To start of this post I would like to say living in Heber ROCKS in the winter!!!! We spent New Years in Idaho and came home to 2ft of snow on our driveway!! There is so much snow!!!!! :D It's beautiful!
Here is a quick run through of the last few weeks.
Tyler has a love for deals. He finds deals for everything: travelling, restaurants, groceries, gifts, furniture, and more. He loves finding good deals! One of his co-workers is also crazy into deals and she had us go to a Savvy Shopper meeting. Well, we are always looking for ways to save money. So it's official. We now get 4 copies of the newspaper. I am a coupon-er. I get the four copies, separate all the coupons pages so they are in stacks of the same coupon, and cut out all four copies at the same time. Then I put them in baseball card sleeves and wait for an awesome sell on those items and buy them for almost nothing!!!! Well, that last part is the idea. I'll let you know how my couponing goes. :) All I know is it takes FOREVER! :D But I will be happy when I am one of those women that goes through the check stand with 150$ of groceries and only have to pay 10$! :)
Christmas:The week of Christmas I got to get together with some of my favorite girls Kayla, Jamie, and Brendalyn. :) We got together and made a Christmas Craft: pinecone elves, thanks to Martha Stewart. They turned out so cute, but man they took FOREVER!!! We had to hand sew the hat, gloves, and shoes!!! I brought mine home and showed Tyler and he said, "I want to make one!". So he did! And I made another! It was our Christmas Eve-Eve activity. :) Look how cute!
We spent Christmas this year with my family.
Tyler and I had our own "Christmas morning" with stockings and presents on Christmas Eve morning. Then we drove to my parents' house in Eagle Mountain and we all met up with Jen and Bruce at Village Pizza for a late lunch. YUM!!! We LOVE Village Pizza! Then Jen and Bruce took me and Tyler bowling.
Bruce could pretty much beat anyone at the bowling ally with Tyler right behind him. Jenn did awesome as well and it was fun to watch her with her cute pregnant belly. I however bowled possibly the worst game I have ever bowled...my 6 year old self could waste my trash at bowling. It was still a lot of fun! Then we went to my parents and had a little Christmas Eve devotional.
For New Years Eve we spent the evening playing games, watching the ball drop, and banging bread pans with spoons, toasting with soda, and yes Tyler and I kissed into the the New Year (awww).
Tyler and I slept at my parents that night and in the morning we got to watch my brother Shawn and his cute family open presents on the webcam. Our little nephew Lincoln was sure excited and it was so fun to watch him open all his presents.
New Years:
The Tuesday after Christmas we headed up to Idaho to a condo that Ty's family rented for a few days by Targhee. We went cross-country skiing, down-hill skiing, and hung out watching movies and playing games. It was a blast. Then we stayed at their home in Rexburg and went snowmobiling and towed each other around on a sled with a rope tied to the back of the snowmobile. That was a BLAST!!!! Tyler's dad didn't bother going much slower on his turns and oh my goodness I was hanging on to the rope for dear life!!! haha! It was so fun though! We had a few good crashes. Luckily snow is soft...for the most part. :) Here are some pictures of us taking a lunch break while cross-country skiing. Tyler was there too just not around for the picture.
For New Years Eve we spent the evening playing games, watching the ball drop, and banging bread pans with spoons, toasting with soda, and yes Tyler and I kissed into the the New Year (awww). Oh, and last night we watched Inception which is one of my most favorite movies EVER!!! Ohhh, how I love it!. It was a fun vacation. Now we are back home and getting ready for the busy week ahead. Tyler starts school this week and is taking over his new position and responsibilities as a manager at his work. So he is going to be very very busy. As for me, I am starting up my job search again. I am now a substitute teacher so that's exciting and will bring in some money until I can find a full-time job.
Well, that's the Willis's! :D We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years and are excited for the 2011 Year before us! Who knows where we will be when this year comes to an end. All I know is I am married to the love of my life, the Church is true, and life is crazy! :)
5 comments:
You guys always do such fun things!!!! Cute ornament :o)
What a great post!! You guys are awesome! I LOVE the couponing... maybe you can teach me how, lately I've gotten lazy and there is NOTHING in our fridge! Also, we want to have you guys over soon... we will have to work out a time that is good for you!
Love the pics kara! So do you live in heber, utah? My husband's family has a get-away house up there called Valais, and I LOVE IT! Heber is such a fun place to be!!! Couponing is seriously the best, my mom LOVES it!
Oh kara! I'm glad your back at least for a while. Man if Jack and Alyssa move to Alaska and you guys too we'll have lots of people to visit when we go there someday. Anyway looks like life is good and you had a good start to the new year. Good job with your student teaching! If I ever was a teacher I'd like Alpine District, too. It's been good to my dad and mom. Well hope to hear or see from you guys soon. We should do something before Jack and Alyssa or you guys take off again. Let me know what you're up too. Take care girlie and keep blogging! We love to see what you guys are doing! You are such a fun couple.
I blog hopped here from Ashley Warner's blog, so glad I did! I haven't seen you in FOREVER! You are too cute, glad to see you're doing well. :)
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