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Ok, its been a while... so here is what you've missed. We went to St. George for Christmas in hopes of warmer weather which did not happen. We had a surprise visit from Santa at ryan's grand parents and no Santa's not drunk, but its a great picture. Then for New year's eve we had a small get together at our place which was fun. Addie enjoyed herself on the love sac before the party. I went to Spokane for a quick work trip. There was so much snow there it was crazy. I found out that all the flights got cancelled a few hours after i left. Anyways, I just wanted to do a quick post since its been so long, i'll do a better one soon.

Our First Christmas present & Tagged

1.) For our Christmas present from my sister, Annaliese, offered to paint a room for us. The room she painted was our main floor bathroom and we gave her an extra challenge because we picked out this really cool looking textured "suede" paint which we had really liked in one of our friend's house. So, Annaliese came over and slaved away for hours while I got to play with my adorable little neice, Addie, they spent the night and she slaved away again the whole next morning. It turned out really awesome. I don't know if you can see the texturedness from the picture but it looks really cool in person, so THANK YOU ANNALIESE!!

2.) I have been tagged several times on this 8 things tagged and each time I have had good intentions of doing it but never followed thru, so here I go. (They have also all been different 8 things so I am going just do the ones I liked)

8 Favorite Books

1. Ender's game

2. Pride & Prejudice

3. Count of Monte Cristo

4. I have liked a lot of books by Harlan Coben recently

5. Kite runner and another book by the same author that I can't remember the name of right now.

6. I can't think of any more right now, I've read so many books that they all tend to get blurred after a while, I am sure I am forgetting one of my favorites.

8 things that happened yesterday

1.) went to work in a blizzard practically, was tailed by a snow plower that wasn't plowing

2.)went to Walmart, finally bought some tights, I was much warmer the rest of the day, amazing how dressing warmer makes the winter a little more bearable too bad it has taken me like 8 years to figure this out.

3.)drove home from work

4.) offered to baby-sit Addie for Annaliese so she could have girls night out

5.) got invited to enrichment by my neighbor I am trying to be friends with.

6) asked Ryan if he wanted to watch addie while I went to relief society dinner, (and asked Annaliese if that was ok)

7) Went to the dinner with my two neighbors ate yummy food and then right as the spritual part was going to start got a call from ryan saying to come home as he wasn't sure what to do with a crying baby.

8) came home calmed Addie down much to Ryan's amazement, it must be a girl thing, watched re-runs of the Office, hung out with annaliese when she came to pick up Addie, then went to bed with the kitchen messy from our cooking adventures of our first time making sugar cookies the night before.

8 things to look forward to

1.) Christmas

2) New Year's eve party we want to have

3.) starting a new year- crazy how fast time goes- following thru on my new year resolutions

4) hanging out with my friend Nicole in town for the holidays

5) hanging out with my cousin Arielle coming to town in Jan

6) our new tv we are buying for our christmas present to each other, admittly Ryan is way, way more excited about this than I am.

7) my work trip to Spokane, get to hang out with orson while I am there.

8) California trip in January, I'm tagging along on a work trip of Ryan's

8 things on my wish list

1. a million dollars :) (if I got this item it negates the following)

2. cruise with my husband ( and friends if any of them want to come)

3. new pair of jeans

4. house decorations

5. A baby (this list is not in order I should add)

6. I'm feeling greedy, should I say world peace now or solving world hunger

7. better economy would be nice although I am enjoying the gas prices lately

8. if I get some of the above I'd be pretty happy

8 things I love about winter

I don't think so, any one who knows me knows anything I put here would be a lie, I'm ok with it until after Christmas and then I hate it.

