Christmas Lights!

I've been trying extra hard to get into the Christmas spirit this year. It is hard when I feel like I am so busy that I can't even finish all my school work, let alone do anything else (i apologize to anyone who reads this for my constant complaining about school) Last Thursday night Brody and i had a little time and it has been nice weather lately so we decided to take advantage of it and go look at the lights at the temple! We love living so close. We took a ton of pictures.

Merry Christmas! I just finished my second to last final and will be heading home Thursday! yay!

My 25th, Thanksgiving and black Friday

I of course haven't had time to write lately. But I thought I'd give a little summary of my 25th birthday (I still can't believe I am that old) and our Thanksgiving. So school was beyond busy leading up to Thanksgiving break so when I finally made it to vacation, I was very ready to take a break from school. So I treated myself to almost a full week of no school work. Break was so nice. I got to read Hunger Games (the whole trilogy), bake a ton of pies, shop a ton, eat and relax. On my birthday I didn't have school so I was able to stay home and bake pies all day. I was determined to make my first completely homemade pie! I did better than that. I made four.
Unfortunately on my lovely birthday, Utah decided to be extremely cold and to snow. The weather people were going crazy because they were expecting the blizzard of the century. I was freaking out because of course a blizzard would ruin my birthday. Well the blizzard never really came, but everyone sure acted like it did. They shut down restaurants, the mall and lots of roads. We couldn't do anything my bday night other than go to dinner. Everything else was closed. They even shut down BYU and that has never happened in all the years I've been here!! Needless to say, my birthday turned out ok, but not my favorite. I did get lots of lovely presents from friends and family and tons of bday wishes which i really appreciated.

with one of my many pies..ignore the messy kitchen behind me

I had to include this one..even though its not the best because its the only one we took that night.

The next day we both were off from school and work so we were able to go play in the snow. We attempted to go skiing in Sugarhouse Park. It was very exhausting and not really worth the work. Then on Thursday we had Thanksgiving and of course that was full of eating tons of food! oh how I love thanksgiving food! On Thanksgiving night the mall opened at 9 p.m. and was going to stay open all night so Brenda, Karissa and I decided to do a little shopping. The mall was ridiculously packed. We stood in line for 2 hours at Express. It was a claustrophobic, crazy experience. We then decided to go to Walmart and fight the crowds at midnight. We were almost stampeded, but we came out with almost every person's Christmas presents. It was amazing! Next I stayed up and ended up at Target at 4 a.m. ! It was a fun night! I loved it, even with pulling the all nighter just to shop.