Christmas #1

We had our first Christmas stop at my Mom's house where Christmas Chaos commenced. Of course the men had to all site together because us women wanted the warm seats by the fire, there was a ton of snow outside!

My mom gave BJ and I a baby heartbeat-hearer. It was really fun to listen to Kenley's heart, even though she decided it was time to do acrobats and make it difficult to keep track of.

This was my blessing dress when I was a baby!! My mom re-vamped it for me, its beautiful! Not even born yet and she gets more presents than me :)

I decided to be crafty this year and created an apron for my mom in her favorite color combo=blue and yellow. I hope she doesn't notice all the crooked stitchings

Leg warmers! For Kenley of course :)

Thanks Kari!

Evan is just a big kid enjoying the ribbon more than the gift

We had a Hawaiian themed Christmas dinner. It was yummy!

BJ and I made this gingerbread creation, which looks more like a monster and a haunted house

Kari and Evan's masterpiece!

Tragically it did not survive the winter

We also made yummy white chocolate dipped marshmallow people, they got along great!

I think I was more sad to leave Drake than he was to be left, he had buddies to play with (pester) while we were in Alabama. My mom gave her dogs stockings with toys, and of course puppy Drake had to tear them all to shreds. You were done playing with them right Henry & Daisey?

December Baby

December 2009 has officially been named the busiest month of my life so far. It has been so jam packed, I haven't been able to update on all the awesome stuff we've been doing. I will post later about all our Christmases.

First I really wanna write about our Jersey Shores get-togethers. For the record-I HATE that we are contributing to their famedom. But I can't look away! They are the bottom of the barrel for reality TV, but at least they are dumb enough for me to believe none of it is scripted. I truly think they are just that stupid. Why in the world would you call yourself "Snooki", "Jwoww" or "The Situation"?? To be fair, I don't know if any of them can actually spell so they don't really know what they're saying.

We've been getting together to watch every new episode. So of course we needed nicknames too!
Me: Tan-Tric
BJ: Juice Box
Cali: The Rack

Shoney: S-Gel
Candice: The Appointment

Poke: Tan-Talizer

I cringe when I hear the things they say like "I'm not used to this work, I'm a bartender. I do great things!" and "All I want out of life is to find a nice, tan, souped up Guido and live my life."

I bet its the combination of the tanning beds, hair gel and silicon that have fried their personalities down to this. It's the longest public service announcement for "This is your brain on drugs." I have ever seen.

To help cleanse ourselves of this viewing experience we trotted down to temple square to see the lights and nativities. They are so pretty! It was packed and cold but we were able to enjoy all the sights and the babes had fun too! Aren't they two of the cutest kids you've ever seen!

Fun with Guns

This weekend we were able to go shooting with some friends; Morgan, Phil and their nugget Maddy (aka Little Morgan). It was soooo much fun to get out and wreak havoc on a few targets, pumpkins and clay pigeons. We took Drake and I was worried he wouldn't do very well with all the shooting. But it didn't even phase him! When we were shooting the pigeons he would even go fetch the ones we missed! Can you say awesome dog!

Maddy even had her own pink BB gun, and was darling shooting at the targets and entertaining herself the entire time.

I even got a bulls eye! With the smallest (cutest) gun, and reflexively closing my eyes. But I got it!

Thanks guys for the fun escape! Lets do it again!