Saturday, November 27, 2010

Evasion



So Jeff and I got out of Provo despite the "worst storm in years" (of which we saw nothing in Provo and only traces of salt mixtures on the road on the way to slc airport on Wednesday morning at 4 am). We thought we weren't going to get out when our flight to Phoenix was canceled only seconds after Jeff got home from work on Tuesday night. I immediately start crying, like a baby I know, about how I'm going to have to stay in Provo for thanksgiving and not get a honeymoon :( after a few hours on the telephone we got our flights figured out and we rerouted through San francisco to MAUI...30 minutes earlier than our original flight I might add :)

When we left Provo we froze all morning because we vouched to only take sweat shirts because our winter coats would be awful to lug around in Hawaii. Still we didn't realize that just jeans would be awful in the beautifully familiar humidity. We've been having tons of fun...about which I'll have to post when we get home because we only have the iPad and can't upload any pictures from the fun :) but that picture up top is the beach where we're staying...gorgeous :)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas?

Ok. So I've always been one of those people who LOVES Thanksgiving and hates to see it skipped over by those overzealous Christmas lovers. Don't worry... i am now one of those people. Our house is already being decked out for Christmas...We decide since we're going to Maui for Thanksgiving and will probably not be having turkey, yams, pies etc. we'd skip to Mele Kalikimaka. We went down to St. George to see Jeff's parents last weekend and his mom took us to Tai Pan (quite possibly my new favorite store) and we got TONS of Christmas decorations...we couldn't wait to get home and decorate! As soon as we were done I just wanted to go back to the Tai Pan here in Orem! so I did :) Here is our apartment so far... just the family room :)
The Christmas tree, Garland, Tinsel, Gifts

Our boxes disguised as presents :)

Bell Garland around the doors

Aaaaaand our over sized ornaments!


Boy am I excited for CHRISTMAS!!! I love looking forward to Christmas because I forget to be anticipating HAWAII and it has snuck up on me!! 1 week from today and I will be living free (at least free of cares :))

The most exciting news of the week: we are OFFICIALLY going to Virginia for Christmas!!! I am SO SO SO excited to be able to see my family and have a great first married Christmas with Jeff.

SO, in the words of John Lennon (who, along with his comrades, is on iTunes now!):
Happy Christmas