hello november.

goodbye domo.

(i really felt so sad so instead of killing the layout completely i compromised and kept the color scheme. trying to look like an adult blows)

the first weekend of november was so nice!

it started out with taking ryan to red lobster (i was obsessed with that baby lantern thing at our table if you are wondering why that picture is happening) to celebrate how awesome he is at school. 99% on an anatomy mid-term? who even does that well in that crazy class?

(..the answer is ryan)

we were supposed to either go to my nephews game in logan or to mr. wilson's fundraiser afterwards but because of the snow we decided it might be best to not travel very far. so instead we spend some quality time with richard marsh eating nice treats (such a great host!) and having a netflix parks and rec marathon. i should have taken a picture of this time but i forgot so you will just have to imagine it.

saturday we headed up to snowbird for their annual customer appreciation days free tram ride.

we did it last year and loved it so much so i'm glad we finally had a free afternoon to do it this year too.

look at all the snoooooooooooow!!!

i could not get over how gorgeous it was

like seriously. it was like right out of a Christmas story book type gorgeous.

and since it was the first real snowfall of the year we pretty much had the canyon to ourselves!

i feel sad that in a few weeks it will just be packed with skiers and snowboarders and just won't really be the same.

and now we turn to iphone photos because my camera died:

do you see the heart made out of those trees?!

it was like ten degrees but we loved it up there

as mad as i feel at snow for making it freezing and scary to drive and sometimes down right dreary,

it sure is beautiful.

last time it was snowing and super foggy so i was way surprised to find this nice view!

i put that picture of my feet up to show just how much snow there was.

and look at that great green and those skiers!

since we had just been up there a few days before i was interested to see how much it had changed:

..i'd say it looked pretty different haha

and i'm so glad we did because look at that great sunset view!

not pictured would be ryan getting out of the car and us freaking out for ten minutes at how great everything looked while listening to Christmas classics on fm 100.

we almost didn't do the free tram ride this year! can you believe that?

do you ever have those times when you can't decide on something but then end up doing it

 and think "i am SO glad we did that"?..this was one of those times.

we didn't really have any plans that night but knew ryan wanted to find a good beanie and we were hungry so we headed to the mall to multi-task.

and look at puppy calendars!

(that guy knew i was really taking a picture of him and it got uncomfortable)

ryan is determined to own one of those some day.

we had a fun time and almost felt like we were at an event since we never ever go there haha.

ryan got a great beanie (and so did i!). i got some gloves, a much needed adult looking wallet, and a gray purse which were all on sale! so many wins.

then we ended the night with making this great pumpkin crumble that brynne made while i was at her house. by the time we got all the ingredients, picked out a movie (we are 7 year olds) at blockbuster (and stopped thumbing through a magazine dedicated entirely to the movie breaking dawn haha), and finally made the dang thing it was midnight. buuut with day light savings happening that night i felt great about it.  

aaaand if you care to comment it looks like you can comment on the post below

for some reason blogger will let it happen on that one but not on any of the others i posted this week..