Category Archives: Holidays

Posts about celebrating holidays with our family and those we love. Who doesn’t love a good holiday celebration?

A New Tradition

Holidays,

So now that we’ve been married over a year, it’s fun because we’re starting to do things together that we’ve already done before. We had our second Christmas together (with Paige’s family this year), we celebrated our second New Year’s (but I don’t think either of us really remember the first because we were both sick and drugged up on Nyquil then), and we had our second Valentines Day.

Last year to celebrate, Josh suggested that we pack a dinner, take out the back seats, and drive somewhere for scenic picnic in the back of the car. This year when we were deciding what to do for Valentines, I said, “I really liked that picnic last year. Why don’t we do it again?” Josh was all for it, so we did. And this time we planned a little more ahead and decided to cook a fancy dinner, French cuisine being the theme. It was fun to cook together and way delicious to eat our meal together (the menu consisted of tomates farcies, an omelette aux asperges, brie cheese, a demi baguette, sparkling cider, and—best part—a delicious French pastry called a millefeuille). So, delicious meal? Absolutely. Were we stuffed afterwards? Better believe it. And new Valentines Day tradition? We think so.

Oh, and after dinner, we headed to our stake’s Valentines Dance, which was a blast. They had an antique photo booth, where we had these fun shots taken. Hope you enjoy!

Say Hey

Music Video Time!

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So it was my sister Audrey’s idea this Christmas to make a music video for my mom–apparently she really likes homemade music videos. Christmas day, after Josh and I opened our brand new video camera (our Christmas present to ourselves, yay!), we headed to the park and shot this amazingly awesome music video. Josh filmed it and (with some help from me) edited it, and it was ready to give to my mom the day after Christmas. After we had all enjoyed a tasty banquet of homemade sushi, my sister Brenn dropped in, “You know what would go great with this meal? A music video.” To which my mom oh-so-perfectly replied: “Speaking of, you guys should make me one!” We presented her with the DVD right then and there, and Mom loved it. Josh and I had a lot of fun making this video with my sisters, so enjoy!

“Say Hey” Ellsworth Sisters Music Video from Joshua Lyman on Vimeo.

Happy Halloween!

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After a stressful week of midterms, homework, assignments, work, and SNOW, Josh and I had a way fun Halloween. On Friday we came home from school, made Josh’s costume (Josh: Paige made it, and it was awesome!) (Paige: mine was recycled from a past year), and headed to our ward’s Halloween party. Though our dessert didn’t win the prize even though they were the first ones eaten (sorry, Mom–we still think your cinnamon rolls are the best dessert EVER), we had a lot of fun seeing everyone’s creative costumes and eating yummy food. Saturday we entertained the few trick-or-treaters brave enough to come up to our haunted-looking house, and we watched a movie. But our costumes were definitely way fun! I was Dorothy and Josh was the Scarecrow. Enjoy the pictures!