THANKSGIVING (PaRt 1)

Thanksgiving this year was a little different. I haven't had a Thanksgiving with my family since '05 and this year it was with my family and yet it wasn't at home. It was bittersweet you could say, we had a family reunion in Utah. I loved being able to spend time with everyone and all the activities were really fun, but at times I just wanted that Thanksgiving from my memories back. Maybe next year.

I didn't have my camera with me the whole time, so most of the good pictures are on my sisters camera, so I will have to post them later. The pictures I do have are all from the last day. It was so hard to leave.


We enjoyed being silly, resting, laughing, playing games, seeing sights, and overall just seeing eachothers faces :)

The hardest part is saying goodbye.

The best part is that Shea and I are going to Maryland for CHRISTMAS! So only 3 more weeks and we get to see them all again. I am counting down the days ...

November Makes Me Smile

Okay so school is really hard this semester, Shea and I are doing our best, but something keeps making us anxious for this semester to be done. I can't wait for graduation, and yet it seems like it gets miles and miles away at every step. But now that November is here Shea and I have reason to smile.

BECAUSE we are half way done, more than half way now. Which is exciting. I can't wait for that freedom of winter semester. Winter semester will be our first semester that we are both not going to school, Shea is off track, and I will be done!!! We are planning our winter lives already, everday we say I can't wait to do this or this or this.

Another reason we are anxious for the fall semester to end is because we get to move, move move! We are stoked! WE think about it all the time. I want to make our next apartment really nice, since it is where we plan to stay for the rest of our time in Rexburg. I want it to be a home, our home. I want to do some decoration, which since I will be done school I will actually have time to do. My primary reason for getting a new job in Winter is so that I can use the money for our apartment, haha I know what your thinking, "Kay-Marie you should put into savings or something". But I am thinking of it as an investment, an investment to our happiness. I will be happier in a place that I can enjoy and feel good and confident about.

And why else does November make me smile??? Well for Thanksgiving this year I get to see my family, because we are having a family reunion in Utah. So we are all staying down there. I am so excited for the week break from school and the time to be with family. Fun, fun, fun!

Okay so I am a person who loves pictures, and everytime I see a blog post without a picture I am dissapointed. So there is no picture to match this post, so this is a random picture ... can you say close up :)

A Blast From The Past

Well this October Shea and I promised each other that we would go to the Haunted Mill. Why you ask? Well two years ago we went on a double date to the Haunted Mill, this was our very first actual date. It was very scary.

So we tried to go several times in October and it never seemed to work out, one day it rained, one day the line was too long, one day it was too windy and cold to wait in a line if there was one, one day I had too much homework, etc. Anyway October 29th we finally made it!

This year it was even worse then I remember it being, they had updated a bunch of stuff I was so scared. We had to crawl through small small spaces, we had to go up stairs and down stairs where they grabbed your legs in between the stairs, we had to go through a few different buildings, we had to squeeze through tight spaces, anyway it was freaky. I kept telling Shea I think this is the end, please be the end. People kept jumping out at me and stuff, I guess I am the perfect candidate. I can just imagine these people waiting and as I approach they think, "Oh perfect I am going to get her good..." and then 5 seconds later I am screaming and shouting at the people. It was probably pretty humerous if you were there watching me, everytime I got scared and screamed I would shout back "This is horrible", "This is so mean", "I hate this place", "Please get away please...", "That is not very nice!" Yeah I don't do well in dark places not to mention that I am a very jumpy person to begin with. Half the time I jump when Shea enters a room I'm in, haha I know it is sad. Looking back it was a lot of fun, but I am glad its over. Afterwards we had hot chocolate and scones, it was funny because two years ago there had been some women who had joked with us and they were still there and remembered us, they said that we should come back every year as tradition and we promised we would.
Below is a picture of us in front of the haunted house, but it is too dark to see anything behind us.


The picture below is from two years ago, October 2007. Wow it is funny to look back.