The Dalby's

The Dalby's

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Thanksgiving Part 3

This is Thanksgiving Part 3, but it should really be part 1. What do you do.

Taylor and I began this family tradition last year: "The Gratitude Wall"
Nothing fancy, just every day in November we write something we're grateful for and put it on the wall...




Our only rule is that you can't put something up that is already on the wall.
Pretty simple.
Except this year we started 18 days late.
(Which made us especially grateful on the 18th)
But who's keeping track.

This year I decided I would keep a record of the things we put on the wall
Just to see if they would change over the years
So, here is this year's list of things we are grateful for:
(in no particular order)

laughter
a good recipe
bishops
strong work ethic
exercise
atonement
sleep
a chance to change
a King
public transportation
a body
the Holy Ghost
tobasco sauce
education
relief society
eternity (marriage.family.life.)
Boo
industry
music
colors
finance
revelation
goodly parents
nature's beauty
phiosophy
scents (rain.fresh bread.clean laundry.baby shampoo)
animals
Book of Mormon
art
challenges
languages
memories
Texas
the Restoration
friends
holidays
service
seasons
trials
good food
medicine
oil
children
temples

Unfortunately I didn't keep track of last year's list. 
 But I do know Texas made it both years. Fancy that.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Thanksgiving Part 2

Highlights of Thanksgiving:

perfect weather
nature walks
smell of wassail
taste of wassail
making wassail
everything wassail
the hosting hallstrom's
Dana's cranberry relish
SarahJane's homemade rolls
Taylor Dalby's turkey carving skills
Winning catch phrase
Winning battle of the sexes
(want to own battle of the sexes)
catching grendel eating turkey from the table
Calinai's homemade thanksgiving dress?!
meeting new people
drinking leftover wassail
sleeping in the next day until 11am.
we.party.hard.


Thanksgiving

We made wassail, 7layer bars, and Paula Deen's Green Bean Cass to share at our potluck gathering the Hoppin' Hallstroms threw.  We loved it!

Before the celebrations though, I wanted a Julia Child picture with my hard work.  So I had Taylor take a few pics with me and the platter outside our apartment....which was probably just confusing to our lovely Indian neighbors, who kindly offered to give us professional photos of both of us and our platter.
tookind.
probablylookingtooweirdputtingourcameraonatimerforour7layerplatter.

whocares.
hedidagreatjob!
Ilovegraduatehousing.

PS. yesterday was absolutely peeeerrrrfect. The weather was unbelievable. seriously.best.weather.day.ever.

JustforFunsies

Just a spur of the moment, rapid-fire-photo-shoot

Yano, when you get all excited like you ate 3 cupcakes and need to run a few miles to work off the high.

Instead of the miles, I funneled that energy into forcing my husband into an impromptu photo shoot.

enjoy.
because i did.
and he did too.





Twilight

I love Twilight.
Mainly I love the excitement of a HIT release and the fan craze.
I just get so enthused I can't contain myself.


Taylor took me out for a super.sweet.date.night. We even spent a lil' dough on student tickets ; )
man, do i love student tickets.

Happy Twilight Days.

ChillyWilly

It's been getting a lil' ChillyWilly 'round here.
We've had to wear jackets the past few days.
It's 60 and dropping in Florida.
 Happy Winter.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Halloweeeen!

Nothing says Happy Halloween quite like buying 200 hotdogs at Wal-mart.
...and then serving them at the Ward Trunk or Treat.
Here's our holiday cheer!


I'm a cat.
Tay's a mouse.
We're creative ; )