Black Friday Excitement

This year was well planned in Black Friday shopping. I did my research and planned the items I was looking for and the stores with the best deals.
Some of the stores I hit up:

• Bed Bath and Beyond 20% off of every item in the store
• Nordstrom Rack
• Macy (great deal for shoes and coats)
• DSW
• Hollister 30% off everything in stores
• Joann Fabrics

and many more. So worth it and I will definitely do it again next year. I know I saved around $300

Time to be Thankful

On Monday, Chris gave our Family Home Evening lesson about being thankful. As every FHE he gives, I loved hearing his testimony about everything he believes in and stands for. I'm grateful for such a great man who loves the Lord, loves this gospel, and loves me.
I'm grateful for the gospel. I'm so glad that when we do place the Lord first in our lives, that we will become closer to the Lord and to each other. Placing our foundation upon the Lord before anything else (ourselves and everything) we can make it back to our Father in Heaven.
I'm grateful for family. I love my family and Chris' family and I'm so glad we now have our tiny family of Chris and I where our priority is first with each other. I'm grateful with my relationships with family and am glad I have a close relationship especially with my mom who I love so much. My family has been such a great example to me and my parents have raised me always on the gospel and doing what is right.
I'm grateful for standards. My parents have always taught me about choosing the right, to be honest, and on the for strength of youth in being modest, chaste, kind etc. Those values I apply to my everyday life thanks to my parents who taught me from when I was young. They used to teach me that most important life decisions were decided by an individual by the time they were age 14. I'm glad my parents didn't just wait to teach us about standards and values when we were older, but would teach us while we were young.
I'm grateful for scriptures and our living prophet. We have these scriptures to lead and guide us, the most correct book on earth. In Nephi it says that there will be nothing that will be put in the scriptures that won't be for our benefit. I'm grateful for General Conference where we can listen to modern day scriptures from our leaders and especially from our prophet today: President Monson. He leads and guides us and will never lead us astray. He is a true man of God.
Again I'm so grateful for my amazing husband! He is always there for me. He loves me so much and is always so trustworthy, I always know that I can depend on him. Again he loves this gospel and we want to teach and raise our children on these principles that we have learned in our families. He loves the temple, he has a testimony, we have already set great habits from scripture studying, prayer, with saving money, FHE etc. We work things out, we work together as a team. I'm so glad I'm married to such a great man! We have such a bright future ahead and I'm excited to see what life has in store.
We are so blessed!!! It's a great time to be alive and to members of the church. Of course there is and will be challenges, but with the Lord we can accomplish anything and always be happy!!!

Football: Freshman year till now

2010: Even though it's the last home football game, at least we made it. It was freezing that day. We parked and I wanted to tailgate and of course saw Cosmo the Cougar!

We watched the game with Coleman and Brandon. More pictures of us freezing. I was well prepared though and didn't even touch two other coats and a BYU blanket.

FRESHMAN YEAR

SOPHOMORE YEAR

JUNIOR YEAR

SENIOR YEAR

More Wedding Reception Adventures

Last week we had a few wedding receptions for our friends. It was so fun seeing them date and get married! We had Jessie and Mike, and Joe and Emily. Congrats!

At Jessie and Mike's reception there was an art exhibit in the basement. We had fun looking around... and got carried away. Chris' impression of meloncholy.

Me with the ancient dragon in honor of me being born in the year of the dragon.

Looking out into the sea, for a large whale

We had a blast, we also had Joe and Emily's reception

Joe did a Michael Jackson impersonation, it was quite good!

Us together :) I can't believe we've been married 2.5 months now! Time is going by fast, we love being married to each other!

Good in the World

When I went online this morning I was touched by a story of a homeless man who found $3300 in a backpack he had found and RETURNED IT. I'm sure he was someone really in need of that money, but he decided to be honest and realized that wasn't his.
I thought of this story and how someone's honesty and integrity really counts when you think no one is looking. Even when we think we are not being watched or if something might benefit us more than another person, remember integrity is what counts like this homeless man illustrated.

Highlights of this week

* Chris taking care of me while I was sick
* Two weddings for our friends
* Jazz games
* Hanging out with the fam
* Chris picking me up from work
* New purse
* Watching one of my favorite movies with my husband

Countdown of October

Coming back from the wedding and honeymoon we've had so much to do and get together so I'm doing the main events in October. for the Pearsons. which were many. This is just a COUNTDOWN

#4 Halloween!

Coleman and Lucie were Jessie and Buzz Lightyear

Cute Bryn and Hal as Little-Bo Peep and Sheep!


#3 Birthdays

We had birthdays for friend Mike (here at Texas Roadhouse)

Jeff's birthday the 29th and we had Randy's the 31st

#2 Alexa and Cam's wedding. Sorry all the pics are on Chris' camera.

#1 Whitnie's state tennis match at the beginning of this month. She played so well and placed 2nd