Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent Thanksgiving with Kyle's family this year. Kyle was the first one preparing food by starting with the turkey!

We also spent part of the morning looking through all the ad's! Kyle's mom loves to get good deals in the morning so we scanned out some good deals.

Meanwhile Kyle and Taylor went and played some football.

Kyle's Dad makes the BEST rolls and I have been wanting to learn so here he is teaching me how - lots of important details.

We ended up having quite the turnout, Kyle's mom and 3 of her sisters along with one of her brothers were able to join us for our feast. Here is Kyle's Mom, Grandma and 3 of his aunts.

This was the "kid" table. Below is Kyle's Uncle (wishing he could join the kid table) along with some of his cousins and Kelsey and Taylor.

Meanwhile the other boys were relaxing on the couch since the woman were taking over the kitchen :) The thanksgiving feast turned our very yummy and we all had a nice time visiting with each other.

Kelsey and Taylor were able to spend Tuesday through Sunday with us and we sure had fun having them around for a few days. We played many games of Settlers of Catan.

Kyle's mom played in on some of the fun too and made a tower out her pieces - very skilled!

Of course the day after thanksgiving we had to decorate for Christmas! Here is a goofy picture of us having fun decorating.

These skinny little Santa ornaments are a favorite among the Kunde family.

We sure had a really nice thanksgiving and we have been very blessed over this last year in many different ways are sure grateful for the many many blessings that we enjoy from our Father in Heaven.

Kyle's Chopped

One of Kyle and my favorite shows to watch is Chopped and so sometimes after watching an episode Kyle gets excited and wants to try something so one night he made us brownies with blackberry flavored cream. They were delicious and the plates look very appetizing!

Fall Drives

We had such beautiful fall weather this year that it created some gorgeous fall colors and so one Sunday late afternoon Kyle's mom and I went for a little drive so we could enjoy the fall colors while our husbands watched football.

Kyle's mom and I

We also caught a gorgeous sunset on our way home.

4-Wheeler Ride

On my day off last week Kyle and I went for a 2 hour 4-wheeler ride up in the mountains and it was so gorgeous!

We went up pretty high and had a great view of the valley.

The fall colors up there were so bright and beautiful!

Best Pie Award

Kyle's mom has this really good apple pie recipe and we made it for a stake activity and at this activity the pies were judged and we got the best crust award and the best pie award! So we had to make it again so we could get a picture of the pies with our ribbons.

Us making the crust pretty

This is what it looks like before its cooked

This is what it looks like after, one of the tricks to our pie is we cook it in a brown paper bag in the oven!

Here is the famous pie!

Proud pie makers!

Kyle's Project

Kyle thought it would be a good idea to paint one of our end tables that we have in our bedroom and suggested it to his mom and so she agreed to help him do it.

I also joined in on the fun and Kyle liked pretending that he was the boss of the project.

Kyle pretending to hound me...

Finally a good job :)

So close!

All done!

Thanks to Kyle's moms expertise and Kyle's hard work we were able to take an old night stand and make it look awesome!

Kunde Family Pictures

A couple weekends ago Kyle's sister's both came home to visit so we went to take some family pictures. Kyle's sisters love being in lots of pictures and Kyle's mom likes finding cool places to take them so we got quite a few!

One of the great things about being married (there are lots) is being a part of another family and having us all connect together making one big eternal family. I'm sure grateful for the family I married into as well as my side and those that have been brought in through marriage!

Celebrating 3 Years!

Kyle and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary this August, however we didn't actually celebrate it till late September. We wanted to go to McCall, Idaho where we got a package deal to get a hotel and a round of golf for the both of us. We wanted to late till the fall so we could enjoy the fall colors in the mountains. It was about a 2 hour drive so we had to stop to eat on the way there and that is the first picture below, at this little cafe in the middle of nowhere.

Below was our fancy hotel room with a King size bed!

Kyle and I went for a walk that afternoon and found this cool bear statue.

Kyle and I walked on one of the docks and enjoyed the beauty of the lake.

Kyle took this cool picture of the water.

Kyle and I have this tradition to try a new pizza place every year for our anniversary, this year it was at Toll Station

We weren't super impressed, it was just okay pizza...

It didn't seem like there was very many people at the hotel we went to which was nice because we had the whole pool to ourselves.

We were a little surprised in the morning to find ice on our car!

Especially Kyle in his shorts!

Luckily it didn't take long to warm up and were still able to go golfing!

This was the first time I have played 18 holes, usually I only play 9, so I was grateful we had a cart because golfing really does take a lot of energy!

It sure was gorgeous up there in the mountains!

Kyle golfing...

Staci golfing...

We survived our 18 holes of golf, Kyle said this was the hardest course he has played so far and I would agree. We sure had a lot of fun though and we are so grateful to have each other and look forward to many, many more years together!