Holiday excursions

For thanksgiving this year we were planning on going to Utah, but plans changed and we ended up going to Boise. We had already bought our plane tickets before the plans changed so our travel time was a little longer than expected, but i was excited to go to Boise! It was just Ben and I that came for thanksgiving but we had a lot of fun. The trip consisted of eating a lot(obviously), going to a Boise State football game, our traditional pumpkin shooting, and we saw the movie Hugo(which was good by the way). When we got back to Utah we stopped and looked at the Temple lights in Salt Lake. They are always so pretty. It was a great Thanksgiving trip and my in-laws always do so much for us. Thanks Mitch and Evaly! :)
After our Thanksgiving trip It was onto Christmas mode. WOOHOO! Ben was very insistent on getting a tree as soon as December hit! We went to Home depot because they are the best prices and all their dang trees were tied up! How are you suppose to pick out a perfect tree if they're all tied up...so lame. We left very disappointed and annoyed after opening maybe 5 trees and not liking them. What happened to you home depot?! Everywhere else was closed so the next night we left earlier and decided to check out some tree lots in our area. The hoity toity Del Mar lots. Well...we headed straight for the "blemished" section once we heard that the normal ones were 75 bucks! Yeah right. We found one that looked totally fine for half price! I even told some people that were complaining about the prices to check out the blemished section(they were jealous of our beautiful blemished tree, I could tell). This was also the night Ben discovered his favorite egg nog ever(it is really good), Knudsens pumpkin spice egg nog.
Last night My parents and Rachel met us for dinner for Rachel's birthday which was on Tuesday. After dinner we went and walked around the Hotel Del Coronado. I would love to stay there sometime it's so pretty. We had a gay ol' time and it was very festive.

Sunrise on the way to Boise

The mountains looked so awesome! 

 We found this hat at a candy shop and knew exactly who should wear it. Haha(it says "My dog makes me happy" if you can't tell)

 Coolest tree!

 Fake smiles? Haha