Wednesday, December 31, 2008

CHRISTMAS!!

We had a fabulous first Christmas together! We spent thanksgiving at my house so we stayed in Logan with Jake's family for Christmas. His family loves finding a reason to get together so Christmastime means lots of parties!

On Christmas Eve we went down to Salt Lake for the Cowan Christmas celebration! We had great food and Grandma Cowan made all the girls new aprons! What an awesome grandma!

My great new family-in-law! Ha Ha! I love them all!

Cute little Camden on Christmas morning... he was so anxious to open presents!

Christmas morning!

Camden is the cutest little boy alive!! It was so fun to be with him on Christmas and watch him open everyones presents! He was such a good little helper.


This is at the Larsen family party on Christmas night. It was a blast and we almost didn't make it home because of the bizzard!

My cute sister-in-law and I showing off our cute new Christmas clothes.

We all got passes to beaver to go snowboarding so we braved the storm and had a blast!


We had so much fun despite the bitter cold! I can't wait to go again! It was great to spend the Holidays with my in-laws and I am excited to visit my parents in Idaho for New Years!!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The Holidays are HERE!!

Thanksgiving was fabulous this year with our whole family! It was so good to all be together! Everyone even helped with dinner. My brother was in charge of the potatoes because that is his favorite thing. My dad is the turkey man. Kelsey helped my mom with about everything and Jake helped my make the pies! We make an apple raspberry pie and some pumpkin cheesecake! Everything turned out great and it was awesome to be together as a family, that is what I am the most thankful for... my family!

This is the dinner table, almost ready to eat!

One of my favorite parts of the weekend, (besides going shopping at 5 on Friday morning) was making gingerbread houses. We all had different themes for our houses and Jake and I were trying to choose between the temple and CTU!

We chose the temple... we are even standing out front with our dress and tux on! Jake designed the getaway car and steeple and the angel moroni! It was fun to see everyones creativity. My dad was so funny while he was helping my mom. They are so funny!

This is all of us and our amazing gingerbread houses! Chris and Kelsey's was American themed, very patriotic! Ours was the temple with us on our wedding day! My parents is a clubhouse from a golf course! It even has a fishing pond and the number 18 green! It was really cute.

Our tree was decorated so beautiful! We tried to take a family picture but mycamera was dying so its pretty fuzzy.

When we got back to Logan we got our house all decorated. It was really fun to finally be able to decorate my OWN house! Our place is pretty small itjust took a few things to look Christmasy!

This is our little tree! I love it and we even have a few gifts for our family already under it. My mom was so great and gave me some of the Christmas decorations that she doesn't use any more and we got a couple new things.


I'm so excited for Christmas and for Jake to be done with all of his finals! Only one more week and he'll have a break for a few weeks.
Merry Christmas!!!