November 2012

November started out with being crafty! I love being crafty! On the 3rd it was our ward's Super Saturday activity. They had some fun projects, but I decided to go simple and just do a couple of necklaces. They turned out pretty cute.  Also on the 3rd was the annual niece's activity that my Aunt Brenda does, only this year all the mom's were invited too. We went to Color Me Mine!! I LOVE COLOR ME MINE!! It was fun to be able to hang out with my mom, cousins and aunts and just be creative! I really like how my piece turned out!

November wasn't a very good month for us as far as health goes, especially for Shaun. At the beginning of the month he had a cold. He started to feel a little bit better and then ended up with strep. After taking the penicillin for that he still wasn't feeling 100% so decided to go into the doctor again and found out the he had a little bit of bronchitis. I also had a cold and sinus infection during November. With being pregnant there is very little you can take and I was pretty miserable, but at least I wasn't sick most of the month like Shaun was. I will take that!

On Thanksgiving this year I had to work, but Shaun's Mom was willing to schedule dinner after I got off work so we went to his parents house and had a small Thanksgiving dinner with his grandpa, Uncle Stewart, Aunt Marie and her friend Louise. It was different than most Thanksgivings I have had, but it was still an enjoyable evening. Shaun made green bean casserole from scratch and it was really tasty. All of the food was good in fact.

We ended the month by going to our first Christmas party of the year at a couple of our ward members house. It was fun. The food was good and we had fun watching The Grinch (the animated version). It was a great way to begin the Christmas season!

My Mom being creative

The kids painting 

Dawna & My Aunt Brenda

My Aunt Shirlynn & Angie

My completed project

I love how it turned out

The Month of November!

I always say that I am going to be better about this whole blogging thing, but it never happens. Life has been pretty crazy with work and school (which I still LOVE!!) and when I do have time I don't think about writing on here, but I have a few minutes and I am actually thinking about it so I thought I would take advantage of it.

I haven't blogged about anything since the end of October, so I will start there:


On November 5th, I had an amazing day, This day will forever be a special day for me. The reason why this will forever be a special day for me is because that is the day I received my endowments at the Salt Lake Temple! It was a day I have been working towards for a very long time and it is kind of hard to believe that it has come and gone already. I am so grateful for the love and support I have received as I made this decision to go to the temple. It was an amazing day! I am glad that I made the decision to go. It wasn't an easy one, because of the fact that Shaun wasn't going to be able to be there, but I do know that it was the right decision for our family.

I love being able to go to the temple and do other things besides baptisms for the dead. There is so much to be learned there and I am excited to have many trips to the temple ahead of me.

The following weekend I was able to have a girls weekend getaway with Christie and Brook (and Christie's family). We headed to St. George for Time Out for Women (TOFW). This is the fourth time I have been able to go to a TOFW event and it was just as good as the previous ones. We were able to do a session in the St. George temple while we were down there and just have lots of fun hanging out. I honestly can wait for the next TOFW event!

For Thanksgiving this year we had dinner with my Mom's side of the family. We had dinner at my Grandma's house (which was kind of weird...) and it was really tasty. After we were done there we headed over to Shaun's Aunt Cindee and Uncle Paul's house to visit with everyone that was there. All in all it was a fun day.

We didn't do any early morning Black Friday shopping. I remember growing up I used to LOVE going, but not anymore. I enjoyed sleeping in and just enjoying my time with Shaun and Zoey.

Here are a few pictures from November:

Shaun and I at the Salt Lake Temple

with Mariama Kallon

with Brad Wilcox

I learned to make a chicken out of a napkin :)

November

I have been really bad about keeping the blog up-to-date, but I eventually get around to it :) I figure that the easiest way to update everyone is to do it by month, so here we go.

I already posted about the biggest thing that happened to us during that month of November and that is the addition to our family, Zoey! She is a lot of fun. We enjoy every minute with her.

