2nd Year Anniversary

Today is our 2nd Anniversary. We mostly celebrated yesterday since today is a Sunday. We went to PF Changs. It was delicious but made Joel sick. So our original plans got changed. We were going to go to the conference center in Salt Lake and go to the program Savior of the World. Instead we came home and watched a couple movies. It really didn't matter what we did it was just nice to be able to spend some time together.

Today we went to church and taught our new primary class which hopefully will be a little calmer than our last one. They seemed pretty good...but we will have to wait and see. We then went to my friend's baby's blessing. Babies are so cute in their little white outfits. It made me pretty excited that later on in this year Joel will be blessing our baby:)

I made a special cheesecake for our anniversary. I had never made it but it was delicious.

Here is a picture of it before I had finished it. It is Lime-Coconut Cheesecake. I found it on one of my favorite food blogs called Our Best Bites.

Joel wanted to show me how well coconut burns. So I put some cream in the center and here are our 2 candles for our 2nd Anniversary. We blew them out just like it was our birthday.

This is what we decided to get for our anniversary.
It is called "The Lord is My Shepherd" by Simon Dewey.

I told Joel I wanted a picture and he picked this one out. I love it!
It has been a wonderful Anniversary. We spent all weekend together...my favorite kind of weekend. We even stayed up late on New Year's Eve. We made Divinity and other Christmas treats since we didn't before Christmas. Joel has been loving the divinity!

Snow

Salem has had lots of snow this year....in one day we got all of this. It was crazy! I got stuck three times driving to work...it was an experience I would not like to repeat. But I did get to go home early from work for the doctors appt...which by the way went really well...so now we just have to wait till January 11 to find out what it is. It is difficult being patient (which is definitely not one of my strong points).

This is our front yard. I think it was just under 2 feet.



This is the picture on our deck.

Baby Ultrasound

We are having a baby!!! We are so excited!

On October 25, we went to our first doctors appointment. That is when we got this ultrasound. It is kind of difficult to see but if you look closely at the top middle the black is just fluid and there is a little one right under the black there. The doctor said at this time the baby is about the size of a cinnamon bear. In the picture it looks like its arm is up by the side of the head. The Doctor also said everything looks great. We got to hear the heart beat it was beating so fast-it was 179 beats per minute.

So we are due May 25. Right now I am 3 months along...which is nice because almost all my morning sickness has disappeared. Joel says we are having a boy that will look just like him...he will be surprised if we have a boy that has red hair...like I had.

BYU Game

We went to the BYU game with Candace and Aaron and family this weekend.
Here is the picture of Joel and I when we first got to the game outside the gate waiting to meet up with Candace and Aaron.

Here are two shots from the game...

In this one they are getting close to making a touchdown....

Here they just made it!

From our seats we had a good view of the Provo temple.

We didn't actually get a picture of all of us because our camera's battery died. Aaron did get one though. Here they are watching the game.

Here is a picture of Hailey and me. It was a beautiful day for a game.
We had the sun on us the most of the time.

Here is the last picture before the camera died...you can see the bunny ears from Hailey and Bryce :)

We had a great time and it was definitely a good game to go to.
BYU 55 to UNLV 7

Colonel Sanders and Wendy :)

Halloween is Joel's favorite time of the year to grow facial hair. So he hasn't shaved for a little over a month and then we decided what he can be with the facial hair that he grows.
This year it was Colonel Sanders from KFC. So I am Wendy from Wendy's.
Here is the final picture.

We have some friends that invite us to a Halloween party every year so we look forward to dressing up. This year was a little more difficult to get the costume together.
We looked all over for a white jacket at DI and Savers...nothing. So Joel decided I was going to make him one. That was the most frustrating and difficult thing I have ever made... Also I will never make another. I only had a week to make it. I also made the black tie...but that was easy. He looked really good! He also glowed all night at the party cuz of the black light.

My costume was really easy compared to Joel's. We love DI for great costumes.



We ran out of the white on Joel's hair so we had to run to Wal-mart in the middle so we could dye his mustache and chin. Here is the picture before we got more dye.

Joel loved being an old man...he acted the part really well. I didn't know a man his age had such sweet dance moves...but he showed me at the party.

We had a great time together getting ready and being at the party.