After Christmas, Christmas

The day after Christmas Kevin's grandparents took a lot of the family down to Salt lake. We stayed in a hotel, walked around temple square, tied blankets for primary children's, played games and had a good time with everyone there.  On Sunday after church we drove down to Salt lake with Karen and Rob got to the hotel and ate some food then we decided to walk over to temple square. Its always so beautiful all year round but especially at Christmas time. 

The next day we got up and decided to hit a few stores. first stop IKEA! who doesn't love this place?  We found a few great things, as always. Kevin and I got a new side table for our front room and a coffee table too.  We really needed the side table because the lamp we have is so huge that it took up almost the whole original side table. Then we went to vf outlet in draper and found Kevin a cute pair of jeans. Then we stopped in Salt lake and saw Karen's parents. it's always so fun to see them and catch up. After that we stopped at Nordstrom Rack and were again spoiled! It was a great trip and we had a lot of fun.   

Here's my cute little handy man putting together our table!

And our new side table which I already love.

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Christmas time!

Setting up our first Christmas tree! thanks Karen and Rob!

Decorating sugar cookies!

This was just before we went to see pickleville playhouse put on their Christmas show. It was so fun and cute.

Kevin in his cute shirt. Thanks oma!

And his other cute sweater, thanks mom and dad!

Maybe a month or so ago i went out to visit my oma and opa. Oma and I had a good shopping day and she had told me that she had been searching for the perfect red purse forever and hadn't found it yet. I told her how much I would love to have a red purse and she remembered! It was a great surprise to open! Another great gift was that we got a new TV! When we got married we got a little 19 inch tv with our bed so we were practically squinting when we watched movies so for Christmas Karen and Rob were so kind to upgrade us and we have thoroughly enjoyed it a few times already. It was a great first Christmas together and I'm looking forward to what the new year brings us!

Finally an update

So here's a little bit of what we've been up to this last month! First off for our three month anniversary we decided to have a sleep-over in the front room so we pulled the mattress out and watched a movie it was a fun little date night for us. so that's the picture above
One day i came home from work and it had been snowing/raining all day long and i pulled up and Kevin got out of his car and looked like this apparently on his way to his car he slipped on his way down the hill and slid all the way down, broke his backpack and got soaking wet. oops!

A little after that we were off to Denver for Thanksgiving time. It was so much fun to see my family, it had been since my wedding since i had seen them all together so it was fun to be there with everyone!

We did lots of cooking, lots of eating, and lots of shopping it was so much fun.  Here's part of my family at the Cherry Creek Mall they have the "real" Santa Clause there and do this huge display every year. This year they did Narnia and had this huge snow globe thing that was actually snowing inside. so much fun!

Here's a picture of my sister and i in front of the narnia castle...

When we came home it was time to get ready for Christmas and decorate the house, i feel like Christmas is so much more fun when you have your own place to decorate! I don't have any pictures but maybe I'll get some of the two of us with our Christmas tree and then I'll have to post them. 

I can't believe that Christmas is less than a week away!  I feel like December just flew by! I have a few last minute things to get ready and then we're all ready for Christmas.  Maybe someday I'll be better and blogging and not wait a month and a half between every post. 

Here's a picture of us at our ward Christmas party in our matching green sweaters.