8 restaraunts

1. Outback

2. Tree Room (a once a year opportunity)

3. Red Robin

4. Olive Garden

5. Thai village

6. Texas Road house

7. Goodwood BBQ

8. Anything mexican

9. Kneader's bakery

8 TV Shows I watch

1. The office

2. 30 Rock

3. Oprah

4. Grey's Anatomy

5. What not to Wear

6. HGTV (sad but true)

7. Chuck (Annaliese has got me into liking this as of recently)

8. Kath & Kim

8 places to visit

1. Tahiti

2. Italy

3. Paris

4. Ireland

5. England

6. Hawaii

7. New York & DC again

8. New Orleans because of their rating of the #1 Murder Capital in the US, Oh yea and to visit Annaliese, Spencer & Addie while they are there.

8 People I tag

1. Ryan

2. Orson

3. Penny

4. Mom

5. Nicole

6.Kirsten

7. April

8. Richard

The Best Meal of the Year

and no its not Thanksgiving or Christmas. So, for the past several years my company has gone to the Tree Room for our Christmas Party and it is honestly the best meal I have of the year. I look forward to it all year long. I felt a little silly taking a picture of my food but I had to do it. Now that I am a blogger I take way more pictures than I ever used to. Anyways, for those who don't know the Tree Room is at the Sundance Resort up in the mountains and it is a 5 star restaraunt and I don't know what half the things on the menu are but they are delicious and is served in courses. One main entree alone (what i get every year the Pepper steak so tender you could cut it with a butter knife and the most delicious mango sauce comes with it, sounds weird but its not) is way more expensive than what me and Ryan would spend going out to dinner for the both of us. The dessert that I took a picture of is this amazing chocalate truffle cake with a warm pudding inside and this yummy bannana ice cream. I think this meal is also so wonderful because its free. If we went there on our own for a birthday or anniversary or something with every bite I would be thinking this bite cost me $5, so half the fun of this dinner is not only is it absolutely delicious but I can order what I want (and believe me I don't pass up anything, drinks, beginnings ( their fancy word for an appetizer), salad, dessert) and it is free. We eat hardly anything the whole day in preparation for this meal and dinner lasts almost 3 hours. The great thing is the portions are small and they serve each part separatly so your stomach has time to get ready for the next course and you get to try so many different things. Ok, I am done bragging about our wonderful dinner but I had to because it was wonderful.

Washington Trip

all the guys in their blue shirts (un-planned)

ryan helping set up for the reception

the cutting of the cake

all the siblings

us on the ferry ride (above)

at the park

at the park still

we had to put addie by this huge tree, so cute.

hiking with Addie in the stroller at the park

So this is to follow up Annaliese's blog about Richard's wedding with pics. We got a new camera for our anniversary so we took way more pics than we normally would. We did some hiking the first day at Ilahee park. Thursday was Richard's birthday we went with him to go get his tux and shop for a wedding present for his bride to be. (I've never seen Richard's romantic side, I'm still getting used to it) had some Thai food that mom brought home from Seattle and went to the Stake Center to put up decorations for the reception. Afterwards we all went to Shari's (for those who don't live in seattle its like an all night restraunt place like Denny's or Ihop) for dessert to celebrate Richard's 22nd birthday. Friday was the big day. We took the ferry over to the temple, it was a really nice ceremony. Did the picture thing, ate buffet lunch and went straight to the reception. It was nice to see all the family at the reception, wish I could have hung out with my cousins more, I'll have to plan better next time. Thanks to Aunt Beth for letting us stay at her house while she was trying to pack it up. Saturday I went with my sisters to see Twilight ( I thought it was pretty good overall, a few cheesy parts) and Ryan and Orson saw the Bond movie, we helped move the couches into Richard and Becky's new apartment and did some shopping in Silverdale. Sunday we saw Paul and Rachel and the kids before we had to take off to the airport. It was a quick trip, I wish we could have stayed longer for Thanksgiving. Also, I haven't figured out how to post the pictures very well yet so they are all out of order but I can't figure out how to move them now that they are here so sorry.

