Stuff this week

So here's what's happend this past week...the annual girl's Christmas brunch was held last Saturday. Natalie, Rachael, Julianne and I found the last day of January was the first day we could get together for "Christmas". Melanie, we missed you and hope Kaleb is recovered from his stint in the hospital! It's always fun to get together and I'm so grateful to have had these friends since seventh grade! Lots of history there!

For Christmas, Nana gave Kaitlyn a trip to her nail technician for a mani/pedi. She came home wanting to do everyone's nails. Welcome to Salon Kaitlyn! She sctually did a pretty good job!

Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere!

The kids love to get in our big tub and dump shower gel in to make tons of bubbles. This was last Sunday, and probably a good thing Scott was at a meeting. They were literally over=flowing. They giggled like crazy over all of them!

Snowmobiling at the cabin

We had a great weekend at the cabin! The kids rode the snowmobiles the entire time. Kaitlyn learned to ride the little one and we couldn't get her off it after that! Jackson also talked Scott into showing him how to drive the big one. He loved it, especially since you can go so much faster on the big one than on the little one! Brittany, if you read this, it reminded me so much of us driving your big snowmobiles around the nieghborhood and through the field when we were young! Of course, why I remember driving wilding out of control across Hess's yard and running over something that bent the running board, I don't know. It was still pretty fun! Fortunately, Jackson is a much better driver than I was!

Christmas vacation

Merry Christmas! I haven't posted anything is so long! Christmas was great again this year. We had darling tie-dyed jammies (Thanks Kelly!), a darling gingerbread house (thanks Moom), and great continuing traditions (thanks Nana and Bapa for your dinner and Santa). We've had a great last two weeks without school for the kids and work off for Scott. We've loved hanging out together playing with the toys Santa brought, skiing, eating out and going to the movies. Monday morning is going to be a cruel dose of reality when we have to get up and going for school!

Twilight "fanpires" and other thoughts

Okay, so Scott keeps telling the kids their mom is the biggest nerd for going to the midnight showing of "Twilight", but it's worth it. It was a great girl's night (middle of the night) out. A bunch of us went, but this picture is of me with my sisters-in-law Tanya and Julie. We don't look half bad for 2:30 in the morning, huh? I was really afraid I'd fall asleep, but was truly captivated through the entire thing and then couldn' t go to sleep until about 4:00, after getting home at 3:00. Can you say tired the next day? Fortunately, the kids didn't have school, so I didn't have to get up and get them off. I actually thought the movie was better than I expected. Everyone was pretty skeptical of seeing Edward on screen (what actor can accurately portray him?), but I thought he was great...until seeing him on Jay Leno. Apparently, the guy does not shower and when he does, he doesn't wash his hair--how sick is that? If you caught the episode with Heidi Klum, it was hysterical. She kept scooting down the couch away from him as they discussed his hygiene, or lack thereof. Needless to say, now I'm not quite so impressed. I just hope he showers on the set. Who wants to kiss a guy who never showers? Forget how hot he is! In any case, I need to read the books again.

Since it's the cardinal rule in our house to not skip Thanksgiving, I'm just now listening to Christmas music and pulling out my decorations today. My shopping is all done and cards were mailed today. I'm starting to get really excited and in the mood for the month. I got all my decorations up today...but the tree. I'll tackle that tomorrow--ugh! It's such a pain because it's a nine-footer so I have to get out the ladder and blah blah blah. It does look great when it's finished though. The question is how many strands of lights will have died over the past year? There's always at least one!

GO UTES!!!

How'd we let her in this picture??? Just kidding! We love you Nana, even if you root for BYU. Last Saturday was the perfect day for football. We were so pumped for the BIG GAME. Scott and I survived all the tension of the first half when it was tied, but the Utes pulled through and won 48-24. We missed the very end of the game and the trophy presentation to make it to the Coldplay concert, something we have waited for months to go to. They put on a great show! We were so tired by the end of it, having stood for pretty much seven hours straight! What a day!

Happy Halloween 2008!

Happy Halloween! Of course, Luke has been wearing his Jedi costume for weeks now. It's perfect...with the way-too-cute Yoda ears, he's Yoda, without them he's Anakin--But NOT Luke Skywalker, which he is quick to correct anyone on. Even Scott got into dressing up this year in his matching Jedi costume. Jackson wanted to be a soccer player, which was the easiest of all, since all he did was throw on his soccer clothes and his Argentine jersey. Jeni and Kaitlyn were witches again together, something Kaitlyn loves. This year was unseasonably warm for the end of October, so it made for great trick-or-treating. Jackson, of course, went everywhere and really raked it in, while Luke was good for our short street. All in all, it was a fun, festive night!