We've been enjoying our first official holiday season as a married couple. Thanksgiving was filled with lots of food and family! The day before Thanksgiving I had work off, so I baked pies (admittedly, a first) for both Thanksgiving dinners. Thanksgiving morning we slept in and then headed over to Don's parent's house where we ate yummy antipasta (who knew that stuffed olives and anchovies were so good?) and all of the traditional Thanksgiving food. We had a few hours to digest and then headed over to my family's house for round 2. It was a fun day spent with lots of food and lots of family. Sadly, we only have pictures of the Thanksgiving at the Willies because....our camera was run over by a car. (We apparently are hard on cameras...seeing that our other camera drown in the ocean on our honeymoon).
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| The turkey! |
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| Thanksgiving at the Willies |
The next morning we woke up bright and early (3:45 am to be exact) and headed with my siblings and a few friends to shop. Oh, Black Friday, how we love it! Don was a trooper and stood in line *alone-and-in-the-cold* at Best Buy to get our purchases (a camera to replace the one that drown and was smashed by a car). The rest of us ventured to Target. We always go a little later than the early birds, so when we got to Target nearly everyone was in line and we basically had the store to ourselves! Not too bad. They even had the 16 mile check out line going pretty fast. Best of all, we got all of our Christmas shopping that morning.
The rest of November was filled with studying, studying and more studying. Don took the LSat on December 11th. He is feeling good about how it went and will get his scores back in the next couple of weeks. He'll begin applying to law schools in the next few weeks. We celebrated by going to lunch and then he came home and hit the books to study for his 5 finals the next week. I also sent my graduate school application off to the U.
We've had fun decorating our cute little apartment for Christmas, seeing the Rockettes, going to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert and making/eating some yummy treats. Now enjoying some much needed r&r after a crazy four weeks!!
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| Our first Christmas tree. |
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| Rockettes |
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| Before we headed out to see the Rockettes |
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| Decorating gingerbread cookies |
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| Lauren's fancy gingerbread woman! |
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| Sprinkle attack! |
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| Caramel popcorn for my co-workers |
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| Stage for Christmas concert |
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| My sisters at the Christmas concert |
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| Spencer, Kenard and my mom and dad at Christmas concert. |
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Happy holidays to all!!!
