End of Year 2013 Recap

October: a taste of our Disney World trip! 

Magic Kingdom: 

One of our fav's

Ate at Beast's castle and had the "grey stuff" from the Be Our Guest song

Met Goofy

EPCOT:

Food and Wine Festival 

Animal Kingdom: 

Met Rafiki 

Enjoying a falafel lunch with view of the Tree of Life (there are animals carved into the whole base)

Hollywood Studios: 

Terminator 

Thomas' Birthday: 

Breakfast at EPCOT's French bakery

Thomas got chosen as a volunteer in the Indiana Stunt Show

One of our favorite rides - Star Tours

Ending the evening with Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party/parade/firework show

It was an awesome trip, and we somehow got it all done in 5 days!

November:  

Put our tree up (yep, it went up before Thanksgiving - just couldn't resist!)

Thanksgiving dinner feast - spent it with a couple of friends :) 

December: 

Festival of Trees - people donate these beautifully decorated themed trees (there was over 800 of them!) and they are for sale to the public.  All the money goes to the children's hospital.  It's really cool!! . 

Penguin themed!

MOTAB Christmas Concert - we even got to see Gimli (one of the guests this year)

Temple Square is quite a site to behold all lit up

Our 2013 Christmas card that Thomas made (now a little tradition of ours).  Can you find Quilly? 

Another family tradition - volunteering at the "Christmas Carol" play at the ACT Theatre in Seattle.  So much fun and we got to see the show for free!!

Spending time in Port Orchard with John and Linda

Our means of transportation between families

"Mary & Joseph" dinner - salmon, figs, dates, goat cheese, olives, cucumbers, grapes, stuffed grape leaves, pita and hummus. 

Another dinner at Mom's - nothin' like pizza with weinhards and a roaring fire!

Add in "It's A Wonderful Life" and you've got the perfect cozy evening!

At the park with the dogs

Spending time with my niece - she loves stories!

Thomas is such a great uncle, having fun dancing

All the sisters and Mom together at our annual family  new years party

We're back in Provo now (unfortunately), but have some great memories of a great Christmas!

October Fun

Blast from the past: we recreated our first date! In case you can't tell from the pictures below, it was pretty much all out dinosaurs :)  So fun!

It was a fun date and a little blast from the past as well on good memories :)

I'm grateful I'm married to such a fun lovin' man - from game boarding to house decorating to Halloween costumes (and to anything dinosaurs), we will ALWAYS have fun.  

And we got new Legos too - how cute are they?!

Ward Harvest Social: 

I made these little ghost brownies (though they kinda look like mummies?)

We put on the donut eating contest activity - was super fun to see all the kids tryin to get those donuts!

 Then Thomas thought it would be a great idea to have us girls try it out

Such an attractive photo of me

Guys turn!

Murder Mystery party at the Mann's!

I would make an attractive witch, no?

 

The gang:

Lizzie Bourdeau and Hannibal (the Johnsons)

Aretha Garlique and Asthmadeus (the Childers)

King Aldrinktotat and Dr. Angela Deth (the Hibbs)

Bahili the monster and Glumda the witch

We made these little desserts (and then totally forgot to give them out haha)

They were originally suppose to all be frankensteins but Thomas wanted to draw all the characters on them.

Our countdown chain to Disneyworld! Only 6 DAYS LEFT!!! We are SO excited!! And so much in fact that we wrote down things we were excited to do there on each chain: