3 Years, 2 Holidays and 1 Happy Couple

We've been celebrating a lot lately!


Last week we celebrated our 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Since our anniversary landed in the middle of the week and Mitch had lots of homework, we kept it simple and I made delicious dinner.


That weekend Mitch took me on a delectable chocolate tour at Theo's. All of their chocolate is organic, fair trade, dark and delicious. The factory tour was also incredibly interesting (I nearly passed out from the overwhelming chocolate aroma). YUM! That evening we took a ferry to Bainsbridge and had sushi at SUBI. The view on the ferry ride back was really beautiful because the city was all lit up.


We celebrated Veteran's Day by going into the city for the first time and enjoying the Seattle Art Museum and Pike Place Market.


We celebrated Thanksgiving with some other young couples from the ward Michelle, Matt and Callan Turner and Bonnie and Kurt Anderson. We celebrated the rest of Thanksgiving Break in Canada! We stayed with some long time family friends, the Mitchell's and played fun games, had great conversations and enjoyed a trip to their new temple. The Vancouver Temple is officially one of my favorites. We hope to be back for many more visits since it's only a 2 and a half hours away.

We are now counting down to our trip home for Christmas in less than 3 weeks!
Also, Seattle had an uncommon amount of snow which resulted in school and work being canceled last week...check out some of the footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZCyQ3emQg&feature=related

HAPPY HALLOWEEN and more...

Well, after a week of dead things (car, laptop, not to mention Halloween) we are all back to normal. We had a spectacular Halloween with fun games, trunk or treat, dinner in a pumpkin and Wait Until Dark. We also made a never ending supply of gingerbread and pumpkin cookies to go with the frothy, orange ice cream soda drink. We give ourselves an 'A' on hosting our first social event in Seattle. We hope everyone else had as much fun as we did.

Mitch has been extra busy with midterms and homework galore and we are looking forward to Veteran's Day (UW actually gives the day off unlike BYU). We might actually make it into the city (which is less than 8 miles away). Mitch can see the Space Needle from his office. We've had some sunny days, but the rainy season is definitely creeping in on us now.

Other good news includes a new beanbag for comfy movie watching and extra guest seating (thanks Chelle for getting us hooked on the idea and Seattle Craigslist for being awesome!) My job is going splendidly and I now have car seats for the handsome little guys so we can take field trips to the zoo and beach.


Halloween Party @ our place with ward friends!


Strike a pose...






Pumpkinmania


Pumpkins welcoming people to the party & setting up with decorations from Chelle!


SO excited about our comfy new beanbag! ...and the prettiest tree in all of Seattle.