A White, White Christmas in Kanab

We went to Kanab to spend Christmas with Nolan's family. It was a lot of fun! We were very surprised when to got there to see so much snow on the ground. There was way more snow in Kanab than there was when we left home. It snowed and snowed and snowed until Friday. It was great to have a really white Christmas! We had lots of fun spending time with family, Nolan did 3 puzzles, we polished our Wii skills, Elaine (Nolan's Mom) made lots of yummy food, we ate lots of yummy food, we played games, and we also managed to have family pictures on Saturday morning. Santa found us in Kanab and the kids were spoiled once again. Baylin was so cute this year because she understood the whole concept of Santa. She put out cookies and milk and she wrote Santa a note. She had a ball! Our Christmas was fantastic! Thanks to all our family for making it so wonderful!

Christmas Before Christmas

Since it was our year to have Christmas with Nolan's family and it was Jake's year to have Christmas with his in-laws my Mom and Dad had all of us over the Monday before Christmas to have Christmas with the my family before Christmas. My Mom and Dad put on an excellent spread of food! It was delicious! Then of course we had presents. We got spoiled this year like we always do! My Mom and Dad got us a new 32" t.v. We have been married 6 1/2 years and we have never bought a t.v.! We have always just used the hand me downs from my Mom and Dad. Thanks Mom and Dad for everything!!! It was such a great evening with our family! Christmas is about family and the birth of our Savior. We hope that everyone had a safe and Merry Christmas!

The Lights

A couple of weeks ago we went with my Mom, Dad, and Jackson to see the lights at Temple Square. We went early enough in December that the weather hadn't gotten too cold yet. It was a very enjoyable night and it helped that it wasn't extremely cold! I love to go and see the lights. We don't go every year, but I would like to make that a tradition.

Update from the Blog Slacker

I have been kind of a blog slacker this month. It seems like forever since I have posted anything. I have been so busy Christmas shopping, baking, school, parties, wrapping, family, seeing the lights and just life! It has been such a great month. I just put a few pictures in a collage to show just a few things of what has been going on this month. My Mom worked at the Festival of Trees so I took a picture of her working. She had such a great experience and it was great to be a part of it. Nolan and the high school woodshop built a cedar chest for the event. It was auctioned off with the stuff that is with it in the picture above. It sold for way more than he expected! It is a beautiful cedar chest! I also posted a picture of our tree and the gingerbread house that Baylin and I made the other night. I have more pictures to post and I will post them when I get them downloaded. We hope that everyone is having a ver Happy Hoilday Season!!! We sure our! We head to Kanab on Tuesday for Christmas to spend the holiday with Nolan's family. We are looking forward to spending time with family, eating, cooking, playing games, laughing and being together!

Festival of Trees--A Gift of Love

Just a shout out to all those who helped in anyway with the Festival of Trees. My mom is on the committee and we had the opportunity last night to go to opening night or the "sneak peek" of the Festival of Trees. It was fabulous! So much hard work and time goes in to making the Festival of Trees a success. They had a short program, they lit the trees all at once, we did a little shopping, and we enjoyed the beauty of the trees. It was a great night! My Mom was so kind to take Baylin and Jackson today. Baylin was so excited to go. She is having a great time. I am also going to give my husband a shout out because Grantsville High Wood Shop and himself made a beautiful cedar chest that they donated to the Festival of Trees. I saw it last night at the festival of trees and it was bid on and sold. I am so proud of him! He did such a great job! I was touched and felt the Christmas spirit last night. I am taking the day off on Friday and spending the day in there. If you get a chance go down to the South Town Expo Center and enjoy the beautiful trees. I have some pictures that I will post later.

Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday

We hope that everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. We had a great day! We are so thankful for so many blessings that we have in our lives. We even had family pictures on Thanksgiving and they went very well. We had Thanksgiving at my Grandma Johnson's and is was a lot of fun! The food was delicious! We also had fun looking at the ad's for black Friday. We had decided to shop online this year for black Friday. I waited until midnight and was able to get a door buster item online at midnight. I am not going to tell what the item is, but to get the same deal online as I would of at 4:00 am at the store is GREAT! I woke up at 6:00 am and checked the internet for some deals and I didn't really find anything that caught my eye. We decided that we really didn't need anything this year and the one item that we bought at midnight was the most important thing and we already purchased it. When I woke up at 9:00, Nolan said let's go to Salt Lake and shop. The night before we had gone through the ads and looked to see what items we needed for Christmas. They were all door busters and we decided not to head in this year. On the way into Salt Lake we looked through the ads again to see where the door buster items were located. Low and behold we were able to get every door buster that we had planned to get. We got all the same deals and we had the luxury of sleeping in. We shopped all day and when I say we I mean, Nolan, Baylin, and Peyton. Yes, we took our kids on the biggest shopping day of the year. They were so good!!! We went from store to store to store and they were awesome!!! We had such a good black Friday shopping day. I am going to say that we didn't need any BIG electronics or furniture this year so shopping online and waiting until 9:00 am to shop in the stores worked for us! We hope that everyone has had a great holiday. We sure did!

Carrie Underwood Concert

Nolan and I had a date night on Wednesday and we went to the Carrie Underwood concert. It was a lot of fun. We were in a huge traffic jam trying to get there so we missed a little bit of the opening act which was Little Big Town, but we finally made it and it was a great evening. Little Big Town was great as well. We really like that group and we were excited that they opened for Carrie Underwood!!!