Our 2nd Anniversary

Well, two years just flew by. It seems weird I have been married that long, it doesn't seem that long ago when I thought I was never going to meet the "one" or get married. Being single was fun and I wouldn't trade those years but it is really nice to be where we are at right now together. Anyways, this year we decided to go to Park City. I had the day off because luckily I work for a bank and we get days off like Veterans day, and Ryan took the day off. So, we drove up to Park City that after noon and walked up and down main streets going into all the little shops and art galleries, man if money wasn't an issue it would be so cool to buy some real art work for our house, then we checked into our hotel right on main street and relaxed for a little bit and got ready to go to dinner. We realized that November is the off season for Park City so it felt like we were the only people there and unfortunately a lot of the restaruaunts were closed. We found a nice Italian place for dinner and it was pretty romantic since we were the only customers in the restaruant literally. After that we we went to the heated outdoor pool at the hotel and hot tub which was fun. When we got back to the hotel Ryan had set up blanket and pillows by the fireplace in our room with the mormon version of champagne "sparkling cider" and roses. So it was a pretty nice anniversary.

Famous people in Lehi?

So we went to Costco on Saturday, mainly because we spent all morning cleaning our house and then didn't feel like cleaning again, so we decided to go eat at Costco and then go shopping and eat all the yummy samples, which as is turned out Annaliese had the exact same idea cause she showed up there like 15 min after us. So anyways after we ate all the samples Annaliese noticed there was a bunch of people outside by the Verizon store with one of the radio stations there so we went over to see what all the fuss was about. We were offered wristbands to stand in the above long line to get an autograph by Timbaland (the guy One Republic sold out to get their Apologize song on the air, you can't really blame them since it worked, but the original version without Timaland(I have no idea how to spell his name)) is so much better, and also Chris Cornell, I guess he was in the Sound Garden band back in the 90's and them two have a new album coming out hence the visit to Lehi, Utah Verizon store with about 50 people. Anyways we took the wristbands stood around waiting for about 20 min realized we didn't really care about getting an autograph although we thought it would have been cool if we felt like standing in line to get a picture with one of them holding Addie and send it to spencer, just to freak him out. We decided against this gave the wristbands back and just watched them get out of their RV and Suburban, of course they couldn't come in the same vehicle, that they had been hanging out in forever, got our cool picture of their backs and decided to go home

Tagged by Kirsten

Tell 6 things no one knows about you, so its probably going to be more like 6 things most people don't know but some people might, but here it goes...
1) I found a snake in my office fax machine, i couldn't get my papers to go thru the machine, so I opened it up and see a black snake all cozied up and screamed so loud my co-workers thought I was getting electrocuted. Everyone in the whole bank knows about it even the CEO and president when they visited our office asked to see the video of it, any ways the point is that before this I was tolerant of snakes but have now moved in to the really hate them and scared of them stage, I've even had a few night mares about them so it doesn't really make sense seeing as how I wasn't physically harmed in any way but thats what happened. Snakes and roaches are the worst luckily I haven't seen a roach since the Texas days.
2) I sucked my thumb until the third grade, I remember my teacher had some kind of code she gave me when she would see me sucking it, I was embarrassed thinking all the other kids knew the code to so I can't remember if that is why I finally stopped the habit but I did, obviously.
3) I have a love/hate relationship with chick flicks, I like to watch them but then I always rip on them afterwards because I think they are always so predictable and unrealistic but I still like watching them.
4)I tried out for the flag team in high school with my two best friends and i was the one who didn't make it. (thats what all the cool, cute girls did was the flags and they got to wear a lot more flattering outfits than the band uniforms, of course anything is more flattering than the band uniforms)
5) I love dairy products, everyone knows that, but i love drinking whip cream from the carton, (not whipped, although I love that too) some people think its gross, like for instance my husband, but its like a little treat to have a little sip everytime you have to get in the fridge for something.
6) I love hair products, I can spend a really long time in the hair section of the store , half the products i buy are for curly hair and the other half for straight hair, always a constant dilemma for me, and then there's the hair dye colors...