January update

I have officially been scolded for not updating my blog by my 10 year old neice. (Things have just been so BUSY!) So, Kaitlyn Marie, this one is for you. It actually is only a short list of events that have taken place in January.

This is us. Jason and Me.

* January really has been busy and crazy from the start. On New Years Eve night, Jason's beloved 1985 Toyota truck gave up the ghost. What a great way to start off the new year! We began the year searching for another vehicle, and we were quickly reminded just how much we hate car shopping. Luckily, we found another truck in only a few short weeks! Yipee...and thank goodness!

* We made new years resolutions with each other. Let's just say that I am not off to a good start, but Jason is (and always is) the one who's on top of things. He has been getting his goals done! P.S. One of my goals is to read at least one new book a month. Any suggestions?

* Jason started another semester in school. Oh joy.

* We have had a few encounters with the Doctor already this year. Jason sprained his foot really bad last week at church ball. It really looked broken. The doctor said a few of his tendens are also "strained." Whatever that means. A week later, his foot is still swollen and looks lovely.

* Earlier this month, we made a quick trip down south to see some family. We had a wonderful meal with some of my siblings and their kids. We even got a fashion show from the girlies in their dress-ups. So cute and too much fun!

So there's the update and that is that.

Christmas 2011

This year marks our third Christmas together. Wow. Time sure flies! Jason and I enjoyed the holiday with family and friends here in the valley. It was nice to visit and see our family members. We really are so blessed. Now that the holidays are coming to an end, we wish we had a little more time to spend with them.

Due to tradition, we spent Christmas Eve at Grandma Halls. It was great food and company. The nativity reinactment was so cute to watch and was a good reminder of what Christmas is all about. Here are just a few pictures from the night.

Jason and I hurried home after the Christmas Eve Party to go to bed. Santa doesn't come to kids who are awake, you know! Below are the lovely morning shots of us opening our gifts that Santa left for us.

Jason got a new watch, belt (which was greatly needed!), and books. Santa left me a lot of baking goods, which was just what I asked for. And, yes. I tried them out a few minutes after opening them at 6:00 am. So exciting! But the best gift of all this year was a rocking chair that Jason made for me. So sweet. Isn't he the best?

It was a great Christmas that flew by. Jason and I are still wondering how the Christmas season went so fast this year.

Christmas in Burley

This weekend we celebrated Christmas with the fam in Burley. Luckily, we also got to celebrate Jordan's birthday while we were there too! (Eighteen!! Can you believe it?!) We played all weekend long with Jordan, Jayme, and Mom & Dad P. So fun! Thanks for entertaining us! Seriously, they are the best.

Thanks for letting us come stay! I wish we could have stayed longer.

Christmas lights

It was a special weekend for us. We were with friends and family at Temple Square. It was BEAUTIFUL! Ralph and Teresa took us all out to eat in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Yummy! And, they showed us around Temple Square. The lights are always so pretty and it is especially neat to be there around Christmas time.

The view from the JSMB. Pretty!

We spent the night in Bountiful and played games into the wee hours of the morning. It truely was a perfect weekend to be with family and friends and enjoy their company. Thank you to the Christensens for a great time!

a happy thanksgiving

Jason and I had a great Thanksgiving. Lots of food. Great people. What could be better? Here are a few highlights of the weekend.
*Thanksgiving day was spent in Lewiston. We ate at the 2nd ward church house with all the Halls. It gets a little crowded in one house with all of us. I made a pie (me and Marie Calendar that is).

*It's just tradition that a game of basketball will break out. Jason played a few games of lighting with the cousins. I tried to play with them, but the games not too fun when you're not so good.

*Later that day, Jason and the boys did a little demolition on the house. They removed the brick around a wood stove in the house. Mom made the mistake of saying that she wanted this done. And everyone went to work that minute. It was little noisy, but they had it done in no time. I wasn't any help at all. I just watched.

Jason had to work on Black Friday and so did I. We traveled up to Burley right after we got off on Friday. It was so, so nice to be there with our family. Here are the happenings of that weekend.

*We had our Thanksgiving feast on Saturday afternoon. I made rolls. Some of them came from the store though. I'm not skilled enough to do a big batch of rolls quite yet.

*Jason and I played games. It is nice to play cards and board games with more than two people, like Jason and I do all the time. We visited, laughed, and tried to get caught up on the happenings in everyone's lives. Seriously. We don't get up there as often as we would like.

* Jason and Bryan did a little work out in the yard on Saturday, with Michael watching from the window and making sure things were done correctly. I wish I had a picture of it all. Quite funny to watch.

(Speaking of pictures...I didn't get any pictures from our weekend in Burley. I was so mad at myself for my forgetfulness! I always forget to take pictures up there because there is always so much going on. This a picture from a while ago with our family - minus some additions. It will have to do.)
Unfortunately, we had a sad ending to our Thanksgiving weekend. I got sick on Saturday night, and I'm still fighting off this lingering cold. We left quite happy though because we got to see our family. The best part of Thanksgiving is just being with the people you love.

HALLoween = fun times

My sister, Jenn, is super creative and always is doing something fun. No lie. She came up to visit Cache Valley with her cute little family last weekend and had a halloween party with the other grandchildren. They played fun games, went to a haunted corn maze, watch a movie, etc. Jason and I kinda crashed the party for a little bit. (Thanks for not kicking us out!)

One of the games was a competition between two people to see who could eat an entire donut without using their hands. Like this....Umm.....I lost bad, but really funny to watch.

Thanks guys for a fun HALLoween party! I am already looking forward to bobbing for apples next year.

P.S. Jennah Grace didn't particularly like to be around me during her stay, but she sure thought Jason was really awesome. She played with Jason and giggled at him. I was a little bummed that I wasn't a favorite this go around, but itwas REALLY cute to see her play with her uncle. Simply darling.

halloween parties

Jason and I had a few Halloween parties this weekend. We had to rack our brains to come up with some costumes. We're not that creative. Seriously.

Some of Jason's coworkers had a party, and we went as Islanders. This was the best that we could do for that costume.Then we had a ward party, which was super fun. We went as a mobster from the 1920s and a flapper. Here's what we came up for that. Not too bad. Now we just need to come up with another costume for Halloween day. One more to go.