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: