ohhhhhh, i have so much catching up to do! first of all, i finished my classes(all two of them)! I did well on my finals, I'm glad that's done! making mini shelves and couches is not as fun as it seems! We have been really busy and are really excited to start the new year!
Here's what we have been up to in the last couple months:



For the fall season, i made pumpkin seed trail mix, to give to family, friends and neighbors. I got this great recipe off of Martha Stewart's website.

Thanksgiving in Colorado
Abe's whole family went up to Colorado for Thanksgiving. His sister Aileen and her family live there. It was so nice having everyone together and we always have so much fun!

On Thanksgiving day we had a little soccer match

Me and my sister-in-law, Edith

We thought it would be really funny if stuff our nephew, Jordan, in this storage box

We love our technology!

Our new niece, Emelia! ( for some reason we didn't have that many pictures of her awake)

Abe and Karla in Boulder

Us with our niece and nephew Mercedes and Bowen(Bowen was glued to the iphone pretty much the entire time we were there!)

Introducing my new nephews, Sawyer Jack and Judson James Tippets
After a long and hard pregnancy(poor Andrea), they were born Christmas eve afternoon. They were having a little hard time breathing ,so they will stay in the hospital for the next couple weeks, but they will be fine! Congratulations Tyler and Andrea!

Christmas

I got this cute S'more kit idea from here

Christmas was so good! Every year Abe always get me really good gifts, so this year i felt like i needed to step it up! I found a pair of matching(his and hers) 1971 Schwinn bikes on craigslist! Aren't they so cute?!
Here are some of the gifts Abe got me:

A letter pressed poster of the Salt Lake Temple

A retro clock radio

And some really good jewelry

The day after Christmas, we drove down to Tucson to meet up with one of my really good friends, Hannah and her husband Robbie. We wanted to go to the Kartchnern caverns, but apparently they were all booked up until Thursday(who knew they were so popular?) we ended up going to colossal caves instead. we love our caves. We had a really fun day, and we are going to miss them. I guess that means we need to take a trip out to Washington D.C. to visit them! right, Hannah?

Happy New Year!

I think this is going to be a really good year! There are a lot of exciting things coming up and I am so happy to be starting another year with Abe! I decided I'm not going to make any new years resolutions, i'm just going to try and do better than the last, live life ,and be happy!



here is some video clips from our thanksgiving day soccer game!

I'll take one, please.

Home is whenever I'm with you


We have listened to this song a million trillion times and we will probably listen to it a million more.
( and i don't know how to put music on blogs, so if your sooooo confused its the song "Home")

i liked Monsters of Folk as much as i like the Orpheum Theatre(and that's a lot!)

Being sick and cooped up in the house all day, has made me really realize, that i want a new house. Do we really NEED a new house? probably not. But do i really WANT a new house? yes, i do.You know, just a little more space. Maybe a place where the smell of whatever our neighbors are cooking, doesn't seep into our house(and why does it always smell like salami?) Maybe a place with a real laundry room and a place to put my swifter sweeper. I think it is unfair that my Bosch mixer has to share a space with nasal decongestants. I have a lamp that is sitting on the floor because i have no space for a end table, so i expect this new house to cooperate with me and make room for my lamp. Oh, and i will probably want a big master room closet. I expect the paperwork for this house to be on my desk by Monday. thank you.

Just another day at Sterling and Cooper
Abe

Me

you can join us here

meet my husband, the terrorist.

OK, i know its hard to see because of the glare.... but, my display was chosen to be in the MCC's display case for my Display and Visual Merchandising class.

its raining shoes.

Wow, its about time i catch up on all this bloggy blog stuff! I have just been so busy lately! i know people do it all the time, but i am having a hard time adjusting to life with work, school, homework, church callings and a husband( and not to mention, my addiction to reading books). It took me a couple weeks to learn how to re-balance my life...but no worries, i think I'm 82% back to feeling like i got a hold of things.


Over Labor day weekend, we decided to take a last minute trip to San Diego. neither of us had been there in quite a while and it was definitely nice to get out of the heat! One of the big things we did when we were there was, we went Kayaking! Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures of us doing that because we didn't have a water proof camera. We were at La Jolla beach(which is actually a nature preserve). We went into sea caves, saw sea lions and beautiful orange fish that were swimming in the clear water around us! Besides getting a little sea sick and being thrown out of a kayak when coming in, it was really fun!




We also went to the San Diego temple. We met the SWEETEST old man named Elder Nixon. His wife and him were serving there SIXTH(!) mission! All we could think about, is that we hoped someday we would have the opportunity to serve several missions(maybe not as many as six) as a couple later in our lives.
you have not idea of how many pictures i have of this same pose! i always end of trying to take of picture of us while we are driving and they all turn out with somebodies(mostly abes) head cut off(hey, he cant help it if he has a big head!) but man! I cant even tell you how much i love this guy, my husband, my best friend, mi vida.
My brother and Andrea and their boys were in San Diego the same time we were. We met up them for dinner for Andrea's birthday. Poor Parker was wiped out from a long day at Legoland!
We also, went to Old town and walked around.






Tiffany's Bridal shower

I threw Tiffany a bridal shower last week. It was hard with my tiny house, but i made it work!




After lunch we went and got pedicures.

In case if you were wondering what this was, it was my attempt to make hash browns.. ...it was DI-GUST-ING.