Thankful

Zach and I had a wonderful THANKSGIVING this year...

We LOVED the time we were able to spend with

FAMILY, close FRIENDS, and EACH OTHER.

My mom made a very impressive meal with all of our favorites.

We spent the holiday with a BIG group...

My family and our dear family friends from California and Idaho.

Zach and I had a lot to be thankful for this year,

and loved that we had a full day to reflect on it all.

Cookies

This past week Will, Lucy and Mason

came over to our house to decorate

SUGAR COOKIES!!

We decided to make Thanksgiving Turkeys...

which turned out to be ADORABLE.

It was lots of fun having them over.

I may be biased, but I think they may be

some of the cutest kids ever!!

Mason (the little boy my mom watches)

Will

Lucy

Fall Obsession...

Ok, so being allergic to gluten can

have it's drawbacks...Obviously.

One is that I can't have one of my MOST

favorite fall treats...Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies.

Well, Zach and I go get frozen yogurt at our favorite

place, YOGURT STOP every Monday for FHE.

This week when we went they had PUMPKIN frozen yogurt.

I obviously had to try it...let me tell you, it's DELISH!!

I added some of these on top...

And it tasted JUST like

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies.

Problem solved.

It made me one HAPPY Aubree...

Only problem is, now I CRAVE it every night.

Go try it out...you most definitely won't be disappointed.

xoxo

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!!

It's OFFICIAL...Austin will be home from his

mission in CHILE in exactly 43 days!!

About a week ago we got an email from his mission office

telling us that he would be home on December 3rd...

We were shocked!! We weren't expecting him home

for at least another month from that date.

We thought that he was being released early to make it home

in time for Christmas, and to start school in January.

We were SO beyond excited.

We even made a paper chain to help us all count down

to the days until he is home...

Our chain was looking pretty short!!

We had a lot to do to get ready for his homecoming.

Well, about a week later we got another email from

his mission secretary telling us that they had made

a mistake and that he was actually coming home December 14th.

Not bad, just about 10 days later then we planning.

Still, he would be home for Christmas!!

Then, about 2 hours later we got ANOTHER email from

his mission. Yep, you guessed it, they had made

another mistake. The 14th was wrong once again.

They felt SO bad, and told us the right date

of him coming home...

ELDER AUSTIN SERVICE will be

HOME

JANUARY 1st 2011!!!!

We have waited almost 2 years, what's 43 days right?!

I think this New Years will probably top them all.

We can't wait to finally have him home, and I

can't wait to have my brother back!!

We love you Elder Service,

and can't wait for you to be back!!

Stay HHHF

U-T-A-H

COME ON UTES!!

Turn it around so this doesn't happen again...

(Zach "WATCHING" the terrible Utah vs. TCU games last week)

William James

Last night while Zach was at work, I got to

have a "date" night with this little guy...

I let him pick where he wanted to go to dinner...

Wendy's was his choice haha.

Then, we went to my house and made a fort and

watched his FAVORITE movie. 3 NINJAS!!

Pretty sure Will can quote the entire movie,

word for word.

Thanks for such a FUN night Will.

Love you!!