Christmas 2011

Christmas was perfect! First, I didn't have to work and second we figured out a system to spend time with families and not miss anything.
Jay broke Erin's bowl from her dish set which is no longer made awhile ago. My dad found a new one on replacements.com and wrapped with a tag from Jay it was hilarious. My dad would do anything to make his kids happy even search for hours for a bowl.

Isn't that the cutest smile you've ever seen! I love that he now knows how to smile for pictures.

We gave Landon a wii game which he obviously loved but by the time he got

two games he looked around and said they don't have a wii.

Drew trying out the amazing hot packs my sister gave me. She gave me the idea to heat it up and throw it in bed while I get ready for bed and then I have a warm cozy bed to get in.. I love it! She and Jay also gave me a super cute scarf.

The bball Jay and Erin gave Drew.. way to read his mind it's exactly what he wanted ;).

My cute parents and my dad's favorite.. bottled rootbeer! We love going to their house Christmas Eve for Danish pastry, the Christmas story, and presents.

Nixon on his new four wheeler

Finally they opened the wii from my parents and both started jumping up and down.

We gave Brynley stationery and the "Tangled" barbie. Brynley loves doing hair and it saved mine for the day :).

We missed you Nats in our girls pictures this year!

Brynley and Landon were loving taking pictures and always wanted funny faces.

Brynley's attempt

After my parents, we went up to Heber to eat dinner and spend the rest of the night

with my dad's family. Drew is showing off his white elephant gift.

Santa came to visit again this year!

She is hanging on for dear life trying to get as far away from Santa as she can haha.

Nixon wasn't sure what to think of Santa.

Foosball competition.. it always cracks me up how they get so

into it they are sweating at the end.

All the girl cousins

Drew playing Roland in airhockey

Drew's family Christmas day. We ate breakfast, went to church with

them, and opened lots of presents! We love watching the kiddos open their presents! I should have taken more pictures but here are the couple I have plus some from Crystal I borrowed :)

Crystal surprised Josh with an ipad. It was fun to watch his face as he opened

it and see how excited Crystal was to give it to him.

Later on Christmas we went up to Odgen to my uncles house to be with my mom's family and have dinner. We ate a delicious dinner and watched the First Presidency Christmas Devotional. My cousins encourage Drew to be difficult for pictures can you tell.

Finally we got home about 11pm and opened out presents to each other. The only surprise present Drew had was Brighton ski passes for a day. It was a fun and busy Christmas weekend!

Birthday

Lasagne dinner at my parents.. mmm...My amazing heat pack and cute taylor swift card from Erin

No wonder Nixon things he can play on computers.. grandpa tells him he can play on his

Yum! Strawberry dessert

Temple square

I can't believe I am already 24! Where does time go? I feel like I should still be in highschool instead I'm graduated (kinda) with a full time job and buying a house (hopefully). Drew spoiled me this year with a fun date. My birthday was right in the middle of my finals week so I spent the morning doing homework. After we went to a movie, the mall, to Olive Garden, and to see the lights downtown. The next day we had a birthday dinner for my mom and I at my mom's and had lasagne mmm and strawberry shortcake. My mom treated both of us to massages and einstein bagels after. My parents gave me the rest of this nativity (Michelle Lunt gave me the starter kit for my wedding) and I absolutely love it. I never could have justified buying all of it with Drew so it was perfect! Drew's family gave me lots of gift cards I'm excited to use! Finally, two of my cousins and my mom and I all have December bdays so my aunt and mom took all of us and my sister out to lunch at Olive Garden. It was a fun and perfect birthday weekend!

December

We had a fun and busy December!

Drew's sister Dani gets married next week! We are so excited for her and really like Dave.

Her ward shower: Robin, Clarissa, Dani, Crystal, and me
The week between Christmas and New Years I took off work and went to the cabin with my family. Drew came up when he could get a little bit of time off work. There wasn't a ton of snow but it was fun anyways. We still went snowmobiling and had my mom's side of the family up for a day. I finally ordered another charger and gave up on finding mine after I saw out of four pictures from the cabin one is really blurry :(.

One of my favorite things about the cabin besides hanging out with these kiddos is you don't feel like you have to ever get out of pjs or do your makeup.. my kind of vacation!

Earlier in the month we went to festival of trees with Jannali, Ryan, Mary, Bryce and Megan. It was fun and as always the food is delicious!

Bryce and Megan did an ugly sweater and white elephant party. We got a barbie and sunglasses haha. It was fun eating and chatting.

Jannali and me

Kylie and Megan with Mary

We are excited for Steve and Kylie they are having a boy!

Jake and Jenna

Brynley had her gymnastics performance to Christmas music.

It was adorable and fun to watch.

We had a girls/guys night and this is the only picture I got to remember it sorry Jannali :). The girls went to CPK and did crafts and the boys went to a Jazz game after eating wings. It's nice drew's friends wives all get along it makes everything easy!

Once again I have no pictures to show but a couple of girls I went to highschool with (Jena and Ali) did a highschool reunion in December. It was fun to see everyone and catch up! Most of them I had not seen since last years reunion. Emily and Al were also in town from Oregon so we got to hang out with them for a bit.

My parents also took us to Christmas Carol at Hale Theater. I always love it even though I saw it every year growing up. It's one of my favorite traditions.

Drew did well at work this month and overall our month was fun and productive!