Thanksgiving Weekend

This has been such a good weekend! It was our first thanksgiving being married. I had to work until two on thanksgiving, but It worked out to be perfect timing because we ate at his grandmas house in Newton at three. The food was great as usual.

To all my family that I didn't get to see I hope you all had a great thanksgiving! It's so hard trying to get around to see everyone on the holidays, especially with three sets of parents. Just know we love you all! I did get to FaceTime my brother and sister on thanksgiving morning! I wish they lived closer!

Last minute we decided to go Black Friday shopping. We got some good deals. I'm not sure how I feel about the super early sales on Thanksgiving day. It was nice to go to bed at a decent time, but it seemed to have cut our Thanksgiving day short. 

Friday afternoon we headed up to Collin's uncles cabin in bear lake! We had a BLAST!

Their cabin is so pretty! We are glad they let us stay there for the weekend! We spent most of our time hanging out, playing games, watching movies, and eating delicious food!

I got some time to read this weekend as well. For those of you that haven't read Outliers I strongly recommend it! It has some really great stuff in it. 

The view from their cabin is stunning! At one point we weren't sure if we were going to make it out of the driveway because of the snow and how steep it is. I was secretly crossing my fingers that we wouldn't. I could have stayed there forever! 

It's nice to be able to get away for the weekend and spend time with family and escape from reality. I was blessed to marry into such a great family!  

Rico

Fredrico [AKA Rico] has been quite the addition to our family. He is an outside cat, but still gets spoiled by us! I am allergic to cats so I can't touch them for very long without washing my hands or else my eyes puff up huge.

Rico has became Collin's kid of some sort. He packs it around like a little baby. I am usually getting after him for bringing it  too close to me, but I have to admit it is a pretty darn cute cat.

Rico came from the one and only Dunes Dairy along with his brother, unnamed. Collin surprised me one day with the both of them because Tosh had gotten ahold of our previous foster cat that we had taken in. We must not be the best cat caretakers because I may or may not have ran over Rico's brother..

Collin has a habit of calling people many names. He calls me Ang, Susan, Little One, and the most common, Squrriel. He rarely calls me Andrea. This habit has rubbed off on the cat. Rico is also known as Charlie, Fred, Little Guy, and Fredrico. 

It's kind of something silly to be thankful for, but we enjoy our cute little kitty.

Fall Comes to a Close

First off, to all you people with nice pretty perfect yards, I look up to you!! It is really not easy work keeping up on a yard. Let alone a big yard.

We have been getting ready for winter the last couple weeks. It has been quite the task mowing, raking leaves, and picking up apples! Collin sure loves getting to drive grandpa Mel's nice lawn mower!

I personally love the fall. I don't know what it is about boots, scarfs, and jackets, but i sure love getting all bundled up in them. It is also this time of the year that i want to buy everything in stores. I just love fall colors. They seem to go best with my skin/hair color. It's sad to say that fall is coming to an end, and we are about to freeze our bums off.

I don't mind snow up until christmas, but after that it just needs to melt away. I remember asking my mom when i was little why everyone didn't just take a blow dryer out to their front lawn after christmas to melt all the snow. Once it starts to melt away and the snow on the roads just has dirt in it, it needs to go. Besides the fact of the cold, i'll be the first to admit that i'm really not a good driver in the snow. I have had numerous times running off the road and getting stuck. Let's hope this winter i'll have better luck!

Since it is november and everyone is naming everything that they are thankful for, I thought I would tell Collin how thankful I am for his hard work that he puts forth for us. He is a hard worker, and I don't thank him enough for that. He reminds me a lot of my dad, who is also a hard worker and always has been as long as I can remember. Collin will be a great example for our kids someday! 

Although November really is the month of gratitude I think it is sad that we only show how thankful we are for certain things during the holiday season. I don't think I am near thankful enough for all we have, but it is a good reminder to be better at that. 

Jackson Hole, WY

Monday of this last week our friend Zack had this idea that we should go on a vacation. The next weekend we found ourselves in Jackson Hole, WY.

Jackson at this time of the year is considered the off season because it is in between their summer rush and their Ski/winter rush. It was nice to have it be a little cooler theire, and to have less people there than usual. There was snow around us in the mountains, but none in the actual city.

We had a blast. Kynzie and Zack have been such good friends to us, we always have a blast when we are with them. Col was good friends with Zack in high school and kynz and i grew up going to each other's birthday parties, so i guess you could say we were meant to be friends.

If you know collin and zack, you know that they love the farming game. We couldn't go without taking it with us. They begged and begged. We stayed up late both nights playing the farming game. If you have never heard of it, it is basically monopoly in farming form, although i hate to admit it, it is actually pretty fun. Might i add that Of the two games that we played, I won one, and Kynzie won the other. Girls Rule..

 

The Hotel we stayed at had a killer breakfast that was included, which is always a plus. It saves so much money to find a hotel that has breakfast included. Otherwise you end up spending twenty bucks or more a day just for breakfast. 

We had such a fun time looking around the stores, of course you don't buy anything in jackson because it will cost you an arm and a leg, but its fun to walk through the cute little shops and town.

I'm grateful for the jobs that we both have that allow us to get to have these small vacations. I'm also grateful for the Carters and for the friendship that has grown between our two families. We always are always laughing whenever we are together. We are extremely blessed.