Dipping Chocolates

Back when Kurtis and his sister's were young, the Koch side of his family would dip chocolates for Christmas every year. Well, his family decided to bring the tradition back and we dipped chocolates yesterday. We each brought our own things we wanted to dip and pounds and pounds of chocolate. (Seriously, we used about 4 packages of Almond Bark and I swear somewhere between 8-10 packages of real milk chocolate!) It was so much fun and now we have chocolates to give coworkers and neighbors for Christmas goodies!!

Table one of chocolates....

And tables two and three full of chocolates...

Close up of the Isle Idles and peanut butter cups.

Yummy truffles and chocolate cinnamon bears...

White chocolate and sprinkle pretzel rods...

Susan (Kurtis' mom) with the girls (our neices)

This is Kaylee, our neice, just after getting back from the ER after putting a bead up her nose!! Poor thing!

Cute little Pearson (our nephew!!)

Thanksgiving in Florida

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Orlando, FL with my family to hang out in the warmth at Disneyworld. We went park hopping to the Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Epcot and the Animal Kingdom!! It was go, go, go the whole trip and we felt like we needed a vacation to rest after this vacation but it was a lot of fun and a great way to spend Thanksgiving!! Thanks mom and dad for taking us and we missed not having you there Jeff and Amanda!!!

Disney's Animal Kingdom park - this is a Safari ride at the park in which we get to see wild animals close up!

This is us about to do the Bug's Life 3D - It's Tough to be a Bug! Our glasses are awesome!

Expedition Everest roller coaster ride at Animal Kingdom...best roller coaster ever!!

Eating turkey legs on Thanksgiving day at Magic Kingdom...They're huge and so good!

Tower of Terror ride at Hollywood Studios...it's like an elevator that drops you 13 stories!

The street of dancing lights at Hollywood Studios...the street was covered in millions of Christmas lights and they had fake snow coming out of machines on the top of the buildings to make it feel Christmasy!! We sat there forever enjoying the Christmas music and watching the lights blink along with the songs....it was the best!

The last day it rained and we went on the Expedition Everest in the rain and got soaked!! Here's Kurtis soaked and a shot out the car window of the downpour!!

U of U Blackout Game!!

We were there!! What an awesome ending!! Go UTES!! 10-0 baby!!

Reception/Wedding pics

Our reception/wedding pics have been posted. Check them out if you get a chance
go to julieparkerphotography.com
click on weddings photo
click on proofing on the lower right hand side
password is Kurt and Nicole (don't forget the spaces!)
We are really pleased with the results!!

Enjoy

Honeymoon Pics!!

Ok so this is going to be a little backwards since we haven't gotten our wedding pictures yet, but here are some pictures of our honeymoon! We went to Kauai and it was a blast, but it felt way too short! The weather was perfect...it would rain at night so we played in the sun the whole trip, well except for the last day... that day we'd drive and it'd be sunny and then bam it'd be a giant downpour and we wouldn't have the top on the Jeep up! It was so fun!! Enjoy the pictures!!

The view from our hotel room!! Woohoo!

Spouting Horn

Tunnel of Trees

Our sunset dinner cruise of the Napali Coast

A dolphin swimming alongside our boat!!

Ok here's the story with this picture. We ate at this place that we figured would be pretty good. Well, Kurtis ordered the Asian Ribs and this is what he got...the purple goo is supposed to be potato salad!! Yes potato salad!! They sat it down and we're both like...um what is that? Hence the picture... we tasted it and still to this day can't figure out what exactly this "potato salad" was made out of and why is was purple...

The random drenching rains!!

Kurtis warming himself up in the dry cave!

We went on an ATV tour through a sugar plantation! It was a blast! We got so dirty!

It was an amazing honeymoon an we're finally married!! Yay!