my my time flies.

one year ago from monday night, this cute boy got down on one knee

and asked me to be his Mrs. for forever.

i said "of course!" and he's made me the happiest, luckiest girl

in the world ever since.

hubs wants to chime in! welcome willy. :)

Can't believe its been a year already! I will never forget last Christmas, I was so excited to propose to Kari and carried the ring with me everywhere I went until it came time to. I was anxiously awaiting her arrival all Christmas until finally she was here! Now we get to spend Christmas together for the first time and we are excited! I love you sweety, so glad I got you for Christmas last year and for every Christmas to come!!

recovering

Last Saturday, me, Will, and our buddy Mike, made our first trip of the season to the Canyons to snowboard. We had a blast and the boys were killin it, doing what they do best! It's gonna take me years of practice to get to their level.. it's tough stuff! But i plan on never giving up.

It's all fun and games until somebody breaks an arm..

Will snapped his arm on a handrail at the end of the day. I've never seen my hubs in so much pain.. poor guy has been on drugs all week and i've been playing his nurse. It's been both a trial and a blessing: the trial is that he's had to push back his finals and not get very much sleep; the blessing in it, however small it may be, is that we've been able to spend more time together and fallen even more in love with each other. Wishing you a swift recovery honey!

A break from the cold

Last weekend we drove down to Arizona for Thanksgiving.

It was a much needed trip and lots of fun to drive with my honey and jam out to Pandora (Well Will might not agree completely.. he drove about 15 hrs and me only 5 for the whole round-trip. So what. I needed my beauty rest.. the guy is already goRGEOUS!

Some big events that happened down there:

We finally got to meet my baby niece Violet, aka the cutest little squirt!

(Picture stolen from Afton's fb, mine didn't do her justice..

most adorable baby you've ever laid eyes on, right? )

I got to see my closest girlfriends and catchup.

Boy everyone's growing up so fast! I love them. :)

We got to master a few new games (my family is big on board games)

and Will discovered his new love.. "Ticket to Ride".

I think we played it a whopping 3 times that whole weekend!

Maybe it will magically appear in wrapping paper under our Christmas tree this month hmm.. :)

Look up there ^ aren't they adorable?

That's our girl Metzli and her boyfriend Ryan.

We like them alot.

Speaking of Christmas.. can you believe Santa comes in 21 days!?

I love the end of the year, filled with month after month holidays and parties to boot.

A girl's gotta have her nights to dress up and snarf down a few extra cookies..

am i right or am i right?

Merry December!

say cheese

Howdy strangers!

It's been a while since my last post,
but we have had one too many things on our To Do List!

I know.. excuses, excuses..

I could post about how exciting my work, and his school and job training were..

But i'd rather just post a bunch of pictures of the fun things we've done in between it all. :]

Will took me to my 2nd ever BYU game. Last time was fun, but everything is more fun with this boy.

We got some more Fall pictures taken by my sweet highschool cheer friend, Eryn! She needed models for a school project and I love pictures, so it was a win win!

We celebrated the 2nd annual Friendsgiving at Zach and Roxy's place. Will was so proud of his homemade Pilgrim hat.
I would be too.. boy's got crafty skills!

Everyone have a great short work week and a happy Thanksgiving!

Dear Mom and Dad, welcome to Utah!

My parents came to visit this week hip hip hooray!

We had as much fun as you could possibly pack into a couple of nights.

We played an intense game of Phase 10, Dad and Will won.

We went for a swim at their hotel with my brother, sis-in-law, nieces and nephew.

We all found out my brother's wife Letitia is 3 months pregnant, yippee for babies! This will be their 5th, holy cow! I keep telling Will we need to catch up.. my tactics don't work on him.

Dad's birthday dinner was at Pizza Hut, that's LeSueur style dining and boy was it de-LISH!

Richard and Letitia took us on a tour of their new house. It was nice!

Last but not least, we played in the snow! 2 weeks till the Canyons opens and we can snowboard yeeahh buddy!

deck the halls!

I know we're jumping the gun alittle.. but this weekend consisted of making stockings, drinking far too many cups of cocoa, watching Home Alone, and ice skating. I think the first snowfall of the season may have had something to do with our little Christmas buzz. The grown-up in me says "geez at least wait until after Thanksgiving!" but the little kid in me screams out "SANTTTTAAAA'SSS COMMMIIINGGGG! I know him!!!!" So obviously i've been giving into my fun side more. Merry Christmas, enjoy some pics of another fabulous weekend at the Betenson home!

He makes a mean cup of cocoa.

When you get married, you no longer date another single.. (duh)

you date couples! This was a fun one with Mike and Erika. :]


Here's a flashback to Halloween at my work. These girls are awesome!

halloweening.

So last night me, my babe of a husband, and our buddy Mike went to Savers to hunt down the rest of our Halloween costumes. I love finding hidden treasures for super cheap prices, thrifting is a huge hobby of mine! So our buy consisted of teeny men's black work boots for me, old Levi's that we're gonna cut into shorts, and a flannel shirt for will (I already have one perfect for this).. can you guess what we'll be? :]

We're planning a THRILLER of a Halloween party at Mike's condo for this weekend. So far we've got bobbing for apples, carving pumpkins, donuts on a string game, spooky decorated cupcakes and goodies, dance party, Frankenstein movie, and costume contest on the agenda! This is going to be too much fun! Now I just gotta make it through this week at work without exploding..

A couple weeks ago, at Witches Night Out with Will's mom and sisters (Will and Chelsea's husband Derek came along for the yummy dinner @ Archibald's).