Christmas is Here!!!

This weekend was very productive for us. We were very excited for our first Christmas in our new home, so we wanted to make sure that we got to squeeze every day out of this holiday season. So on Friday morning, we got out all the Christmas decorations and decorated.

Saturday we had Craig and Jeremy come over and help put the Christmas lights on the house, while Valarie, Jen, and my cousin Laurie came with me to try on wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. Happy to say that when we came home the lights were all on and looking great, and I was able to find my dress, and the dress for the bridesmaids.....it was a good day.

Sunday we got our Christmas tree! It finally felt like Christmas when we got our tree!

We Are Engaged!!!!!

Here is a picture of the ring!

A picture of us.....freshly engaged and very happy.

As many of you probably know, this proposal has been in the making for some time, so it wasn't exactly a surprise. Josh did his best to try to surprise me, but I sure made it difficult for him.

So earlier this week, Josh suggested that we go away this weekend, so I knew what that meant......proposal! I was expecting it to happen while we were at the resort. I ended up coming home from work early on Friday. That's how I found out that Josh was planning on cleaning the house, making me a candlelit dinner, and proposing to me. Josh's plan was to get all this done before I got home from work, but his day ran a lot longer than he'd hoped. So that plan was now ruined due to me leaving work early that day.

So Saturday comes, we are running late, and I am trying to get out of our house and onto our trip and to the proposal. I am outside on the porch calling Josh and telling him to hurry up and get in the car, then he tells me to come back into the house, and of course I question why. Then he got down on one knee and popped the big question. Well, I guess we all know what my answer was!

We stayed at the Marriot Palm Desert Resort the night we got engaged. This picture was taken from the balcony in our room
(I highly recommend it).

Halloween 2008

This was our first Halloween at our new home, so we decided to have a few people over and pass out candy. To our disappointment we did not have very many trick or treaters.

My favorite pictures of the night!!

Bailee and Layla were prisoners, surprisingly they didn't mind their hats.

Here we are posing with our pumpkins the night before Halloween.

We had a pumpkin carving contest - the 2 on the left are Valarie's pumpkins, the middle one is Jen's, the 2nd from the right is Josh's, and the one on the right is Heidi's. As usual Josh took first place in the contest. As most of you probably know, we do a lot of contests and Josh is usually the winner.

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