Christmas 2010

We've had lots of fun this December and I have some catching up to do!!! Here goes...

Christmas at the Grand America - Nick's lovely 'UTAH' gingerbread man.
Shopping for sweet little angels who don't usually get a Christmas. Nick chose a 2 year old boy and I got to shop for a baby girl - just can't have enough BABIES!

Lots and lots of gingerbread houses!!!
#1. Amateur
#2. masterpiece (yes, that's mine - unless you don't like it ;)
#3. Nick's house that started out as a house...
#4. And ended up as a Christian church (keep in mind, we were at a WARD activity). Notice the added cross. Unfortunately, it broke before the night was over - coincidence?
#5. John's g-bread house. Magical
#6. This began as an idea for Barbie's Dreamhouse, but I'm not sure it ever became anything - Look at all those crackers standing on each other! I didn't know that was possible!

Maybe we're cousins...

She's here!

Well, she's been here for a month, and I just can't get enough of this little angel!

Introducing Baby Alyse!!!

P.S. Another baby entered my life last night too... although I had a dream it was a boy instead of a girl. Hope that didn't really happen... I'll keep you posted.

I just love this plethora of babies in my life! And the best part: They're not mine, so I don't even have to wake up with them in the middle of the night.

P.P.S I remember making the bet in high school that all my friends would be bringing their babies to my wedding, so far, I've won!

Halloween Happenings

Never a dull moment

A sort-of continuation from my last post:

My mom wrote this sticky note to me and put it on a picture frame she thought I'd like.
Last I saw the note, it was stuck to the picture frame in my room...
(P.S. my mom calls me 'sissy')
Somehow, the note was transferred from the picture frame to this guy 'cause this is what I found:

Wondered how that happened...

Needless to say, I laughed pretty hard.
Oh Nick, there's never a dull moment with you!

I went downstairs and found this...

Does that mean he'll make a good dad or a crazy dad???

It sure is funny watching him try to control these little kidlets...

6 words...

GRAD SCHOOL IS KICKING MY BUTT.

enough said.

Adventure Race

Yep, we went on an adventure race! We had clues to solve that led us to various places in Salt Lake, and while at each one we had to take a picture doing a specific task for the clue. We ran LOTS LOTS LOTS and it was HOT HOT HOT!!! We came in 5th place though... not too shabby!

Flaming Gorge (pronounced Hor-Hay)

We had such a fun before school trip to Flaming Gorge!

The first day it poured rain and was freezing cold - so we went to the local restaurant and ordered HOT COCOA!!! (yep, in August)The next day the sky was 'abundantly clear', so we went river rafting

And somehow I managed to fall down these rocks:

While on the boat, we had the coldest water fight ever and dunked all three members of our bishopric, and watched Bro. Dibblee being DRAGGED out of the water...

Then we went boating on this lovely...

And although I faceplanted a million times and swallowed half the lake, Nick rocked all our socks off...
We ate yummy food cooked by Tanner and Nick... (can't believe we didn't all die)
And saw lots of pretty scenery
Flaming Gorge: You're just what I needed.

One happy boy

We may have skipped out on the last half of church for Nick to go drool over a bunch of bikers this weekend. The Tour of Utah, known as America's toughest stage race, is not for the faint of heart. The race is 311 total miles with 26,500 feet of climbing. You'll get there one day sweetheart...

Congrats to our own Utah native - Levi Leipheimer for winning it!

Birthday festivities!

I LOVE my birthday! I of course had my camera with me the whole time, but failed to take any pictures! What was I thinking?! I was having too much fun! Nick took me to get a pedicure (he even got one too - I couldn't believe it!) I told him I had girlfriends that get pedicures with me and he didn't have to, but I think he secretly wanted to know what they were like since I get them quite often and love them! (I'm not sure he loved it that much) Then we headed to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner. Surprise - he had a bunch of my friends there for a surprise dinner! It was so wonderful! He's getting better at planning fun things! It was a very happy birthday!

Since Ashley and I have close birthdays, we celebrated last week by going up the canyon and making tin-foil dinners, smores, and doughboys. YUMMY!

Look at that baby belly! I can't wait 'til Baby Holm is here!

Nick and I - awkwardly posed as always (refer to my previous post for an explanation)

Typical...

Me: annoying and 'naggy'

Nick: doing his best to put up with it


Me: totally awkward
Nick: totally awkward

Together: a perfect match - if that's what you would call it.

Happy 24th WARD!!!

Yeah, we just ran the 10K - what of it?!

Magically found these two lovely ladies at the starting line amongst a million people.

Ran (literally) into Adam at the last 1/8 of a mile - we sprinted to the finish together!

Oh Tanner, if only I could have kept up with you - we would have raced to the finish.

We were ready for MORE!!!

HAPPY 24TH - WARD!!!
(Yep, our ward is the 24th and it was the 24th of July)