Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Halloween, Christmas and New Years, 2011

For Halloween, Danny and I were so excited to pass out candy to cute kids from our own house! So we got all dressed up, decorated our house and got a HUGE basket of candy ready. After about an hour, when no kids had shown up, we decided to set up a table outside so that kids would see that there was candy there. We put out the pumpkins we had carved with my mom and family, candles, the candy and some chairs. After about 20 minutes, still no kids. We saw our neighbor who was out for a walk with her dog, and she said she would tell people to come our way. We finally got 5 kids, in 2 groups, to take some candy.
We had left over Halloween candy til Christmas.


This is the pumpkin Danny carved at my mom's Halloween party. Its the Joker! He won first place in the contest!
... And this is mine. It's the bat signal.
 Our cute M&M costumes! we were also a giant for a party we went to. I sat on Danny's shoulders and we had a long black cloak around us. Some people at the party were way confused on how I made myself so tall, not realizing that there was another person in there :)
 For our first Christmas... we got the best tree in the Smith's tree lot, and Danny carried it into our house with ease (because he is so strong, not because it was a little tree).
Danny was getting frustrated trying to untangle the lights. After they were finally undone, many of them stopped working, so we had to go back to Smith's to buy new ones anyways. So we bought more, put them on our tree, but we didn't get enough to light the top of the tree. So we had to go back to Smith's again to get some more.
 But it turned out so pretty that we didn't care anyways!
 The tree topper is a small Christmas tree Danny made out of rolled up magazine pages and glitter, so pretty!
 We spent Christmas morning at the Shaw's with our cute nephews Liam (on my lap) and Gavin (on Danny's lap). It was so fun to watch Gavin open and play with his presents... and ours.
 We spent the afternoon with my mom and siblings where we opened presents, went to church, had a delicious brunch with my favorite, Christmas casserole, and relaxed. This picture is outside of the Garden Park ward (where we also had our wedding) on a frozen pond!
 Danny's birthday is two days after Christmas. The day before his birthday, we had some delicious mint chocolate chip ice cream cake that my mom made. On his birthday, Danny went shooting at the range with Dane for the morning.
 Then I took him to lunch at a Brazilian restaurant with Haley, Johnny and Ashley. This is Danny with his favorite present from me John and Haley, a drill! He got so many great presents! A gun from Dane, some sleds from my mom, nike plus and many more!
For dinner we went to the Shaw's where JoDee made a scrumptious birthday dinner!
 Over the New Years weekend, we went with my dad and sisters to West Yellowstone for a snowmobiling trip! It was such a fun weekend! We went to a restaurant where they gave us raw meat and we had to cook it for ourselves.
 Danny and Johnny tried to climb to the top of this wire, they didn't get very far...
 These pictures are at Two Top. It is super high, super windy and super cold! all the trees are frozen over with at least 2 feet of snow and ice.

 This trail was so pretty! we traveled through these narrow trees for a long time and it was majestic!
 The three girls!
 The three boys

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