My SuPeR FuN BiRtHdAy WeEkEnD

For my birthday, since I didn't have to work Friday or Monday it was a sign from above that we needed a little weekend getaway. We decided to go to St George with Em Kev -they have a vacation home there- their little girls and my Mom and Dad! It was SO SO SO SO much fun!!! We we're able to see Sheri which was so nice! We hung out with her alot and even did a little dance party at her house!! Ha ha it was so funny!!!! We even went to her singles ward with her which was pretty eventful. She warned us before hand that it's so quiet in her ward you can hear a pin drop..... ha ha ha well that wasn't the case when we went with 3 little kiddos who like to gibber jabber. Alot of people were getting a kick out of how cute and entertaing they were!! Like i've said before kids will be kids:)

We were able to do alot of fun things, and alot happened for the short time we were there. Here is a break down and some pictures of what we did and what happened!!!

Em Kev Nate and I decided to go to Vegas for a day. It was alot of fun! We ate at the Belogio buffet which was AMAZING, we went to Freemont street and for the first time ever I rolled the dice for Craps, ha ha, it was so much fun!!! We had a blast. (Sorry I don't have any pictures.)

Em and I were talking a few weeks ago about how my Mom used to make us the coolest cakes when we were little. She said her favorite was a the barbie cakes, and I told Mom never made me one of those. Well she remembered I had said that and decided to make me my FIRST BARBIE CAKE.... and dang was it FUNNY!!!! It' s the guy from High School Muscial. We all sure got a big laugh out of it..... Em just crakes me up!!!!

For my Birthday dinner, a friend of my told me about a place called Pirate Island Pizza. It was so cool and very much kid friendly. It's like the Myan and Chuck-E-Cheese combined and all about pirates. There were arcades and everyhthing. It was great! The Kids loved it and the food was really good!!

The kids had alot of fun together!! They are such cute cousins!!

Emily was taking some fun flying pictures of the kids. I love this one of Druw!!! It looks so cool with the pretty sky behind him.

We we're able to go on a fun little hike in the hills of St. George. The weather there was perfect!!! It was a gret day for hiking. Druw is for sure a little outdoorsman, he loved being up in the mountains, just like his daddy!!!

So like I said above alot happened while we were there as well. So, Nate Kevin and my Dad all decided to go out for a bike ride in the hills of St. George. Let me just mention my Dad hadn't even been there for more than a few hours before they went out for the ride. Anyways, they leave to go, the girls stayed back getting ourselves and the kids ready to go to dinner, then my Mom gets a call from Nate..... he told her my Dad had crashed REALLY bad and that he was pretty hurt. We waited anxiously and curious on how bad he was hurt until they got back home. He wasn't going to go to the doctor but we all talked him into it, he did NOT look good so we knew he had to get checked out. To make a long story short he ended up breaking his left rib his right wrist and his scapula. Now we can kinda joke about him wanting to be young again trying to keep up with Nate and stuff and that it probably looked funny when he fell but we definatley feel bad that happened to him. We hope you get better soon Dad! Love ya!!!

Well, it was a great birthday, I wish we could've stayed a little bit longer!!! But it does feel nice being back home!

New Years

HaPpY NeW YeArS..... GoOdByE 2008 HeLLo 2009!!!

I don't know about all of you but looking back on 2008, it was a pretty crapy year for us! Things just seemed to be really tough finacially, realtionships were torn my grandma died I got my wisdom teeth out that's just to name a few. ( I swear i'm not a negative person i'm just saying it how it is:) On the positive side there were some great things that did happen, here are few: I got a job as a PE teacher at an Elementary school, Took a Vaction as family to California with Josh and Jen and saw our first MLB game, Justin and Kassy were sealed etc.... But really overall it has been a very tough year for us, so I'm so glad it's done and overwith!!! I've made some great resolutions so bring on 2009 I hope it will be a much better year for us and also for all of you!!

*HAPPY NEW YEAR*

For New Years this Year we went up to Kev and Ems house! We had a huge Mexican Fiesta!!! It was a BLAST!!! We played games ate tons of Yummy mexican dishes and the kids hit a pinata!! It couldn't of been a better way to start off the New Year!! Thanks Kev and Em for the fun get togther!! You guys ROCK!!!

At the party Em being little Mrs creative that she is, had all of us write on a 5x7 card on the Front one thing we did or accomplished in 2008 that we were happy about then on the back one thing that we want to do or accomplish in 2009. Then we tied it to a balloon and let it go in the sky. It was way cool!!!

ChRiStMaS 2008

SaNtA ClAuSe Is CoMiNg To ToWn

This year at my familys Christmas party my Mom and Dad surprised the Grandkids by inviting "The REAL" Santa to come. (He really was the realest looking Santa i've ever seen, they did a GREAT job picking him!) The kiddos were so excited!! There was a little mixed emotion from little Tre, he didn't know what to think but eventually he warmed up to him.

Druw even pulled Santas beard and yup folks.... it was real!!!!! :)

We even got Sheri to sit on good old St. Nicks lap.... it was so funny!!!
Santa whatcha lookin at you little perv?! BUSTED!!! Ha ha!! