Christmas in COLORADO!

jared and i went back to work at the USDA and worked for 2 days before taking 10 days off to spend christmas in colorado with my family! it was sooo fun and im sad the time went by so fast! now we are back in rexburg and back at work :( here are some pictures of our fun trip!

We helped my mom make gingerbread houses out of graham crackers for a little christmas party my sisters were having!

Jared was rather crafty at it! i was pretty impressed, beacuse i couldnt do it to save my life!


Our babies are gonna have pretty eyes :)

the finished product

our cute house of love equiped with a garage, car, heart shape doors, a green sour patch kid representing jared, and red sour patch kid representing brielle, and half an orange sour patch kid representing our future baby :)

jared found a new hobby.....

making wood pens!

jared showing off his pen he just made

The Loot! Santa was very kind to us this year

jared's new stocking!

my hubby and my siblings in our new christmas pajamas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! it was and early morning at our house!

There was no snow in colorado and we came home to a winter wonderland!

There is a lot of snow outside our apartment!

christmas was WONDERFUL with jared and i cant wait till we have little kids running around excited for santa to come and then watch them open thier presents i am definitly looking forward to that! like i said earlier, we are back at work at the USDA. they started working 4 10 hour shifts, so we work monday tuesday, have wednesday off, and then thursday and friday... they are VERY long and BORING days, but i cant complain because i told jared i wouldnt. plus since we are working 10 hours a day, 2 hours of that is over time so that will give us a little extra in our pay checks and hopefully we can save back up what we spent while we werent working! i cant believe tomorrow is new years eve! some friends of ours invited us to a little party with some other married couples so we will go ring in the new year with them probably just by playing fun games and eating! :) and im SOOO excited to be with jared for new years this year and get my very first ever new years kiss :) other than that, life if perfect and wonderful and i couldnt ask for anything more!!! well i could..... but jared says no :)

Sunday dinner.... and more

yesterday jared and i splurged and got a roast when we went grocery shopping. this is the second one i have made since we have been married. we let this one cook ALLL day and it just fell apart when it was time to eat! mmmmm!!!! my mashed potatoes are getting pretty darn tasty and this time i made a lot of extra so we could have left overs! i tried to make home made gravey..... but ewwww..... it did not turn out good at all! ill have to have my dad teach me when we are in colorado next week!




school finally ended on friday! YAY! this semester went by really fast! now we are off track till april. i was really stressing about finding a job here in rexburg cause the pay is very low, and we didnt think we would be able to go back to the job we were at over the summer making A LOT more than what we would make here in rexburg, but jared called and they had spots open for us in the lab! so all winter long we are gonna be looking through a microscope at dirt... bleh... although i hate the job, i am very grateful for it and hopefully we can save a lot again! one of the girls i was studying with this semester, her husband just quit his job so he was looking for another one so i gave them the information for the USDA and he applied and got the job too. i think we are gonna carpool down with him starting next year!
the snow finally found rexburg, unfortunately, so we bought new snow tires yesterday for our car... the ones with the studs on them. we figured if we are driving from rexburg to idaho falls everyday in the winter it would be a smart
and safe thing to do... pricey, but safe... there was a BIG difference! hopefully it will continue to be that way!
we have to go to work monday tuesday and wednesday this week, and then after work on wednesday we are driving down to utah and we fly out to colorado on thursday morning! i am so excited i can barely stand it! i hope the weather will cooperate and it will stop snowing so we can get there! i think this post is long enough.... hope everyone has a wonderful christmas! travel safe!!!