The obvious, and not so obvious about us

Here are some fun things about us, I'll keep adding more:

CHRIS

• loves the Jazz
• loves pixie sticks
• never gets sick
• incredible gingerbread maker
• paintballs
• wants to go to Europe
• wants to invent an idea
• loves big watches
• his car got towed the first night we met
• works out
• always chews 1/2 piece of gum
• Went to Chili on his mission
• Doesn't like tomatoes
• Surprised me with our honeymoon to Cancun

ME

• uses sticky notes for daily reminders
• wants a Chinchilla
• loves skittles
• fear of spiders
• wants to go to Australia
• loves BYU and Cosmo
• on my birthdays I used to wish for 100 Dalmations when blowing out my candles
• crafty
• has a list of 100 things to do in life
• Will not eat mustard
• Wanted to go to BYU since 8
• Been in musicals and plays growing up
• Won medal for 4x200 relay in Track

Temple Square Lights

This year we went up to Salt Lake to see the lights. We went early to go to Pottery Barn where the SLC location had 10% off the whole store, and since we registered there, we get an additional 10% off of everything, so I definitely wanted to take up the opportunity.
Before we went up, Chris said we should make it into a whole date night and go somewhere for dinner. We were going to Outback with a giftcard, but there wasn’t any by us so we went to Chili’s.

We started going to Temple Square and of course it started raining. We grabbed some hot chocolate to warm us up, but then we drove around FOREVER to find a parking spot. We went around, saw one of those horse-drawn carriages back up into a car, and around and finally found a spot.

I don’t think we were supposed to park there, so we ran into the grounds and did the quickest few laps around the temple because we didn’t want to get a ticket, and that wet. Hahah. Fun date night adventure. Here are some of our pictures from this year:

2010

2009

Making Ornaments Part 1

So I found out I say the word 'ornament' wrong. Chris finally told me, and I never knew it. Anyway this year I'm working on some ornaments. I found these at Pottery Barn for $8 and decided to make my own with the Cricut.

POTTERY BARN ORNAMENT

PEARSON ORNAMENTS I'VE MADE SO FAR

I got found a small thing of black vinyl I already had. I used my Cricut to cut out these letter P and put them on the glass bulbs I got 50% off at Hobby Lobby for $3.

Got some red vinyl and cut out different sayings for Christmas that are hanging on our tree

Gingerbread Houses

Each Christmas the Pearsons make Gingerbread houses. I made one last year and we combined our efforts this year which was good because we shaved off a few hours.

Our move… Frosted Mini Wheats for the roof. The original plan was that Chris would design the roof (he makes the best ones every year J ) and I would do the landscape, we were short of land so we combined efforts.

Rosette Wreaths

Natalie found a picture of this wreath online:


We decided to make our own and it turned out like this:
We bought the materials from Hobby Lobby. The wreath was $2.50, and we bought 1/8 yard strips of fabric (3 different kinds), and some beaded pearls which you can find in the floral section.

Next, we cut the fabric strips into pieces 3 inches by 20 inches. We then would wrap them to make rosettes.
We laid out the flowers then glued them with a hot glue gun. I then got pearls and wrapped them under the twigs and flowers. This is a close-up of my work. It was so much fun!

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!!!