Snow...in Texas?!!

Who knew!! Last night Shanam and I drove around in the snow on the empty streets (because everyone else is afraid to drive on an inch of snow) and listened to Christmas music as we looked at lights. It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas :)

Pecan Pickin'

It's time for some good old fashioned pecan pickin' in West Texas! All the trees are letting go of their precious nuts and we got to have some back breakin' fun :) We picked up over 50 lbs of pecans in 2 hours! Thanks to some great friends all we have to pay for is to get them shelled! What a deal! Shanam's extremely excited to have a year's worth of pecans. He loves his whole wheat pecan waffles with real maple syrup on Saturday mornings :)

Our Wedding Video!!

We finally got our wedding video after 6 months!! Check it out and relive that beautiful day! Some of the facial expressions our videographer, David Perry, caught are priceless! It captures the feelings of that day perfectly and is exactly how I remember it :) Viewer discretion advised...lots of kissy scenes. Hehe. When we get our actual DVD, our ring ceremony will be added on at the end...haven't seen that part yet! That's what I really want to see, cuz we don't even remember what we said to each other :)

Halloween Fun

I'll give you a few guesses as to who we were for Halloween. Nope, you didn't get it :) The girls at church that I teach wanted us to dress up as Barbie and Ken since that's the joke at church, so we decided to give in, but put our own twist to it. So we were "Sport" Barbie and Ken. Nice, eh? The girls enjoyed it, and Shanam enjoyed not really having to dress up, since that's what he wears all the time anyway (minus the backwards hat :) Although someone did call him Ken's brother the bum. Haha!

Michigan!!

This past weekend we attended a conference for Amway Global in Grand Rapids, Michigan and had a fabulous trip!! These pics are at the headquarters where the products are manufatured and distributed world wide. We were excited to be there :)

I wish I had taken pictures of the actual conference, because it was more like a huge motivational party! We heard amazing speakers, including the man who's life was made into the movie "The Pursuit of Happpyness" as well as political and business leaders. So cool!! We loved being there together to experience it and learn side by side :)

Surprise trip to Utah!!

We decided to surprise our family by flying in for conference weekend. LOL! It was great!! My parents had no clue and it was so fun to get my brothers in on the surprise. They helped in devising ways to jump out and surprise them when they came home Wednesday night, and we got them good!! Shanam and I hadn't been home since we got married 5 months ago, so we enjoyed being with our fam again.

BYU game against Utah State with Shanam's parents
Fully enjoying conference :)

My family drives through the Alpine Loop while we listen to the Sunday afternoon session on the radio. Guess what we found at the top of the mountain!! SNOW!! Shanam was very happy, to say the least :)

During priesthood session the girls all got toether for a little shopping. Guess how much we saved during their sale at Shade!? $176.00!!! Now that's definitely some conference upliftment! So fun to spend time with family and friends (especially my newly pregnant best friend :) Congrats, Bre!

Phoenix!!

Girl Bonding Time!!!!!

I was able to go hang out with these awesome girlies for a whole week!! So much fun!! My trip to Phoenix was for business, but when I wasn't working it was all play!! Anndalyn and Melissa were great hosts and took me to see all the sites. The zoo being one of my faves :) These pics were taken on our girls night out for dinner and a movie. We saw Fame (fabulous I recommend it) and ate at an awesome restaurant that was right up my ally!

Married women can still have fun and act like goofs :)

Great organic food grown right there at the restaurant in their greenhouses!! I had a fabulous, maybe even best I've ever had, portebello mushroom burger with fresh beet salad. Yum!!

Went to visit the Mesa Temple on Sunday after going to church with Mel and her hubster. Their ward was baby crazy!! Can you believe 7 nurseries!! On the church records there are 300 kids under the age of 12!

We got to talk to the sister missionaries and they were so excited to hear that we had served as companions in France together. They let us listen to the Christus recording in French! We were both crying by the end because it brought back so many good memories from the mission :)

The trip was also filled with great physical activities! Mel and I played a match of tennis in the sweltering heat and worked out at the gym she works at and Anndalyn, the kids, and I went for a beautiful morning hike in the mountains right behind there house on another morning.

Aren't her kids so adorable!!! I loved spending time with them, singing and laughing and playing!

I could just eat her up!

It was fun to watch the kids when daddy got home!