New Tables and Chairs!!!

Matthew did such a fun thing for my birthday! He organized with his family and my family and himself to get me a new kitchen table and chairs. What a great gift and such a fun surprise! I was not expecting it at all. Matthew was so sneaky - he asked me a couple of times if we had a million dollars what would I do with it, or get with it. One of the many things I mentioned was a new table and chairs. Matthew said he looked at over 1000 different tables, and went into a couple of stores looking for some tables that I could choose from and that were in our price range. We spent some of Saturday looking online at some tables. We almost bought one from JCPenney, but the problem was none of the stores in Utah carry furniture, so we would have bought the table without ever seeing it, plus we would have had to pay over a hundred dollars in shipping! NO WAY! Then we saw a table and chairs that we liked at furniture row. It's a new place that opened up by IKEA. We thought we'd go check it out. We found the perfect table and chairs!! We debated between two, then chose our winning table. We got a great deal our them and were very happy with our shopping and purchase. So, if you're looking for good, relatively inexpensive furniture, we recommend furniture row. My parents were so nice to drive up Saturday night and pick it up for us, and Matthew and I spent that night and some of Sunday putting our table and chairs together. They are so nice! They look so good in our kitchen. The table is counter height. It's all black and the seats are a cream suede. We love them so much. What a great gift! Thank you Matthew and everyone that went in on it. I love it!!!

Thanksgiving Rock Band

Matt and I got together with some of our friends over the break and had a great time playing rock band. Jeff and Meredith were our star singers. Jake was awesome at everything, Matt was our hard core guitarist with Katie, Danny, Jen and I jumping in and rocking out when we got a chance. Look out - we're going professional here. As one of Matt's Echoboost bands says "we are the next best thing!!!" Hee hee!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to me!!!

What a great birthday it was this year! It lasted for a full week!! Friday night before my birthday- Nov 21 Matthew and I went to one of our favorite Japanese restaurants then to Comedy Sports. Sunday we had a birthday dinner with my family. On Monday, my birthday, Matthew made me a yummy delicious breakfast in bed!!! I stayed home from school that day - I didn't want to go on my birthday, so I gave myself a present. Matthew and I got all the stuff to make sushi. We made our first attempt at sushi. We love sushi!! Our first roll was pretty funny - but now Matthew is becoming the sushi expert!! It's so yummy! If you want sushi - let us know and we'll make you some!! On Tuesday we celebrated my birthday with the Henage family. On Wednesday we celebrated my birthday with my family. It was a birthday week! I loved celebrating it so many days - it was awesome! My family, Matthew's family and Matthew all went in on getting me a new kitchen table with chairs!!! We have yet to pick out the specific one we want - but what a great gift! I'm so excited for it! I have the best husband ever!

It's Autumntime! It's Autumntime!! The leaves are falling down! We filled 14 bags full of leaves the other night! It was full family affair!! Rick, Jeannine, Alisha, Matthew, Grandma and Grandpa all helped rake up all the leaves! Of course Matthew and I jumped in them and blasted each other with armfuls of leaves! The best part was Grandpa kept saying to Grandma - "who's that?" (pointing to me) "That's Melanie, Matthew's wife." "Oh, look at her go! Look at her rake all those leaves! Wow!" Hee. hee! I was laughing so hard - we sure love Grandpa!! The pictures aren't the best - it was getting dark, and my camera is broken. I can't zoom and I can't put it on self-timer. So it's time for us to look for a new camera!!!

Sylar!!!!

The other day I came home to find Sylar in my house (those who watch the TV show Heros will be familiar with Sylar). I barely escaped his cutting through my head by zapping him with my amazing electric powers! This stunned him long enough to trim his hair and his hunger to see how things work. Luckily I was able to bring Matthew back from Sylar's trap!

Arches

For a little getaway during fall break, Matthew and I decided we'd take a little gander at Arches National Park. I made my first tin foil dinner - delicious! We froze during the night - our tent has an open top that is awesome during the summertime. It has a top that goes on it, but for this trip we didn't put the top on while we camped and suffered because of it. We found the only way to stay warm was to cuddle close to each other. It's always fun to cuddle, but not when you're trying to sleep on hard ground. One of those fun camping adventures! We did a six mile hike and got to see Landscape arch, Navajo Arch, Partition Arch, the fallen Wall Arch (the remains of it), Pine Tree Arch, Tunnel Arch, and Double O Arch. We ate lunch under the Navajo Arch. While we were eating lunch, I had four pieces of bread all lathered up with Majo. I bent down to get some cheese and one of the pieces of bread fell majo side down on my shoe!! Hee hee! My shoe was gooped in Majo! Part of it got in the dirt. Matthew scraped off what dirt he could then offered to eat that piece. We got a good laugh out of that one. We were exhausted after our hike! We wanted to also see Delicate Arch. We saw it from a distance, but didn't have enough energy to hike to it. It was fun to see all the arches! We sure love camping! Let us know when you want to come with us!

Crochet Time!

About 6 weeks ago I spent the afternoon with my mom and she taught me how to crochet. I'm finding that I love it! I am very much a beginner and am still learning the jargon, how to start and end a project and so on. I crocheted this baby bib for Brittany (my sister-in-law) and their baby Lincoln for his baby blessing. Now I'm working on some baby booties that are way intense. My mom is definitely helping me figure out those! My mom and I went to the General Relief Society meeting together at the conference center. While we were waiting for it to start we were both crocheting! Like mother like daughter. Thanks mom!