Christmas 2010

For Christmas we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning in Cedar with Jon's Family and then headed Christmas afternoon to Fillmore with my parents for the rest of the weekend.

Jon and the boy's went snowboarding Christmas Eve. They were so excited to go and had a blast. Luckily no one had any broken bones but they were very sore and Jon was exhausted.

Nicole saved milk cartons and let the kids make 'gingerbread' houses. Well, Jaylynn made Kai's so I guess I should say the kids plus Jaylynn :)

Nicole helping Daemeon decorate his house

Kaylee and Daemeon going at it and loving it. We tried to do frosting in bags for them to squeeze on but we only had the snack size of baggie's and they broke open, so we just took a knife and spread the frosting onto the crackers for them.

Christmas morning was good. We didn't even start opening presents until 8ish and we had to wake up the only child in the house haha I Wish I had pulled my camera out more that morning but oh well... For Christmas Jon got me a nice winter coat and a Kitchen Aid mixer. For him I got him Jazz tickets, but I wanted to throw him off so I bought a Dr. Phil how to loose weight book and cut out the pages and put the tickets inside of the book. So when he unwrpapped it all he saw was the book and was like..uh what is this..so I told him that he needed to look at it and he was like...why right now..and I told him to just open it and that is when he saw them. It was pretty funny.

My fabulous Mother-In-Law looking at her new mixer

Nicole bought Joey the Red Rider BB Gun from the movie 'The Christmas Story'. So they went out and shot at a box in the back yard. I even went for a round...yeah I completely sucked at it but the boys had fun


Jon taking a shot...

Joey's turn..

Nicole got a new MP3 Player so she was getting it all set up.

The Big 3 years old!!!!

So Hanneli's birthday is Christmas Eve and so we took her to the Bowling alley for some Birthday/Christmas fun. I put these pictures in backwards and I didn't want to have to change them so you will have to just overlook it :)

My older sister made these little smock thingy's to sell a few years back and she had some left over that she was going to just get rid of so she gave us this one to give Hanneli, isn't she adorable!!!

They are eating her birthday cupcake that we brought for her

She has a big thing or Dora, so when I was working at Sears I ran across this cut plate set and had to get it. It came with a plastic mat, plate, bowl, fork, spoon and glass..if you look back at the first pic, jon is drinking out of the Dora Glass

Digging into her Birthday Cupcake

She could hardly wait to go bowling and had a blast doing it!

She would actully pick up the balls and carry them over. It was funny watching her because you could tell she was struggling because it was so heavy but she wanted to carry it. Jon was there to help out of course :)

Watching the ball going down....

Getting ready to push it

Sorry the pic is a little fuzzy :)

Hanneli Visit

Jon headed to Logan to spend some time with Hanneli. Normally they go hit up the park but with the weather change then they went and hit up Mcdonalds and let her run wild at the play center.
She was excited as always to see him and spend time with him. She is such a Daddy's Girl. I didn't get to go up this time since I was working but they had fun with just some one on time.

They had a blast and we love being so close to her!! I wish I had more commentary but I don't :) So I hope you enjoy the photos.

My Greasy Monkey

So we needed to change out the roters on the passat REALLY BAD..like since before May. Well Jon decided that he was going to do it while the weather was still good and all that fun stuff. The morning kind of started off wrong on Saturday. I had to work at 6am. I texted Jon about 10 to see how things were coming and he was still in bed. So he jumps out of bed and we realize that I have the key to the car with me. We only have 1 key because we haven't wanted to drop the $100 for a new one since they are chipped. So I split on my lunch and ran home to give him the key. I get back to work about 10:30am. I get home at 12:30 to find him still working on the same side. I started to worry but it turned out that we needed more things that we originally planned so he had to run to the store and pick up a few more things to pull the bolts off and so on. Once he pulled it off I couldn't believe how low the level was on the roters...I am glad we got them all changed out. I had to pull out my camera because he was so greasy and dirty. I took the first pictures and the first thing out of his mouth is...This better not go on facebook... I kind of laughed and told him it wasn't... just the blog :)

He cracked the second one out really fast and got it pretty much back together to realize he forgot a clip on the breaks so he had to pull the tire back off to put it on. It was pretty funny. Thank you Jared for helping him over the phone figure out what he is doing completely.

