Halloooooooween.

Yay for the holiday seasons!!! This is my ABSOLUTE favorite time of the year. ANY reason to celebrate ANYTHING, and I am so there.

We started off this spook-tacular holiday by getting our scare on and going to the Haunted Mill. OOOOOOOO.... We have a love/hate relationship, the Haunted Mill and I. I let someone talk me into going EVERY year, and I hate it. The whole time I'm literally on the verge of tears and have to talk myself through it. It's the worst. (Thankfully I have a big, strong man to protect me from all the scary monsters.) And then, when it's all said and done.. I utter these words (everytime)... "Ohhh, that's wasn't so bad." Even though I really thought that scary man with the chainsaw was going to chop my head off. Sigh. We did have a great time with Brady & Hollie, and Jared & Chelsea though. And that hot chocolate after made this a fun night!

 

 



Our next festivity was carving pumpkins with the Nelson's! (Weird to say because technically I am a Nelson.) We love Michael and Ashley!

Technically I did the carving, and I made the Mr. scoop out all the pumpkin guts.

I even got to dress up for work!

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Birthday Dear Kaitlin

Happy Birthday Kaitlin!

aka Miss Provo.

Yep. That's my best friend right there.

Besides the fact that she's smokin' HOT, this girl is phenomenal. (Likely to be one of the reason's she's my BFF.) 

This girl was technically my first friend when I moved to Rexburg in High School. And that friendship hasn't faltered one single bit since. 

LOTS of high school memories together...

And you can't forget the EARLLLYYYY morning Black Friday shopping trips.

Side note: We woke up at 3 am. No judging.

Even after high school, her moving to Provo, different life experiences...our friendship is still top notch.  

ANNNNDDDD one can't forget that she was the single-handedly best maid of honor in the universe.

She's perfect. And here's to celebrating MANY, many more birthdays together.  Love you Kait!

Summer Highlights

Summer is officially over. And I am sad. The Mr. and I had a great time working 40 hours a week and only seeing each other in the evenings. Ok, just kidding. We hated that part....but we were able to sneak away on a few trips. I'll just give you a recap of some of the partying we did.

Y  E  L  L  O  W  S  T  O  N  E

Nic and Janey came up for a quick trip from Provo to hang out with us for the weekend. (Because we're so cool.) So...we went up to Yellowstone Park for the day, and had a grand ol' time.

The boys bought matching t-shirts, so we decided to buy matching coats...NOT.

Happy Birthday to My Mom AND Dad.

July is always a fun month for our family because we are lucky enough to celebrate BOTH of our loving parents' days of birth. Oh, and birthdays in our family are a BIG DEAL.

So... we ventured off for a little fun in the sun at Seven Peaks. There wasn't too much sun...but it sure was FUN. Love this family of mine.

Thanks for laughing at my jokes, Oscar. 

Love my mama.

Twinners.





CaLiFoRNiA.

In the beginning of August we got to fly out the land of sunshine with the Harper clan. The whole...going to DisneyLand, and playing on the beach, uh-mazing weather, and laying out by a FABULOUS pool...thing was definitely my cup of tea.  We were sad to leave and get back to the real world, but we left a few shades darker, and with lots of wonderful memories made.

We left our tickets at home....

Cutie patooties.

She was OBSESSED with the tide pools.

I looove my handsome hubs.

Playing on the beach is NOT complete without burying someone in the sand and making them look like a mermaid.
Ahem, merMAN.

Honestly though. She's a doll.



Labor Day Weekend

My cousins Summer and Mark blessed their sweet baby girl Adley this weekend.  It was fun hanging out with the family, eating yummy food, and of course kissing on this sweet girl. I love her SO much!

The weekend before school started, my Aunt Becky and Uncle Art brought their wonderful daughter Lexie up to school.  They were nice enough to put up with us for a few days and it was great seeing them! (I promised Becky I'd give her a shout out on here. :)  We certainty don't see them as much as I want to.

After Lexie got all settled, we drove down to Utah with them so we could catch up with my parents.

(We made a pit stop at a fruit stand in Brigham City for some of their famous peaches...YUM!)

The boys spent an afternoon at the BYU game, and the ladies shopped like it's hot at the City Creek mall....and of course stopped at Blue Lemon for lunch. It was a lovely afternoon that ended all too soon. (Boo for not getting ANY pictures.)

But this is how cute their family is...

Oh, and our summer would not have been complete without this:

Obsessed.

And that's a wrap!  Now on to loads of homework....(for the husband, not me!)

Ahhh, Utah.

Last weekend, Cam and I ventured all the way down to Utah for the weekend.  It was marvelous. Some of our family's good friends were in town from Cali, and we don't quite see them as much as we'd like to. WE HAD A BLAST.

Blue Lemon. I don't know if any of you had ever heard of it, but this restaurant is amazing, and I HIGHLY recommend it. Oh, and I ate way more than should be humanly possible. 

Hummus plates, sweet potato fries, FROZEN MINT LEMONADE, salmon, spinach ravioli.

I'm serious. Go there.

After sitting at the restaurant for a while, letting our food digest, we finally started getting up to leave when we walked past the Cheesecake Factory, so naturally we stopped for a late night dessert. Heaven.

Saturday was the best.  We went to Zupas, (now my second favorite place, after last night), with the Chats Fam before they flew back to Cali. Their chillens didn't tag along with us last night, but it was so great seeing them for a quick sec. I'm kind of obsessed with how adorable they are.

Precious, right?

We love them!

Later that afternoon, my mom and I shopped 'til we dropped, almost literally, while Cam and my dad played catch. 

Side Note: The morning before we left, Cameron woke up to a text message from my dad saying..."Bring your baseball mitt so we can play some catch." 

SUCH a little boy. But I love it. So sad i didn't get a picture. :(

Anyway, back to shopping... Cam is pretty much convinced that we are going to be claim bankrupcy. Ok, not even close to that, but the shopping in Utah is SOOOOOO good. It's easy to spend money.

One of my favorite buys: Maxi dresses. Got all stocked up for our Cali trip. Less than 3 weeks!

We also went to this Home Decor store, and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Some day when I actually have more than 2 rooms and a tiny kitchen to decorate, this place will be seein' some Jeni again. 

We enjoyed hanging out with my parents that night, went to the movies and saw "Dark Shadows"...don't reccommend it, and then late night IHOP. 

And that was a wrap. It's time to move there I guess.