Happy New Year!!

Since the guys are gone, Kel and I are having our own party! Baked Lay's, CPK pizza, DCs, Ben & Jerry's.........what more could you want?! Well, time to start the movie and watch the NYC ball drop!!!

And They're Off.....GO UTES!!!!

My dad took my two brothers, brother-in-law, and John to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl!!! They left this morning and have already had a good ol' Cajun meal and oysters on the half shell....John is in heaven! While the guys are gone, us girls are going to party it up at home, eat lots of good food and do more shopping :)

GO UTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Eve at Grandma's House!

We always going to Grandma's house for a prime rib dinner and it was perfect as usual!! After dinner we opened up presents from grandma.... Jake got a wagon and books and John and I got a very generous check, gift card, pewter dish and a few other things...thanks grandma!!
I was WAY more excited to open up Jake's presents than he was :)

Pre- opening presents....

Jake LOVED checking out his new book!

Post opening presents.....

Christmas 2008

John doing push-up plus 100 pounds!

UPDATE

On Thursday I went to The Nutcracker with John's mom and sisters... my family usually goes every year since I was little and I love that tradition!!

Jake LOVES to play the drums on Rock Band 2.... my family has NO musical talent (except for John) but some how RB2 brings us together!! I'm usually on the vocals (k, you all know i CANT sing) and so it's pretty much a joke to watch us!

It was SO MUCH FUN to get together with the girls I played tennis with at USU! A few of them I haven't seen since college so it was great to get caught up on their lives!! Shelly, Jocee, and Whit were not able to make it and we missed them....just another reason to get together SOON!!

I have 4 guys in my life...John, my dad, jakers, and Mr. Mudd!! Jake has LOVED being around Mudd and Mudd is so well tempered with Jake. He loves to feed him Fruit Loops in the morning and take his toys and have Mudd chase him!! It is too cute!!

Jake right after a nap and Mudd right by his side to cheer him up.... in the mornings Jake will go to the stairs and yell "ma" (Mudd) to get him to come upstairs.....Mudd- do you want to come home with us??!!

My Super CUTE Sister!!

These are Kelsey's drill pictures.... she is an amazing dancer!! I can't believe how cute she can look while jumping!! Watch out boys, you have an older sister to deal with :)

Jake and his cousins

Jake was so funny during the magic show.... he just made himself welcome right in the middle of the show and watched!!! We were laughing SO hard!!

Kallie loved holding Jake down but he only liked it for about 2 minutes!

Jake, Kallie, Matt

Utah Children's Museum

The Utah Children's Museum is SO cute!! It for sure tops the Omaha one!! Jake had so much fun playing with his cousins, Matt and Kallie!! He LOVES Kallie....and she like to boss him around...so they're both entertained!!

Jake and I at the news desk!!

Kel and I reporting for channel 5.... Chantelle said I looked like I was trying to be in the spotlight.... i DON'T believe that :)

GO UTES!!!!! BCS...BCS...BCS...BCS...BCS...BCS

I have had many dreams over the past few weeks that the UTES would just KILL byu and that's what they did 48-24!!!!!!!!! John and I flew in Friday night just in time to make it to the VICTORY!!!! I have never slept better than I did last night!!! Here are some of the GREAT pictures of the night :) GO UTES!!!!!!!!!!!

GO UTES!!! BCS...BCS...BCS...BCS...BCS...BCS

Pumpkin carving....

This is John's intricate pumpkin carving of Freddy Kruger.... it took him 3 hours and he wouldn't stop until it was all done.... i guess that's why he went into dentistry!!! Good job babe :)

Happy Halloween!!!

We took Jake to the mall to play tonight. He had SO much fun watching all the kids running around and he got a few treats too!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Jake in his rock garden!

Jake LOVES to play with all the rocks at the botanical gardens......

Scared on the bridge!!!!

John and I were laughing SO hard...... We put Jake on this bridge and Jake was so scared that he froze and didn't move for about 5 minutes!!!! We've NEVER seen Jake stay this still before.......John's thinking of purchasing a bridge :) ha ha!!

Trick or Treating at the Botanical Gardens

The Botanical Gardens had a cute Halloween party with fun activities and lots of candy!! Jake and Morgan just had more fun playing on the bridge....

Cute pumpkin tic-tac-toe.....

Jake made his first piece of art :)