Nate and I are so pumped! We bought our first big appliance. We are frequent KSL classified visitors and a couple of weeks ago Nate stumbled upon a year old washer and dryer set.

He was checking some out and before he closed the window he was looking on he refreshed the page. When he did a lady had just posted a listing. she was getting rid of them because her husband surprised her with a new set for Christmas. I guess she was remodeling their laundry room. 

Nate called on it as soon as he saw it and the woman was shocked to receive a response so quickly. He told her he'd buy it but he needed to talk with me about a time to go pick it up .He called her back ten minutes later and the lady said she had gotten 7 other calls in between our first and second call to her. We knew we had scored a great deal. We paid $190 for a GE matching set and love them already!!

This picture was taken to capture the fabulous fashion sense of Rylie. I think this is a pretty cute outfit and so I had to take a picture. I can't believe how grown up she's becoming. CRAZY!
This is little miss Rylie. She's focusing so hard on her drawing I think this is a cool picture.
This is such an awesome picture. I used a special filter that has grid lines on it. When the lines of the filter intersect it creates this really cool twinkle star effect. I think Nate took this one on New Year's when we were at a friend's house. I'm loving my new camera. I can't wait to get outside and take some more!
I got a new camera for Christmas and I had fun taking pictures around the house. It's amazing how the pictures turned out. I took this one of my mom's tile from across the room.

Christmas pictures

I've been bugging Nate for the past two months about how we needed to take a picture to send out for Christmas. Well, it never really happened. But, last night was our ward party so we thought that might be a great place to take a photo. When we got there we didn't see a tree or anything we could take a picture by. So that's why we settled for this picture in front of our own tree. We hope you all like them. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

Nutcracker

Nate called me two weeks ago at work and asked if  he could take me on a date. He told me we'd have to get dressed up and I instantly got excited. I asked what we were going to do and he told me it was a surprise. Well, Nate must have been kind of excited because he ended up telling me before we went. I guess he scored free tickets to Ballet West's "The Nutcracker". I've never seen it outside the fabulous Barbie Nutcracker so I was pretty pumped. 

It was nice to have a night alone with Nate. Some of you may know we have a very close friend who actually likes hanging out with us even though we're married. He's kind of become our child. We love him so it's fun, but sometimes we feel we have to tell him in advance that we're going out. It's all pretty funny to us. 

 We had a rushed dinner at the Olive Garden which is right across from the Capital theater. Our waiter was great about getting our meal out quickly so that we could make the show.  He also gave us an extra 2 hour parking validation so that was cool too. 

The show was good. Their interpretation was a little different from what I had expected and even Nate said that it ended a little different from how he had remembered it too. But, the theater was really beautiful. There were chandeliers  all throughout the building and gold paint accents on the molding and sconces. I could have just walked through looking at all the details of the building. It had a very 1920s feel and I loved it. I think we'll definitely visit the Capital theater again.