Happiest Part of the Year

This year for Christmas we decided to go up to Washington to be with Rob’s family. He managed to get work off, and so the Friday before Christmas we headed to Salt Lake. Our plane was leaving Saturday morning, which meant we had all Friday to party! We got into Salt Lake around 3, and Rob showed me all over where he served his mission. We went down into Park City, and then into Sandy for a few hours. We ended up back in Salt Lake just in time for dinner, and he took me to a Hawaiian bbq place called L&L…it was AMAZING. After our scrumptious dinner we decided to head over to temple square and look at the lights. Talk about BUSY. It was beyond packed, and freezing, but we still had so much fun. The lights were beautiful, and after about 10 minutes of being outside, you were so frozen that the cold didn’t even really bother you anymore, so that was a nice plus : )

us at temple square

After we finally decided to head back to the car to thaw ourselves out, we decided to head for the hotel and call it a night. We were up at 5 o’clock the next morning getting ready to catch our flight into Seattle.

Being in Washington for Christmas was really fun, and MUCH warmer than Idaho : ) Mom and Dad Dickson decided it was their mission to feed us enough to last us a month, and they sure succeeded. Besides taking us out to Shari’s, Ivar’s, and Anthony’s, mom is an exceptional cook and I think we ended up spending more time eating then not. But neither of us were about to complain : )

On Christmas morning we woke up, showered, got all bundled up (even though it was like 50 degrees outside!) and went caroling. It was SO MUCH FUN! It was so nice to see how excited all the people got when we went to their house. Once we got back we opened presents and headed to church. On Monday we had the whole family over and let me tell you… there was a LOT of people there! It was such a blast! Robs favorite part of Christmas was he bought his brother Nate a gun… not just any gun…Robs DREAM gun! I’m pretty sure he cried a little bit after we bought it and he realized that he was holding one of the guns of his dreams… and he was giving it to someone else. Haha, it was so worth it when he saw the look on Nate’s face when he gave it to him though.

caroling

  

Ivar's

The rest of the week went by in a blur. One day Rob took me around his town and showed me all the fun places. We got to walk around a lake, and it was GORGEOUS. He also took me to Frugals. It was… delicious! I decided that Idaho Falls needs to invest into this place because I’ve been craving it ever since we got back, it was that good! One night we went out with Twyla and Aaron and watching the new Mission Impossible movie, it was VERY good. I highly recommend it! Another night we also went and hung out with Lanae and Matt, and that was so much fun! One of the last days the boys decided to go shooting, and I got to go shopping with mom and some of the sisters, and that was too much fun! Haha. I got…easily talked into buying a new coat, and I absolutely love it! Rob is so patient with me and my coat fetish : )

All too soon though the vacation was over and we were back on a plane headed for home, but not without oodles of fun memories that will never be forgotten. It was so nice to have the break from the real world and relax and enjoy the families company. We are already anxious to go back again! It was an amazing break all the way around, and it was definitely a Christmas that will never be forgotten.

Thanksgiving Break

For Thanksgiving this year we got to spend a few days up in Island Park at my parents cabin with my family. Rob MAGICALLY got four whole days off of work, so Wednesday night we made the hour and a half drive to the cabin. Thursday we were busy cooking all day, but we still managed to have some fun :)

                                              (He's totally sucking in :P )

   (we decided to dance for everyone, sorry it's so blurry, sadly it's the clearest one we got)
After our yummy snacking, dinner, dessert, and second dessert we all thought it wise to just take the rest of the night easy and try to move as little as possible, so we watched movies, played games, and just kind of chilled.

Friday we all headed home and I somehow managed to talk Rob into Christmas shopping!!!! It's a very good thing that Black Friday only comes around once a year, because we are way to good at shopping. But we did get some amazing presents and other fun stuff.
Overall I thought it was a really fun 'first Thanksgiving' for us. It was so nice for Rob to have a break from work for a few days, and I really enjoyed the time that I got him all to myself :)

Here We Go!!!

We have recently gotten internet at our house (due to my husbands persistent yet patient reminding) and it has been wonderful! Rob was looking through all of his brothers and sisters blogs getting 'all caught up' on everyone's lives the other day, and after over an hour of bouncing around on everyone's blogs he finally puts his computer down, looks at me with almost a pouting/puppy dog face and says, "Why don't we have a blog???" Haha it was just too cute... So here we go! We now have a blog!!!

Here's the lowdown on our life and all of it's adventures:

Larissa Janae Dickson: I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 8, 1990. My family moved around a bit until we finally planted in Idaho Falls where I graduated from Hillcrest High School. Excited to 'get out and experience the "real world" ' I ran off to school at BYU-Idaho where I ended up majoring in Business Management (which basically meant I had NO IDEA what I wanted to do, but I had to pick a major to appease the school and my daddy, so there ya go!). I'm 21, currently trying out the 'homemaker' job title, and LOVING it!

Robin Southworth Dickson: Rob was born in Provo, Utah on April 28, 1988. His family ended up settling down in Enumclaw, Washington where he grew up and graduated. He served his mission in the Salt Lake, Utah area and once he got off his mission he enrolled at BYU-I where he partied hard for 2 semesters. He ended moved in with his Aunt in Idaho Falls during his off track so he could work as an Operations-Manager at Maverick. After suffering through that job for almost a year he hit a lucky spell and got hired up at the wind farms for Invenergy, and he LOVES it. What guy wouldn't love climbing ladders for a living right?!

Our Story: Rob and I met at...wait for it...  Harry Potter The Deathly Hallows Part 1 midnight premier! Epic right?! I was super stoked to go, he...showed up because he had nothing better to do. Turns out his cousin who he was living with at the time was one of my friends from high school and we all ended up hanging out that night. Less than 1 month later we were dating, less than 2 months after that we were engaged, and less than 3 months after that we were finally married in Idaho Falls temple.  Now we're living in Idaho Falls just a block away from the temple... And everything else is history!!!

Bors Dickson: Once Rob and I were engaged, we decided that we needed to make our family a little bit bigger, so we bought a puppy! (mainly due to my begging and begging and BEGGING to get a dog) Bors was born in March 2010, is 3/4 lab and 1/4 black and tan coon hound. He's pretty much the cutest dang dog in the entire world. Even though Rob will swear that Bors is my dog, he's definitely a daddy's boy and doesn't have much to do with me unless I have treats for him :)  Despite his barking, jumping, drooling, and licking... we really do love him (even though one of us is complaining about him 95% of the time :)  ).

And that's about it! For right now it's just me and my boys and we are all LOVING life and trying to enjoy it to it's fullest!