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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Its that time of year agian....

For Family Home Evening Dan brought home a Gingerbread house for us to decorate.... we were off to a really good start and having a lot of fun!


Here is Dan working on the Yard.

(Dude check out how ugly those windows are!!!)





Dan decorated the walk way and i put up the fence.











It was so funny.... First the right side wall of our gingerbread home fell in; and then I frosted the wrong angle of our chimney!




We had no problem licking off the icing and starting over.... Yummy!




Can you tell who icing who? I did Mrs. Gingerbread Lady and Danny decorated Mr. Gingerbread Man.





...Yes Dan gave Mr. Gingerbread Man a pig nose.... and I don't know why.



Here is Dan "erasing" our mistakes from the cookies!











For whatever reason we decided against using the pre-cut hole for the Christmas tree and we put a Christmas Tree Stand on it using a extra candy mint. Dan held it until we thought that the icing was dry; but yet it still slowly fell over. Dan and I were determined to be smarter than the candy tree cookie, so "glued" a match stick to the back as a beam to hold it in place! It worked great!!!




Wallah! Our house is compete.... all but the candy mint hat that Dan later added to Mr. Gingerbread Man.

We are having so much fun this year!!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Adventuring?

Life is good so far. I think that my wife is wonderful. She just endured two weeks of lying and scheming to throw me a wonderful suprise birthday party. She invited all of my friends and family in the area and then some couples from the ward for us to get to know. I'd like to make note of a few special guests: Stacey, who drove from Houston and let us host the party at her place, and Lindsey and Joseph, who drove from Johnson City just to spend like an hour with me for my birthday.
To thank my wife for throwing me such a nice party I took her out shopping to her favorite shoe store, Bandolino. She pulled out about 6 or 7 different pairs of shoes to try on and finally made her selection of which one was her favorite shoe. The problem. It was an open heeled shoe and she looked at her feet and decided that she had ugly heels. She ran out of the store crying and I followed her out to our car. I calmed her down and told her how pretty her feet are and how beautiful her ankles are. Then, I told her I had to run into another store and buy something for school (a lie!!) and I went and not only purchased the shoe she wanted, but I bought two of them including a very trendy black and white pair that she has worn non-stop for 6 days.

What can I say? I love my wife.

November: Our Life, By Merideth



Up coming on four months now I can honestly say that I married the bust guy possible! Dan is so amazing to me and he always says the right things [or at least most of the time]! Married life is going wonderful for us!!! It’s hard to me to manage my time though. I’m always trying to do too much at once. I would love to hang out with my friends again, I think about them often; but whenever I have the chance to or any free time available I only want to be with my hubby Dan!

Most of our days would be considered pretty boring to you; but for us there pretty exciting. Mostly we eat a nice meal together and go outside for walks. I love to bake and cook- so the walks become pretty important!! We enjoy hanging out with Dan's brother Tom. I think Tom enjoys my baking too.... he usually profits from the leftover that we leave for him at his house.

Yesterday Dan was NOT looking forward to completing my mission! Mission: Men’s Wear House I was on a quest and nothing was stopping me! Story: Just before our wedding everyone purchased new suits. Dan and I purchased two of them as well. Well a long story short, the pushy sales guy sold us one that was a size too small- then he had it let out to fit. Well then, I started my usual complaining. I that was embarrassing Dan, but we were not about to pay a Thousand Dollars for suits that I WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THAT AT ALL! Well we settled on the suits and I shut-up for the time being and we paid and went home. (So of course when it came time to pick up the suits, I was not there to throw a royal fit…..)
[Ok jumping into yesterday] For three months now every Sunday Dan puts his suit on and the suit looks horrible on him. Then I roam around the apartment expressing my vast dislike for this thing the pushy sales man sold us. Then Dan becomes upset because “his wife thinks he looks stupid.... etc...” So, yesterday I Drag Dan (reluctantly) in from the parking lot and into the store with suit in hand. I promptly ask for the manager. I explain to her my vast dislike for this suit that we purchased; and before I could continue on my explanation of how much I disliked the pushy sales man George, she already had another suit on order. [WOW] I was surprised at how accommodating she was!! I don’t know if it had anything to do with a quiet store full of people and then this man with his irritate wife came in; or maybe that’s just their store policy. So in the end, I won and no more ‘bad Sunday’s’ All I’m really concerned about it that my husband can finally wear the suit that we bought him almost four months ago.... (one point for me, I win that challenge)


On a different note: I am LOVING my new job! It’s really nice to go to work somewhere you really want to be!!! The verbal response to my move is great from my clients! They love it almost as much as me!! Most of my clients have followed me, I did have a slow week but that was to be expected.

Other than that there’s not a whole bunch going on right now..... but you have my word, you will be updated and I’ll post a lot of pictures!!

Muah!

Our Wedding!


It was everything we could have imagined! My dress was PERFECT Dan's tux was just right and our friends and family came to join us! Daniel & I were happily sealed for time and all of eternity to each other and our future children on July 27th 2007.


One of my best friends... Andrew.



Us and Allie & Ben




Us with Dannny's awesome bro Tom!





Me and the muchkins



After we cut the cake; One of my fav pics!




Cutting the cake.....






Oh My Gosh, Houston in July is SO HOT!!!!





The kids LOVED the fountain....




All of our guests



Toms excited for his little brother ;) I love this picture!




Just Married.... The happy couple



And they kissed, and kissed, and kissed....























And as we left our recieption....




Dans last moments single...



Rachael and Kinsey



After the wedding .... we got to eat lunch

Monday, November 12, 2007

First Blog

Finally! Oh where do we begin? It all seams to have gone by in such a rush! It seams like these days everyone has one of these blogs to keep family and friends in touch. I admit i have done MySpace and Facebook and now we [by we I do mean ME] Dan and I are joining the blog world too.

To be truthful I really don't exactly know how this all works but when I get it all figured out I plan on adding first our wedding photos followed by other memories that you may be interested in. I do apologize if this has been too boring .... I hope you enjoy!!