Merry Christmas

I found this to be hilarious...but if you haven't seen twilight or could care less about twilight..it may not have the same affect on you..

we're fabulous

So apparently Sarah Beth finds our blog fabulous. I'm flattered!

Here is how the "fabulous blog" award works...

The rules of this award are:

1. You have to pass it on to 5 other fabulous blogs in a post.

2. You have to list 5 of your fabulous addictions in the post.

3. You must copy and paste the rules and the instructions below in the post.

Instructions: On your post of receiving this award, make sure you include the person that gave you the award and link it back to them. When you post your five winners, make sure you link them as well. To add the award to your post, simply right-click, save image, then "add image" it in your post as a picture so your winners can save it as well. To add it to your sidebar, add the "picture" gadget. Also, don't forget to let your winners know they won an award from you by emailing them or leaving a comment on their blog.

my addictions:

1. Facebook: I won't lie it runs my life. I check it more than 5 times a day if not more.

2. Reading: I was never EVER reader until twilight. Even in high school with required readings..i went to sparks notes. i DETESTED it. Now i can't go more than a week without a book. I love being able to live through other characters and look at things threw different peoples perspectives.

3. Dr. Pepper: I was never much of a soda drinker til ryan had me try dr.pepper. i can't go to a fast food restaurant without drinking it. But sadly i can't drink it alone cuz the caffine makes me weak..haha..i always need it with food.

4. my tv shows: grey's, one tree hill, private practice, and samantha who..they run my life. sad, but SO true!

5. TWILIGHT: do i really even need to explain that? it goes without saying...

and the winners are:

1. Heidi: is my fabulous sister who encourages me to keeping writing. i love reading about her mommy moments with savannah. they truly are sweet and it makes me excited to be a mother.

2. Alix: is my fabulous old roommate/best friend. She's HILARIOUS and her blog shows it. Whenever i talk with her she brightens my day!

3. Holly: is another fabulous sister who introduced me into the blogging world. which i am very grateful for. she doesn't blog a ton, but when she does i love reading about it!

4. Sarah Beth: is my fabulous best friend. yes, you get two awards because it's true..i love reading your blog! Sarah Beth never ceases to amaze me. She's makes me want to be a better person. She says i'm the reason she is who she is today, but she has had just as much impact on me.

5. Whitni: is another one of my fabulous best friends. we pretty much have nothing in common, but we can talk to each other about anything and understand each other. She's one great listener!

red iguana is delish

so while we were in utah for thanksgiving we went to this hole in the wall place in salt lake called the red iguana. the best mexican food ever. mexican is my least favorite food, but if it wasn't so expensive and if we actually live in utah, ryan and i would eat there every week. Red iguana was featured on one of my favorite shows: diners, drive-ins and dives. So when you're in salt lake it's the place to stop and experience.

i love my family

while waiting for our food our family played a hilarious game, but since the rest of my fam isn't as shameless as i am i would get my bum kicked for posting the pics. haha..But i'll tell you how we played. i started playing this game 3 years ago with my roommates. so roomates that read our blog: you know this game well. one person makes a face and takes a picture, no one can watch them. the next person looks at the picture and tries to make that face. it's like telephone, but with a camera. by the end the faces only get worse and it makes for some good laughs.

nothing is worse than job hunting

After about 10 months the restaurant i worked at closed shop. It was kind of just thrown at me. I showed up to work and they said that was the last day we were open..i'm like sweet. thanks for the warning guys. so now i'm job hunting and it makes me hate life. i HATE rejection. and there really aren't a whole lot of choices. SO..if anyone knows of a place in rexburg that's hiring...throw it my way! it will be much appreciated.

tis the season

To kick off the season we went to wes and whit's to make graham cracker houses. we made some delicious frosting and decorated with m&m's...

my graham cracker house

whitni and i concentrating very hard..haha

ryan was very proud of his house

everyone's houses

thanksgiving break

ryan and i didn't think we were even going to be able to go home during thanksgiving break, but i do the schedules for my work and made it happen. a trip we thought was only going to be 2 days turned in 5, so it was really nice! i was especially excited to go down because the van wagenen girls bought twilight tickets for us all to go..haha..i had been dying to see it again. and it made me that much more excited that all the girls in our family love the books. so it turned into one fun girls night out.

april, mom, and eva me, burgandy and senja

we were so excited!

Thanksgiving day was nice and relaxing. It was a great for spending time with family. My aunt and uncle from finland came to spend thanksgiving with us and it's always a treat to have them around since we rarely see them. they are such pleasant people. We decided to do something different this year when going around the table saying what we were thankful for. We decided to each write on a piece of paper what we were thankful for and one person read them and we'd try and figure out who wrote what. we learned that ryan and jeremy are both grateful for pie and mountain dew..haha

Friday night heidi and i decided twilight was a good idea again...holly didn't want to be left out, so the sisters and burgandy and senja decided we'd go on round 3 for twilight..pathetic? maybe, but quite frankly we really couldn't care. we bought the tickets ahead of time, but we left late and a jazz game had just let out so we got stuck in traffic! making us 20 minutes late for the movie..we parked in the first spots we saw and booked it across the gateway to get to the theaters. 5 girls running across an outdoor mall in pjs with blankets at 10 o'clock at night..it was a site to see, but maybe you had to be there...luckily we made it just in time for edward to show up on screen..haha

shooting

Look who's come out from under a rock! it's been weeks since i've blogged and i have a TON to blog about so here is the first of many...a couple weeks ago wes invited ryan to go shooting and for some reason the husbands wanted the wives there. i don't particularly like guns, but whit and i said..what the heck it'll give us something to blog about..haha..we went out into the middle of no where(not that rexburg isn't already in the middle of nowhere) for them to shoot some clay pidgens.

i didn't want to shoot the gun, but apparently i give into peer pressure easily

it really hurts your shoulder..not sure what's so fun about shooting a gun. maybe it just makes men feel manly.

whitni said it made her feel like sarah palin..haha