~Friends and Family~plus all the extra's

There is definitely a lot to blog about, obviously you guys can see it has been quite awhile:). This past weekend was a BLAST!! We FINALLY got out in that snow and put it to some good use! Kristin, Taylor, me, Brad, Cherelle, and Ryan all went sledding up at Doughnut Falls. It was honestly so much fun, I highly recommend it to anyone that is debating on going sledding! It's always so fun to get with these friends, I seriously just laugh so hard when we are all together-they are some definite keepers:). Then afterwords we went to eat at Fudruckers and of course reminisced while all of our husbands just sat there feeling awkward, jokes I hope they had a good time too, even thoug it can get annoying hearing all of our past high school stories. But overall, it was such a great time!
This past Thursday baby Jeff was born-man, I know all babies look the same when they are born, but this little boy was the cutest little thing!! We couldn't help but go and take a look at the newest addition to the family! 2 weeks ago we got together with Tori, Ryan, Dave, McCall, Melissa and Kelly. Of course its always a stinkin blast hanging out with these guys! We went out to eat and then after headed over to Kelly and Melissa's house to heat up some Fondu-delish is all I have to say. I literally couldn't control myself with that little stick and dipping everything in the chocolate, it was so GOOD!!
These next pictures are pretty random, but this past week Brad just had the sudden urge to make some doughnuts! (those of you who know me well, know of course it was like Christmas morning when he threw out that option-doughnuts are my fav!) We had a little party just the 2 of us cookin up some Spudnuts. They turned out so good so of course I just had to Blog about it:). Here are some pics of the "doughnut making" in the process....sorry, I wish I could have given you all the taste, but the pictures are all I can do for you..so enjoy:).

a simple update

I figured it had been long enough since the last time I updated, so here is just a simple update of what has happened since good old New Years.
On the 16th we celebrated my Birthday by going to a couple's massage at the Sanctuary Spa. Holy crap, for any of you who haven't ever received a massage, highly recommend it!! It was incredble! So after we went out to eat and just came home and relaxed, we still were feeling lazy from the massage.

So later that weekend Me, Brad, Kelly and Candace went down to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival. We drove through Main Street once and decided that was enough-the streets were a little too crowded for us to try to spy on any celebs. So we did something pretty random but it was way cool. We went to Midway and decided to take a look at the Crater at the Homestead. I know, random, but for any of you who haven't been, it really is incredible! We wanted to swim but decided against it. But it was fun to even check out. We got a picture, but of course there was so much steam that you can't even see anything. So, sorry about the crappy picture!

This past weekend was fun hanging out with all of Brads friends from high school and there spouses/girlfriends. They are all such cute couples, and its always fun to see everyone get the update on everyones lives. We played some games at Aaron and Shireena's new apartment with Todd and his girl Britny, Tim and his girl Rachell, and Mike and Aubrey. We played the game Battle of the Sexes, and I promise it was thee most hardest game-all of us didn't have a clue to any of the answers. It was pretty funny watching everyone and how frustrated we all got from trying to answer all the questions. Also, last weekend all of the girls went out to lunch again, Me, Cherelle, Kristin, Racquel and Chelsey. It really does get better and better to hang out with those girls. I miss being able to see them more often but its such a fun time when we all get together and just talk old times!

Well, nothing too exciting, but I thought I would spare you guys to have to see the Christmas update one more time! Hope you guys are all enjoying the new year and hopefully something really exciting comes up that I can blog about:).

Christmas Break and a Happy New Year!

I know I'm a little late, but its better to be late then never eh:). Our Christmas was extremely casual but still lots of fun with both families! Our family went on a carriage ride down town, and it was so fun! I was expecting it to smell like horse poopie the whole time, but it actually turned out to be so fun with Stace and Dave there, and it was of course fun to see Coop and how he handled the ride, he loved it!
Me and Brad's Christmas shopping turned out pretty fun too, we hit up Cheesecake Factory and yes, we did wait 2 hours to be seated, so we just did our shopping while waiting to be seated so it worked out perfect!Here are just a few random pictures that I was able to get, I didn't have my camera for most of the time, which I seriously regret, but I caught a few randoms. The little cute red head that I'm holding is Brad's niece, she is literally one of the cutest little girls I have ever met! She was always so calm and cuddly, but of course in this picture she wasn't quite as cuddly as she usually is, but it was the only picture I got of this cute little girl!

I wish soo badly I got more pictures of Stace and Dave of there cute fam, but this year was Dave's family's year, so most of the time they were at Dave's house, but some EXCITING NEWS-Stace and Dave are moving to Utah in APRIL!! We were all so excited when they told us and can't wait until they get here!!

I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas and New Years, and by the way, I would have put some pics up from our New Years, but I literally fell asleep at 11:30! We spent the night at my family's house and just watched movies and ate, and everyone was pretty asleep at 11, except Carson, way to go Carson!!

