a reminder

This weekend we took a little trip to SLC. Our friends ali and david invited us to go see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform with Natalie Cole (Nat King Cole's daughter) and david Mccullough... 2 amazing inspirational people. The set was amazing..everything decorated with dancers and an orchestra. My picture doesn't do justice how close we were in a 20,000 person filled room. We got a hotel and went to dinner for the night, we planned on seeing the amazing christmas lights everyone talks about in temple square but we got in traffic right behind the jazz bball game and missed them. we still had fun and the concert was worth it all. It was so refreshing to go on a little vaca and expose ourselves to some amazing talent.

us last christmas at home. one more week and we will be back in seattle. so excited for this semester to be over.

a few things

my mom sent this pic to me of dev and i at the 3 d movie i rolled... dev cracks me up

a new edition to our family.... we got an early christmas gift from my mom this year... 40' lcd 1080p flat screen tv (dev told me to write that)

we had friends over this weekend and made strawberry daiquiris (spelling) and pizza

im not a photographer but look at our first christmas tree!! so cute huh.

and i just wanted to point out my diva sister. love her to pieces.

thanksgiving

Riley should be a model with those gorgeous eyes

by the way i need to point out my new favorite pair of pants.. skinny cord jeans. down east outfitters just came out with a great winter catalog.. i also got a fabulous new dress there as well. check them out!



This Thanksgiving we stayed in Idaho. My whole family including extended decided to all come into town, my aunt Heidi just got a new home so we all had a big party over there. It is a beautiful home and it was fun with all 31 of us over. I'm so terrible at taking pictures and didn't get pictures of everyone sorry fam. Everything was completely homemade and so delicious. My grandpa treated all of us to A Christmas Carol in 3-D, my cousins are hilarious in their little glasses. Later that night all the girls whipped out the ads and we made lists of what we were gonna black Friday shop for. They are are so crazy we had a ball. Hope your Thanksgiving was as good as mine!

"the greatest things in life aren't things"


My mom is in town today, dev my mom and i were on our way to my aunt's house when we were at a red light and saw a girl in her mid-twenties on the side of the road with a homeless sign about 5 cars up and 2 lanes over. My mom handed me a 20 dollar bill and told me to hurry and run it to the girl. A little shocked, I hurried and ran out of the car and handed it to her. When I got back in the car, all of a sudden people started getting out of their cars and walking up to her and handing her money...cars in front of us, and cars behind us...so many cars. Aren't moms way good at teaching lessons? my mom did today.. on how to give.

im working on some projects for christmas and came across a few favorites. i had to share some.

starting my thankful list

mr. fix-it. This is him de-clogging my kitchen sink after i put lots of carrot and potato peelings down the drain and then frantically called him home from work to fix it before my sink would over flow with water.

an old high school friend e-mailed me the other day saying she needed to do an interview on marriage for one of her classes at Gonzaga. I was surprised how those questions really had me reflect on the decision I made to marry Devin. it was the greatest thing i ever did.

everythings amazing and nobody's happy

i feel like im being too much of a blogger... posting too much.
i couldn't resist posting this because for one its HILARIOUS 2 i think it fits perfectly with thanksgiving coming up 3 it put things in great perspective for me
we watched it in one of my classes. we were rolling it was so funny.

watch!

cant believe this happened

can i tell you another story that happened to me today....
i will because it was one of the most random things to happen to me i about died after it happened. i will spare you every little detail and give you the main ideas

i was leaving my religion class and waiting outside for dev to pick me up when one of the kids from my class came up to me and asked if i had been in one of his classes because i looked really familiar. i told him no i hadn't but he looked familiar too.
we got to chatting about where we were from blah blah blah for like 5 min. and some other stuff and then

"well i don't know what you are doing after thanksgiving break or if you are seeing anyone... but i was wondering if you wanted to go out with me?"

my reply "umm actually i am see.. well actually im just married"

his reply "o wow i wasn't even looking at your ring, im so sorry" (red faced totally embarassed)

my reply "thats ok, ok ill see you in class, see ya "

AWKWARD. the poor guy its hard enough to ask a random girl out and then on top of that the dang girl is married.
i told dev about the story and the first thing he said was well was he cute?
i have been married for almost a year and haven't dated anyone else for over 2 years now... to say the least, i forgot boys even noticed me anymore.
so funny.