Merry Christmas!!!

Here's our Christmas Card...If you didn't get on in the mail, accept my apology. I'm no good with addresses, but we love you just the same!

ps if anyone knows how to make your pictures really big in blogger...I would appreciate the help!
Thanks!

WOW what a weekend!

I had a BLAST this last weekend. Last Thursday night we had our ward party where Braden & I performed a silly Christmas song ( no good pictures except this one with Joss and Santa!), then I hopped in the car with Cam and Joss and headed up to my mom's!
My BEST friend from college just happened to be in Lehi and I just had to see her so I made the trip. See, she has lived in Spain for the last 6 years and I haven't seen her since she moved there. It was fun to reconnect. It was like we have seen each other everyday. No awkward pauses. I wish that she lived closer (ie...the United States) but in the mean time I am definitely planning a trip to Spain to visit SOON! Love ya Cin! If you are wondering, neither of these babies are mine or Cindi's, we just love to snuggle babies.


Then on Friday night I was blessed to receive tickets to the Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. They were fabulous seats, and I got to go with another best friend of mine...My brother Kimball. He was available last minute and It was just him and I. That rarely happens and I have to say that I LOVE him. We laughed, cried, sang along with the choir, and ate good food! I loved the concert. It was a huge production and it was just the thing I needed to get me in the Christmas spirit. I'm grateful for my good family(including you Stuey) who watched my two little people while I did so many fun things. Here is the lame picture that I was trying to take when the announcer was telling us that there was to be NO picture taking. OOPS!
Saturday Morning, my grandparents, mom and dad, and all my bro's and sisters in the area came over to my mom's for breakfast. We got to visit and I got more snuggle time with my cute neices and nephews, I also spent some time with Stu's mom who just had knee surgery...poor thing. I wish there was more I could do to help her heal.
Then it snowed and snowed and snowed and I didn't dare make the trip back to S.G. on Saturday night so I slept over and left early Sunday morning in the snow, since I had to sing in my ward's sacrament meeting. I barely made it in time, and I was feeling really grateful to get home safely since I saw some accidents where people weren't going home. Scary! My song went well and I had a great Sunday. I felt such a sense of peace the whole weekend, I'm not sure I can really put it into words. I'm just so grateful for all the undeserved blessings that I continue to receive.

Christmas Party with the Bartons

Fun Christmas Activities! We had my cute cousins come over for a Christmasy Dinner and to make gingerbread houses and open presents. It was really fun...We don't get to see them very often even thought they live close. We are going to try harder to be better cousins.

Christmas Spirit...Where is it?

I am on a quest to really have the Christmas spirit this year. It seems the last couple of years have been sort of rough and since there has been a lot of change it was hard to do the "traditional" things that used to get me in the Christmasy mood. Soooo I started by getting all my shopping and cards done so that I don't have to stress about them this month, but now I'm stuck...What are some things you all do that helps you feel the "true" Christmas spirit?

Thanksgiving & Black Friday

This post is overdue, and again I don't have the pictures to do it justice. We had a fun Thanksgiving over at Stu's mom's. Great food and Great family. The highlight of the weekend for me was the silly try at Black Friday shopping. During Thanksgiving Sara talked us into going to the ModBe store at 11pm to try our hand at some cheap shirts. We were really excited...It was a joke. When we got there, there was a loooonnngg line already. We waited out in the cold with our garbage bags, and laughed at ourselves the whole time. The store was really cute, but that wasn't where the deals were. They were in the back and the back was a MAD HOUSE, people throwing shirts and trying on clothes out in the open. We just kept laughing. My neice Jenni was elbowing people and pulling me through to my size. I'm not sure I want to try that again. Stu however, wins the prize for the bravest. He braved Walmart @ 4am to try to get some deals. He did get some things, but I was surprised by people and the lengths they will go to save a couple of bucks. If you want the full story you'll have to ask Stu, but lets just say he pushed an old ladies cart away because she kept hitting him with it...on purpose. Ha Ha Good Times!

There isn't a problem that fruit snacks can't fix!

My solution to the worlds problems...Fruit Snacks!

(It works at my house at least.)