Tori's Christmas wreath  

So I went to the store b/c they had all their Christmas decorations half off .  I found a number of different things that i could put on a reef and liked them so I made my own.  Unfortunately it probably won't get hung on the door this year because I cant find a "hanger thing"  for the door.  But I made it and I am pretty proud of myself--

--If you have any idea how to make it more festive for next year let me know. :)

Merry Christmas to all!!!  We have a Christmas Tree its mainly red and gold.  I got it all up and then I bought some more decoration and so I added them on.  But then my mom got me some ginger bread looking ornaments and so I add them last night.  It is probably getting to full but oh well we don't mind.  My niece also thought that the gingerbread ornaments were real cookies, i probably should have let her try to eat one. it would have been pretty funny. 

P.S. hanging the garland up was not an easy task.  We didn't want to punch holes in wall with nails (ask Adam about that) but we finally figured out that we could tuck a leaf under the framing so that is how it is staying.  It wasn't until after it was hung that I remember I should have put ribbon on it...well once up it isn't coming down until the end of the season.  Maybe next year I'll remember.  I have my believe sign I made like 3 years ago and it has been in storage for about that long and well all the letters stuck together and some of the paper ripped off-but it still looks nice.

This is the living room wall that connects to the kitchen and the bedrooms.  There are the Mrs. and Mr. Santa Clause that Grandma Furtell (Adam's Mom's Mom) made for us when we got married.  Oh by-the-way my stocking is the purple and Adam's is the blue one.  :) just in case you couldn't tell.

We got my red wall finally painted.  It looks so much better than what it did.  It was the saddest thing when it started pealing off.  We ended (well Adam did) painted it 3 more times,  waiting at least a week between each new coat.  But, it is all done and we both just love it.

The laundry room isn't quite finished but we are just so happy to have a washer and dryer now.  We still need to put up sheet rock and cover up where we added the  washer and dryer.  But that will be a job for maybe when it gets a little warmer like above freezing or we have a little time on our hands.  

This is all the snow on the side of the house.  Not very much for the middle of December, but that is totally okay.  The pine trees looked so beautiful with the snow on them.  We have our own little forest back there.

this fall really fell.  we woke up one day and our big tree in our yard dropped all its leaves.  there is alot of leaves all over our lawn.  we have alot of leaves all over we will probably have to rake our leaves a few more times before the snow comes. 

This was declo vs malad. It was an amazing game and was very long. The game went as so. We were up by 14 points. Malad ends up coming back, and we ended up going into overtime. The first over time malad scored first then missed the field goal. Then we had the chance to score a touchdown and make the field goal. We end up scoring the touchdown on the 4th down. Then we tried for the field goal but we missed it. The next overtime we tried first to score. we scored the touchdown on the 3rd down then tried for the 2 point conversion but we didnt make it. malad then tried to score the touchdown. On the 4th down malad threw the ball but didnt catch the pass. The game got over at 12:00 a.m. exactly. It was very stressful game. But we are so happy that they pulled it off

 we went to the annual dairy convention. it was alot of fun and we ate so much food to eat. me an tori didnt have much luck with the prize drawing but amber and shay did.  amber got a 40" samsung TV and a nintendo DS, and shay got a digital camera.  free chocolate strawberry milk and all you can eat ice cream bars. it was great!!!

 for our anniversary we went to the zoo. 
  

 

this is the huge yard

the hallway between the front door and the garage 

this is the shed, half of the shed is insulated and made to be able to live in and the other half is storage.  there is a little shed in front of it that is for the lawn mower and stuff like that.   
this is our some what new house. 
we are so excited but it has been a struggle at making sure that everything was up to code before moving in, but now that we can flush our toilet paper down the toilet we are all good to go.  we plan on closing on thursday. 

   we headed out to the sand dunes  to take some picts with our friend Jason West 

santa monica pier

A bugs life ride. One of our favs.

The picture was a little slow tori actually ended up grabbing the guy leg to her left more than mine. he was nice and introduced himself after the ride

Tori just learned how to make slipper from Grandma Futrell

basking in the sun

the next day we headed to Las Vegas and stayed at a trend west resort

saturday morning we woke and did a temple session then took a tour of the historical site around the area. This was the first thing that we did on our trip.