Home For Christmas

Cody and I made it back to Utah yesterday morning. We had a nice nonstop flight here that was for the most part uneventful. We are so glad to be here and see family before we go back for another school semester and work. Here are a few pictures from the evening.

Cody holding baby Parker for the first time.

Kyler, Cody, and Daxten playing frog soccer.

Cody and the boys cuddling.

Rachelle and Parker

I am Thankful For....

For some reason I love Thanksgiving, it may be my favorite holiday. I am still trying to decide. I think I like it so much because it is low key for the most part and I like cooking and of course eating. This year we are going to our friends parents house for Thanksgiving. We are really thankful that they are going to have us seeing as we have no family out here in OK. So here goes the list of things I am thankful for:

Family. I love my family.

My husband.

My new job. Seriously it is GREAT!

Good friends. Both near and far.

I have so much to be grateful for. The above are just a few things to name. Cody and I love it here in Oklahoma but we are also so excited to be going home from Christmas in just 26 days! Cody will also be finished with his first semester of dental school in 3 weeks. And it is hard to believe that a year ago, next week, Cody was accepted to dental school here at OU. Time certainly does fly by. I am trying to live in the moment and enjoy every day and what it holds. I am so grateful for the many wonderful opportunities we have enjoyed this past year.

An Exciting Friday night at 7pm!!!

I think the picture says it all here.... Cody and I are beginning to go to bed earlier and earlier. Lately we have been in bed at about 9pm and that doesn't include the 3o minutes prior that I sleep on the couch. But this is our exciting Friday night tonight. Cody said he was just going to nap for a minute. If you ask me he is down for the night...He looks so uncomfortable! Oh this picture makes me laugh. I love my husband!

Slickdeals.net...

Slick Deals. Thanks to one of Cody's classmates we (well Cody) now make frequent purchases from slick deals.com. Apparently they have all sorts of deals on anything and everything. Oddly enough I have never actually been on the website. Well tonight we got our amazing hot chocolate maker! Other recent purchases on slick deals have included: a camping light, 5yr subscription to ESPN magazine, 1 year subscription to Cooking Light, ipod FM radio transmitter, another ipod FM transmitter (this one will fit the ipod touch). I will admit I was a little irritated at first that Cody was buying so many things. But I LOVE the hot chocolate maker, and it makes excellent hot chocolate. It also heats the liquid which means no more microwaving mugs which get REALLY hot on the outside, but barely warm liquid on the inside.Me excited to test out the hot choc0late maker
Cody even more excited to test it out!

Happy Halloween

Cody and I are pretty lame when it comes to Halloween. We don't dress up, we don't pass out candy, and we don't carve pumpkins. We are pretty good at pretending like the holiday doesn't even exist. Maybe we will change that if we have kids some day. Last night we had a get together with the other Mormon's from Cody's class. So I made these cute ghost sugar cookies to share. Which I still think are so adorable. We ate pizza, played games, and watched a scary movie. The boys even found time for a little xbox (I don't think it is possible for them to get together and not play xbox). It was a lot of fun!

I also got a chance this week to frame my D-Will jersey. It was going to be pretty pricey to pay to have it framed so I figured I would try and do it myself. I looked online and read a little bit about how to do it. Then was on my way to Hobby Lobby to buy what I needed. I have no idea if I did it correctly or not. I think it turned out good considering I did it. I was having a really hard time fitting everything in the frame. The jersey was a large so I had to fold it in certain places and pin it which made it thicker in certain spots. Then there is a white mat board behind it. Then I had to get the back of the frame in. I was a little concerned about the back popping off because the prongs were hardly able to be pushed down. To be safe I finished it off by duct tapping the back mat to the actual frame in a couple spots. And no one will ever see it since it is in the back. All in all it makes a nice addition to our living room!

Free Money

You are probably thinking right now that the words "free" and "money" do not go together. I didn't think so either until I met Cody. Cody is absolutely SOLD on this concept. Let me explain the most recent situation where this has occurred. Since moving out here we switched car insurance companies. I cancelled the policy only to see on my bank statement the next month they had withdrawn the money. So after a huge hassle and a bunch of phone calls I got the situation straightened out. The insurance company now owes us a refund. Which of course they cannot deposit the money directly into my account, they have to send my a physical check. So after about 4 weeks we finally received our check in the mail yesterday. This is what Cody considers "free money". So he has been plotting how to spend this excess of money when I bring him down to reality and say, "WE PAYED THIS MONEY OUT IT'S NOT FREE!" For some reason he refuses to think that this is money we earned. We usually have the same problem with tax returns. Can someone please explain to my husband that money is not free??!

Happy Anniversary

We have been married 3 years today! Every day has been full of surprises, lots of laughter, and even adventure. It's been a wonderful 3 years and I look forward to many more! So 3 things I love about Cody are:

1. By far the funniest person I know! We spend most of our days laughing 2. He is smart in everything. At school, around the house, with money, etc
3. His personality. Cody is so impatient he can't wait for anything. If I buy
anything sweet as soon as he finds out about it the whole thing is gone.
If I buy a gift for him I can't even tell him because he will nag me to death
until I tell him what it is or let him have it.

Cody is certainly one of a kind and I love everything about him!