Update Finally

Sorry I haven't blogged in like a million years.

School's over for this semester, I'm all finished with work for the week, & I'm all done with my Christmas shopping and wrapping! So, now I have some blogging time :)
(P.S. I'm never going shopping on Christmas Eve Eve again. EVER!)

Here's a little update on what we've been doing the past couple weeks.

On the 12th, we had a little Christmas party with some friends & family. I only got a couple pictures of that.

 

 

My little brother, Matthew, is the drummer in the Jazz band at his school & last week we got to go the their Christmas concert.

He was in the back & I couldn't get very good pictures of him.

One of these days I am going to get a video of him playing his drums.

He is AMAZING!!

For real....he's going to be famous pretty soon :)

My aunt, Julie is in the Salt Lake City Choral Artists, and this last Saturday, Jeff & I were able to go up to Salt Lake to their Christmas concert with my parents.  It was called Laud to the Nativity.

I love Christmas music! A lot of the songs they sang were in different languages, so there was only one that I actually knew. But they are really great!

Jeff has been super busy with work & with his animals lately.

And taking care of these new friends...

Who knew so many people wanted hedgehogs as pets?!

We've had these at our house for less than a week & he's already sold 4!

They are such weird little things.

But I really liked this guy....his name is Friar Tuck :)

He had such a huge personality and was so entertaining.

All the rest of them were sleeping, but he was all over the place & even figured out how to climb out of the tub they were in.

 

 

And this is King Henry.

Jeff is going to breed him with our two girl bunnies.

Check out how cool his face is!

He's such a nice bunny!

On Tuesday night, my family came over to our house for dinner.

We had Chicken Enchiladas. Yum!

Then we all went up to Riverton to my Uncle John & Aunt Paula's house to make gingerbread houses!

Maggie & Tye's house kept collapsing :(

Traci

Matthew

Sara & I

 

My house :)

 

 This is the boys watching the bowl game while we made our gingerbread houses.

I can't believe it is Christmas Eve already!

We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

HOTSLING Giveaway

Caitlin has the awesome opportunity to be giving away a HOTSLINGS baby carrier over on her blog.

If you are going to have a baby soon or know someone who is, go enter the contest! They usually sell for around $50 in the stores!

Christmas lights

make me feel so happy inside!

Last night Mckay & Megan invited us to go up to Temple Square to see the lights.

One of my very favorite things to do at Christmas time!

 

 

What a fun night!

Thanks guys for the invite :)

1st Christmas Tree :)

Last night Jeff & I went & picked out our first Christmas tree. So fun!

We actually went looking a few times at different tree lots.....expensive!

Jeff is not a fan of real trees.

  Megan is not a fan of fake trees.

After much deliberation, I convinced him & we got ourselves a real one :)

 (At Home Depot for $25!)

It's so perfect. Just look.

Now it smells like Christmas around here!

CoNtEsT....

going on over at Love Stitched....

There will be 5 winners! Go check it out!

seven

Love is just a word until someone comes along & gives it meaning.

Happy 7 months to us :)

(yesterday)

Cabinets

Trees.

The Festival of Trees is my favorite favorite favorite Christmas time activity!

The trees are decorated, donated and purchased at an auction, by individuals, families, organizations, businesses, and church groups.  All of the money raised is given to Primary Children's Medical Center to help children in need.  In 2008, the Festival raised $1,495,840.74.

My absolute dream job is to work in the NICU at Primary Children's!

Each tree has a theme & comes with all the "gifts" under the tree.

This was a Utah Jazz tree & came with this quilt with the team's pictures on it & Jazz tickets.

A lot of the trees also have a picture of someone the tree is dedicated to, or in memory of.

This was one of Jeff's favorites because it came with a ski, life jackets, gloves & a rope.

I thought this penguin tree was so cute!

 An upside down tree :)

 

Another of Jeff's favorites. The John Deere tree :)

Sports tree.

Glttery tree :)

This one was my very favorite!

My second favorite :)

Just one more I promise!

This one made me feel so sad.

Gingerbread Village!
This whole thing is made out of candy & cake!

This is a gingerbread train. It was longer than this, but I didn't get pictures of the whole thing.

The "Up" house!

AMAZING!

Sorry so many pictures! I just love this place so much.
Over 800 trees are donated, so if you think about it...I really didn't take that many pictures...:)
Someday, I'm going to have enough money to buy one of these trees :)