My favoriet Christmas things

1- Old Fashioned peppermint chews: these are the greatest treat that I wait around for all year. They are not easy to find but I got lucky when I went into the Basket Loft.




2- Christmas Lights! I love driving down the stree and looking at all the houses with Christmas Lights.




3- Christmas cards, I love getting Christmas cards! Hopefully next year I will be better about sending some out.


4- Shopping!!!!! What more can I say I love to shop. I had so much fun picking out every ones gifts this year that I struggled when telling Andrew what to get me.

O Christmas Tree



Christmas

Well after a long time of trying to figure out how to place the pictures is the right order I finally gave up and dealt with the fact that they are not in order.
Thank goodness for CHRISTMAS!!! I cannot believe how fast Christmas has come this year. I still feel completely unorganized, but I plan on having everything ready by this Friday and then I can enjoy the Holiday season.
So moving onto these pictures... It was about the first week into Christmas and I was going crazy with finals and so I made Andrew go out and find a Christmas tree all by himself. I know what a scrooge. Well, after going to two places he didn’t have any luck and I was missing him and so we met up and found this amazing Frasier Fur, the most fragrant of the Christmas trees. This was not an easy find since Andrew had already been to two places by himself and two more with me, but finally we settled on this wonderful perfectly proportioned tree.
I know that in the 1st picture, Andrew is holding a brick and it looks a little suspicious but it is actually to put in our tree stand to make the tree look taller. That is our inventiveness coming through.

It's Halloween!

Well, in the spirit of Halloween I thought that I would show you the great costumes of Andrew, Ashton and Clair. Personally I am just in love with Clair's costume, her little behind is so cute! And will you all please take a good look at Andrew's creative costume. Just picture this guy walking down the street, it's hilarious. P.S. he can't see out of the box.













I've been tagged!!!




Well I have been tagged by my wonderful sister and Alicia you know what that means.... Your next! (sorry, but I have to).

#1. Rules of the game must be posted at the beginning.
#2. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.
#3. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Well here I go...
1. I cannot stop thinking about not having to be in school after December. I think about this so often that it is beginning to show in my work. Oops.
2. I have a tendency to pick up a book and not do anything until it is finished. This is especially bad because I am still in school and I would rather read an interesting book than a textbook.
3. I like to think that I am a crafty person but in reality it is only the ideas that I get in my head or the cute things out of magazines that make me think I am crafty. I usually get most ideas from my sister Kelli because she is on the top of the crafty person list.
4. I have an intense love for fashion, even though my money now goes to responsibility. Well at least I have window-shopping, right?
5. The radio station that I listen to 90% of the time in my car is classical 89. I know I'm a sad old women but I like to think that it gives me extra class. Plus I do really like it.
6. One of my favorite places for a weekend getaway is St. George. It's just so relaxing.

Ok so I am tagging Alicia, Tiffany, Mikki Platt, and Camille

New nephew on the way!


My sister is having a boy!! I am so excited for her and for me because I love getting new nieces and nephews. She is due in February and I think that Ashton will love having a baby brother and that Clair will be such a good big sister.

Lake Powell


Some of the couples in our neighborhood take an annual trip to Lake Powell over Labor Day and we were lucky enough to be invited. I have to say that I was a little hesitant to go in the beginning because I have not been the social butterfly that I know I should be so I didn't know the couples that well. This of course was not an issue with Andrew because come on anyone who knows him knows that he is the most social person they have ever met! Well all in all I am so glad that we went because it made me get out of my protective shell that for some odd reason I have made for myself and actually meet the awesome couples that are in our neighborhood.
I do have to give myself some brownie points (even though Andrew might laugh at me), but I did try to wakeboard!! I have no pictures to prove it but I wouldn't lie about something as big as this. I did get up once, officially but then syked myself out and couldn't do it again. So maybe next year I will get up twice!
Here are some pictures to prove how AWESOME our neighborhood is!

Disneyland


So my whole family right this very moment is in Disneyland and I am stuck here at work with a sinus infection. Seriously I would much rather be in Disneyland!
Andrew hasn't been to Disneyland since he was like six and come on no one remembers how magical Disneyland is especially now with all the renovations. Also Andrew has absolutely no desire to go to Disneyland seriously who did I marry!!! No just kidding but seriously I will make him love Disneyland someday.

New hair cut




Ok for all of you who have been dying to see my new hair cut, ( Alicia this is for you), here it is! Sorry the picture is not very good.

Eric

congratulations to Eric for taking 2nd place overall at theYuba triathlon!!!!
And I can't forget about Andrew who took first in his age group!!
You guys ROCK.

School


I just started school once again at the UofU and this semester is nice because I only go Monday and Thursday nights. I also have one online class that I am not excited about taking at all. My online class is an art class and I'm not saying that I don't like art but I would rather read a textbook about something a little more exciting than how the artists uses visual elements to create a piece of art. But like always the semesters zoom past and so this will be over sooner than I know it!!

Our blog

So I am finally creating a blog after a long discussion with Andrew, who opposes this completely.