Merry Chirstmas

I hope everyone had a wonder Christmas. I know we had a great Christmas. I did not take a lot of photos on Christmas, I guess we were having to much fun. As usual Matt woke me up at 4:45 AM cause he gets really excited and also wants to be the first one at his parents house to eat. His dad makes all of us our own breakfast to order, it is delicious and we always look forward to it. Matt was so excited for breakfast that we only opened a couple of presents in the morning and saved the rest for later in the day. We always for some reason forget to go grocery shopping before the holidays so we did not have any thing to eat so the last few years we end up at Denny's. It is usually not very good and the wait is forever. So if anyone would like two extra guest to dinner next year let us know. Denny's is one tradition I hope does not stick around!! Here are some pictures as usual I took lots of pictures of the nieces and nephews and none of Matt & I.

Matt in his Christmas Pajamas.

This is our sad looking tree, we put it up the day after Thanksgiving and I forgot to take a picture. It stopped drinking water about 2 weeks after it was up, so it died and looks really sad.It was a lot fuller at one time! The small silver tree next to it is the tree we bought for our first married Christmas together cause we lived in a basement so we just had a little tree.
The stockings were hung! I just thought my fireplace was cute!

This is what Santa brought Matt

This is what Santa brought Alyssa

This is what Santa brought our family.

We are kids at heart if you can not tell by our presents.

Mollie and her Michael Jackson glove. She loves Michael Jackson, she would not take the glove off she even had to sleep in it.

Ben

Brenna & Aubrey

Zachary & Jonathan

Aubrey showing off her cute apron.

Late Halloween

I love Halloween, it is my absolute favorite holiday. I love to decorate and pass out candy. This year we had a few halloween parties and I had Bunco so we dressed up. Matt was Wheres Waldo and I was his Girlfriend Wenda. Here are some fun pictures.
Matt

Zach & Aubrey

Randi & Brittany

Tawnya & Michelle

Jen, Brittany & Jenny

Bunco Girls

Trixie & Jake

Happy Veterans Day

Today is a great day, I am so glad we have Veterans day to honor all of the men and women who have served our country. If I ran the country they would all be well taken care of and never have to worry about anything for serving our country and allowing us to have our freedoms. A month ago my grandfather passed away, he served in the Air force in WWII and Korea. He was defiantly my HERO. At his funeral they had the color guard the did the 21 gun solute and then they present someone with the flag. I had the honor of receiving the flag. I will Cherish that flag forever. Here are a few pictures of my grandfathers medals and the flag at his funeral. (don't worry no dead people) On the weird funny side, my grandpa was cremated, the past couple of days I keep having dreams about him, and just have a feeling he has been with me, well last night I was cleaning off the counter to find out my brother had left my grandpa sitting on my counter. I said all along that I did not want to have his ashes in my house but I guess I just needed a reminder of what today was all about. Sorry for the crazy sad post.

At the funeral we all wore red socks because those were the only color socks he wore, but you can not buy red socks so we had to die them, so they are a little pink.

Happy Anniversary

9 Years ago today was Matt & my first date. And yesterday was our 7 year wedding anniversary. Time sure does go by fast. But I think we are still the only people who live in Utah county and have been married this long with out kids!!! Happy Anniversary Matt.

Girls Camp

Well I decided I better update my blog so I will start with Girls camp. I am the assistant camp director, so i get to do all the dirty work, like plan meals and pack everything. But if you know me that is the stuff i like doing and I make really good food. Girls camp was so much fun and we have the best young women. (I know ever leader says that but we really do) We went to Heber for 4 days but we did not get cabins, we had tents and port a potties YEAH!!!! We had a lot of fun and I hope I get to do it again next year. Our girls did a certification relay with all the other wards, and we won, so we received a new dutch oven for our ward. So enjoy all of our fun photos.

All of us

Camp Fire

Squish & Cassie getting ready to the skit.

Heidi, Jenny & Raz

Leaders

Cassie eating a raw egg shell and all.

Our girls winning the certification relay.

Grandma Julie & Heidi

Baby Baxter & Small Fry

Ready to go home

Just hanging out.

Saturday we hung out with Shawn, Kim and the kids. We always have a lot of fun hanging out with them. And I think I have some of the cutest Nieces & Nephews ever!!!

Jacob he is so cute!!

I painted Mollie & Aubrey's Toes.
Mollies Toes

Aubrey's Toes

Mollie, Aubrey & Alyssa's toes

Mollie was so excited to show Shawn her toes it was cute!

I had to post this video of Mollie singing her ABC's It is so cute!

April

Sorry I am a slacker, I have been really bad at blogging so I figured catch every one up April for now.

on April 5th My Nephew Jonathan turned 8'
He had a friend party where we went and played laser tag. ( yes I said we matt & I are big kids)

Then on his birthday we took Jonathan, Brenna, Zach & Aubrey to see

Then the next Saturday he was Baptized by his dad.

It was such a special day for him.

This is the race car cake I made, but it melted in the car & it was my first time making something like this so it is not perfect.

Jonathan & Zachary

These are just some crazy weather photos I took while sitting on the porch. I think they are really cool.

Janice, Tawnya & Natalie on our way to Women's conference

And I just had to add a photo of Jacob cause he is so dang cute!!