1st Christmas Tree

Our First Casualty

Cade decorating the tree.

The Friday after Thanksgiving Cade finally caved and said that we could buy our first Christmas tree ever and it was a real one. Oh, it was so lovely! My house smelled of pine every day. In the mornings getting ready to go running was my favorite time. Oh, I love Christmas trees. We had very few ornaments which was fine. We have decided to start the tradition that every year we would go together and get a new ornament for the two of us. Anyway as you can see in the picture above, Cade was putting these glass balls on the tree. What I didn't know was that instead of putting the ribbon on the branch, he was putting the plastic ring from the ring on it. So when I went to go cut the tag off of one, it made a free fall to our tile. It was a joint-effort. It's all good though. Makes a good story for our first tree.

San Diego

Pictures of the front of the San Diego temple

Cade had an alfalfa symposium in San Diego for a few days in the beginning of December. I didn't know that they had things such as farmers conferences, but I guess you learn something new everyday. I got to sit in the hotel room or go across the street to the mall/movie theater (yes I saw Twilight again). It was really good for Cade, though. He learned a lot about his field, which was the purpose of going in the first place. We got to have lunch with Crooks one day (love you Crooks),too. On the last day, we went to the San Diego temple to do a morning session and wound up being able to do sealings as well in the room we were sealed in. We haven't been able to go to do a session since we were sealed. It was awesome. Such a wonderful experience. I am so blessed to have the gospel in my life and be worthy to do the work in the temples and have a husband who can go and do the work with me.

Catching up

So I have totally slacked with blogging these past few weeks. There has just been so much that has happened in such a short amount of time that I haven't had time to get on here and update. Sorry blog universe. Anyway I'm at my parents' house right now and taking responsibility for my lack of action.

I did my first Thanksgiving this year. I know...Shocker I didn't poison anyone. It was actually pretty well done if I may say so myself. We just had Cade's family over. It was nice to have everyone come over and just talk for a few hours and enjoy each other's company. A good thing was that I didn't stress at all, which is a first. I did cook way too much food.

Twilight times 3

I totally went and saw Twilight for the third time (not embarrassed either to admit it) with Ruth last night. Thanks Ruth for indulging me and going. It was super awesome. (I slept with my pin on last night. J/K)

TWILIGHT!!!!!

Cade's Birthday Party

Thank you so much Trish and Julia and Clara for helping get things ready. You're some of the best besties that a girl could ask for.

I got masks and beads for everyone. It was super fun trying to convince the boys to put the masks on.

King Cade gets some beads for being the birthday boy. He worked for them, but wouldn't let me put the picture online.

"Blow out your candles."

I threw a small surprise party for Cade's birthday on the 22nd. (A. I was impressed that I didn't go to pieces from stress and hiding various decorations for over a month. B. I was happy that Cade wasn't ticked because he hates big surprises.) I had to order all this stuff like the king cake online and was freaking out that he would figure it out. (Surprisingly he didn't.) The night before we had the ward campout and the king cake was supposed to arrive. It hadn't before we left so we just headed out with me trying to figure out ways to make the king cake seem like something for Thanksgiving or something. We get back and I saw it sitting on the front porch. I freaked! But Cade had left the garage open so he went that way and scooped up the cake and threw it in the laundry room before he got inside. The next day Trish and I had coordinated for Bryce and Chris to take Cade to the 007 show. They headed out and we headed to the house to get things ready. Oh I couldn't have done it without your help, just to let you know. We got everything ready just as they were coming in the door. It was so fun to be able to kick back with good friends and good food.

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

For all of my Cajun challenged friends, "Let the good times roll!"

Ruth's B-Day

So I finally sat down to upload the pics that have been sitting in my camera. Woo Hoo! On November 18, a few of the girls got together and we celebrated Ruth's 27th birthday. Pizza, cake, and estrogen...what an awesome combination! Hope you had a good time Ruth!

New Moon

I did it again. I picked up New Moon, the next book in the Twilight series, and finished it last night. I'm so sleep deprived, but it's totally worth it. I finished Twilight on Tuesday and Cade took me to Palm Desert to go see the movie. So can not wait to see it again. It is totally awesome and I am completely hooked. Totally loving it! I'm picking up Eclipse as we speak and I can not wait!

I love Twilight!!!!!