We Love Turkey on the Beach!

Thanksgiving came a day early for us this year. We were actually thinking we would spend it just by ourselves in Rexburg, freezing to death, because Crystal couldn’t get any days 0ff. But luckily things worked out and we were able to fly out to Santa Cruz where Crystal’s family had rented out a beach house. We left Tuesday morning and came back Thursday morning. Because of our flight schedule, her family had the big feast on Wednesday so we could be apart of it. We had loads of fun and it seemed like we crammed a whole week’s worth of activities into the day and a half that we were there. Here are some pictures:

Here is a picture of me (Jared) as we waited to be picked up .

First thing we did when we arrived was to go out and play some football on the beach. The losers had to clean up after the thanksgiving meal, unfortunately we lost :-(.  After the game we played catch and sat in a hole Crystal’s brother dug to try and cool off because it was so warm.

That night we celebrated the birthdays for December, which happened to be Crystal and her dad, by going out to a local sea food restaurant.

I was getting ready to help them blow out the candles, I’m not just a retard.

Right outside on the peer, Crystal’s aunt found a bunch of sea lions trying to sleep. The one on the bottom left must of been sick because we were lucky enough to see it throw up… twice… all over his friend in front of him, it smelt awesome!

Later that night we went to the local arcade and played our hearts out. Crystal won 655 tickets and got some pretty cool prizes including a nice pair of new headphones for her Ipod.

The next morning I got up early with Crystal’s dad and did some mountain biking on the local trails. He rented me the new 2010 Trek Fuel EX 9. I was the first person to ride it and i just about fell in love. It will be nice to have enough money to buy a good bike to go trail riding on… someday.

After a game of settlers, all the guys went out to the ocean to do some body surfing.

We finished off the night stuffing our faces with as much turkey, stuffing, potatoes, gravy, and rolls as we could. Check out the view!

Thursday we got up early and flew back to freezing Rexburg, but we decided to have a nice meal since it was Thanksgiving after all. I know the TV trays kinda make us look like white trash but we were able to watch some episodes from season 5 of LOST! We couldn’t think of anything better to do as we ate, its not like there was time to talk  while eating :-).

It turned out to be an awesome vacation.

"Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas"

So we decided to decorate our apartment for Christmas early because the next two weeks jared has tests and I have work and we had a day off together and we wanted to do this together so we did it.

This is the before picture

setting the tree up, it took awhile cause its big

The lights are freaking awesome, we love having them on at night they look so beautiful.

Misletoe to set the mood.

We also bought those scented pinecones from Walmart and they work so well and smell sooooo good! we are feeling very spirited with all of our fun decorations.

Dress Up!

So this is Jared, blogging for the first time. Wish me luck. By the way, blogging with just the BlogSpot website is way too hard.  I found a program which was already on my computer called Windows Writer, and it is way easier. But now onto the actual blog.

We spent Halloween with my brother Brian and his family. It was a long drive but a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of what everyone wore.

Here is Alyssa. It was appropriate because she is always barking in the garage and growling at visitors. 

This is John… a soccer player if you couldn’t tell.

I know he is hard to see due to the camouflage, but he was an army soldier.  

Kaden had a fun costume. He decided he wanted to be a big red dragon.

Later that night we went around the block with the kids. Kaden was funny because right before he went up to a door he told me he had to go to the bathroom and then walked up to the door farting with every step… I was worried they were going to be sharts but luckily they weren’t.

You can’t see very well in this picture but Alex dressed up as a teenager from the 50’s with the pink skirt and everything.  

We dressed up as a Doctor and a Nurse.  I enjoyed having Crystal as my nurse :-).

The best costumes by far were from Brian and Liz.  They had a couple of friends who spent a lot of money and made some nice pirate costumes. Brian actually carried a real sword. they were pretty sweet if i do say so my self.  
In the end it was really fun, plus we got to see Brain and Liz’s new place which was really nice, a lot better then before.

Test Post

Hey, we are testing out a new blog writing program . I will let you know how it is after this test post

This is Crystal and Jared in Hawaii… good memories.