Sunday, December 30, 2007

Christmas break!!!

I thought it would never come!! I love Chritmas break!! Jon is home for a good 3 weeks and we get to go home to St. George to be with the most awesome people around, Our families! Oh I love it! We had a great great great time! Hated to leave! Thanks everyone for making it such a fun and memorable Christmas! We started off the trip with a round of bowling with Jons family but my pictures didn't turn out at all. :( Here are a few pictures that did work out of what went down...

Here is Jon and I with baby bree... she is our newest niece
Allie cat with her Christmas present, her new puppy named Lucky!


Arden just being cute... she's good at that.

Jon and I went on my favorite hike up in Snow Canyon. It is one of my very favorite places, it's so beautiful up there! The pictures of the view didn't turn out very well at all but I am gonna post them anyway.
Just being silly. We do that a lot.
It was really cool on this hike because there was still snow and ice left over from the storm so the contrast of the snow and desert landscape was really neat. Jon took these cool pictures... if you click on them and make them big they are even better!


This one was REALLY cool. You cant tell from the picture but there was big bubbles of water slowly running under this little frozen watefall. It was so cool to watch, it didn't look real.
THE VIEW! (and the foggy picture, use your imagination because the color is AMAZING)

So it was an awesome Christmas break! We had so much fun with everyone! Thanks again!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

PARTY!!!!

So Jon and I had our big Christmas party at our house last night with some of our neighbors! yay! It turned out so great!! Everyone brought amazing food, we played some games, did a white elephant gift exchange, laughed a LOT! Thanks everyone for coming and making it so fun!!!

This is the whole group! Minus Jon and I, taking the pics! Notice the coveted statue that Zach was blessed to recieve...

Here is a closeup of the 1st prize best white elephant gift! I'm sure it will be "re-gifted" for many years to come!

So we played this game where you had a green piece of papar, put it behind your back and had 1 minute to tear out the perfect Christmas tree! These two did NOT win, but the bribery was tempting to the judge.

Here is Jon attempting Guitar Hero... He and I were first timers so we didn't look very rock'n'roll but it was still fun! Also notice little London in the middle... she was so cute!! She was bouncing and dancing the WHOLE time they were playing that game! She is a party animal, she could have gone all night!

This is the guitar hero master!! I had video of him doing it but it wouldn't upload! Anyway, this is Stephenson and Katie, they are so cute and he definately won "most Christmas spirit"

And last but not least, me, Katie and Tara, attempting blue steele, don't know where that came from but they are cute girls! I should have had one with ALL the girls! Grrr... Thanks again everyone!!!

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Stir Crazy...

So Jon and I had been cooped up in our house all day on Saturday so we decided to go play in the snow... and that is where Fluffy, the snow penguin was born.




We also attempted to make snow angels... didn't work so well...

This is right before I rolled up Jon in the snow.

Then I made a little present for our friend next door. He was very excited as you can see.

Monday, December 3, 2007

FINALLY!!

I know I have been really bad lately with updating my blog... shame on me... I have all these fun pictures and no excuse for not posting. I hope you will all forgive me and enjoy these pictures from the past month!


snow, Snow, SNOW!!! And Jon having WAY too much with with it!

Baby Isaiah with Grandma and Grandpa Layne


Cute little nieces, cant get enough!!!

A little golf.... Nice form babe!


I went to St. George and got to see some friends that I have not seen for WAY too long! Thanks for hangin out guys!

Bevin has suddenly had this urge to come visit me lately and that has been great! Oh
and Jeremy is here too but I think she is really coming for me :)

Thursday, November 1, 2007

I've been TAGGED!

So my good buddy Meh meh (Meghan Ence) tagged me and here are the rules if I tag you!

RULES:

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.

B. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.

C. At the end of the post, the player then tags other people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Ok here goes...

#1 I am a freak about the way I eat my food. Ask my husband or mom and they will tell you all about it! I have to eat my food a certain way. The way I eat my morning eggs cracks my mom up, I have 2 eggs with only 1 yolk and 1 piece of wheat toast with spray butter, I eat the whites first with some of the toast but I have to leave a square of toast big enough to put the remaining yolk on top, then I cut that into 4 pieces and enjoy! I also have to eat all the chocolate off my Reese's, then the peanut butter. It's a little OCD but almost everything I eat has to be a certain way... I just love food so I wanna get the most out of it ya know. Thats understandable right?