Also, a special CONGRATS for Aaron and Shireena Fennell and John and Erin Mayfield! Both couples got hitched this month and both weddings were beautiful! We are so excited for them both!!

the new job

It's official, I got a new job! Thought some changes needed to be made and school was becoming more and more important, I just hate that it took 3 years for me to figure it out! I got a new job called Rescue Alert, formally owned by the Bangerter family. I'm starting school in January and I'm literally as nervous as heck! I went to one semester of school after I graduated, but it was basically, not only a waist of money, but just a party to me, or I thought thats how it was supposed to be-I just didn't know how to handle all the freedom. So now that I know what I want to do, i'm going back and hopefully it's a little different from the last college experience! Hope your Christmas Season is going great, and yes, I am aware that not one picture has been posted about Christmas from us yet, but there will be pics after:). EVERYONE HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!!!!

VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!!

WOOOHOOOO!!! LAS VEGAS BABY!! This past weekend Me, Brad, Kelly and Candace all drove to St. George, stayed the night at Kelly's grandma and grandpa's house and that following morning drove to Vegas and spent the day! A day is all I can pretty much handle there and to be honest it's not even the day that is fun, its seriously all for the night life there!

The first thing we did when we got there was the STRATOSPHERE!! Candace wanted to go on the ride that tips you over the edge so bad-but us 3 were seriously just straight scared out of our minds. There were 3 rides up there, the Scream (that cart that tips you over the edge), Insanity (You sit in seats that spins you over the edge), and the Big Shot (the ride that just shoots you to the top of the Stratosphere). They went on the Big Shot and the Scream that tips you over...I lost weight just watching the ride! I was the most scared out of everyone there, I refused to go on any of them-well, they finally begged me to go on the Insanity, its the one that you sit in these seats and it hangs you over 1,700 feet and spins you....bawled, I literally opened my eyes once and when I did, I honest to goodness started bawling! I have never ever in my entire life been so scared as I was when I was on that ride!!

The rest of the day was spent safely on the ground where all the fun was happening. We hit up the MGM Grand and took a quick look at the lions, we ate at the Rio Buffet, which was incredible food, and then we of course gambled just once...and let me add, I won 15 buckaroonies and I'm still smiling from it. We watched the Water Show at the Belagio which, no matter how many times you have seen it, still is so great to watch!

Here is Candace, Kelly and Brad on the Scream-worst ride ever made and even though they said they had fun on it, I guarantee they were scared out of there minds...

Had to include the good old dance show that was going on while we were throwing in the quarters:).

It was way fun and we couldn't have been happier that we went on this trip! It was an awesome little get-a-way and we hope to go again soon!!

the cabin

It has always been tradition to go up to Kristin's cabin for all of us 5 girls since high school. All of us girls usually get together about once a month, and this time we headed up to Kristin's cabin with all the husbands. It was a BLAST! Kristin and Taylor made some hamburger's and then we played some games. It is just the best way to get away from everything and just have a dang good time!

(Melissa, Kristin, Racquel, Chelsey, Cherelle)

Here is the whole gang. Its hard to see everyone, the lighting wasn't the best, but we got what we could!

Kristin and Taylor slaving away while all of us are taking it easy and enjoying every bite

Here is another shot of all the girls, it really is so fun when we all get together! We have all stayed such close Friends since High School and it gets even better when we are able to hang out with all the busy schedules!

HALLOWEEN-and everything that comes with it

HALLOWEEN! I'll be honest, its not a holiday I usually look forward to, but this year it was awesome! I thought me and Brad were going to end up just watching a scary movie by ourselves because, well, I guess I just thought now that we were married we had to plan on just hanging out with each other due to people having there own plans. But we actually had a blast this year!

We went to the haunted corn maze with Kelley and his fiance, Candace. Umm, and I don't care what anyone says, that clown looks like something straight out of my worst nightmare, so I had to take a picture.

A good of friend of ours from work does make up professionally so she came and did all of our faces...the 3 girls above, believe it or not, were done with nothing but eye shadow. She did those masks with just eye shadow, it looked incredible! (Girls above-Kim, Shonna and Mary-all the girls I work with)

The Monday before Halloween Allie and Matt Mcfarland had a little party in there barn, so we thought we would for sure go all out and get decked out, we went and ended up, not only being the only ones this decked out in our costumes, but I think we also ended up scaring all the kids that were there-but I guess that just goes to show how real we looked with our tats..just hard PUNKS! Thanks Allie for inviting us, we really did have a great time!!
Thought I would put in a picture of Russell's great costume, Brads younger brother. Awwwww, doesn't he look so cute?
Halloween night we had a little get together with all of brad's friends and there wives/fiance's. We had some good Sloppy Joes made by Lisa and Jeff, they made the party awesome! After we played some games and then of course watched a scary movie. Loved all there costumes and had an awesome time with them, we always have such a great time when we are all together-can't wait till next year!!! So I hope you all had an awesome HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!