a year in pictures: 2011

double date

Last weekend we had a very fun double date with our dear friends, Katie and Bryan.  You can read all about it over at Katie's blog!  Click HERE to hop on over there!  Thanks to Katie and Bryan for coming over and having fun with us!  We had a fabulous time! 

Life Lately

November has been a busy month for us!  Richard has been busy with grad school projects and wrapping up his semester and Emily has been busy at work!  At school we have been doing all kinds of Thanksgiving projects and after the break we will be busy with Holidays Around the World projects!  All the fun projects and activities are part of what make teaching kindergarten fun though!  

We are looking forward to the little break we will have this week.  Happy Thanksgiving!  We are actually hosting Thanksgiving for the first time and we are so excited.  On Saturday we bought all our Thanksgiving groceries and now we're set to start cooking on Thursday!  Emily's parents and a few friends are coming on Thursday and we're looking forward to being hosts and to having a good time!  We then plan to spend the rest of the weekend relaxing, playing with Carly, and maybe doing a little work.  We can't wait!  We'll probably set up the Christmas tree too and start getting ready for December!  Yay!  

Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! 

Go Cougars!

Carly in her true blue gear.  All ready for the big game!

We are HUGE BYU Cougar fans.  How could we not be!?  We both went to school there, Richard's parents went to school there, and my brother goes to school there!  We love the Cougars!  We enjoyed watching the big football game (Utah vs. BYU) this year outside by our warm, toasty fire pit!  We had fun roasting marshmallows and being outside in the fall weather.  It was a fun night even though the Cougars lost the game! 

Sunday afternoon walk.

Richard and I love taking Carly on walks.  She is one lucky little dog!  She usually gets to go on three walks a day.  We had fun snapping some pictures on this walk one beautiful Sunday afternoon! 

Hershy Park

Earlier this summer we went to Hershey Park!  It was SO fun!  I've been wanting to go here practically my whole life so I was very excited that we finally went!  We got some discount tickets from our local grocery store, asked our neighbors to let Carly out for the day, and set off with some road trip snacks!  It was a 4 hour round trip but being at the park was so fun.  We went on all the huge roller coasters and went to the water park.  We had a great time together!  And of course we also got some yummy chocolate too!