Christmas in Omaha.

Mark finally got done with his Finals, one everyday for the whole week.  My husband is a genius, I never knew.  Straight A's!  Since Mark will be flying back to Utah on the 20th and I'll be flying back on the 22nd because of work, we decided to do our little Christmas here.  We didn't want to send all our presents to Utah, just a few.  We went out to eat on "Christmas Eve night", came back home and watched the classic Home Alone.  Then we woke up to a tree full of presents.  We are so spoiled.

 Once upon a time I told myself I would never get a fake tree, but it's practical when you'll be gone for two weeks of Christmas break.

We really are very fortunate. Thank you parents for the money to buy these great gifts!

The aftermath, who would have thought two people could be so destructive.

We love our Apartment it was great being able to put all of our decorations up.  This was the only time we spent a lot of time in this room. 

We both haven't been this excited for Christmas in years.  We can't wait to go home and see our families, five months is a long time.  Bring on December 20th and 22nd!

Bring on the Turkey.

We decided to have our own little Thanksgiving, which meant lot's of cooking.  It was nice because we only had to cook the stuff that we wanted.  We made homemade rolls, that were awesome and our first Turkey together.  We kind of cheated and just did the turkey breast in the bag, but it was plenty for the two of us.  For Dessert we made a chocolate pie and a banana cream pie and had them with four of Marks classmates and their spouses.  Mark got to watch his football with the boys.  On Thanksgiving night, Omaha does lighting of downtown, we went to that.  It was okay but it didn't have nothin' on Temple Square.  Of course we have become quite the Black Friday shoppers, so we did a little shopping at midnight.  Very eventful day, but we got a great good nights rest. 

Yeah we made Thankful Turkeys! They were our decorations for the Holiday.

 

 Oh yeah, we were outside on Thanksgiving in Omaha and the weather was 61 degrees.  It was a Thanksgiving miracle!

Carving Time!

So we finally got around to putting pictures up from the Holidays, which for us means Halloween as well as Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Halloween was fun this year, apparently our little townhome community is the place to hit up and it's also married little BYU, thus we had plenty of cute trick-or-treaters.  We carved Pumpkins where we displayed our pride for Utah State and Marks love of the Snoopy.  Both of which I carved the majority of, he carved the the U (what talent).  It was fun to leave them all lit up on our doorstep.