Thanksgiving

This was such a fun Thanksgiving! We were able to spend most of the day with Matt's family. Then we met up with my family to go to the annual Thanksgiving movie. This year we saw TWILIGHT!! I absolutely loved it. I had heard really mixed things about it so I didn't go in expecting much. I just have to say I was very pleasantly surprised.

We hope you all had a great day as well!!

Scottsdale, Arizona

Last weekend I went on vacation with my parents and 2 of my sisters to Arizona.

It was fun laying out, shopping, and eating delicious food. Pat and Rolfe, thanks so much for the relaxing vaction! It was delightful!

Vegas

driving, in-and-out, mcdonalds, subway, shopping, football, swimming, laying out, hot tubbing, watching tv, debates, obama, speeding ticket, walking around, the palm, james bond, the tropicana, band aids, laughs, and reminiscing = our trip to Vegas!

We also wanted to say happy late birthday to Bruce!! We hope you had a wonderful day.

Our House

My sister-in-law Chelsea tagged me with a fun post of displaying 10 of my favorite things about our house. After seeing how beautiful her house looked in her post, I felt stupid excepting this tag. However, I'm going to show you some things I love about our house and some of it's fun quirks that make it unique.

As you all know, Matt and I have been living and taking care of his Grandma Gwen's house. It's a great deal for us because we get a house to live in all to ourselves! It's quite ideal for a newly married couple.

1. The floating oven- I love that the oven is randomly on a wall that is not in the kitchen. It is weird, but kind of convenient when you're cooking. You can throw something in the oven and it's completely out of the way while you are doing other things in the kitchen.

2. The bathrooms- I bet you didn't think that pink toliets existed anymore but we have one!! Both the bathrooms have beautiful flowered wallpaper as well and one even has a chandelier.












3. The organ. Need I say more...

4. The big mirrors (we have two of these huge, classy things), pink walls, and turquoise carpet- It really makes it feel homey. We are lucky enough to have this color scheme throughout the entire house. (Except of course the flower wallpaper in the bathrooms)

Okay...enough of the quirks. Now here are things I seriously like.

5. Heated floors- I don't have a picture for this one but this house is heated through the floors. I love it!! My feet are always freezing and I hate standing on cold tile in other homes. This house is different...when you step on the tiles of the bathroom and kitchen they feel SO warm and nice. They instantly warm your cold feet.

6. The family room- This is where I completely relax everyday after work and school and watch all the wonderful series on TV this fall. We do have some of our own stuff in this room so I love being in here.

7. Our bed/bedroom- Who doesn't love their bedroom? Matt painted our headboard for us and we got all new bedding when we got married. I love our $12 dollar Ikea lamps. I also love the bedroom because going to sleep at night is my favorite time of day.

8. The kitchen- It is filled with fun wedding gifts. A kitchen aid, cute bowls, pitchers, a cake stand, and the necessities of course. I LOVE kitchens. I think they are one of the most important parts of a house and they can be so neat!!

9. Pictures and paintings- Of course being the daughter of Pat and Rolfe I have been given some fabulous paintings for our house. I also love the framed pictures we have of our parents on a side table in the living room. I basically love all the fab things on our coffee table and side tables.






















10. Our fab view and backyard - From the kitchen and family room we have a view of the entire city of Provo. It's so fun to live in a place with a neat view! We also have a beautiful backyard with tons of trees and a pond.

So that's the Lloyd residence for now. Even though Grandma Gwen and I don't have the exact same taste we have loved living here and feel so lucky to have a house to live in!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Here are a few things we did to celebrate the holiday....

Last Friday we went to a costume party thrown by our friends Jeff and Charlee. It was really fun!! We went as the SNL cheerleaders. Other couples dressed up as mario and princess peach, pirates, the beckhams, angelina jolie and brad pitt, and ellen degeneres and portia de rossi.

We played lots of fun games. Matt and I won the newlywed game.

The night before Halloween my family went on a ghost tour in Salt Lake. We got to hear about many ghosts that live in famous places all around the city. We were even lucky enough to see a couple ghosts ourselves. Very fun and scary!!

At work we were having a costume contest. Maddie and I work together and decided to dress up as twins. We wore exactly the same thing from our hair clips to our shoes. Our friends dressed up as a lazy person and a newsie.

That night Matt, Maddie, Matt Crane, and I went trick or treating. We thought we might be a little too old so we did our best to hide our faces.

We hope you had a spooky halloween!!