Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Long Weekend

Ooo, look at me! Two posts in less than a week. We were lucky enough to get a four day weekend and packed it chock-full. We headed to St. George to visit our friends, the Lofgrans. The kids had a great time playing and we all loved exploring Snow Canyon. Thanks for having us Megan and Adam!








About 24 hours later, we headed back to Vegas because my sister, Kim and her kids came into town to surprise my dad for his 65th birthday. We had a birthday dinner Sunday night (gotta love my mom's meatloaf!), followed by a cousins sleepover and a birthday lunch at Chevy's on Monday. Happy Birthday Dad! I love and appreciate you so much!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

2009 Holiday Review

Ready for the longest blog post ever? We had wonderful holidays with lots of family around. Here's a very condensed review:
- It was our first year back to two Thanksgivings, which I had forgotten is not that bad a racket!
- I celebrated my 31st birthday in early December with a very fun, relaxing, selfish day.
- I got called into the Relief Society presidency and was initiated by hosting the Christmas party.
- My parents got the cutest golden retriever puppy, Nani Wahini Nui (Beautiful Big Girl) to give my dad lots to do.
- Our first Christmas in our own house was terrific. It was one of those rare, pretty nearly perfect days.
- The day after Christmas, Bud and I had the funnest spur-of-the-moment anniversary night out.
- For New Years, after a "Nertz" tournament and partying with the cousins, the boys actually stayed awake until midnight and we had fun playing games and yelling "Happy New Year" off our balcony.
- The family left, school started back up and we got back to real life, which for some reason was a little bit welcome. But it really was a terrific holiday season!

Below are tons of pictures of the past month or so:

Practicing with my new camera:









Relief Society Christmas party which helped get my house in check:









Cousins, Cousins, Cousins (and Nani)!:










Christmas morning:









Anniversary:









New Years (check out our antique TV stand that I re-tiled):

Monday, January 11, 2010

SERIOUSLY?!?

I am so LAME!! I got a new camera, have had a TON to blog about, but just haven't. It's not even a resolution of mine to do better, but I will try!