Merrrry Christmas..

Merry Christmas to all!
So we have had a fun holiday. After working a long day on Christmas eve, we came home to a dinner of a lemon rotisserie chicken, and stuffing. We then opened a few presents which revealed a Lovesac (memory foam beanbag) for Sara and a pair of EMU boots (similar to uggs). Shawn revealed a back massager and a cozy robe. After dinner we headed in for an early night. Christmas morning Brian and his companion came over and we made them a country breakfast and gave them both a fleece blanket and a stocking of goodies. We then opened the rest of the presents we had and Sara found two seasons of 24, princess bride, and a cozy pair of sweats. Shawn found a wrigley field sign, Nerf dart gun set and Very Sexy by Victoria secret cologne. We got a few other presents like a 12 piece dishes set from Mama and papa young. The Hayes clan and Dunlaps generously gave us a lil extra spending cash, and we had a delivery of country ham a few days ago from the smiths which made for a great christmas morning breakfast. Shawn also got a hot chocolate maker from Nate.
On the afternoon of christmas day we headed to ashley's cousins house and had a amazing dinner and a hilarious gift exchange. Nate ended up with a hat he could wear in San Fran, While ashley ended up with a dress from goodwill that makes you wanna shield your eyes. Shawn got elf boxers with butt glue, and sara got a survival kit for the holidays inclusive with a flask and earplugs, along with excuses to leave family functions. Here are some outfits of the awesome gifts people got.

SNOW

We got a little bit of snow..

Losing games

We have recovered from working in the mall for black friday and now are getting super excited for christmas! Things over the past week have been busy as always. We have been working, doing a little bit of christmas shopping, and enjoying fairly decent weather. Old Man Winter has come by for a visit today with a few inches of snow coming down.

We had a really fun thanksgiving day at Ashley's parents house playing wii and eating a ton of great food! The joys of thanksgiving! Later on in the weekend we went up to Ogden to have dinner at one of Shawns friends. We all had a great meal and wonderful dessert made by sara that went over well with everyone. We played Apples to Apples to finish the evening and unfortunatly we got our butts kicked, haha. Its ok though.

Not much excitement happened throughout the week aside from lots of working and shawn having fun in school. Luckily school ends this week coming so that will be a nice break. Our first Christmas Tree is up and might I say absolutly beautiful! We will throw some pictures up soon. We were able to go over to Nathan and Ashley's last night and have a fun game night with them. We played Sonic & Mario Olypics and also Mario Party on the Wii and it was a back and forth game and in the end Nate and Ashley came out on top. It was definatly fun though. We will have to win the next game night soon to get rid of our losing streak. Aside from that not too much else is going on. We are excited to go back east in about 3-4 weeks.

Pictures..

Here are some pictures from the top of the
conference center and with Daniel and Shellie.

Here is Daniel in front of a waterfall that goes from the
roof to the floor and you can see it out all the windows
within the conference center.

Here is a random picture but i made some country
style fried chicken for brian and his companion.
They loved it i may say and im very proud of this fried chicken.

Oh Daniel..

So i have a story to tell. It was kinda from a lil while ago, about a week, but i have to share. So my auntie shellie and cousin daniel came in town for my cousins baby blessing. On this wonderful trip they got to meet beautiful baby claire. Along with this trip before they went home and while waiting for their flight home we took a small trip around temple square and around the conference center ( pictures to come soon). After this tour around this amazing buildings and landmarks we ate a quick lunch at KFC. Now this is where the great story started. After we got our food we sat down. Daniel ordered a lap top kids meal and was fascinated by the box and in an accidental swoop dropped his macaroni and cheese on the floor. Now this wouldnt be any type of extroardinary story if it wasnt for the fact that after the mac and cheese fell on the floor he proceeded to go down and scoop it up with his spork into his bowl. Nice of him to clean it up you say. But instead of just throwing it away, he ate it. So theres my story. Daniel ate mac and cheese off the KFC floor. Not just any KFC a slightly i guess u could say ghetto KFC in Salt Lake City Utah. It was something i will always remember. ( and hope to not throw up while thinking about.)

Undefeated Season!

Things here in wonderful Salt Lake have been going pretty well. Over the past few weeks we have been keeping very busy between work and school as usual. We have managed to avoid snow for the most part. We did get caught in what they call a minor lake effect snow a few weeks ago that dumped about 6 quick inches of snow on us. After much prayer it melted away. Shawn has been at fed ex for a few weeks and is in the full groove of everything and enjoying it.

We both got tickets to the famous "holy war" between BYU and Utah and took the last half of Saturday off (after a lot fun with Sara's car!). The game was amazing! Before the game started the two teams started to get it on a little early in the middle of the field. Utah goes a little crazy for this game. Everywhere was covered in either blue or red. We definatly enjoyed ourselves even though it was really cold! Utah won and finished the year 12-0, undefeated!!

Sunday we went down to Provo to see Joseph, Katie, and baby Claire. Nathan and Ashley were kind enough to drive and we all enjoyed it. Claire is adorable to say the least. We are excited for our first thanksgiving together this week. We will be spending it with nathan and ashley's family. Then time to get ready for Christmas!! Thats about it for now, here are some pictures of the game.

Randommmmm

So this will be a random post.. we have a hodge podge of pictures and events we will update about.

First of all here is a shout out to Halloween. someone in our complex played a great prank and put a foot hanging out of their car. So i dunno who did it but we loved it because of their great sence of humor.
Next if you look sideways you will see that i made shawn some lunch and his way of showing appreciation was falling asleep while i was cooking. gotta love him.

Shawn went to a utah game a while back, and took a few pics. The fans werent as good as WVU ones. but hey, what can you do

Heres the utah field

Now last monday we took a trip to provo to see joseph and katie brewer(and soon to be baby claire), sara's cousin and his wife. They are expecting an addition soon, as in tomorrow. So best wishes to them. But on our trip back to Salt Lake we randomly got lost looking for target and found the MT. Timpanogas temple so here are some shout outs to the beautiful temple.

On the way to provo we decided to take a picture of the Y on the mountain. We later found out Katie had climbed there pregnant and all. We were quite amazed, but true to the Utah fans we are.. Booo BYU. haha.. cant say we really care much.

Shawn starts at FedEx Tomorrow. Hes pretty excited to be done with Tmobile. This shoul dbe a good change and we are pretty pumped. Thats all for now but we will keep you posted on whether he likes this job or not!