Salt Lake Overnighter

Jon and I decided that once a month if money of course allows we want to try and get out for a night and get out of town. Saturday, Oct 9th Jon's nephew was being baptized in West Valley. So we headed down and went to the baptism. It was a really good. They did ask Jon to step in for the confirmation and really touched me and was a good reminder to me how blessed I am to have a worthy husband who holds the priesthood. Afterwards we spent some time over at Angie's (sister-in-law) catching up. We then decided that we would go the the Oqurrie Mountin Temple and do some sealings. It is a very pretty temple and I can't believe how empty people wise it was! Granted it was a Saturday Afternoon but man! The Celestial Room is amazing also! Afterwards we headed to SLC to check in at The Little America. Yes I know it sounds pricey but with my AAA membership it actually was really cheap. We relaxed for a bit and then headed to the Gateway to eat at Tucaono's for dinner.
It is a brazilian restraunt where they bring out all kind of different meats cooked different ways on these sword/rod looking things and if you want a piece of it then they will cut you off a piece, if you want to pass then you just tell them no thank you. Jon loves that place so it was a real treat for him. Afterwards we headed back to the hotel for some much needed R & R.

This was in the courtyard outside of our window

This room was huge! It had the 'bedroom' and then had a little living room kind of thing.

The Tub/shower.. I have never seen anything like this. THe tub was actually below the ground so you actually stepped down to get in.

These were our room keys. When they first handed them to me I was thinking..DANG they gave us real keys but then I looked at them closer to find that they are actually micro chipped and just have the feel and appearance of real house keys.

The Courtyard

This place was amazing when checking in. They totally made you feel like it was an expensive hotel with the bell hoppers and doormen, etc.

Since we were going to be in SLC on a sunday morning then I was trying to think about what we could do as far as the temple square/conference center thing. Then the thought came to mind about 'Music, the spoken word'. I had never gone but one of the chior members are actually in my ward and I had heard her talking about the amazing experience it was. So I thought, lets do it!

When they got there they were rehearsing for the live performance. Since the rehearsal isn't copyrightd then I got some video of it. Sorry it's so jumpy..

I can't remember his name, but this is the guy that does the talking during the show. It was pretty cool experience

After arriving we were realizing that it was truely inspired that we be there that weekend. In the audience below us (we were on top section) was Glen Beck, Senator Orin Hatch, Govener Herbert and PRESIDENT MONSON!!

After the actual recording of the show then Govener Herbert did a small ceremony and presented President Monson with a thing thanking the Morman Tabernacle Chior for all its service that they do and also declared October 10th Morman Tabernacle Chior day for the state of Utah! It was truely an amazing experience. The choir sounds amazing in the Tabernacle.

Afterwards since we were already there then we decided to walk temple grounds.

Jon hadn't been inside of the conference center before and they were doing tours so we got a tour of it. It is truely amazingly huge!!

It was a really good trip out. Totally recommend the Music the Spoken Word live for anyone!! (ie kids do have to be at least 8yrs old to attend)

FHE Driving Range

Jon is big into golfing. He doesn't go very often but takes everything chance he can when it works out. He said that he was going to plan FHE for this night. I was pretty excited. I got home and we made dinner together. We are on a health kick trying eat a lot more fruits and veggies so we had chicken and veggie & fruit salad. :) Then we headed to the mall to pick me up so Sunglasses since I no longer have to wear glasses anymore..I am one of the amazing small percentile of people where their glasses actually correct their eyesight and no longer have to wear glasses or any kind of lenses :) I am loving getting to wear sunglasses again..I have missed them so much.
Then we were off to the driving range to hit some golf balls. I haven't hit golf balls besides mini golf in years so Jon taught me how to properly hit a golfball. :)

First you have to stretch out the arms..

Holy flab!! I am almost embarassed to post this photo but oh well :)

Gotta stretch out those legs..

Feet gotta be shoulder width apart, bend at the waist, straight back.

You gotta keep your left arm straight and bend your right arm. Bend at the wrists..Swing straight..

And a straight follow through..I didn't do perfect but hey I didn't do to bad. I put a few holes in the ground but that is part of the game. Jon even let me hit with this Big BIG wood one...can't remember what they are called but it was a lot of fun.

Perfect focus...

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