Halloween & Thanksgiving

We LOVE Halloween time and all that comes with it, such as pumpkin carvings. For pumpkin carvings, we went to the Durrant family home and had a pumpkin carving party. Here are the results from our attempts:

Nick was SO proud of his......"Mid action throw up"

For Halloween night, Nick and I were pretty proud at the fact that we didn't spend one dime on our Halloween costumes. We just used old clothes, scrapes, and a dress of mine from a high school sweet heart ball (all the girls in the group made renaissance dresses). Anyways, we decided to go for the 'Princess Bride' look and I went as Princess Buttercup and Nick went as Westley. We thought it turned out pretty funny!

     For Thanksgiving, we spent it with Nick's family. Nick's cousin was preparing for a wedding the following Saturday, so their family booked their church building for the entire weekend, including Thanksgiving. So we had an amazing feast all together in their church building. Nick and I were in charge of the stuffing, chip n' dip, salad, and dessert. For the dessert I made homemade chocolate cream pie and pumpkin pie......all from scratch and used my mom's amazing recipes. I was pretty proud because it all turned out amazingly delicious and we were so excited to contribute to the feast!

My FIRST pumpkin pie.....EVER.....and was wonderful!

Preparing for Black Friday shopping...another first of mine....DUN DUN DUN.....

This is such a great time of year, for it really reminds us all of what we are thankful for and to reflect back on all of our experiences, adventures, trials, and blessings. I am truly grateful for the love of my life and everything, Nicholas Beus Durrant and to be sealed to him for all time and eternity in the Salt Lake City Temple. I am grateful for the gospel, and for my amazing family and friends. I am grateful for movie nights with popcorn, flowers from my husband, puppies (Nick just rolled his eyes), warm fuzzy notes, pie, hot chocolate, our lovely new home, USA and free public restrooms, for being an Idaho girl, red meat, our washer and dryer, puddles and and the smell just after it rains outside, mine and Nick's adventures together, the Utah mountains, Netflix, opportunity to go to school and get a degree, Nick's laugh, Nick's ability to fix ANYTHING, my car which gets me all the way from Provo to the U of U for lectures, my mom's homemade southern cookin, cards from family and friends, packages in the mail (even if it is just a text book you ordered off of amazon), any chance I get to sleep in, hugs and kisses, and SO MANY MORE.......There is so much to be grateful for.......Oh how I love this time of year. 

Love,

the Durrants