I am always up to be on any kind of stage, even if it means a moving stage. Bro Hale in our ward builds a float every year for the Phoenix Electric Light Parade, he has been doing it for like 6 years now and has won a bunch of times. This year the parade theme was Christmas Round Up and our float theme was the sherrif having Christmas dinner with the outlaws. Bro Hale had asked Will to be the sherrif and he was stoked! This was a two night event, Friday was judging night, where the judges would walk around and score each of the floats. Will had to work that night, so I asked an old high school friend that I had kinda lost contact with to come (I also have zero western wear and she rides horses, so she was the prefect person to ask!). Friday night was super cold and we didnt come prepared with blankets and such, but we got a free t-shirt at the end of it. After the judging, Katie (my friend) and I went to the this awesome healthy resturant right now the street, La Grande Orange. I was so nice being able to have a little girls night and catch up with an old friend.
 Saturday night was the big parade, but Will and I had a busy day that day so we were rushing to get ready for the parade that night. We all met at my house, Katie brought another old friend of mine that I use to cheer with Courtni, and we all headed to the parade float. Mind you the traffic was crazy! Once the parade started it was so much fun! Its funny to see people ready really excited to see normal people on a float. Will soaked up all the attention and really played up the Sherrif role. After the parade our hands and cheeks were so sore from all the smiling and waving ( such hard work riding a float). I guess the parade was on TV too, So look out for us on the news! If anyone asks you to be on a float, SAY YES, it's to much fun to say no too.

It's been a couple of weeks since I last posted, so time to play catch up! It's a busy time of year and I would forget my head if it weren't attached. Will and I get to do all of our first Holidays this year, and we are really excited to start new traditions!

First things first-Thanksgiving

Surprisingly Will likes my cooking, but I wasn't going to cook a whole Thanksgiving for the two of us. First, We are poor and don't have the money to go out and buy a whole Thanksgiving dinner, Second, We both not really like Thanksgiving dinner. Third, I didn't want to bake a turkey. Lol! So, We decided that morning, to make a nice breakfast. I ran to the store grabbed some breakfast essentials. Made some awesome pancake mix from scratch, with vanilla. So Yummy! But, my experience with cooking pancakes has been very minimal. So, you guessed it I burnt the first pancake, but Will ate it anyway. I cut up some strawberries and sprinkled them with sugar. Warmed-up the syrup ( grew up with warm syrup on my pancakes-pancakes are not good unless the syrup is warm) and set the table. Here was our little Thanksgiving breakfast.



Happy Smokey Thanksgiving! # BurntAPancake #IWillCookYouBreakfast #NotATurkey

For Thanksgiving dinner, we got invited to have dinner with a wonderful family in our ward. They cooked a beautiful dinner, we talked about each others future plans, they all tried to convince me to move to Hawaii (The parents met and BYU Hawaii, and Will will take every chance he can get to convince me), and Will got to jam out on a Ukulele. After dinner, Will and I played our new Mario game (that we are obsessed with) on the Wii U. It was the perfect first Thanksgiving for us!

Next-Black Friday!!!!

We werent sure if we were going to be brave enough to venture out on Black Friday-But we both had the day off and thought was the heck we might as well. Will has been living out of a laundry basket since we have been married and it was our mission to find him a dresser on black friday. So, we decided to hit up IKEA. Wrong-o, they had ZERO sells. We walked out spending $9.00 for mixing bowls and a stuffed alligator. We saw some furniture stores around IKEA that were having sells and popped to see what they had. Nope, the furniture on sell was still like $700, we are poor remember. Our Black Friday was a flub. But, I wasnt about to give up! We headed to target. We got some towels, DVD's, and a mop on sale! Our Black Friday wasnt totally a downer, but we still were left dresser less. :(

Side Note- I found a nice IKEA dresser for $50 on Mesaconsign facebook page like two days later. I dont think any Black Friday Deal could top that!


Lastly- Christmas

Because this is our first Christmas together, I wanted to start some traditons. Also, Im really excited to decorate!! Our Christmas decor is black and white themed with touches of red. 

I wanted to make as much as I could for decorations. I found an awesome fabric store that sells by the pound and went to town on making stockings.