happy thanksgiving!

We are still getting used to not going to Grandma Angus's house for Thanksgiving, but we had a lovely time this year. Cory and the gang along with Kristal's parents came over to our house on Thursday. Then, Cory's family came back Friday and Saturday. It was a fun time with lots of yummy food! We saw good movies, strangely played no games, but still laughed a lot! Jimmy and I even attempted to go to Best Buy at midnight. Pretty much as soon as we saw the line to get in we both decided that is was worth the extra $$$ to buy online. Thank you Amazon! A warm bed sounded MUCH more appealing then standing in a long, cold line with the possibility of not even getting what we wanted!

I am excited to be healthy again. I recently found out that the reason I've been sick since August (!!!) is because I have a sinus infection. When I found out that we could leave work at 2 on Wednesday I called the doctor's office right away! It's been really frustrating being sick and not being able to have the energy to do the things I want...like start training for Boston! Anywho, hopefully the antibiotics will kill the virus this week! I learned my lesson though--next time I'm going to the doctor MUCH earlier!

Anyway, I have so much to be grateful for! Here's just a few random thankfuls...

I have amazing parents. 

Fantastic friends. 

The cutest nephews and nieces.

 The best siblings. 

Overall good health.

 Disneyland season pass. 

Butters.

A happy home.

Funny inside jokes with Jimmy that make me laugh outloud...usually when i'm on BART or sitting at work.

The beach.

Getting promoted!

Finding my snowboarding boots. (thanks jimmy)

Text messaging.

Netflix.

Ryan Gosling.

Cheesy love stories.

The Gospel.

Christmas lights.

The temple.

Cookies.

Pizza.

Dolphins and dolphin encounters (with shawn and cory). ("dolphin joy"--cory)

...and so, so, so much more!

Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving (as you can see, we didn't go too picture crazy this year.) Literally this is all of them! hah! Oh ya! You'll also note that it was Butter's birthday on Thursday. sooo...most of the pictures are of her getting her gift. hehe

post dinner pie

jimmy and i

jimmy giving butters her bday present

butters taking her bday present

butters opening her present

still opening

she got a ball and a fox stuffed animal

kristal being normal

kristal's parents and megan relaxing

The end!

I know it isn't New Years yet, but I'm making a resolution now to take more pictures and blog more! k byeeeeee!

...If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true...

well, the secret is out. jimmy and i got season passes to disneyland. woooo! best decision made this year. jimmy and i left late wednesday evening, drove to anaheim getting to the hotel around 2am. we listened to disney's pandora radio station probably 80% of the time there to get in the disney mood. we tip-toed in as kim, shawn, wes, tiffany and alvaro (kim's sister and bro-in-law) were fast asleep. poor jimmy had to sleep on the hard wood floor because it probably would have been rude to blow up his air mattress when we got there. ;-)

anyway, we didn't care (right, JIMMY??!) We were going to disneyland the next day!!! We had a shorter day thursday because it closed earlier which was probably good so we could get to bed semi-early. friday we stayed until about 3 at the park and then we were able to go back to the hotel to change into our costumes for the halloween party!!!

shawn was tigger, kim was sleeping beauty, wes was winnie the pooh, tiffany was minnie, alvaro was mickey, jimmy was peter pan, and i was tinkerbell. we were a little embarrassed at first because when we showed up in our costumes nobody had their costumes on yet. all the little kids were yelling for tigger! hahaha...shawn was very bright, so most of the attention went to him. we got a ton of candy that night as they had little booths dotted througout the part full of candy to give out, and believe me, we tried to get our money's worth! we frequented the booths! haha...we also were able to take pictures with a lot of the characters.

the next day was a full day at disneyland. it was fabulous. we ended the night watching fantasmic and going on splash mountain over and over and over again! it was freeeezing, but SO fun! ;-) sunday, jimmy and i were going to try and get back early so he could finish his school work....buuuuut jimmy woke up sick and logically the only thing to do was to go to disneyland for a few more hours! we did and it was great. we drove home and came back to reality. booooo....but we are looking forward to our next trip!

here's some pictures from the trip! (they are all out of order and i am way too tired to fix that, but enjoy!) wes was soooooo adorable the whole time! he loves disneyland! he is always so happy and pointing at everything. so cute. you'll see.