K, so I know Pioneer Day isn’t ’til next week. But I’m not going to be here, remember? I’m going to be having about as much fun as I can handle at girls’ camp. Luckily for me, Bountiful City was kind enough to oblige me with lots of Pioneer Day festivities the whole weekend before the …
July 4th Festivities
Matt and I just got back after a long, fun-and-family-filled Fourth of July week, where we: Joined up with my family at Bountiful’s annual Eaglewood celebration, Had us some homemade strawberry ice cream, Enjoyed the sunset, Watched some fireworks, Went to a parade (and got LOTS of saltwater taffy), Cheered on my brother in the …
Memorial Day Weekend
Matt and I just made it back to Logan after spending the perfect Memorial Day weekend with our families in Bountiful. It was everything the weekend should have been: We paid our respects to our departed loved ones, and we heard about how my grandma visited the cemetery every year with her family growing up …
Easter 2012
Easter at our place was a quiet affair this year–we celebrated by having creamed eggs and toast for brunch (family favorite recipe!), enjoying the messages and music of Christ’s resurrection and Atonement at church, and then came home to a perfect pot roast dinner. Even though Matt wasn’t too big on the idea of going …
New Year’s Eve
Our New Year’s Eve was spent with these good people: The best part about having a best friend whose birthday is on New Year’s Eve is that it means that I always have something to do that night. In years past, we tried to do the whole big party shebang, with lots of food and …
Our Christmas: Just the 2 of Us
Even though we knew Christmas Eve and Christmas Day would be spent back home with our families, we still wanted to start doing our own Christmas traditions. Each night this whole month, Matt has been reading me a Christmas story. Every day last week while we were driving somewhere, I would read aloud from A Christmas Carol. …
Triple Christmas
You wanna know one more great thing about being married? The fact that you basically you get the triple Christmas threat: the Christmas celebration together AND the Christmas celebrations of both of your families. It makes me love being married even more. Tonight we’re kicking off “our” Christmas celebration with a roast turkey dinner (courtesy of …
Pioneer Day Weekend
For those of you not from Utah, every 24th of July most Utahns get a vacation from work in honor of Pioneer Day (to celebrate the arrival of the Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847). It’s pretty much the best holiday ever, complete with parades, barbecues, fireworks, and pioneer fairs all across …