New Lense

One of my presents was a new lense and it arrived on New Years Eve! That next night we had a little photo session with the cacti in the desert. Here are some of my favorites.

We took these pictures right as the sun was setting and the purple cactus turned out so cool looking.

Click on this picture and you will see a happy girl!

Merry Christmas Day

After we opened presents we headed over to my parents house for a brunch. My Mom gets my Dad a toy every year and this year he got a helicopter! It is so cool! While the girls congregated int he kitchen, the boys congregated in the living room and played. Every time it crashed we would hear all the boys laughing. It was really funny. It was like they were all 10 again. Matthew got Hungry Hungry Hippo from my parents and it quickly turned into a tournament. It was fun to play, I haven't played that game since I was a kid.


Merry Christmas! I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas this year!!

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas day was SO fun this year. Santa was very good to us. This was our first Christmas we had that was just the two of us. We are usually with family, but it was so fun running downstairs together (yes, running) and opening our presents. Donavon even got up in the middle of the night and filled our stockings with some sweet treats! So, Donavon's wedding ring is now a little too small for him so I decided to get him a new ring. I thought he might feel a little sissy opening a ring for Christmas so I decided to play a trick on him. I went to Target and got a HUGE Man ring, took his real ring out of the box the store wrapped, put the man ring in and wrapped it back up. He opened it and saw and said, "Oh...(and then paused for a while) a ring...Thanks."
I love his fake smile here. It's like he has no idea what to say. I'm sure he's thinking right now, oh my gosh, i have to wear this huge thing around!
This is what he saw when he opened it. Now THAT is a Man ring.
Fancy! Right after this picture I told him it was a fake and got him the real one, but it sure was fun tricking him!! I'm such a tricky wife!

Merry Christmas Eve!

We had such a fun Christmas Eve this year. We went to Tim and Monica's house and Monica made her famous Christmas Eve Fondue for us. It was SO YUMMY! Here are the girls, I mean 3 cute Santas ready to cook away! Here is the FEAST!
We love doing dishes!


Christmas Eve PJs! I know it's not totally centered but we are still all in the picutre!

The weekend of the aprons!

So this year, I decided to make aprons for gifts. My sister was getting her girls a play kitchen and asked if I could make them all aprons. Then I saw a picture on the internet of an apron that looks like a santa suit and HAD to make them for some family members. I had been very busy with work/church calling and other things I was trying to get done down the house and then I got sick. So basically I had 1 weekend to make 8 aprons and it took me two full days, but I was so glad I made them because they turned out SO cute! I was so sick of the aprons I made for my sister and her girls that I didn't take a picture of them, but she said she will be sending some pictures soon so I can post them.