Christmas Cookies!!!

Making Christmas cookies is a tradition in my family and is one of the few things that I asked my family not to do until Mike and I got there so that we could participate. Usually I just frost the cookies and decorate but this year I also made the cookies. They were so yummy!

Happy Birthday Mike!!

Mike's 23rd birthday was the 21st of December. This was the first time that I got to celebrate his birthday with him and I was so excited!! We just spent the whole day relaxing and we went out to dinner with my family. That night we had cheesecake for his birthday!



Happy Birthday Mike!! You're the best husband in the world! I love you so much, I can't wait for many more birthday's together!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

My mom had a birthday this month! The big 50!!! My dad planned a surprise party for her and I found out about it on the morning of her birthday. We were very sneaky, we took a house key to the person who was decorating so that she could get in the house to set up while we were out. Then, since my family hadn't seen Harry Potter yet, we took my mom to the movie. Then we led her into the dark house and all of her friends jumped out and yelled 'surprise'!!

All of her friends who came to the party!


The wonderful and tasty birthday cake that Barb Crubaugh bought for the party! It was so so good!!


Happy Birthday Mom!!! We love you!

Mike's Concert

Mike was in University band this semester and it was his first time playing band in 4 years! At the end of the semester, he had a concert. His mom and brother Doug came down to Rexburg to hear him play. The concert was wonderful and it was so much fun to see him play.

Isn't he handsome? :)


Not staged at all ;)


You did an amazing job playing trumpet sweetie! I loved seeing/hearing you play. I love you sweetie!

Thanksgiving 2010!

So, I know this is late but I wanted to post pics of our Thanksgiving. Mike and I spent Thanksgiving in Billings, MT with mike's family. It was freezing in billings, I think their were two days where I didn't even leave the house. But despite the cold, we had a lot of fun!

I couldn't do a post without saydi! She kept me company for the two days that no else was home!



We had fun playing with our nephew Max. He taught me all about airplanes and helicoptors!



Debbie, Kate and I planned Thanksgiving dinner :) (with a little assistance from mike). I had never planned a Thanksgiving dinner before so I really enjoyed it.



Who knew cardboard could be so exciting?!



The boys prepared for black friday....


While the women cooked dinner....


And Uncle Mike played trumpet for Max


Happy Thanksgiving! (my best attempt at a family picture)


Uncle Mike and Max working on a puzzle together :)


Since we weren't going to be with Mike's family for Christmas, we had an early Christmas after Thanksgiving.

Happy Halloween!

I have never carved a pumpkin before!!! I know its crazy! So this Halloween mike and I went and bought a pumpkin to carve. I enjoyed the designing and carving part but the cleaning out of the pumpkin is not the most fun thing in the world :)



The Before :)



Mike did the actual carving....you know the actual work :)





YUCK!!!!







We named him Herman! It was a fun experience...maybe next year I'll try carving a pumpkin too.


Oh one more thing...to celebrate Halloween we got a jack-o lantern pizza from papa murpheys :)

Family Pictures!

We went to Washington and Oregon over the summer and we had a great time spending time with Mike's family. While we were in Oregon we had a Jenson family reunion, it was a lot of fun for me to get to meet everyone, or almost everyone :)



Epperson Family :)

Finally!!!

We finally got a couch!!! No more sitting on the floor! We can finally have friends over and offer them a comfortable place to sit! We got a great deal and its super comfy :)





Plus....





It's great for jumping!!! :)

A visit to Utah!

We went to Utah and had fun posing next to paintings of some of our favorite heroes from the Book of Mormon!


Mike and the Brother of Jared

A Beautiful Rainbow

The calm after the storm :)

West Coast!!

I went to the Pacific Ocean for the first time!!! Mike and I went with Debbie and the boys,(it stunk that tony had to work). It was my first time to the beach in about 2 years so I was excited. It was so different though.




The water was freezing but we had fun.

Let's go fly a kite!






Mike's artistic side! I love you too sweetie :)

Fun at the park with the nephews!

Mike and I had so much fun hanging out with Tony, Debbie, Max and Ryan and I had fun getting to know my nephews better. I love them!


Tony helping Max fly the airplane!


Ryan loved the swing! He had so much fun!

Of course....the big kids had fun too :)