Temple Square

We went to Utah for Thanksgiving this year since we won't be there for Christmas.  It took us a little longer to get there this year due to the weather, but we got there...

We were able to spend a lot of time with family for Thanksgiving and do some shopping.  I didn't get any pictures of that.  One thing that we were able to do was go with some of the family to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights.  

 

  

It was nice to spend time with family on this trip.  The part of getting to and back were not ideal, but it was well worth it...

Movie Night

Jeremy and I were trying to decide what to do for the upcoming Friday night, and Jeremy had a good idea:  Family Movie Night...  We ordered pizza and made cookies and popcorn and watched a movie for Corbin.  Jeremy set up the family room with all of the pillows in the house and he and Corbin cuddled on them.

I was surprised at how well Corbin did with the movie.  He is only two years old...  He did great and really enjoyed his movie night.  He keeps asking when we are going to have another.  We've told him that we should have a few Christmas Movie Nights before Christmas Day...

The House

We had some people ask for some pictures of our house, so I thought I'd put some up.  We moved in at the end of July and love the neighborhood.  It is nice to be close to everything, and now we even have a Cafe Rio close by...

  One of the things we love most about the house is the kitchen.  We have cupboards that we are just barely finding things for.  We didn't have nearly enough cupboards in our old house.

 The dining area and Family room are right off the kitchen area.

 This is a picture of the entry. I have a craft room just off the entry and there is a bathroom just past that.

 

 Off behind the garage is our guest room area.

 Between the hallway and the guest area, there is this room.  It was labeled the guest sitting area in the floor plans, but we thought it would make a nice office area.  We put in a desk that allows us both to be at each of our computers at once.

 This is Corbin's bathroom upstairs next to his room. 

 

 This is the upstairs family room.

 

  Here is Corbin's room.  The house was all one color when we first moved in, but Jeremy painted Corbin's room green and we had the upstairs family room painted a bluish-grey when we had the ceilings painted.  One of Jeremy's next task is to paint the baby's room before he comes.

 This is the master bedroom.  We have all the bedrooms, except for the guest area, upstairs.

 Here's the view into the bathroom.  Jeremy said that we had to have two sinks after our old house in Pleasant Grove.

 His other stipulation was that he needed to have his clothes in the master bedroom instead of across the hallway.  You can see that just beyond the bathroom is our closet, and then there is another room on the other side of that.  The "Private Flex Room," as the plans dubbed it, is where we have our elliptical and a recliner for late nights with the baby.

 So there you have it.  We are very happy and consider ourselves blessed to have found a house so quickly that fit us so well.  Once the baby's room is painted and decorated, I'll have to put some pictures of it up on the blog. 

Happy Halloween

 I know it is December, but Halloween did happen.  Corbin was so excited for Halloween this year.  He was really excited for his monkey costume.  Here he is showing off his loot at the ward trunk-or-treat.

On Halloween Day, we had Jeremy's family over for dinner.  Corbin and Ashton then went trick-or-treating to our circle.  Here they are posing out front.

We had a great time at dinner, but didn't get any pictures...

The Big 3-0

 So this post is late.  Jeremy turned 30 on October 29th.  I have given him a hard time about getting old, but he doesn't seem any older than when we got married.  We were really lucky that we were able to spend most of the day with him.  We got to go to his work and go trick or treating there.

Corbin loved helping his dad open his gifts.

We were able to get a babysitter so we could go to dinner and spend some alone time.  I am lucky to be married to such a great man.  He is a great dad and husband.

Pumpkin Carving

 We decided to wait a while before carving the pumpkins so they wouldn't be rotten on Halloween.

Corbin was didn't like pulling out all of the insides of the pumpkins.  Jeremy was a good sport and helped clean them out and then put on the finishing touches.  Corbin did like poking it with the carving tools.

Corbin was so excited to see all of the pumpkins once Jeremy was finished with them all.

We couldn't wait for Halloween to come so we could light the candles inside of them and see them glow.

Pumpkin Patch

We tried to cram in a few activities after the cruise, even though it seemed as though most of the month was gone.  Corbin wanted a pumpkin, and Jeremy found this place that was just down the road from the house.

 The first thing we did was go on a hay ride into the pumpkin patch.  We were dropped off at one end and had to carry our pumpkins back.  You can't see Corbin's face, but I think that you can tell he is a little excited about his pumpkin...

After picking our pumpkins, Corbin was able to go on a few rides.  He loved riding the horse.

He also was able to ride in the wagon carrying the pumpkins.  Here you can see some of the excitement.

Later on, Corbin was able to ride in little cow cars being pulled by a tractor. 

We had a great time at Farmstead and were so excited to get pumpkins we could carve