Forever...

So I was being really good at this whole blog thing, but then I got busy.....But I'm back! So I will give you a over view of the things that have happened since my last posting:

-My (Amy's) parents took the whole fam Damily to Disneyland for the big Christmas present this year!! It was Nathan's first time being there and we all had a blast! We spent 3 days at Disneyland/California adventure and then a day at Universal Studios. Nathan will tell you that he never gave Disneyland enough credit because he has a great time. Our favorite rides were Indiana Jones, Haunted Mansion done up in Nightmare before Christmas, All of the 3D shows (Bugs life, Muppet's, Terminator, etc), Jurassic Park and the Tower of Terror, Twilight Zone. We needed a vacation after getting back, but it was a great vacation.

We did our annual gingerbread houses and carousal ride. This year Papa Doug and Grandma Betty came with us, we had a great time!
-Split the holidays between the 2 families. Smart people would have just done one day at one family and then other day at the other family. Oh no, we split both days with both families. Even thought we had a great time, I think this year we will try and not fit everything in!

-We were naughty and went to the New Years Eve party put on in Seattle for the Single adults. But we had Chris and Allison come with us so we didn't feel too bad. We watched the fireworks over the space needle. Needless to say, we weren't that excited about them, due to malfunctions, but we had a nice evening without them.
That pretty much takes us up to now, we are just getting back into the same old stuff. Nathan started his English class on the 6th and I am trying to keep myself busy while he is at school and while he is doing homework.

Gingerbread house

We made our first gingerbread house this year and we had Amy's brother Phillip over to help. So we didn't exactly make the gingerbread from scratch (thank you costco) but who does that anyways! It was such a fun night, sitting at the table listening to christmas music drinking hot chocolate with peppermint making a gingerbread house with christmas lights on in the house. Such a perfect evening and great company!!

Nathan eating the frosting that Amy thinks is sick...

Nathan and Phillip working on the house....

The finised product! A mighty fine house if you ask me!

Us with our first house!!

And what do you do with a house made of candy? You eat it!

Thanksgiving times 2!!

Because all of our family lives so close, we were able to have 2 thanksgiving meals! We had breakfast and lunch at Amy's parents house and then went over and had dinner at Nathan's parent's house. We both had to try and limit ourselves at both places, but only partly succeeded as there was way too much good food. During this time of thanks, we are both so thankful for having our families so close to us. There are many people that don't have anyone close by, so we count ourselves as lucky! We are also both so thankful to our Father in Heaven for allowing us to find each other and for the many fun and exciting experiences we have already had together. We can't wait for many, many more to come!

GO MHS FOOTBALL!!

Nathan and I were able to go to my brother Phillip's football game today (Meadowdale High School in Lynnwood), and what a great game it was!! It was one of the games for the State Playoffs. We both think it was one of the best football games we have been to in a long time, if not ever! They won 20-19, after getting a touchdown in the last 3 minutes and having a very important interception when the other team was on the 5 yard line keeping them from a field goal attempt. Phillip had some great tackles that kept the offenders from getting into the endzone.

They will be playing next friday at 7 pm at the edmonds stadium. Come and watch, it should be a great game!

Happy Halloween!!

We had so much fun on our first Halloween together! I came up with the most brilliant idea to be Wilma and Fred Flintstone. My mother-in-law and I made my costume, (mostly her) and I bought Nathan's. We were able to go to 3 parties and our church's trunk-or-treat. The cute prehistoric couple.
Look at those big muscles!!
Always a sassy redhead!

Hope your Halloween was as fun as ours was!!

Pumpkin Carving!

We had our friend Chris and Allison Nelson come over tonight to carve pumpkins. We had such a great time that we didn't take any pictures of us, just the carved pumpkins. Here are the pics of our pumpkins photo shoot!
In Order of Pumpkins:
Amy
Nathan
Chris
Allison































And then we turned off all the lights, Allison and Amy held up a blanket in front of the fire so we could get this cool picture of all the pumpkins lit up!

WSU Football game!!

We went to Visit Amy's sister Courtney at WSU during homecoming and of course we had to go to a game!! Go COUGS!!!!!!!!
Amy and Courtney
Always so cute......
Not the best picture, but we had to get one of us at the game!

Viva Las Honeymoon

Here are some pics from our Honeymoon in Fabulous Vegas!

At M & M world

New York New York

After riding the Manhattan Express, we rode every ride on the Strip!!

Before we went to the Tournament of the Kings

We rented a red convertible Mustang and went to the Hoover Dam....

and the Las Vegas LDS Temple, so beautiful!!

Nathan's Favorite Casino, The Bellagio, we ate at the Buffet, and they had the most amazing food!!
Nathan standing in front of the sign for the restaurant that was named after him, the hot dogs were really yummy!Amy's Favorite Hotel, the Luxor. They had 'The Tomb and Museum of King Tutankhamun, one of Amy's favorite things to see, anything that has to do with Egypt.

A picture outside of the Blue man Group theatre, one of the best shows in Vegas!!