Christmas Week!

We had such a great Christmas week! We opened up our Christmas from my parents before we took off for Salt Lake to be with Andrew's family this year. We were happy to get more food storage, now with what we had gives us our year supply ;)!

Christmas Eve we took aff and headed to Salt Lake! We had such an enjoyable long weekend. We were able to spend all of our time with family! It was relaxing and fun. Kelsey and Emma in her Christmas jammies Nana got her! I think she is so stinkin' cute with her night cap! We enjoyed the evening in our jammies and read the Christmas story with the fam.

Christmas morning was crazy! Dan was santa and handed out all the presents to everyone and the craziness began! Carson and Emery were so much fun watching open their presents, they actually are beginning to understand what is going on! Emma was just passed around to everyone while Andrew and I opened hers! I was given a special surprise when I opened my new "toy" a Nikon D60 with all the fun gagets a future soccer mom would ever need. Santa brought us so many amazing things...absolutely spoiled!!! Thank you fam!!!

Aaron, Andrew, and Kelsey enjoyed playing rock band..they were pretty good! Emma enjoying her stocking presents from Santa!!

Santa brought Emma a jumper! She absolutely LOVES it! She jumps and jumps..it is so fun to watch her...I wish I had her energy!

We also went and saw Grandpa Walton (Andrew's grandpa) he is such a funny guy, and we enjoy getting so see him, since we don't get to often. This was the first time he saw Emma so we had to get some pictures!

Already 3 Years!!!

I can't believe that it has been three years since we were married! Time has just flown by! This past weekend we celebrated by going to Vegas! My mom came to Cedar and watched Emma for us while we had a weekend away. It was so hard leaving my baby and I missed her tons, but it was really nice to get away with my Amazing hubby and just have US time!! So I have to tell my Mom thanks for helping it happen for us!

We had a lot of fun! To begin with we were going to be staying at THE Hotel at the Mandalay Bay Hotel but when we arrived to check in there was no power in THE Hotel so they told us we would have to stay there at the main wing, which was fine with me but I could tell Andrew was a little bugged..he wanted his suite! The room was really nice anyway..even though it had two queen beds ;) ..I thought it was pretty crazy though that the whole building was out of power...you don't see that often in vegas! It was this huge black spot surrounded by lights everywhere else!

On Saturday Andrew was so sweet he had gotten us tickets to go see the Bodies Exhibit! I had been wanting to go so badly and each time we have been in Vegas we haven't been able to go for various reasons...so this time we went!! I absolutely LOVED it!! The human body is so absolutely amazing to me! I can't even begin to understand how there are those that don't believe that we were created by a God! There is absoulutely no way to explain it any other way! I knew that the body was complex but actually seeing EVERYTHING made it that much more crazy to me! I was in Awe...Andrew said he enjoyed it but I doubt as much as I did! So thanks babe for taking me! After the exhibit we wanted to go to the Vegas Temple. I had only been outside of it and wanted to go to a session badly so we set off....and wow we drove forever! After getting our first set of directions we ended up way South of where the Temple was, so we stopped to get gas and Andrew braved up and asked the clerk if he knew how to get to the LDS Temple. The clerk said you mean the big Mormon building on the Hill?! To our amazement he knew where it was and gave us perfect directions to it!! It took us a good half hour to drive from where we were to the temple, so by this time we had been driving for almost two hours! We then pull up to the temple and just our luck...the temple was closed for cleaning!! After all of that I still didn't get to go into the temple! Needless to say we were pretty bummed...we will never forget how to get there again...and it was so simple basically just go East from our Hotel! Atleast we had lots of laughs and great time to visit!

We then spent the remainder of the day walking the strip, eating, shopping, and just being together! We had dinner at the ESPN Zone and were able to watch the first half of the BYU game. Even though they didn't play the greatest it was fun watching it and being the only BYU fans around us with a bunch of Arizona fans!

I had my first experience of GAMBLING! I only wanted to gamble a dollar but all Andrew had was a five so I took it and to no surprise lost it all after about thirty minutes of entertainment on the penny slots! I definately wouldn't ever have a problem with gambling...I hate just throwing away money!! Now atleast I can say I have done it!

It turned out to be such a great weekend! We were really excited to see Em when we got home though..we had both missed her tons! A little shout out to my hubby...Thanks for such a fun time and for always treating me like a Queen! You are the most amazing husband, thanks for always making me laugh and making me want to be better! I don't know how I ever got you but I am truly grateful! I love you tons and tons...mwa!

So CuTe!!

Aren't Myla and Emma just so cute! Andrea, BJ, and Myla came over the other night and Emma and Myla were so cute! Myla is about 5 months older than Emma so she gets around much better but they both just loved to check each other out! It will be fun when Ems can really play with kids...but I don't want to wish away any moments now...so for the time being I just love every minute I get with her!

Myla is tall and skinny and Ems is short and chubby..just the little opposites! Andrea couldn't believe how different my chubby little girl felt holding;)

They were both so serious in this picture, but definately adorable! It was a fun night with everyone!

Thanksgiving!

Wow it has been a while! Last weekend was a lot of fun for us! We were able to finally travel beyond the city limits of Cedar and get as far as Bicknell! We were with my side of the family this year for Thanksgiving, which was lots of fun for me since this is the first year Andrew and I have gone with them because in the past I have had to work, so his fam has been great enough to come to us here in good old Cedar! It was really nice for the break from school! Come the Tuesday before Thanksgiving I had had enough and was ready to set the books aside for a few days and just spent time with Andrew, Emma, and family...my heaven here on earth;) We didn't do anything too exciting over the weekend, but did get to see everyone and enjoy their company. The kids loved holding and playing with Emma and she just loved all of the attention! She must be getting more accustomed to noise because when they all get toether they love to play and be loud and she slept right through it when it came time to go to bed! She is doing so much better at nights..which is very nice since she doesn't hardly sleep at all throughout the day!

Here are some of the boys doing the dishes after dinner! This is a new thing..usually they are watching football while the girls clean up, so this was a nice suprise! Except as you can see Andrew is relaxing, this was his day off too, since he is the best husband ever and helps me cook and clean all the time!!

Here is Grandpa trying to feed Emma. He was so good with her all weekend and kept taking her and playing with her, and trying to feed her licorice and grape punch...I had to put a stop to that;)

Emma absolutely loved Mitch, she would smile so big whenever he came around and talked with her. He spent lots of time entertaining and playing with her! Thanks Mitch, you are such a great cousin!

I love Thanksgiving because it makes me ponder and think about all the many things I am grateful for. The more I think about it the more I realize I am so blessed. I have an amazing husband, sweetest baby, and the best family on both my side and Andrew's! Life may seem crazy and feels like it is flying by but it is good and I am so grateful for all I have!