Festive Weekend

Friday came this week and i decided that i needed a festive weekend. I haven't been enjoying my job much so i needed something to brighten life. So we decided to go see the lights at temple square for our date night. We drove to salt lake and parked a few blocks from the temple. We stopped to get hot chocolate on the way there. Then we enjoyed the lights. It's so great that the church decorates every year. It's fun to go see the lights and reflect on the season. We had a wonderful time taking in the views and talking and holding hands and just unwinding from the week. It was a great date! Enjoy some of the picures i took...

Then saturday we continued the festivities. We went to the festival of trees with sukie and wudan. I guess they do this every year. People decorate and donate trees and then they auction them off and the proceeds go to the primary children's hospital. They also keep the trees up for a week and the public can go enjoy them. In addition to the trees they had wreaths, quilts and ginger bread houses. It was super fun to go look at all the trees and talk about creative ideas of our own. I look forward to going to the festival of trees every year. It was fun. Here are some of our favorite trees.

This one is for you Susie :)

Star Wars

Ginger bread "UP" house. We watched that movie for the first time last weekend and it is one of the cutest movies i've seen. I love that movie.

Castle gingerbread house.

We also decorated our house yesterday. We bought a real christmas tree for this year. David made that wreath with the branches we had to trim off of it. We are both so excited about the wreath. I think it's something we'll try to do every year even if it's an artificial one. Isn't my husband crafty? :)

Our christmas tree. It's very simple and we love it. I love christmas and i was so excited to get a real tree this year and decorate it and enjoy it. Yay for christmas!

On a side note this morning our toilet was leaking a little and of course we noticed it right as we were about to walk out the door for church. so we turned off the water to the house during church and left. When we got home it was fine and it seems like maybe it was just sweating from the steam of our showers so that's good. The funniest thing about this though was after church David told me that he wore his older suit just in case the toilet exploded or something and he didn't have time to change it before he rushed in to the bathroom. Cracked me up! He is so cute.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. I hope they are treating you all as well as they are treating us!