CHRISTMAS SEATS!!!

Connor Singing Christmas Songs!!! So freaking cute!

Christmas 2007 was crazy busy! On Christmas Eve we went to my Grandparents house for our traditional Christmas Eve Dinner and gift exchange with my cousins and aunts and uncles. After that we headed over to Justus's parents house for our sleepover with everyone. All of his brothers and their wife/significant others were there. All the girls got PJ's from Victoria's Secret and all the guys got PJ's from Old Navy, so we were all nuggley warm!

(I had Jason's name, I got him an R2D2 Mr. Potatoe head!)

Christmas morning we did the usual Christmas picture on the stairs with his family, and then our walk down to the room with the presents and tree. We all act like we are surprised, even though we aren't. Then we opened presents there.

After we were done we headed over to my parents to eat breakfast and do presents there. Connor got so spoiled! We got him a Barcelona soccer uniform complete with socks! He loved that! He wore it all day long, and even took his nap in it.

We were so exhausted that we ended up needing a nap before we finished out the day. We got plenty of goodies for Christmas. We got lots of clothes, a few little minor things, and then my parents got us a computer and his parents got us a new blend, a new suitcase for me and Justus got a new soccer equipment bag. Thanks parents! We love you and greatly appreciate it!!

Annual Yankee Swap

My friend Jenny and her husband, Matt, started a tradition last year of our Christmas Yankee Swap party. For those of you that are not familiar with this, it is similar to a White Elephant party, but we started by bringing old/unused/unreturnable wedding presents. We stepped it up a notch this year. We had the ugly sweater/best holiday attire contest this year. Last year they tried to have it, but only the hosts and another couple were dressed up. We had trouble finding something, but in the end we just got some basic Christmas sweaters from WalMart. We couldn't wear them for very long, we got really hot in them. Then we also had the ginger bread house building contest, which we struggle with...we just can't think of anything to do thats creative, so we just do the basics. Then we have the yankee swap, and its great! We brought a nutcracker (which became the creepy nutcracker during the game, and then ended up being a hot item) and we re-gifted from last years yankee swap and brought back the glass bowl name place card holders. There were a couple of gifts that were brought back and reborn. We walked away with a waffle maker and an Andrei Kirilenko bobble head which is now sitting at my desk at work! Its truly a one of a kind party, and I hope it carries on for many years to come!

Our Gingerbread House

One of the winners, I told them it kind of looks like a temple

The bundle of gifts we were all giving!

Who doesn't want fingerless gloves, and then the finger tops to go with?!

Thanksgiving Time and My Birthday!

(View from our room in the Bellagio)

So for Thanksgiving we were in Las Vegas and California. I had to work the day before Thanksgiving at autoRx, so we didn't hit the road until late. We arrived in Las Vegas later than we wanted...boo...My mother-in-law, Coke, got a room at the Bellagio for all of us to stay at (me, Justus, my in-laws, and Justus's sister Katie). It was interesting, we had requested a room with two double beds and we were going to be given a room with a king. We protested since there were going to be "four" of us in the room. They "upgraded" us to a junior suite, which, if thats supposed to be better than the others, the others must be tiny! It was the same size as a regular room!! But, it was still really nice. On Thanksgiving we went to the Rio Buffett, its one of the best, for our Thanksgiving lunch/dinner. Then we drove on the California.


(Decorations in the Bellagio for the fall)

We were in San Diego for the Nomads soccer tournament for two of Justus's teams. His teams did okay, better than Utah teams usually do against California teams. His older team lost in the quarterfinals, but ask anyone that was there on either team, and they'll all say the referees were biased against our team and called everything against us and everything for the other local team. What a joke! Then his younger team lost 1-0 in the semifinals, which is still really good.

After the tournament was over, we drove back to Vegas to celebrate my birthday for a couple days. We stayed at the Paris this time. My in-laws got us tickets to see Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian on my birthday. It was so cool! I've seen that only once before and the theatre at the Venetian caters directly to that show, so the theatre is rockin'! I also went shopping for my birthhday and Christmas.

It was an okay trip overall...but next time...I'm flying!

Halloween...Finally!!

I know I've been a slacker, but not having a working computer at home has made it tough. I finally remembered to bring my camera to work so I could post some new pictures! I should be caught up after today!

Halloween was great! I got dressed up for work, and we had a great little contest.

A Day at the Zoo....

Justus and I decided that we were going to take little Connor boy to the zoo...and boy did we have fun. This was when the white alligator was at the Zoo and also right after the new baby monkey was born...and boy...how the zoo has changed since I last went!

Total Slacker...I know...

Hey everyone...I know I've been a total slacker on my blog. I'm going to try and keep on top of it. Since my new job starts so early, I haven't had a chance to catch up on my blog. So now that I know my schedule, and things are starting to slow down, I'll keep you posted.

As for now...the only thing new with me is my new job. I work at AutoRx. If you really want to know what we do, feel free to ask me. If not, I'm not going to take the trouble of trying to explain it!!

I hope all is well with everyone.

New stuff...

Its been a long time since my last post. I've pretty much quit my day job, and am in the process of getting a new one. I haven't had time to do much since I'm working quite a bit at Naartjie now, well for the time being. I didn't get a good holiday weekend in this Labor Day, because I was laboring all weekend at Naartjie. I was graced with the opportunity to work every day! Wahoo! Plus I hurt my ankle and knee in a soccer game Saturday night, and then last night (Monday) I got really sick after I got home from work. So I had a 'fantastic' holiday...