It's Christmas!!

I am so excited we put up our Christmas tree finally! We left our lights and star for the top at home but it still turned out way cute! I decided we would start a tradition of having donuts and hot chocolate when we decorated our trees. West Virigina doesn't sell yummy donuts so we tried a new recipe that was supposed to taste like Krispy Kremes. Jake was skeptical and kept saying he would rather have popcorn but I was determined to eat a donut... it has been so long! So the recipe said to heat the oil to 350 degrees but niether of us knew how hot that would be on the stove so we just turned it on high. After a few minutes I dropped the first donut in and it instantly turned black. It started smoking and suddenly there was a fire!! The smoke detectors were going crazy and all we could see was smoke! It was pretty intense but luckily the fire went out when I turned the stove down and then we had to open all the windows (even though we were already freezing cold!) and fan the smoke out. The funniest part was Jake had mentioned to our nieghbor that I was making donuts so we would bring him over some and I guess he was getting ansy because right when the smoke detectors stopped he rang our bell and starting asking how the donuts went but just starting laughing when he saw all the smoke. Luckily once the oil cooled down I totally redeemed myself and made the most delicous donuts we have eaten in a LONG time! Our nieghbor was a bit hesitant to try them but after the first bite he stuffed the rest of the donut in his mouth and said he was very surprised at how good they were!

Thankful for Family!

Checking out Cincinnati's campus. It is so cool because it is all right there way compacted! It was raining so we were freezing and took a running tour but what we saw of it was cool!

So we accidentally left our turkey out all day and night so Thanksgiving morning we were pretty nervous about using it but we called the turkey expert aka my dad and he said we should be fine? So we took a gamble and cooked it and it was delicous and luckily no one got sick!!

The FEAST!!

I am so grateful for family especially around the holidays. We didn't get to go home for Thanksgiving but we did get to go to Cincinnati to stay with my cousins and it was so much fun!! We have such funny cousins and we loved being able to hang out with them and their dang cute kids for the whole week! We got there late Tuesday night and when we pulled up to their house Jake started pounding the candy because he felt like his sugar was low and he kept saying he did not want my cousins to see him with his sugar low. We go inside and start to chat and I realize Jake's sugar is low so my cousin starts making some juice and I give Jake his tester. Jake of course denies it and will not drink anything he just keeps insisting that he is fine. Luckily he drank a capri sun but it did not seem to work and Jake kept getting more crazy. He was wrapping his arms around my cousin and winking at him telling him his sugar was not low- in a slow way with a weird accent. He then tried to chase the two year old. He was making everyone nervous because he was acting so wierd and I could not control him. He was jumping and snapping randomly then he would run over to my cousin and wink at him. Their girls were getting nervous and we could not get him to drink anything. Suddenly Jake hands me his wedding ring, shoes and socks and takes off running out the front door into the pitch black. I tried to hold on to him but he was too fast and he was around the corner before I knew what was happening! My cousin was ready to call an ambulance because we could not control Jake but luckily when we went running outside there was Jake walking back WAY embarrassed yelling that this was more embarrassing then being a BYU fan and then he admitted his darkest secret... he is now a Utah fan! Haha obviously he was still out of it but he did drink another juice and then he was fine! It was so funny!! We had a delicous Thanksgiving dinner and loved just relaxing and playing games with family! We are so grateful they invited us to share Thanksgiving with them!

Two Tickets to Pittsburgh

We had so much fun this weekend partying it up! Friday night we went to the WVU basketball game. It was only an exhibition game so they totally killed the team it was fun!

Then Saturday we woke up and drove to Pittsburgh. We went site seeing and then of course hit the mall. It was so much fun to be able to go shopping again it feels like its been FOREVER!! After the mall we went to look around the university and we saw some really pretty cathedrals.

But the very best part of the entire weekend was always coming home to this fun piano that I got for my birthday!! I absolutely love it and I always want to play it. One of our favorite features on the piano is the different sounds we can set it to. Our very favorite is the laughing because each note has a different laugh and it is so entertaining!!