Our Christmas Vacation

I forgot to load Norris' ginger bread house




The Temple





Our Ginger Bread Houses



We built a fort with the kids



Christmas Eve





Christmas with family

So this Christmas was so much fun. We went back to California to visit family. Our flight home was a little scary b/c we left in the middle of a bad snow storm. Our flight was delayed twice but we made it to california safely. From the moment we got there it was so much fun. We did lots of fun things. We went to the temple on Saturday the 20th to do some family work on my mother's side and it was a great experience. Norris' family came and did a session with my family. After we had a great feast back at his mothers house, STONEFIRE Grill. The next day was my older brother's Birthday, which we celebrated with dinner, cake, presents, and stories. It was a blast. Throughout the week we shopped, visited family, made ginger bread houses (funny story, Norris and i had a little competition to see who could make the best ginger bread house and by the time we got home from granny's house we could tell who won. My house did not make the ride home. But i think we both made great houses.)
Christmas Eve was wonderful with family and the program Sophia put on. All the kids looked so cute. Norris, Marshall, and Rich sang a song and did a great job. Christmas day was just as good! we were able to see all our families which was great. We left the next day to come back home b/c we needed to move and work. Our vacation was too short but so much fun. We love our families!

More pics

Some more pictures!

Nature

I love to take picture and especially pictures of nature. I have wanted to post some of these picture for a while now so here they are and i hope you enjoy them as much as i did taking them.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was a lot of fun. Norris and i drove to St. George on Wednesday night and came home on Sunday afternoon. It was a great time to spend with family. We visited my side of the family and stayed at my grandparents house. It was good to see all of my cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and of course my family. On Thanksgiving day in the morning we woke up early in the morning to play some good old flag football. It started drizzling on us but it was still fun. The big feast came around 3 o'clock with all our extended family. We had our big dinner, which was delicious, at the Dixie college old gym. We played basketball, X-box, pool, air hockey, and ping-pong. It was great for all the young kids. We played a fun game of basketball with all my cousins. We even played a couple rounds of Around the World Ping-Pong. On Friday Brittany (Duran's girlfriend), Amanda (one of my cousins), and i went SHOPPING, so fun. After shopping we went out to lunch with all the ladies. Later that night after dinner some of us went to see the new movie Australia and it was pretty good. Saturday we hung out with more family and played some cards. Sunday we went to a sacrament meeting at my grandparents church then headed home.

Our little vacation

So over Halloween weekend we went home to California, our home sweet home. We arrived Thursday morning and left early Monday morning. It was a wonderful weekend to go home. It did rain, which made me a little sad. We were able to go to Shane's football game, we shopped, ate some good food, played with all the little ones, trick-or-treated, voted, and best of all we were able to see our families. It was a great weekend to visit. Norris and I never received our absentee ballets in the mail like we were suppose to so when in california we drove down to LA to vote early. We arrived down there to this tent set up out side the office with about a 5 hour wait. We were fortunate enough to have Norris' mom with us who needed to run in the registration building to use the bathroom and we were able to run into the right people who told us to go up stairs and talk to them. We got our ballets in like 5 minutes and were able to vote. We were very luck. The Lord made it possible for us to vote. It was an important time to vote as well with Prop 8. We were very happy after. We were able to be apart of Prop 8 even though we are living in Utah.

Norris' 23rd Birthday!!!

It was Norris B-day 2 day ago, Nov 14th. We both worked during the day but we were able to go out to dinner at night. We went to The Chief's Table for dinner. It is a nice and kind of pricey restaurant here in Provo. I want to go somewhere nice to eat for his b-day b/c we really dont go out to eat, like ever, so i figured we would be ok going for a special occasion. Norris order Duck and he loved it and i got tenderloins with potatoes and shrimp to top it off. It was a very good dinner. After I gave Norris his Birthday Cake that i made him:) It was an ice-cream cake. He liked it lots! Norris had a great b-day. We also went late night, Saturday night and saw the new James Bond movie. It was pretty good. Something funny was after the movie Norris drove home and he was all pretending to be James Bond with the little green Honda! He is so funny!