Christmas Fun continues

Its crazy that there are only 5 more days until Christmas!! I can hardly wait to give Ben his big present and I'm so afraid that he is a snooper like me (he claims he isn't) that I have hidden his present in a different location every day. It has gone from behind our dresser, to under the sink in our bedroom, to under the blankets in the office, to the storage room, to inside the dryer downstairs, to my car trunk, and to many other ridiculous locations for 2 weeks. Today though I finally wrapped it, partly because I was running out of places to hide it and partly because it was making me nervous at work thinking he might find it and ruin Christmas!

Anyways, back to some fun stuff that has gone on since our last post. The biggest, most exciting thing is we got a Christmas tree, a real one not one of those ridiculous plastic ones! Ben brought it home in the Lexus while I was at work one day and set it up with the lights so when I pulled up it was lit up in our front windows. We had a cute evening putting up all the ornaments we have collected from my Aunt Sandy, his mom gave us some Hummels (sp?), all the ones my parents have given me over the years plus more, and we got two ornaments when we were in Disneyworld. When we were in Disneyworld, we found one that said Just Married with Mickey and Minnie on the top and we paid a lady to put our names and the date on the back. Its super cute, but really heavy so we had to find the strongest branch to hold it. 

I also made us stockings so Santa can come visit us. I sewed and designed them with my mom and they turned out super cute. I was trying to upload a picture of them on here but it said security error so I'll fix that later.
We hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!

 Ben and I have been having so much fun this month. Some of the fun stuff we have done is listed below:

 1)We went snowboarding last week up in Big Cottonwood. There is a hill we found before his mission that we hike around on. I love it because there aren't any other people and it is so pretty seeing the trees covered with snow and sometimes spying some animal tracks. We only went for a couple hours before we were thoroughly exhausted from climbing up and down the hill in snowboarding boots that don't allow your ankle to bend so walking becomes difficult.


2) We went downtown to see the lights on Temple Square and as usual they are amazing! We even watched the Luke 5 movie and had the theater all to ourselves. It was kinda cool that one of the missionaries that talked to us after the movie was from Mexico City South, where Ben served his mission. On our way to our car we bought two cookies from the Zion pantry booth that was outside the gates. I was telling my mom about it the next day after she had worked all night and I just said we bought cookies from some people outside the temple grounds and her eyes got big and she said "you bought cookies from homeless people!" My mom says the funniest things when she is sleep deprived.

3) We went over to my parents house to set up some outside decorations before my mom's Bunko group came over and we started goofing off in the snow. We ended up going in the back yard and building a massive igloo. It took 3 hours but was worth it in the end. Since we weren't planning on playing in the snow, we weren't properly dressed and our wet jeans ended up dying our underwear bright blue!



 4) On Tuesday neither of us had to work so we decided to make a gingerbread house from scratch. It took a lot longer than we expected but was super fun. Ben even made a little igloo out of mini marshmellows to mimic our igloo.


Well thats all the adventures for now but I am positive there will be plenty more before the month is through!!

Ben's Birthday

So obviously we haven't updated this recently since its been almost a month that Bennie has been 22, which isn't that old but he has convinced himself that now he is an old, gross man. For his birthday we invited our families over for dinner and cake. I made a lasagna, my parents brought garlic bread, and his mom brought a nice salad. It was a lot of fun having everyone over and he got some great gifts. He got money and a

Riverton City blanket from his family, a nice American Rag jacket from my family, and I gave him a razor that he picked out himself. The razor turned out to not be such a great idea because giving him a trim turned into a buzz cut, but that was another day. So after the little dinner we ate the cake that I baked and frosted because I'm trying to be a cute domestic wifey. Although the cake was made from a box but one day I'll get to the point that I make it from scratch. Overall it was a great day for my Bennie!