New Years

I know I know I am a serious slacker but I'm really going to try and be better at all of this. Holidays are our big life happenings and so I'm grateful to them for giving me something to post on here. This New Years we were lucky enough to go down to Moab and spend some time with Jason's good friends from high school. We got to go to Brad and Kira's cabin. What an experience it was. It had snowed a massive amount at the cabin and we tried four-wheeling and we all failed. We tried in the truck and failed. We were forced to shovel our last 75 yards to the cabin in the cold and in the dark.

It was pretty when we got there but turned ugly pretty quickly

We were trying to have some fun with it

We were all shoveling fools and I think we shoveled for 2 hours well at least it felt like it.
The next day was a brand new day and we really wanted to make up for our night by having some fun.

Jason was bound and determined to build us a nice igloo.

Kira and I were going to go for a four wheeler ride
Then we decided to get more ambitious and make our own sled....

I managed to get the four wheeler really really stuck and the boys were no where to be found so Kira, Nicole and I had to dig ourselves out. Pretty funny.

It was a masterpiece I won't lie

Kira on our homemade sled

Trevor and Nicole brought some real sleds so we decided to give it a go. Here is Brad

The four wheeler didn't work to well in the deep snow so we decided to just to go down the road

Jas going down
Me and Jas racing piggy back

Jas and Brad racing

Kira and Brad against Jas......Jason won big time!

Trying to board down

After a long long day

And a beautiful sunset to end the day

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was sure somethin! My friend Allie from Missouri came up from St. George to spend the weekend with us. We went to Jason's dad's house for the occasion and it was CRAZY! If Im not mistaken I believe there were 42, maybe more, people there. We had Jason's step sister and husband, 2 step brothers and their wives with their kids, aunt and unlce, cousins and sppouses, sisters and brother, friends of the family, ect..... It was ridiculous. A lot of fun however and I love and am so greatful that Jas has such a large family. On my dad's side of the family we only have 1 cousin so it makes times a little bland. I guess thats a fitting word. Not that I don't love my family but we really don't see them that often so it makes it sad. Ok so back to Thanksgiving, It really was a fantastic day with lots of happy memories! Always a down side it seems like though Allie ended up getting the flu the next day and was almost on her death bed. Poor Allie I'm glad I can always help her out in her times of need! (love you Al) I decided to venture out with Heather on black Friday. This was my first year and I wasnt too much of a fan. All I really wanted was fabric from Joanns and oh my gosh! it was ubsurd. I have never seen such a line or such a cart so full of bolts of fabric. I got as much as I could but when I realized that I was 89 D and next calling 23 B I said forget it I abandonded my cart and went back back into the maze of people praying to get out of the store alive. Next year however I have a plan. The day before I am going to get all the fabric pre cut and hide it somewhere in the store so I can walk in pick it up and walk out it will be that easy......well we will see how it goes

I couldnt even believe how many plates we used. there were even a few straglers!

Sleepy time after dinner is always the best time

Jason's step brothers and step sister along with their spouses and kids as well as his siblings. It was nuts

Allies first time shooting a gun. I think she liked it!

It ended beautiful sunset

Halloween

We were honestly pretty boring for Halloween this year. We did carve our first pumpkin together though and boy was it a doozy! We had to be a little crazy with it so it was fun! We mangaged to do nothing out of the ordinary that night. We went to Jason's cousins and watched movies and ate pizza. Yum! We managed to give candy out to a few trick or treaters. We were able to see our sweet niece Mill go out for her first time as a little white lamb she was so stinkin cute! We did manage to do something exciting that Saturday we went to Lagoon with some of Jason's friends from high school. It was a lot of fun and always good to spend time with great friends.

Christmas

Once again I have become quite the slacker with this thing so Im going to have to skip a bit and jump to Christmas. This holiday season has been crazy for us and it has brought a lot of fun times with our family. It has also brought some sickness. The week before Christmas I got the stomach flu and its the first time that I can remember getting it. I was not a happy camper and then I unfortunaltly gave it to Jas, he was really not a happy camper. Luckily it was only the 24 hour thing however I think it stayed with me for a week. I didnt start feeling 100% until the day after Christmas. Blah I know! However we did get to go to Jason's sisters house for Christmas and spend time with her cute family as well as Jason's mom. We love our sweet niece and nephew and love spending time with them. It was full of yummy food and fun times. I will admit however that we were all pretty lazy but thats what vacation is for right?! Im going to apologize in advance for my next posts. They will be completely out of order!

Collette got a new kitchen for chirstmas and was so thrilled about it

Clancy got new farm stuff

We all look very tired. It was a fun morning!

He is like a little davie crockett

And at the end of the day....acutally the middle of the day Collette was wiped out