#2 I have this wierd, kind of gross habbit of chewing on the inside of my cheek... I do it constantly, I just chew on it all the time, especially if I am stressed. It drives Jon nuts and I try really hard to fight it but I just cant control myself!

#3 I only have 1 and 1/8 first ribs... Let me explain... Your first rib is the one at the very top, close to your neck. A few months ago I had surgery to resect one of mine because it was blocking one of my arteries, the one that gets the blood to your arm so when I raised my hand, I had no pulse! So they went in through my armpit and clipped off about 80% of the rib. It's a really wierd surgery, not done often so it makes me kinda special right? ;)

#4 I am a nut job when I sleep (sometimes)... sometimes it's not so bad and sometimes it is. I sleep walk like crazy, but not normal sleepwalking... I am not only all over the place walking around, talking to people, rearranging furniture, selling wedding dresses, giving hugs to nobody, you name it, but the wierd thing is that I know exactly what I'm doing! It's like being in 2 worlds at the same time... So I can be like ringing up a customer at the toaster and think "Oh I am so tired, it's 3am, I should be sleeping in my bed, I am home and its not time to work.... but I cant ignore my customer..." It's bizzare, I cant stop myself... Ask me for my stories sometime, they are sure to give you a good laugh. Jon thinks it's real funny too, if he catches me he will just egg me on and play along until I snap out of it.. then I hit him and go back to sleep.

#5 I wish I could live at Lake Powell forever. I love it there so much!

#6 I feel like the luckiest person alive! I have the most amazing family on earth. I have this incredible husband. He is so much fun and so funny! I love the way he is. He is such a hard worker, so smart and driven, but when it's time to play, he plays! He turns into this 3 year old that is just giggling and playful and I just love that! My family is amazing... I grew up with 3 older brothers and no sister (except Bevin, she is pretty much my sister and I love her to pieces!). My brothers are the best, they are SO much fun to be around, I love spending time with them in St. George and I equally love spending time with their wifes because they are my sisters! Sharla, Fergi and Kate are honestly the most amazing people, I cant imagine loving a real sister any more than those girls. They are so different from eachther but equally amazing. I dont think they know how much I look up to them... guess they do now! My parents... well if any of you have ever met Barb and Kerry, you already know how great they are! My mom is who I can only hope to become and my Dad taught me pretty much everything good I know! Jons family is incredible as well. They are so fun and loving and just good good people, they are the best in-laws I could ask for! Now dont you think I am lucky??

I tag: Barb, Kate, Fergi and Sharla!!!!

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween!


This is the cute little guy next door named Hunter, he made himself right at home as soon as we opened the door. Cute cute


The old woman on your right would be me, the guy in scrubs is William, he is a PA for my boss who is in the lime green pimp suit (picture does NOT do it justice), yes he is an orthopedic surgeon, scary I know, and the other girl is my partner in crime Tina. These are the people I work with and I love my job! Happy halloween! (Jon was at school, party pooper)

Friday, October 26, 2007

Welcome home Tawny!!!


Tawny just got home from her mission in South Africa! We have missed her around here!


The fam welcomes her home!


meeting baby Isaiah

Sunday, October 14, 2007

New baby....

No she's not ours...



I know what most people think when they see a baby on our blog so I thought the title would clear the air. However, this IS my new baby niece Bree! She was born on Tuesday night and was 6lbs 1oz. She is absolutely beautiful and I already love her to pieces! Way to go Jer and Sharla!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007


This is my team. For those who don't know I caoch the Woods Cross High School tennis team. These are my varsity girls at the St. George invitational. They are such great girls, they worked their buns off in that St. George heat! Placed 4th of 16 teams... pretty dang good!

The Team

Monday, September 10, 2007

One lovely summer...





























Sad, sad, sad... summer has come to an end... Jon is back to school, no more trips. Sad to say goodbye but we had a great summer for sure! Here are some pictures of our wonderful summer. We went to New York, to Powell, little Isaiah FINALLY arrived, all sorts of good stuff!! Special thanks to all those who made those fun trips happen!!! What a great time!