Wow it has been forever since I have blogged! So get ready to get bombarded with lots of pictures. Greg and I have had a great fall and winter. It has been our first one as a married couple! We stayed busy with school and work and house work but have also had tons of fun. I will let you see a little bit of the fun house stuff we have had to deal with but that is not as fun as the other stuff we have been up to.
WARNING: This is an EXTREMELY long post!
First off we had a drain in our house leaking from upstairs into our bathroom. The ceiling was leaking and it was gross. So it was up to Greg to replace the pipe. But this pipe was a pain in the butt!! It was an add on pipe that someone had done and it was done in a horrible way. It took Greg forever to do it. I felt so bad for him. But he did it and its working great!
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Greg trying to grind the pipe off.
After forever he finally got it!! Hurray!
We have also had a little bit of a mouse and spider problem. It was so nasty!! They were not normal mice, they were freak mice. We would set mouse traps and go check on them and the peanut butter would be gone but there would be no mouse. Greg was getting so frustrated with them. So he came up with an idea. He took a noodle and filled it with peanut butter then tied it to the mouse trap. He was positive this would get the mouse.
He got it all ready and went and set it down and then we waited....when we went and checked on it this is what we found.
The mouse had eaten as much of the peanut butter as it could from the inside and even nibbled on the noodle and it still didn't get caught! I was in shock. What kind of mouse was this? Poor Greg was not to happy.
We kept setting mouse traps and caught 9!! I was so grossed out. And some were little babies so we knew that there was a lot of them. We could hear them in our walls and I hated it. We heard them most by our door. There is a little hole in our ceiling were we had to take off some molding when we got our new door. We would always look up to see if we could see them. One day I noticed some stuff on the floor.
Its hard to tell but those little white dots are rice. They had been eating our rice and storing it up in that little hole and it all fell out one day. So we threw the rice away and bought some rat poison and put it all over the house and up in that little hole. We thought for sure this would take car of the problem. We came home and we found the poison on the floor.. they had pushed it out of that little hole!! What the crap! Who are these mice! They are so smart. We could not get rid of them.
It was finally time to call some one. We called a pesticide company and them came and sealed up our house and sprayed for spiders. Our house is now mouse and spider free and life is good!
Now on to funner stuff!!
Greg and I had so much fun these past few months. We have had a great Halloween, Fall Break, Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Over fall break we headed out with Greg's family to go camping. They go every year and it is so much fun. We go out in the middle of no where and just have fun. We have big bon fire's go dirt bike riding and shooting. It is such a fun week.
My eyes are always closed.
So pretty.
Helmet hair!
On one of our rides we watched a deer drink from a stream. It was pretty cool.
Riding in the Rhino threw trees causes a lot of unwanted things down your pants.
We carved some pumpkins with Aaron and Diane and had so much fun. Carving pumpkins is so messy and itchy but so much fun. I love doing them.
Yes that is a grinder.
Greg of course did a BYU pumpkin and took forever doing it! But it turned out so good. I was very impressed with it.
We also made some Halloween gingerbread houses with Josh and Ashley. I love making these because they don't have to be perfect and cute and the broken crackers and the ones to use!
We could not get a black color, this was the closest we got!
Greg's haunted cathedral. I was very impressed with it. Such a good idea
That is a bloody body under my porch!
Greg and I also went up to Thanksgiving point for their cornmaze and all the other fun activities. We loved it up there! It was us and a whole bunch of little kids!
We could not figure this thing out
Yes, my eyes are closed again.
Entering the monster!
You come out of its butt haha
Greg trying to get us out.
With the end of fall comes the end of football season. It was sad going to the last home game. They are so much fun, I'm glad we got season tickets this year. I can get very into games and love going to them. Not only does it suck that it is the last game, but it was also cold and rainy, but we won so that made it all better!
My feet were freezing when I got home!
But with the end of football season comes the beginning of basketball season. Every year BYU plays up at the Energy Solutions Arena because the Marriot is being used for Christmas Around the World. Greg's dad got some tickets so we headed up. It was such a fun game to go to with his parents.
I was so excited for Christmas this year! I could not wait for it. I felt like I was a little kid again. It was our first Christmas together and it was going to be great.
We made some gingerbread houses with Aaron and Diane and had so much fun. I love having those guys live upstairs.
I totally messed this frosting up, but I fixed it when everyone said I couldn't
Diane and I are both sitting on our feet while Aaron's are both down. Must be a girl thing.
My cute little house
Aaron's amazing bridge
Diane's train. I love this!
Greg's house!
We also took my nieces up to the Festival of Trees. I love it up there. I think it is such a great idea and the trees are so awesome. I love how creative people are.
She loved this tree.
Meg was falling asleep, until I pulled out my camera.
I love this! "C is for Cookie!"
We dropped them off and Ayden went straight to the couch her dad was sleeping on and fell right to sleep.
I just love Christmas. I don't know how many times I can say that. We spent Christmas Eve with Greg's family. They have such a fun tradition. They all go to the store and can get whatever they want. So we stocked up and junk food. It was so much fun. We all went home at some food and watched Christmas Story. It was such a fun night. Greg and I went home and got ready for Santa to come!
We didn't have Greg's sock in time, but luckily I have two.
Christmas Eve
Greg's stuff did not fit in his sock
He loved his poster!
My sweet new helmet!
He also loved Black Ops
I got a blow up minion in my Decpicable Me movie. it took forever to blow up
Every Christmas my mom makes Monkey Bread. We only get it on Christmas. This was my first year making it. I started it the night before and it turned out great!
Christmas Breakfast: Eggs, Bacon, Monkey Bread. YUM!!
After we had opened all our presents from each other and had eaten are delicious Christmas breakfast it was off to the Cannon house for more presents.
The table is all the stocking gifts!
We stayed at the Cannon's for a few hours then headed up to my parents house for the rest of the night.
My mom could not believe my brother got her a present
We got Mack a BYU jersey. He loved it and cried when he had to take it off
Ayden also got a new shirt. She wears her other one all the time
It was such a fun Christmas, I was so sad it had to end. I can't wait for next year! I am so glad our families are so close and we can see both sides. They are so great and made Christmas all the better.
That is what Greg and I have been up to lately. I really need to update this more often, this could be the longest post in the entire world! If you looked at the whole thing I hope it kept you entertained.
