Sedona Saturday

We went on adventure to Sedona today with our friends, Porter and Erika. We spent half the day just exploring and taking in the beautiful weather and scenery. We had a really fun time and we got some great pictures out of it. Apparently, they grow a lot of apples in Sedona and we found a shed where some old tractors were stored - so the tractor pictures are for you dad :)



The picture below is a cathedral we walked through- built in the 50's


A view of the mansion we drove past on the way up to the cathedral.

Ugly Sweater Party

We went to an ugly sweater party last night and had so much fun! We found a good sweater for me. (It was a little big and itchy. 75% wool. I felt like the Grinch :) I think Trenton made his look cute ;) There weren't a lot of really ugly guy sweaters that we could find.

After we ate dinner at the party, we were given two packs of graham crackers, some frosting and candy to create something other than a traditional gingerbread house. We decided to make a swimming pool with a diving board and some palm trees. It looks better in person than in the picture below, but we thought it turned out pretty well.




This is a Christmas table cloth my mom made us and some of the crafts we did while she was here for Thanksgiving.


It feels more like Christmas than I thought it would here in AZ, but I have to occasionally remind myself it's December when it's a beautiful 67 degrees outside. The low is usually in the high 30's to 40's. The high was in the 50's a few days last week so I had to have some hot chocolate. I think I might die when we go to Utah for a week ;)

I made rolls and broccoli & cheese soup last week. Yum. It was really simple. The soup recipe is on The Girl Who Ate everything Blog - at the bottom of my page. I tried the chicken pot pie recipe on the same blog today and it was really good too!

Thanksgiving

I thought I better hurry and blog about Thanksgiving before Christmas gets here :) My mom and dad came to AZ and enjoyed the 70 degree weather with us. We had a lot of fun. We had a good thanksgiving dinner (we were too busy stuffing our faces to take a picture, oops) made chocolates, did Christmas crafts (I'll put pictures of those up later), walked around the temple and looked at the lights - much warmer than temple square in Salt Lake! It was so fun to have my mom and dad stay with us for 4 days and appreciate them making the long drive down here. Our time together passed by way too quickly. We are looking forward to going home for Christmas!



We went to Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill on Saturday night. A car show happened to be going on that night so we wandered out that for a while after dinner. We saw some cool cars and a few trucks.

Where did October go?

I can't believe it's November! We have been in AZ about 3 months now. It's 65 degrees today and actually feels like fall- I love it! We miss Utah, but we don't miss the snow that's there right now. Last week we carved pumpkins with some other couples in our ward. Thanks to Howard and Kerry for bringing us a pumpkin when they visited us the week before ;) Trenton showed his creativity and carved us a really cool pumpkin. He printed off an ASU decal to trace on the pumpkin and did a great job carving it out. Everyone was very impressed!








We made some Halloween sugar cookies for our Sunday school class. We went to the store in search of Halloween cookie cutters and all we could find were Christmas ones!! So we made do with circles ;)


We only had 2 kids come trick or treating. We weren't sure how many to expect being at an apartment complex. Each unit was given a sign to put out if they had candy. We did..



and we still have candy :)

Conference weekend = rolls

I have always looked forward to conference weekend. Besides looking forward to watching conference on tv, I was excited to be with Trenton and to attempt to make rolls with my mom's recipe. Growing up, conference weekend usually brought yummy food with it so I always get a craving for rolls around this time. Being in AZ, I knew if I wanted rolls I would have to make them myself this time. I'm happy to say they turned out very good! (As you can see I ate 2 before I took the picture :) Maybe it's beginner's luck but I hope they turn out as well next time!