This is something we've been meaning to do for awhile, but it took writing it in our schedules for anything to actually come to fruition. We've been intentional at taking more photos and recording our activities. Here is just a glimpse of the past few weeks:
We purchased gigantic pumpkins to carve (I promptly put mine in the fridge overnight after snapping the photo, then baked it into pumpkin puree the next day). Mine is the ogre, Garrett's is the happy veggie-tale friend. We dressed up as pirates for halloween, has Kellie and Tim over (we lacked the foresight to take pictures...) and make caramel apples. We also bequeathed our entire bowl of candy to the sole family that knocked at our door. Bless their souls, we would have hated the responsibility of pawning it off to anyone else... including ourselves).
We also went to a BYU hockey game. It was my first hockey game, and I was excited to see the brawls that I'd heard are so common. It took the players only the first inning, but they eventually got heated enough where players, sticks, and pucks went flying over the ice and into walls. Also... I did not realize that die-hard fans bang their frustrations, joys, and annoyances out on cowbells. I don't approve of this activity.
Lastly, we got really excited for Christmas and the entire holiday season two weeks ago (the first week of November) and bought our first christmas tree on sale. It's a little baby one, but we love it. We also splurged on a few ornaments (also on sale), and clothed our little tree. We've also been REALLY on time of gift acquiring this year, and decided to wrap everything and toss them under the tree. We had some old red fabric from target gift bags, and decided to take the liberty of creating our own stockings, trimmed with age-old ribbon I've been hoarding for the past several years. Not perfect, but we are awfully fond and proud of our creations.
Also, we are dang excited for autumn/winter/holidays/food/giving/family/friends/christmas carols and pretty much everything else that makes the transition into freezing utah winters festive and lovely. What makes it all the more special is this is our first Christmas together as a family. Huzzah!
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