Also during November I was able to go to Time Out for Women here in Salt Lake with my Mother in law. It was a really enjoyable weekend. The speakers were great and very motivating. I LOVE TOFW! I can't wait to go again.

We had two Thanksgiving this year. The Sunday before Thanksgiving we had dinner with my Mom's side of the family. It was fun being able to spend time with family we don't spend too much time with because everyone seems to stay so busy.  The food was delicious as always!

On Thanksgiving Day we went to Shaun's uncle Bruce's house (the same place we had our wedding reception). We were late because I had to work (the joys of working at a hospital) and by the time we got there everyone was pretty much done eating, but we still were able to eat some tasty food and spend time with Shaun's family. We took Zoey with us and it was fun watching her interact with the other dog that was there as well as the cat (way funny!) All in all our Thanksgiving week was fun.

Zoey and I on Thanksgiving

The last big thing we did was start puppy classes with Zoey... There will be more about that in a future post :)

Family Picture... Zoey is so small in this picture!

Zoey and Shaun.. They like each other :)

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, Shaun and I traveled to Port Orchard, Washington to spend time with his brother and sister in law, Tom and Chelsea. It was a lot of fun to be able to get out of town for a few days and to get to spend some time with them. It is about a fifteen hour drive to get up there and Shaun and I decided to just do it in one day. This won't be happening again.. It is definitely a two day drive for me. Driving was all we did on Wednesday.

Thursday was turkey day! We spent the morning getting ready to for dinner. It was fun to be able to bring a little bit of everyone traditions to one meal. There was a total of 10 of us for dinner. Tom, Chelsea,  Kim (Dad), Michelle (Mom), Tamara (Aunt), Wally (Uncle), Christine (cousin), Daniel (cousin) and then Shaun and I (Everyone is in the picture to the left, except Tom, who took the picture-Thanks for the picture!). Shaun's parents had traveled up to Port Orchard the weekend before and had spent sometime with Tom and Chelsea earlier in the week. The rest of the gang already lives up in the Seattle area. Anyhow... It was a really nice dinner. We had tons of food and it was just fun to get to spend some time with Shaun's family, especially the members that live so far away.

Friday Shaun and I decide to venture to the other side of the of Puget Sound (aka Downtown Seattle). We took a ferry from Bremerton  to Seattle and spent a few hours wondering around. It was a lot of fun. We went to Pioneer Square, Pike's Market and we walked along the pier. We had SUPER yummy calm chowder in a sour dough bread bowl for lunch from Pike's Place Chowder at Pike's Market! It was seriously so good. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

I have a thing with hoodies. Pretty much everywhere I go I have to get a new hoodie. It is just what I do and this trip I was going to get one since I didn't have a chance the last time we were in Seattle for his cousin's wedding. The one I ended up getting has a skull on the front of it and says "To error is human. To Arrrrrr is pirate." and then of course it said Seattle on it under the saying I thought it was way cute.

That night when we got back to the other side Shaun and I met Tom and Chelsea and we went to The Boat Shed for dinner. They have some REALLY  yummy food and a great view of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (which is where Tom works). Then we headed home to play some Rock Band and watch some movies. It was a fun day.

Saturday we spent the day with Tom and Chelsea. We went to Poulsbo, which is a REALLY cute little town that has a bunch of little shop to explore and they also Central Market, which is a VERY large grocery store with all types of cool food. After we were down there, we headed to Silverdale to do some shopping at the mall and then head home for some more Rockband.

Sunday was our long trip home. The best part of the trip home was when we stopped in Pendleton, Oregon on the Indian Reservation and got to pump our own gas! Oh and getting to see all of the pretty scenery  in Washington and Oregon was nice too =)

Here are a few more picture from our trip.

The Jake Monster

Playing some Rockband

Seattle's Art Museum (I'd love to go back and see the finished product)

Pike's Market

Shaun and I on the Pier

Shaun and I on the ferry ride back to Bremerton. It was COLD!!!