having tomorrow, yay! (I am only sad that i wont have a chance to see my sisters in cali this season, maybe sometime next semester i will try to come visit.) Anyways, i just really feel that Christmas is most fun when you are able to spend it with the ones you love and i am grateful for the time sam and i will have to spend together (not having to focus on school at all), as well as time we will have with family and friends.

Thanksgiving Break

This year for Thanksgiving we decided to go visit Sam's sister Amy in Shelley, Idaho (near Idaho Falls) for the whole week. It was so fun because Sam's older bro Dan and wife Richelle and kids drove all the way up from Texas. We had a lot of fun being with everyone, plus it was nice to have a break from school.... the first night we were in idaho, we headed up to Rexburg to spend time with my best friend Tiffany and hubby Matt. It was SOO fun being able to hang out with them! This whole week was great!

at dinner with Tiffany and Matt:
playing frisbee golf with sam's fam:
Amy and Dan working on our 1000 piece puzzle, it took us like 3 days to finish it haha:
after Thanksgiving dinner. yummy food!
Sam playin football with the boys after dinner:
Friday we all went to Lava Hot Springs (about an hour south of Shelley); it was awesome:
Sam(the professional light installer) helped Matt put up their Christmas lights lol:hangin out before we head back home; thanks amy and matt for having us! we had a blast! :)

Christmas?

ok ok i know its a little early to be putting up the christmas background but i just couldnt resist! i thought it was just sooo cute and i didnt want any of my sisters stealing it so i had to be the first to use it haha... im sooo excited for thanksgiving next week and as you can see, im even MORE excited for christmas coming up... because christmas means that this semester is finally OVER for me and sam and we get to go home to houston!! anywho, hope you enjoy my new, very festive and very sparkly background. oh and dont miss my winter snowflakes, coming sometime this january for the winter time. :)

Happy Birthday Sam!

happy birthday to my wonderful husband! he is now 23 years old as of this past wednesday, november 5th. yay! for sam's birthday this year i decided to just keep it simple and just celebrate the day with just us. i went shopping and bought his gifts on monday and i was soo excited to give em to him that i made him open them right after we woke up on wednesday morning haha.. we were able to sleep in and have a relaxing morning because neither of us had class til 11. it was way nice. also thank you to family and friends who sent birthday wishes and gifts to him! anywho, these are pics from throughout the day.

His gifts all wrapped up and the 2 layer rainbow chip cake i made: So all sam asked for this year was a bunch of sheet music so i got him lots of diff books and sheet music of individual songs and what not. its been fun hearing him play all of it on the keyboard we have:
I had to surprise him SOMEHOW because he already knew what he was getting so i got him an xbox golf game he had been wanting hehe:
sam the birthday boy picked to have his birthday dinner at tucanos.. yum!
Such a great day! Birthdays are so fun! :)

i love halloween!

This year im really realizing how much i LOVE halloween and the fall. i love fall decorations and all the fun fall/halloween activities we can do. this year we had a fun get together at our house on halloween night with a few friends. we made caramel apples, played some fun halloween games, ate some of this awesome pumpkin roll i made (thanks michelle for the recipe!), and had a great time. these are a few pics from the event. most of us even dressed up. i love halloween! :) and now im even more excited for november because of sam's bday comin up and thanksgiving! fall is so much fun!

All ready to make caramel apples:
Snacks! along with my yummy pumpkin roll there in the middle:
Sam was an old time golfer and i was a fairy princess. sam's costume was soo awesome! and i loved my wings :)
with christa, she was a kitty:
Christa and Randall, he was a football player lol:dipping the apples:
mine and sam's, i bet you can guess which one is his haha:
playing rockband, our xbox has been broken for about 4 months and we just got it back from being fixed so it was fun to play again:
daniel and michelle:
the whole group, some of us making goofy faces lol:

Don Giovanni

So i was able to be in this year's BYU fall opera and it was soo fun! i was only in the chorus but it was great because we didnt have half the responsibility of the leads but still got the joy and fun of being in the opera! haha.... anywho, these are pics from our last performance night. Our costumes were more 18th century style rather than victorian like what it normally is for this opera... the principals were double casted and this was thursday/saturday's cast. i had some friends in the other nights i wanted pics with but didnt have my camera. i also never got a chance to get a pic with sam. oh well i guess... maybe next time i will remember that lol... anywho, here you go:

my friend Lori and i, we are doing our junior recital together in march, yay!:
this was my stage partner for all the scenes.. his name is christian.. he was so cool:
check out my sweet feather for the ballroom scene :) all of us girls had a feather of some sort:
with my friends alainna in blue (zerlina), rachel in black (donna anna), and amber who was in the chorus with me:
with alainna and rachel... so they are both wearing wigs that are totally not their hair color at all (had to be the hair color of the characters).... love these girls lol:
all of us chorus hangin out downstairs playin apples to apples during the show lol:
with my friend melissa (donna elvira)
all the principals.. don giovanni on the right, and check out the cool commendatore statue to the left.. it was so creepy when he was onstage:all of us chorus..... im in the very middle:my awesome director/professor Dr. Vincent, this man is so amazing!: