I can't believe it is 2011. We stayed in TN until after New Years which gave Kyle the chance to shoot off some fireworks for the first time. We had fun. And so did the dog. . .
Crazy dog. I'm surprised she didn't get hurt. Aren't most dogs afraid of fireworks?
This is Kyle shooting his first bottle rocket!
And, the grand finally! Happy New Year everyone!!
We are back into the swing of things now. It was nice to be relax and be taken care of for a while though.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Our First Christmas
We went to Tennessee for Christmas this year and we actually had a white Christmas. The first time in 8 or so years that TN has gotten snow on Christmas day. So that was neat. We never got a tree but before leaving I tried to do some decorating in our little home.
We also had tinsel with ornaments hanging in the corners of the room - those kept falling though. . . but for as many times as they fell we only ended up with one broken ornament.
This is Mr. Thrifty. He is a to-scale model of the human skeletal system that Kyle got for one of his classes last semester. He uses is to study the bones (obviously). Anyway, Mr. Thrifty became part of our Christmas decor thanks to Kyle and I's Christmas tradition that we started. The tradition works like this: We make a paper link chain, 25 links long. On 1/2 of the links I write some type of activity for the day and on the other 1/2 Kyle writes an activity. Then, each day of December before Christmas we pull a link off of the chain and do the activity. Dressing up Mr. Thrifty like Santa was one of the activities. Some of the others were: read " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas," go get hot cocoa, watch a Christmas movie - simple things like that. It was fun. And I think we will have to dress Mr. Thrifty up all of the holidays from now on. . .
So, Christmas Eve came and we made it to TN where we finally had a Christmas tree :)
It was so nice to RELAX for a while. We played games.
We played Risk - which I was excited about because my recollection was that I conquered the world in this game. As it turns out, I was the first one to be conquered. Oh well. It was still fun, Sarah became the ultimate world ruler. We also went ice skating:
You can see the rink in the back ground, right? It was fun - we managed to have a game of tag. I only fell twice while trying to speed skate away from Kyle or to catch Kyle - hehe.
We also played lots of disc golf! Thanks to a little camcorder that we got for Christmas, I can post some videos of our disc golf adventures.
this is us putting it into the basket.
my throw. Notice how I've gotten my arm down! If you remember from the 1 picture of me playing in Jackson Hole.
Kyle's throw! When we play I usually throw 2 throws to his 1 throw. :)
There were actually quite a few courses near by so we got to check out a few. These videos are from the course that was the nicest.
We also had tinsel with ornaments hanging in the corners of the room - those kept falling though. . . but for as many times as they fell we only ended up with one broken ornament.
This is Mr. Thrifty. He is a to-scale model of the human skeletal system that Kyle got for one of his classes last semester. He uses is to study the bones (obviously). Anyway, Mr. Thrifty became part of our Christmas decor thanks to Kyle and I's Christmas tradition that we started. The tradition works like this: We make a paper link chain, 25 links long. On 1/2 of the links I write some type of activity for the day and on the other 1/2 Kyle writes an activity. Then, each day of December before Christmas we pull a link off of the chain and do the activity. Dressing up Mr. Thrifty like Santa was one of the activities. Some of the others were: read " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas," go get hot cocoa, watch a Christmas movie - simple things like that. It was fun. And I think we will have to dress Mr. Thrifty up all of the holidays from now on. . .So, Christmas Eve came and we made it to TN where we finally had a Christmas tree :)
It was so nice to RELAX for a while. We played games.
We played Risk - which I was excited about because my recollection was that I conquered the world in this game. As it turns out, I was the first one to be conquered. Oh well. It was still fun, Sarah became the ultimate world ruler. We also went ice skating:
You can see the rink in the back ground, right? It was fun - we managed to have a game of tag. I only fell twice while trying to speed skate away from Kyle or to catch Kyle - hehe.We also played lots of disc golf! Thanks to a little camcorder that we got for Christmas, I can post some videos of our disc golf adventures.
this is us putting it into the basket.
my throw. Notice how I've gotten my arm down! If you remember from the 1 picture of me playing in Jackson Hole.
Kyle's throw! When we play I usually throw 2 throws to his 1 throw. :)
There were actually quite a few courses near by so we got to check out a few. These videos are from the course that was the nicest.
WInter Fun
We have done a few snow activities this winter. We have gone sledding a couple of times- the second time we went the hill was mostly pure ice, we could hardly get up the hill without slipping. I really wanted to get a good run in though so that the trip wasn't for nothing. We ended up with bruises because the ground was so hard. . . hehe. Not the best idea to sled on icy hills I guess. Anyway, the 1st sledding trip we took was a success - snowy hills and no bruises. Here is a picture of us from that:
We also ventured out to build a snow man one evening! The snow was finally right for making a snow man. Here he is:
Kyle's Birthday!
Kyle is 24! We celebrated some on the 9th - I made him a big breakfast and he got to open his gifts from me. But it was in the middle of finals so he was pretty busy. Our big celebrations happened that weekend. We went with Brittany and Andrew to Famous Dave's BBQ in Idaho Falls.
We ordered the Huge platter and split it between the 4 of us. It was delicious. After that we went to an arcade and played some games for a bit. Sunday night we had friends over for ice cream cake. I made him an ice cream cake with his favorite ice cream. It's from a dairy here called Gs Dairy, it's called Gorilla Munch and it it banana flavored ice cream with Oreo pieces and peanut butter mixed in. . . does that sound odd to anyone else? I actually thought it was pretty tasty in a cake though.
Kyle and his cake - he got all the candles out in one blow! Way to go!
Us and the cake :) The picture is a little smoky from All those candles, hehe. Just kidding!
Happy 24 Kyle!!!
We ordered the Huge platter and split it between the 4 of us. It was delicious. After that we went to an arcade and played some games for a bit. Sunday night we had friends over for ice cream cake. I made him an ice cream cake with his favorite ice cream. It's from a dairy here called Gs Dairy, it's called Gorilla Munch and it it banana flavored ice cream with Oreo pieces and peanut butter mixed in. . . does that sound odd to anyone else? I actually thought it was pretty tasty in a cake though.
Kyle and his cake - he got all the candles out in one blow! Way to go!
Us and the cake :) The picture is a little smoky from All those candles, hehe. Just kidding!Happy 24 Kyle!!!
Our First Thanksgiving
We had hopes of making it to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with Kyle's grandparents and other family down there. BUT, the roads were awful and traffic was extra slow. So, we turned around, stopped at the grocery store on the way back and stocked up on things to make our own Thanksgiving dinner. Neither of us had ever cooked a turkey before.
I'd say that it turned out pretty good though!
I'd say that it turned out pretty good though!you can usually click on the blog photos to bring them up bigger, in case some of you didn't know...
and I know all of you want to see this turkey a little bigger ;)
and I know all of you want to see this turkey a little bigger ;)
We tried to make all of the holiday specialties! I think we covered just about everything. Can you guess whose plate is whose?
hint: I like green beans and Kyle likes stuffing
We also had apple pie. Mmm!
And what is a holiday without something bubbly? We toasted with some Martinelli's.
hint: I like green beans and Kyle likes stuffing
We also had apple pie. Mmm!
And what is a holiday without something bubbly? We toasted with some Martinelli's.It turned out to be a great Thanksgiving. I just hope that next year we don't get snowed in again.
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