i have missed you.....

This was at 9am this morning......I felt like a kid I was so excited

and this was at 1:00 pm today....maybe next year

Christmas Vacation

Well, I was a little overwhelmed when I got thinking about all of the pictures I could post and things I could write about our Christmas vacation...so...I was very pleased with myself when I came up with this brilliant idea. Okay, it's not that brilliant, but I liked it.


Our top 10 things we did over Christmas Vacation:

10. I finally was able to read a novel after not being in school! Whoo-hoo! My choice...Twilight of course...and I'm only 1/2 way through the 2nd book...so no giving anything away...Megan and Caitlin!

9. Not having to cook=not having to clean up=happy me :)

8. sleeping in..some days


7. Finally getting to eat my favorite Nielsen's ice cream! There is nothing better

6. Being able to take pictures of such a beautiful place...Hawaii! I didn't get hardly any of Utah. Which I am sad about now...and sorry Memphis...it just doesn't cut it for beautiful.

5. Mountains! Breathtaking. I forgot to get the one's of Utah.... :(

4. This one I didn't get pics of either..I'm very disappointed in myself, but we went skiing at snowbasin with my Dad and loved it! ( I only fell twice as a result of tripping myself with my ski poles! ) I am improving

3. Hawaii of course! We went with Jason's family to the beautiful island of Kaui! It was amazing and we had SO much fun. We even got to ride these trikes through the sky...and I touched a cloud! Now I can scratch that of my list of life goals to achieve! I could write about it for hours!

2. Visiting old friends. These are well...not my roommates, but should have been...the girls that got me through college. They are great..and as you see all married :) I didn't get pics of my other friends that got me through nursing school but we got to see them too.

1. And finally...family! We love them..and we got to welcome the newest member..Cameron born on Dec. 27. We were even able to visit them. I didn't get pics of all of my family...again my sad picture taking...but it was definitely what we needed, too see them

This is Trent and Cecilie...new Mom and Dad. Cameron is below

Here is my family..part of them. I love you guys! Getting big!

And last but definitely not least..Jason's family. They are wonderful and we love them too! Thanks for Hawaii guys!

Grrr...

Update coming soon on the last few weeks. Our computer is being slow and I don't have the patience tonight!

Always On Our Minds!!

We will be here in less than two weeks, that is less than 14 days! We're also so excited to see our families and go back to Utah for a few days! See you guys soon! Happy holidays :)

No wishes for us

Tonight we decided to pull the wishbone from our very own first homemade Thanksgiving turkey! (thanks to the in-laws) We have been letting it dry out for over a week...and maybe we were a little too enthusiastic about it??

We broke the wishbone into three pieces! :( The middle piece went flying away. My piece was bigger though, so I guess my wish has a better chance of coming true than Jason's.

crazy campers

This last weekend some of us had a crazy idea to go camping...it's Tennessee, can't be too cold right? The little white specs on the sleeping bag are the ice crystals we woke up to in the morning! They were all over the tent! We didn't realize the humidity might actually cause ice...guess we weren't thinking...oops. We figured it got down to about 25 degrees...with humidity on top of it

In the morning I managed to stay warm with pajama pants on under my jeans, two jackets, a winter coat, gloves, and a beanie that never came off! Jason is a human heater, so he was fine. :) We still had fun, but maybe next year we will go earlier

Our "hike"

Okay..so after a few months of stalking everyone elses blogs..I think it's time I put something on my own! I was told by a few pessimistic Memphians the "during the fall the leaves just turn brown, die, and fall off!" I was so sad, but, the past couple of weekends we were determined to prove them wrong. We set out on a drive to go for what people around here call a "hike"

This was just possibly the most beautiful thing we saw all day... I had to throw it in!

If you look you can see some vine things hanging from the trees...we couldn't really figure out exactly what they were...(sorry about the order of these pics, I couldn't figure out how to re-arrange them..I have much to learn in the blogging world.)



At the end of the "hike"...or really just a nice walk with a few minor elevations here and there we found this...the Mississippi! There was sand right off of it, it was just like a beach..kind of crazy!

We were very excited when we figured out the vines were stable enought that we could swing on them! This is just one of the ones that we found.

Jason....trying to look manly

I was excited to see some red on the trees..with a little bit of yellow


All in all..not too bad. I can't say it's as pretty as Logan canyon, but definitely better than just turning brown, dying, and falling off.