13.1...St. George

Last weekend I escaped winter long enough to go run the St. George half. It's part of the marathon runners series so I did it mostly because I HAD to. The weather was amazing. The course was ok. I loved that Chelsea and family came to watch and hated that I somehow didn't bring my running shoes...oops. Overall great weekend with friends, family, and a little running.

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Introducing...

http://ineeditrightnow.blogspot.com/

part of my dream to be a stay at home crafter includes having a craft blog so i finally did it. i've been a little hesitant to broadcast it to computer space, but how do i expect people to read it if i never tell them about it?!?

it's nothing fancy, but maybe one day when i have more time...

until then...enjoy and happy crafting!

and p.s. for all those as obessesed with fabric flowers as i am, check out the newly posted sale items

and p.p.s. there's a GIVEAWAY

Escape

Saturday morning run up little mountain and east canyon. It was the escape I had no idea I needed. Best way to spend Saturday morning.

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More Holiday Fun

Holidays=FUN

My work party was at Noah's in PG. We ate and had the rest of the afternoon to do whatever we wanted...ice skating, gingerbread houses, wii, ping pong, movies. I love my job!

Aly, Alyssa, Mikael

Angie, Kimber, Brianna (don't you love her outfit?), Diane

gingerbread house making (candy eating)

Beth got a group together to go see the lights at temple square. This is always one of my favorite things to do for the holidays. It is so pretty. Unfortunately the weather was rainy so it was pretty quick but still a good time.

could this picture quality be any worse? the temple in the background looks really cool though

We had our 6th annual Christmas party. No theme this year, but I think I saw a few ugly sweaters. No pictures. Sad.

David Archuleta was the featured guest at the Mormon Tabernacle choir Christmas concert this year. I tried to get tickets and didn't and have been dying to go. Michelle ended up with an extra, and i felt so lucky. Such an amazing voice.

Megan hosted our annual GNO party. I walked away with a pretty awesome white elephant gift. Still waiting for the group picture.

I've gotten together with Anne a couple times while she's been in town, but I kept forgetting to take pictures.

Laurann had a small party for New Years Eve. It was really low key and so nice.

The holidays were so much fun. I am so sad they are over and not ready to get back to reality tomorrow.

Christmas Week in Vegas

I've spent the past week in Vegas...mostly hanging out. It's been great. Here's the picture recap of the trip.

Karson turned 7 months 12/24. Time is flying, and he's getting so big.

We went to the Bellagio on Christmas Eve. Looks like that's becoming the new Christmas Eve tradition. Karlee really liked the water show this time. She didn't really love the picture taking though.

attempting a family shot

I've never seen the waters shoot as high as they did to O Holy Night

more attempts for family picture. try getting 2 kids to look and smile.

Christmas morning was pretty fun. Karlee loved opening presents. The kids got a ton of stuff.

I got the kids a tent and tunnel. Karlee insisted I stay inside for a while even while we did skype with my parents.

they liked the tent a little more than the picture shows. Karlee wants to go in it all the time now.

She's probably going to kill me, but here's one of Chelsea's Christmas presents from me

This picture is hideous, but in my head it was so cute. I can't even believe I am posting it. I look huge!

Karson is smiling and laughing all the time now

More attempts at pictures. I have several empty frames, and I was hoping to get some cute pictures with the kids to put in them

I took the kids to McDonalds when I was here another time so Chelsea and Jeff could go to the temple. We did that again on this trip. Karlee has so much fun and talks about it all the time. She will also probably talk about how I spilled my full drink on the floor of the playland while trying to juggle the tray and hold Karson.

I've had a great week down here. It is always fun to come and play with the kids and spend time relaxing. It's about the only time I'm not completely overscheduled and I love it.

B DAY

It's no secret that I don't love my 3 days before Christmas crappy December birthday. Karlee loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and had a Mickey party with a Mickey cake for her birthday this year. A couple months ago she asked me if I was going to have a Mickey party for my birthday. I told her if grandma made the cake I would. We celebrated my birthday with the family while we were home in Missouri. My mom made the Mickey cake so we had a Mickey party. Karlee loved it so I loved it too!

My poor mom got up super early to decorate the cake. Karlee was so excited to show it to me right when I woke up. She helped me blow out the candles.

My real birthday was full of celebration too. I started out the day at the gym. I went to breakfast with Anne (in town from Arizona) and Kimber and Michelle (from work) at Kneaders. I forgot to take pictures but it was so fun catching up.

I went straight from breakfast to lunch at Fats Grill with Michelle, Andrew and Drew, Dy and Bracken, Nettie, and Katey (in town from Philadelphia). So much fun!

I flew to Vegas at night to spend the week. My flight was delayed so my birthday dinner consisted of airport food. Good thing I had such yummy meals earlier in the day. I got lots of calls, emails, texts, FB messages. It was a great day. Now onto the joy of embracing being 31.

New Phone

My Blackberry completely 100% died on Tuesday. I was really hoping there was something I could do besides get a new phone. No luck! 3 hours and a lot of money later I walked out of the Verizon store with this. Hope it's as great as everyone says it is.

Christmas in Missouri

We celebrated Christmas a little early this year. Chelsea, the kids, and I went to Missouri for a week to hang out with the fam and celebrate the holidays. My mom had lots of fun things planned to keep Karlee (and the rest of us) entertained. It was probably the busiest week we've ever had in Cape, and we had such a good time.

There's a new place in town, Discovery Playhouse. Not sure who had more fun...Karlee or my mom.

Karson is getting so big and smiley. I think these pictures are SO cute!

They had everything for a real store including the checkout. Pretty impressive.

Karlee and Ashley in the big firetruck

Bowling (see previous post)

Ashley and I took Karlee to the park. She didn't care that it was freezing out there.
Swimming at the gym. Karlee loved having the boys help her play basketball, and Karson was pretty content in the water.
Gingerbread house

Making sugar cookies
Opening presents. This extended through several days. The kids needed toys to play with so they opened theirs at the start of the trip. They had so many so we saved some for when the rest of us opened them later on. Those kids (and all of us really) are so spoiled but it's just so fun to buy them stuff.
Christmas clothes. They weren't super excited about the picture taking after church. They both look so cute and so grownup in these.

Karlee is kind of a stinker with pictures but does pretty well if you tell her to strike a pose. I just love her model shots.

Mickey party (more details to come later)

Karlee was really excited about the Mickey cake even though she doesn't really look like it

We had such a fun week at home. It's always nice to see the family and so sad to leave. I came back to 3 days of work and then a 2 week break. I love my job! I'll head down to Vegas to spend Christmas with Chelsea, Jeff, and the kids.

BOWLING

We're all in Missouri for an early Christmas. Today's fun activity was family bowling. Karlee went bowling in Vegas a while ago and loved it. Unfortunately Dad couldn't come, but the rest of us were there. Jake was the top scorer out of all of us, and I might have had the lowest score. Bowling probably isn't my sport, but it was a fun time with the fam.

Zach showing off his skills

Chelsea in action

this picture of my mom is so funny. she actually got a spare with this shot.

Karlee is definitely the cutest little bowler. She got so excited when it was her turn.

for some reason i think i need to throw the ball.

group shots