saturday adventures: {and finally! a tree}

today was so fun!

i woke up at the crack of dawn for no good reason.

but then i thought:  why not make the most of this?

thus came the cleaning, scrubbing, wiping, spraying frenzy.

i do love cleaning.

john woke up {at a more reasonable hour for a saturday morning},

to a scary-looking wife.

sleeves rolled up, hair in a tight bun, six inches deep in shower cleaner.

he must have known what he was in for.

once the shower and bathrooms and laundry and kitchen were done,

we cleaned the garage!

oh what fun.

this is the garage before we cleaned it....

and this is the garage three hours later....

i know.  you're definitely impressed.

it was a fun and also terrifying experience.

and i mean terrifying because we had an encounter with a rather nasty-looking spider.

and john and i made a critical oversight in our choice of spouse....

neither of us can be the spider-killer.

but john bravely took the job.

he's such a brave man.

and it was hilarious watching him gingerly picking up the towels that the spider was hiding in...

trying to catch and kill something that is merely a millionth of his size.

i could laugh because i wasn't the one having to deal with it.

or i would be crying.

in the end, john come out victorious.

we had to dispose of the towels, obviously.

a spider had been on them!

{anyways...}

john was so very excited,

to be able to park his car in the garage.

and avoid the fifteen minute de-icing routine that he has grown so accustomed to.

our saturday adventures didn't stop there.

we next went to get new tires for john's car,

grab some lunch,

go to sunflower market and costco,

go to bed bath & beyond

{and drive back and forth and back and forth many times in between}.

and finally, the best for last.

at our ward christmas party,

we got to sit on santa's lap: