Birthday and Christmas Fun!

I had such a wonderful birthday and Christmas vacation with Geoff and his family! Before we left, we had an early Christmas since we couldn't take our gifts with us. I was definitely spoiled! Geoff got me a FitBit Charge, so now I'll be more motivated to work out and keep track of how many calories I burn and all that fun stuff. It even tracks my sleep and I can set an alarm so it vibrates to wake me up, and it also vibrates and lets me know who is calling me on my cell phone! Pretty sweet. He also got me a Zumba workout game for the Xbox, a $50 Amazon gift card, a book I've been wanting by one of my favorite vloggers, the new Taylor Swift album and a Christmas album by another one of my favorite vloggers, and of course some cute socks and pajamas

I got him a car vacuum since he's been wanting one for forever, an Xbox game, a new watch, an awesome tie, some manly lotion and body wash, a gift card for lots of car washes and of course some pajamas.

I woke up to some lovely roses and a little gift beside it from Geoff. The gift he gave me was a spa manicure and pedicure, and I'm so excited to get pampered sometime in the next month or so!

We spent the majority of my birthday with Geoff's Uncle Roger, Aunt Leanne, and his cousins Ryan, Robby, April and Samantha. They were visiting Salt Lake for the day as they made their way from Washington to St. George, Utah. We hung out at the mall before eating a yummy dinner at Tucanos Brazilian Grill.

Geoff's family was driving from Washington to Arizona, and picked us up that evening so we could go to Arizona with them. We had Dairy Queen ice cream cake for my birthday before we made the 12 hour drive all through the night to Gilbert, Arizona.

Only picture I got of the cake... Oops!

We had a lot of fun in Arizona visiting family and doing some fun activities! Here's a rundown of some of the things we did:

• We saw the Christmas lights at the Mesa Arizona Temple.
• Saw the Loop of Lights, which is a street of Christmas lights where the houses go all-out.
• Spent lots of time with all the family members that live in Arizona.
• Ate way too much yummy, homemade food and homemade Christmas candy.
• Went swimming... outside... in the middle of December... Who does that?!
• Had a yummy kabob barbecue at a park where we played volleyball and frisbee.
• Went on a hike and saw the most gorgeous views of Arizona.
• Spent some time at the mall shopping and having fun.
• Went shotgun shooting (Geoff's favorite part, I wouldn't go near the guns!)
• Saw the gorgeous Gilbert Arizona Temple numerous times since we drove past it almost everyday.
• Looked through some photo albums from back in the day when Geoff was the cutest little boy!
• Played lots of board and card games. New favorite... Ticket to Ride!
• Shared lots of memories, laughed way too much, and slept way too less!

Mesa Arizona Temple

Gilbert Arizona Temple

Nativity Reenactment

Hiking

The Whetstone siblings with Uncle Sean, Aunt Suzy,
cousin Noel and Geoff's dad

All of Geoff's family besides two of his siblings

Whetstone 2014 Christmas Cards

I wanted to do Christmas cards this year, since it's our first year married and thought it would be something special to do! Although I didn't design the cards, I love how they turned out. I found the template on Etsy and was able to put in my own photos with Photoshop. Pretty simple and stress-free! I ordered the cards through the same company we ordered our wedding invitation and wedding thank you's from. Can't beat getting 100 cards for only $32 bucks!

Getting in the Christmas Spirit!

It's been exactly a month since I've blogged... A whole month! I don't have an excuse, other than we really have had nothing exciting going on. Until recently, which I'll talk about now :)

We had an untraditional Thanksgiving this year. We spent it with my dad at a condo in Henderson, Nevada, only about 15 minutes from Las Vegas. One of his friends has been begging him to take a trip down there, so we decided it would be perfect to use over Thanksgiving weekend. We enjoyed the warm weather, and getting some Christmas shopping done at the mall. We had to wait 3 hours to get into a buffet on Thanksgiving, that was not fun! The food was pretty good though.

Now that it's officially December, I'm totally in the Christmas spirit! We put our little tree and stockings up in our living room, and I'm loving it. I can't wait to put some presents under there for Geoff!

My awesome cousin Miken took some Christmas photos for Geoff and I since I'm wanting to send out Christmas cards this year. We drove into Cottonwood Canyon near our house and stopped at a picnic area with lots of trees and scenic backdrops. There was one photo we both fell in love with right away, so that's the one that will be on the cards! I also ordered a Christmas ornament for us to use in a photo on the cards and hang on our tree, since it's our first Christmas together as a married couple :) I'll have to post the Christmas card on here once we send them out in the next week or so!

And that's about it! We have some fun things planned on my birthday on the 20th, and we're also leaving for Arizona to spend Christmas with Geoff's family as well on my birthday. So I'll hopefully have a lot of fun pictures and Christmas updates to post once that time comes!

Until then, we'll continue our usual, working, adult life routine!