Christmas Day 2012

Christmas was sooo much fun! With everyone in the house we all woke up and all ate pancakes and waffles before opening presents... which I'm pretty sure is a first in my families history because we always have opened presents before breakfast! :P

Our tree Christmas morning :)

My family  <3

I love Danny's cheesy smile! :P

Our excited Christmas faces!

My parents got a house AND a jag from their employee in CA! :p

This was the funniest gift I got!  Danny though they were super cute! :P  No we are not pregnant! 

Danny asked my parents for bedding that was on sale and I LOVE it! :) Such a smart man my husband and he's got good taste too! :)

After gifts were all put away the girls watched Cinderella with Brandy because Kenzie (my sister) got it for Christmas! :)

We all got ready for dinner and our family gift exchange!  Dinner was amazing and we facetimed my Uncle Jonny and Uncle Mark to say Merry Christmas!  Danny got 2 huge boxes of protein bars at the exchange and I got a very very cute pink Brighton pen from my aunt! :)

It was such a fun Christmas this year the best I can remember in a long time!  It was just happy and peaceful and we had snow and it was just so awesome!  I'm so grateful to have a wonderful family, and amazing husband and a wonderful Brother who was born in a manager so long ago, and who died for all of us that we might live, learn, and return to our Father in Heaven.  Merry Christmas!!

XOXO

Christmas Eve 2012

This was probably the Best Christmas in a loong time! :) It was so much fun!! :) On Christmas Eve we had dinner and a program at my aunts house! We had all different sorts of soups and I loooooved the Lobster Bisque! :) yummmmmy! :)  Here is my favorite picture of me and my sisters!

Then we read through the Book of Mormon Christmas story, essentially the birth of Christ through the perspective of the people in the Americas! It was so great!! We sang all the Christmas songs that were in the book while Aunt Tammie played the piano it was so beautiful! :) Danny was the narrator for the story too which was really cool! :)

Then we all got our traditional Christmas Eve PJs and took lots of pictures!!!!

All the girls

All the  "kids"

Silly picture!

My grandparents and Danny and me! :)

So after our official Jammie opening, we ended up sitting in a circle tossing cuties at each other! I think Danny and Elle (my little cousin) were just passing it back and forth and some how it ended up being an entire family affair!  Even grandma and grandpa joined in! It was really fun and the whole room ended up smelling like oranges it was sooo cool! We were throwing fast and man was it fun!! I think we crushed four Cuties before we finally went and got a soft red ball and were tossing that.  We finally got to the point where we were trying to see how many tosses we could get in without it hitting the ground!  Our goal was 50! We hit that and then my Uncle threw the ball and lost it on the very next one! :)

When we all got tuckered out it was time to head home and get to bed we ended up coming all the way home and then driving back down to my little cousins' house to shake the santa bells next to their windows like we do every year!

Then we all got home... (my parents and siblings all stayed with us at my grandparents house) the kids tried to stay up and watch "A Christmas Carol"  the one with Jim Carrey as Scrooge.  We got about half way and I was really falling asleep so we turned it off and went to bed!

XOXO

Family Cookie Exchange

So this year my Uncle decided that the Sunday before Christmas we would draw names and whoever we drew we would decorate a cookie for that person!! :) It turned out to be so cute!! :)

Danny drew grandpa's name so he decided to make a cookie that looked like him!! :) Cute huh?

Hudson made a carrot "cookie" for Danny because he figured that he would like that the best :P

The whole gang!

Everyone made really really cute cookies and had a great time decorating other peoples' dessert!

Another Basketball Game

We just like going to basketball games... :P Second weekend in a row we went to a game! Which means I get to learn more and more, and actually understand what's going on when people get mad!  Here are just some fun pictures we took while in our seats!

Also, just as a small note this was the first time I've been out of the house without foundation on since I was probably 14! I'm so happy with my skin! It's all that healthy vegan food!! :P

XOXO

Kenzie's Rectial

My sister Mckenzie is a dynamite singer!! She had a winter recital and everyone jumped at the chance to go and watch/ hear her sing!! :)  Here are the pictures!

This is my sister and her coach!

Yep the first three rows are all us! :)

Mom, Mckenzie and Dad in front of the tree!

All the girls!

The whole gang minus grandma and grandpa Beeman who didn't know we were taking pictures!
ps: Danny is ridiculous.

Kenzie did amazing and it was so awesome to get to watch her in action!!

XOXO

Date Night: Jazz Game

My grandpa has season tickets to the Jazz Game. He was out of town this Friday so we went to the game for him! :) We drove down to Energy Solutions had a little dinner, Danny saw a friend from his old ward in Orem and we got to watch the game together! :)

I don't think I've ever seen a game with than many points at the end after we broke 100 points I kept saying we were going to hit over 130 and we DID!! :P It was so fun to keep cheering every time they got closer to my 130 estimate together.  I couldn't believe the scored that many points! :) So crazy I thought I would post some pictures of the event!! :)

... and here was the final score! :)

XOXO

Teddy's Great Adventure

           So.... someone in our neighborhood either is on the hunt for Teddy or is setting out traps to catch other animals and happened to catch Teddy.
            Now Teddy started out as an indoor cat but because he's so darn smart he learned how to open doors.  So unless every door in the entire house is locked he will open the door and walk right out.  Secondly, we haven't had great lucks with collars.  He will take off the collar, hide the ID tag under the bed, the collar outside in the flower beds, and the bell in-between the cushions of the couch!!!  So keeping a collar on the beast is a challenge.
           He got out Wednesday morning, and then didn't come back that night... which is really really weird for him.  We calked it up to him needed some space and left the dog door open so he could come in.  The next morning... still no Teddy so I'm getting really worried.  Thursday around noon I called the pound to see if they'd picked him up.  They said they hadn't picked up a cat by that description.  SO we waited and waited.... Still nothing... so I'm preparing for the worst.  Of course we prayed to help Teddy to come home, and I prayed probably 20 times that we'd find him.
          Friday rolls around and we still haven't seen any sign of Teddy.  We design a flyer that we were going to go put on all the neighbors doors to see if maybe someone had let them in their house or something.  Here is what the flyer looked like (minus my phone number) :P

 SO I was just about to go put the flyers out when I just felt like I should call the pound again.  Which I wasn't going to because they said they hadn't seen anything the day before.  But I decided to call anyway.  They said they had picked up five cats in our area and then they described one that sounded just like Teddy!!! I freaked out!!! I jumped in the car to see if it was! Sure enough there was my little
guy!!!

They had him in this little tiny crate and he was so so so scared!!! He was shaking and all his fur was falling out it was so sad :(

So after a $30 ticket for having a cat "off-leash" (ridiculous) a $30 ticket for not have proof of current rabies license (because he didn't have a collar or tags) and a $48 boarding fee (which should've only been $24 because I called to see if he was there before the second day), they let me take him home.

Napping after his traumatic experience he slept for two days!

The whole night after I brought him home he slept either right on my chest or right next to me!  We've been trying to keep him inside but we figured it's only a matter of time before he sneaks out so we went to the Petco and bought another collar and tag (probably the 6th or 7th I've boughten him) and harness and a leash!  We're gonna try and let him out and tie him up out back so he can still go outside but can't get out of the yard... we'll see if that works out... And if he does sneak out he's got a collar and ID tag so hopefully we can keep it on him, and keep him from the pound!

He's such a baby!

This was him last year enjoying some freshly juiced carrot juice!  One of my favorite pictures of him!

We're glad he's home and safe!