busy weekend

before I tell you about the weekend, I might as well just post all the photos of Aria from Thursday. I put her hair in a little ponytail on top of her head and she rocked it! Also? She is obsessed with wearing my watch, and is constantly pretending to tell time on it. She likes to say how many minutes it is until Daddy comes home. She is the cutest.

I didn't have to work on Friday, so I had planned to have my best friend, Valeri, who is about 4 months pregnant come over and we made a bunch of crap, really. We both made wreaths (which turned out.. .meh... i think i'll try again later. haha) and I made some more ornaments for our tree out of scrabble letters (tip: I just wanted the letter tiles, and didn't want to spend $25 and buy the whole game, so I went on amazon and bought 100 letter tiles for $15! sweet!) I also made homemade oreos and tried out cake pops for the first time for a bridal shower the next day.

 

 When Devin got home, we headed to the wedding reception of our good friend, Cameron! He married Crystal, and they are so great together! The night we got engaged, we tried to go to Olive Garden, but the wait was too long, so we went next door to Zuppa's, ran into these two, and had dinner with them! They are the first people we told in person! We were so happy with them, and also entertained by there "drive-thru" reception! Cam is also Dane's older brother. Dane is one of our very best friends.

After the reception, we headed to Winger's for dinner with Jason and Bailey! They have been Devin's friends for a long time, but this was the first time I met them (outside of our wedding reception, I think). I recognize them from Devin's portfolio, though. Their engagements are so cool! Devin did some amazing shots with their chaco's :). We were all feeling sick after we left, but it was still good to see our friends!

Saturday morning, I had that bridal shower. It was for a cute girl in my home ward that I've grown up with, Meghan. She has 4 older brothers, and her future husband is exactly like them! So happy for her. The cake pops (which were more hassle than I had hoped) were a huge hit, but I don't know that I will ever make them again.

After the shower, I went home and slept, because I didn't sleep good the night before, and Devin was gone all morning/afternoon helping Jason and Bailey paint their new house! When he got home, we puttered around for a little while and got really bored, so we went and bought a storage unit!

We had been talking about getting one for awhile, because we have next to NO storage in our house. Our second bedroom, which we use as Devin's office, has been piled floor to ceiling on one wall with camping, fishing, climbing, and golfing gear. It hasn't ever been un-liveable, but it's just clutter that gets in the way. Especially with it being winter, and we won't get much use out of any of that for the next few months.

We looked at several different local storage unit places and settled on Alpine Storage. They're awesome! We just got a little 5x5 space, which is more like a storage "closet" -- but it works perfectly! it's less than 5 minutes from our house, and it's so easily accessible. And cheap! It was worth it.

When we got home, we cleaned and re-organized the house, ordered pizza, turned on the Oregon and BYU football games, and played Clue and Bananagrams all night! It was such a great day!

Today, Devin let me sleep in. He said I looked too cute sleeping there to wake me up. Love that man. By the time I woke up on my own, he had been up for about an hour, had cleaned the kitchen, put dinner in the crock pot, and was sitting on the couch eating cereal.

After church, which was great because we only had 3 kids in nursery, we got home and decided to put up the Christmas tree! I'll post about that when it's all done, because it's not. Then Brandon came over and we had dinner. We had pork butt (literally) which had been in the crock pot all day with onions, carrots, tomato sauce, balsamic vinegar and garlic, some cheesy rice, and broccoli with banana cream mousse for dessert. So good! After dinner I wrapped some christmas present and now I'm helping Devin with his HUGE homework assignment.

Good weekend. Excited to get back to work and back into our weekly routine. Excited for next weekend when my cousin, Brad gets married! That, too, will be a great weekend! And also excited for Thanksgiving this year!