christmas tree, oh christmas tree

well jake and i will only be in utah until dec. 17th, and we wanted to have our own little christmas. so we decided to get a little jump on it and get our tree befor thanksgiving, so we could enjoy it longer. and its real! you cant have a tree unless its real (a nobel fir to be exact) i love christmas!

andy and amy came over to join the decorating, and we made hot chocolate, and popcorn! and listened to christmas music, it was a perfect chilly, snowy christmas night!

one year

a first time for everything

well jake had a flag football game last night, and i stayed home to watch glee.

about 2o minutes in to it i got this picture from his brother, with it said "you might want to come down to the field"so emily and i headed over, and when we got there jake and the other guy were sitting out, and the emts were helping them. jake didnt think it was to bad, and they were a guy down, so he took some excedrine and went back out til the end of the game.
we went home and he cleaned it out, and butterflied it, but it only lasted about 15 minutes befor the blood started again. so we went to the er and had it looked at. but when we got there the other guy was there aswell, right across from jake, so it was a party!

about 2 hours and 5 stitches later(for jake) we got to go home. emily took us to get icecream after, jake needed it, hahathe other guy, ( jakes teammate, ryan) a broken nose and a few stitches. i feel really bad for him.they were both going for the qb and hit eachother instead.

all in all it was an eventful night, oh and it was jakes first time getting stitches!

weekend

jake and i had a fun, busy weekend. we started friday night, bowling with jamie and daniel. then saturday we got up early and cleaned the appt. like crazy, i love a clean place.

then i wanted to change some things in our appt, make it more us. we had stars above our tv (i didnt really like them) so we printed off some pictures from jakes mission and hung them up. i like them alot more then the stars, and they mean more to jake.

andy and amy came over to help us measure it all, they had all the tools we needed.
amy and i just watched..

then today i finally got the confidence to make our mason jar hanger. the last time we were in escalante we collected old barn wood from the old family ranch. so then i went and found some really cute knobs.. but then they sat here cause i wasnt sure how to tackle it, and im not too crafty.. but today jake and i did it. and jake got to get a power drill which made him very happy. so we marked it all out and set it up. then we hung the mason jars from it that we used at our wedding that my dad made! and if you notice the horse shoe is from the same place as the wood...

im glad we did it, i love it.

climb

the gang (minus ker)

me, jake, kerry, matt, grayson and britt went up rock canyon on saturday for a climb.

craving.

i love logan, and cafe sabor.

i think we are making a trip up this weekend..

adam and ash, you understand.. :)

fall.

i want to make this,
from paper source.

utah state fair

jake and i met jacob, carissa and finn at the fair last night. we had dinner and jake and carissa got deepfried snickers. i cant say it was my favorite thing, but carissa was in heaven! she loved it!

we saw all the live stock, pigs, goats, sheep, cows, lost of chickens, and a huge turkey!

view from the top of the zipper rider, and you can see jacob and carissa on the swingning ship, jacob has his hands up..

we had a great night!

sunflowers

jakes family is here this week moving his little sister into the dorms at byu. we went to his grandmas house in springville for dinner and saw all these wild sunflowers on the sides of the roads, so on our way home we pulled over and grabbed a bunch. im glad we did cause i finally got to use the mason jars from our wedding! they look great!

p.s.

paper source is a great little store..

its in the oaks mall, and i always go in when im home. but i just found the website for the store aswell!

all the stuff is so cute. and we decided to get a new 2011 calender.

also, i really think i married a mexican sometimes... and his parents just arent telling him the truth.. haha

the mustache just conferms that he is. :)

STORMS.

one thing i do LOVE about utah is the storms!


this on our way home from California, we went for the weekend.
for the past week the storms here have been great!

pizza

jake's mom makes really good pizza. so he called and got her dough recipe, and we made it!
just you basic pepperoni pizza, but so good.

then we had extra dough, and thought why not some dessert,
so we made a dessert pizza!

jake

1/3 choc. chpis, 1/3 cinnamon suger, and 1/3 peach cobbler-ish.
the base is all the same melted butterwith sugar and some cinnamon mixed in,
then add the toppings on the peached we used a fresh peach sliced thin, and then put brown sugar over it. then you drizzel the while thing with powdered suger frosting (powdered suger, water and a bit of vanilla)

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(pre bake)

(post bake)>

way good! :)

Escape.

ok, this Blog thing is hard for me to keep up with, but im trying..
Iv been working every day. Its great, i really love where i work

jake finished up Spring semester in mid. June, and then we went to St. George for our good friend Devin's wedding, it was so fun!

We had 2 rooms, with 9 people...and somehow i ended up in the room where our frind Garrett pushed the 2 Queen beds together, and i slept with 4 boys, well men for 2 nights! (yes, one was jake) it stunk real bad in our room. and the other room went to the 2 dating couple!! how does that happen!? oh well, it was a blast, and so fun to be with all "my boys" again.

Then Jake and i decided we needed a new car.. SO we went a got one!
its an '08 Ford Escape! i did tell jake at one point while we were car shoppin the i felt like i was cheating on poor Jimmy. But we do still have the Jimmy, itll be jakes car for now, he drives it to work and such.
After enjoying our new car for a few days, we decided we need to really test it out, so as a last minute decision we went home for the 4th! man, its so nice to go home, i miss NP alot! and it was a perfect weekend to go! we saw so many freinds, ones that i havnt seen in years.. but they are still the same. :) the Hannemanns have been one of the best since i was little, and they moved away to Hawaii in High School but we would see them evaery once in a while, well seek was in NP so we got to see him! He just got engaged, so we met his lady aswell.
We did the usual celebration at the Mullins, cant be beat! Had Tacos, hung out in the backyard and chit chatted all evening. Then we went out and watched fireworks at the top of the street, then my mom made hot fudge! SO good!
I love all the families, and how we are so close still.

the gang and me and kerry

It was really fun to be home and see our familes! i miss being home alot, on Monday befor we left i spent some time with my mom, we went to lunch at the mall with the girls, Jo, Ker, Kelly and Charlie, always fun! and did a little shopping. :) i love being with my mom, she wonderful, and i love her.

Also good news, Jake got a job! hes working with a relative doing office work! hes excited. and they are keeping him on til November, maybe longer...

So thats pretty much the update!

oh, this is Ashley and Adams Shout out!! love you guys.