this is halloween

Went to a festival yesterday and got our Halloween picture taken!

I know, we are pretty scary! :)

Conference & Birthday month!

This past weekend we went up to Northern Utah to spend time with our families and enjoy conference.  We had a great time spending Friday evening and Saturday morning with Dan's family (and finally meeting our new nephew, Caleb!) and Saturday evening and Sunday with my family.  I always love having girl's night while the guys are at Priesthood and I was so happy I was up there this conference to be with my mom and sisters during that time.  Although I will admit I spent most of my evening playing hide and go seek with my nephews, it was hilarious... play hide and go seek with a 2 & 4 year old, you will love it!  Last conference I was down here and bummed I missed out on girl's night!

Then on Sunday my family was so nice and surprised me with a birthday party!  My family knows how much I LOVE my birthday and they knew they wouldn't get to celebrate with me in St. George, so we partied early!  Which was fine by me, I'm happy to celebrate all month long :).

I had Dan snap a few pictures on his phone...

Me and my cute nephew, Andrew! I love this little guy!  He's one of my hide & seek buddies :)

The cake! My sister Noelle made it look like a pumpkin.  She stacked two bundt cakes, it was awesome!  Plus it was even pumpkin flavored.  Thanks, Noelle!

Present time!  Andrew is helping me unwrap it.  I got a cute sweater, a donut pan, a food storage cookbook, and a halloween decoration.  All things I love!  My family knows me well :)

Thank you family for throwing me a party, you all are the best!

working together

Today our grass got it's first haircut!

Here is Dan hard at work:

We decided to get a push lawn mower to be eco-friendly :) oh and our yard is not very big!  We did joke about getting a riding lawn mower just because it would be funny!

This is pretty much our life lately.  Go to work during the week and spend time working and cleaning our house on Saturdays.  I feel we have been to Home Depot more in the past month than I have ever been in my whole life!  It's actually been a lot of fun working on our house together.

I really don't have any other updates except that tonight I went to the Relief Society Broadcast and really enjoyed it.  I loved President Uchtdorf's talk.  He had so many great things to say!  My mom also sang in the choir and I saw her two times on the big screen!  It was a lot of fun seeing a familiar face up there :).  Great job singing, Mom!  You sounded beautiful!

Moving In

I can't believe it's been over 2 weeks since I last blogged!  This moving thing has really kept me busy.  I guess we also just barely got internet in our house yesterday too.  Anyway, we are still alive and we are just loving our new house!  We are almost all the way unpacked.  It has been a lot of fun decorating our new home and just living in it.  We love our neighborhood and so far the ward has been really friendly and welcoming too.

We were lucky enough to have my parents down here the weekend we moved.  They helped us so much!  My mom helped me unpack and clean while my Dad put up our blinds, put knobs on all of the cabinets, and many other various tasks I had for him (it's nice having a very handy Dad!)  We definitely kept them busy while they were here, but we also had some fun too.  The men went golfing while my mom and I went shopping (which by the way, we found the cutest lamp for our living room!).  It was fun to have a shopping buddy!  We also went to the Little Mermaid at Tuacahn with them.  It was awesome!  I was really impressed with the special effects.  They did all of these cool water things to make it feel like the show was really underwater.  We had such a great time with my parents and are so grateful for their help!

Once we're all unpacked I'll be sure to put up pictures of the house.  I need to get unpacked because I really want to decorate for Fall!  I know my decorations are somewhere :)

House!!!

I posted pictures of our house on facebook, but some of my readers aren't on facebook, so I wanted to post them here too (some of these pics I didn't even post on f-book, actually).  We are seriously just SO happy with how our house turned out.  It is exactly what we wanted.  I honestly can't say enough good things about Ivory Homes.  We had such a great building experience (I've heard building a home can be a horrible experience, but it was great for us)!  I don't know about Ivory in Northern Utah, but we have loved working with them down here.

I call it "our" house, but technically we close on Tuesday.  Then it will really be ours.  We are so excited to move!  I think I'm most excited to no longer share walls and to have a garage.  I am really done carrying 10 bags of groceries up 20 stairs each week!

Now for the pics...

Master Bath... can't wait to try out the garden tub!

Other side of the master bath with the little toilet room.

Master bedroom.

The great room & stairs leading to our unfinished basement.

Kitchen!  Probably my most favorite room :) fridge will be there Friday.

Kitchen/Dining area.

Entry way.

Guest bath.

Guest bedroom.

Can't believe 3 months ago this used to be an empty dirt lot!

Side of the house & fence.

Backyard.  Our yard is the nice flat part :)

I will post pictures once we're all moved in and it's all decorated too.  I just ordered a new bedspread I'm excited about.  It's going to be such a busy but great week!