Christmas goodies.

we started our festivities out with lunch at the Earl's on Christmas Eve.
Isaac was a great uncle and gave all the boys Slinky's and other boy toys.


Luke & Dallin loved the Slinky's


the best Christmas surprise we got was when Whitney & Jordan told the family that they are expecting a baby next August. how exciting!!! that'll be 3 new babies next year in mine & isaac's families.

later that night we went over to my parent's house for our Christmas Eve dinner. we had breakfast for dinner this year and it was awesome.


Carter, Kaden & Kye checking out the electric train under the Christmas tree. notice Keyan is making his usual pose and showing some 'tude.


My oh-so-good-looking husband cooked up a batch of scrumptious sour cream banana pancakes. they were obviously a hit because zane had him TRIPLE the recipe. yes, we do love leftovers.


everyone lent a hand in the kitchen


Grandpa Stan got out the bells and the grand kids performed a song with the bells. very beautiful music.


and it wouldn't be Christmas without our luminaries. Of course, one starting on fire and causing a small flame is nothing to worry about.


then the grand kids opened their gifts.


isaac and i went home and finished wrapping presents for each other and then quickly decided to start our own tradition of opening all our present on Christmas Eve. it was awesome! the blanket at the bottom of this pic is the one that i (and my wonderful family members) sewed for him. he loved it!


my Christmas stocking from isaac. it was FULL to the brim with m & m's, peanuts and other goodies.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and had lots of joy in your hearts.

Christmas update

well, this might be the last post before Christmas. we'll see.

isaac and i have been super-busy the past few weeks. imagine. :)
we are both very much looking forward to having a few days off work for the holiday and being able to sleep in. whoever said that once you were married you would go to bed early was obviously not one of us. we can't go to bed early to save our lives. there is always something to do - watch a movie at 2:00 a.m., work on organizing our house and eating ice cream. we are so lame.

anyway - moving on.
last night we went to brigette and justin's house for dinner and decorating gingerbread houses with the kids. it was so fun. it's always fun to be around the niece and nephews, so this was a fun night.


the gingerbread house making crew


i helped Kye with his house and it was so funny to watch him master the icing and sticking things to it


Keyan was so proud of his creation


dianne and her house


another masterpiece


here is a pic of our first Charlie Brown Christmas tree. he's been a great tree - we just keep watering him too much and he pees on the carpet. see the great decorations?!?!? isaac had a great idea to buy jingle bells and hang them on the tree - and it is awesome when you walk by and they jingle.

So - we haven't gotten our Christmas newsletter done yet - i still have hope that it'll be done before the 25th. but, expect good things nonetheless. but just in case it doesn't hit the press before Santa hits the chimney - MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!!!!

the BIG news!!!!!

http://lorianddavid.blogspot.com/

scroll down to the bottom of her post from today, Friday December 19th to find out -


yay!!!!!!!

this is it!!!!

well, it's true - this is my last post from my Fall 2008 semester of my master's proram. i'm sitting in class listening to the last presentations and i've looked forward to this night for SOOOOOOOOOOO long.
i can make it to 10:00 tonight, knowing that next thursday i don't have to come sit here for 5 hours.

can i hear a whoo-whoo for Christmas break?!!?!?

and yes, i did horribly on my finals. dang it.

p.s. - stayed tuned for A VERY EXCITING POST tomorrow, Friday, December 20th. it might just change your life. it's definitely changing mine!!!!!!
any guesses?!?!?!

finals are tomorrow.

and i think that about sums up my happenings this week.

oh - and i just threw up in my mouth because of it.

happy wednesday.

before and after -

for those of you who haven't been to our new apartment yet (that's pretty much everyone) here are a few pics of our kitchen. i want you to know - i put everything away and got everything off of the floor, counters, out of boxes, etc. when we moved in. we were quite busy for the first few weeks of being married - so we needed to just get stuff out of the way.
well, my husband couldn't stand it any longer. he wanted our cabinets to be organized and to make sense. go figure. :)
so he took the job upon himself (bless his heart) and it took 2 days to complete. we had all our cupboards full of food plus 3 large tupperware bins full of food. if anyone gets hungry - come over. we'll have spaghetti.


here's a pic of all the empty cupboards - isaac pulled everything out and organized it to put back in.



what the??? oh yeah - i had to thank him for his hard work. :)

THE END PRODUCT


our spice cupboard. notice how nice and neat everything is





here's a close up of the spices - so you can appreciate how nice and neat and organized he made them. i'm amazed. i don't want to even touch anything for fear of messing it all up.


another cupboard


oh - my cute husband cooking me dinner after a long day at work and school, and after he organized my kitchen. he must love me.


and our new kitchen. see how nice and clean and everything it is? we left the cupboards open for this pic so you could see how great it all looks.

o.k. that's all for now. now we turn to organizing the rest of the house.

some pics -

here are some pics from the last couple of weeks - and our honeymoon


a sunset in wyoming - on our way to jackson - BEAUTIFUL!


the Tetons


us


us at a pretty lake - i forget if it was Jackson lake or Jenny lake. i think it was Jackson lake.


at the famous antlers in Jackson

and that's it. that's all the pictures we took on our honeymoon. sorry folks.

it's time.

for an update.

and it's thursday night. and what does that mean? it means i'm sitting in my economics class once again, totally bored out of my mind and not paying attention to the mind-boggling lecture that could save my life someday. or bore me to death. :)

this week is Festival Week which means that yes, i still have not gone back to work since i got married - almost 2 weeks ago! by the time i go back to work on monday - i will have had 2 1/2 weeks away from work. thank you to my lovely and talented cell-mate, Erin, who has had to deal with my workload while i've been absent. she's on the fast track to Heaven.

Festival has been AWESOME this year. it's been nice and chill, i've gone home early each night and things are going REALLY smoothly. of course, we still have 80 large trees to sell before saturday night, but i'm not going to stress about that until saturday at about 4:00 pm.

i can't do my Festival job until all of the large trees are sold, so it's kind of a stressor the closer to saturday night at 10:00 that we get - cause that's when Festival ends. so if anyone is in the market for a wonderfully decorated Christmas tree - come to Festival and take a lookie. and remember - it's for the babies.
:)

http://www.festivaloftreesutah.org/