Christmas Sleep Over

Last night Cierra and Carissa came for a sleep over! We went out to dinner and came home and read a Christmas book and watched Miracle on 34th Street. It was such a fun night!

Today we went to Church and came home and painted our nails Christmas red. I had such a great time hanging out with these cute girls!

Merry Christmas Eve!

Tonight Mom, Dad, Jeffrey and I followed the Star to the Asian Star restraurant. Last year we started a new tradition of going out to dinner on Christmas Eve. We had a very yummy Chinese dinner and fun company! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Two More Days!

I can't believe it is almost here! I think I have everything done and am ready!

Sunday night I got to go and see the beautiful lights at Temple Square. I haven't walked around Temple Square for years. I love, love, loved getting to go and enjoy the beautiful atmosphere that was there. I loved thinking of our Savior an his birth! What a blessing he is in my life!

The lights were gorgeous and the Temple looked amazing!

Christmas Dinner with the Girls!

Only seven more days until the big day! I can't wait! Tonight I had my cute old neighbor friends for dinner! We made chicken and dumplings and it was way yummy!

Between Skye and Sunny, Simon hardly got a chance to walk on his own. Those girls think he's pretty great!

After dinner the girls opened their Christmas presents (red turtlenecks and blankets). We had such a fun time together! I so love these darling girls!

Cousin's Christmas Dinner

Last night we had a cousins dinner at my house! It was so great having all the newlyweds together!

Here's a photo of the dinner table! We ate manicotti, Elycia fixed yumnmy rolls, Jamie made a fabulous salad and Pierce made a delicious brownie triffle. Everything tasted great!

Pierce and Stacy aka Peaches and Cream

Jamie and Jordan

Chip and Elycia

After everyone left I packaged up Elder Skyler's 12 days of Christmas. It looked so cute I took a picture!

Baby Abbie's Special Day

Yesterday morning beautiful baby Abbie was blessed! She looked so gorgeous in her blessing dress. Look how pretty she is! She is so nice! I lucked out and got to hold her during part of Sacrament Meeting.

Hailey, Aida and I coordinated our outfits. We all got the memo to wear our houndstooth plaid!

Here are Mom and Dad as they were leaving Jamie and Emily's house. It was so great to be a part of Abbie's special day!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I love this time of year! The snowmen, the smells, the lights, the music, even the snow a little bit.

Krista came on Tuesday and decorated my house while I was at work! Gosh, it was fun to come home to an incredible Christmas house!

This year I have a tree in my kitchen! I love it!

Look at Hailey, she loves it too! She wanted me to take her picture by the tree!

I added a few new decorations this year! The darling snowmen are above the bench in my kitchen! They make me happy!

My kitchen table.

The shelf in my kitchen.

My kitchen counter.

My beautiful Christmas tree!

My darling snowman quilt!

My other new purchase this year. (the glare is not great, sorry!)

My living room.

More of the living room.

New Moon

Tonight Mom, Kathy, Cierra, Carissa and I went and saw New Moon! It was great! I loved Edward and Jacob! I'm still an Edward fan! Kathy, Cierra and Carissa all like Jacob! I actually think they're both pretty hot!

Give Thanks

Laurie got up at 4:00 this morning and put up her Thanksgiving decorations, I waited until 4:00 this afternoon. I wanted to be like her!

This year I bought this new picture. It looks really pretty in my living room!

I love the orange with all my blue!

Here's a peek at my curio!

And my ceramic Pilgrims and Indians I painted. I still love them after all these years!

Halloween Night

Yesterday afternoon my friends and old neighbors invited me over for dinner in a pumpkin. It has been our tradition for the past few years. It's a yummy rice and hamburger mixture. I love it!


After dinner the kids put on their costumes and got ready to head out for trick or treating! Aren't they cute?


Check out the cute wtich, football player and tinkerbell! I sure love these three girls!

After dinner my friend came over and we watched this spooky movie! It was very instense! it was a fun Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!

I am just about ready for Halloween! My house is very festive!

I am looking forward to the trick or treaters!

I sure had a cute house guest this afternoon! Hailey and I had a fun time hanging out!

Check out the ghots Mom and I made for my little friends and my primary girls!

Hailey thought they were pretty cute! I think she's pretty cute!

Aren't 8 of something cute? Happy Halloween everyone!

Now, for the rest of the story!

My meetings went great on Monday and Tuesday! On Wednesday Cindy and I were able to go to Hollywood Studios. It used to be MGM. It was a very fun park with lots of fun things to do!

We watched several different shows, The little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast were my favorites!

Belle was absolutely beautiful! I loved seeing her and thinking of Hailey and Libbie who are dressing up as Belle for Halloween! Hailey and I went to Zurchers today and bought her and Lib a lovely tiara!

They have a toy story ride where you get to play video games. I nailed it! I didn't know how great I was at video games! Mr. Potato Head was in the waiting room, he was very cute! This was the longest line all day.

Inside the building behind the Rock'n Roller Coaster guitar was the most amazing and fast roller coaster I've ever been on, gosh it was fun! We rode it 3 times!

Not sure which roller coaster was my favorite, the Hollywood Tower Hotel ride was awesome! I didn't know if I was too old for roller coasters and I decided I wasn't! I loved them! We were able to go on this ride twice! Way fun!

Wednesday on our way back to the hotel we stopped at Bennihana for dinner! Tri was our chief, he was great! He certainly knew how to make steak, shrimp and chicken taste great! Cindy and I sat with a very nice couple from New Jersey, we had a very nice time! After dinner we headed back to the hotel to pack up our things and head back home. It was very fun to get away! It is also nice to be home!

An afternoon at Cocoa Beach

Yesterday my friend Cindy and I traveled to Orlando. I have meetings this week and we decided to make a mini vacation out of it. This afternoon we rented a car and drove to Cocoa Beach. It was about an hour east of Orlando.

It was a very beautiful day. The sky was very blue and the clouds were lovely!

I loved getting to put my feet in the sand and the water! It felt so great!

We had lots of friends at the beach!

Look at their cools tracks in the sand!

Here's Cindy with her fashionable pink bag!

Do you remember the show "I dream of Jeannie" Major Nelson and Jeannie lived in Cocoa Beach. Check out the street sign!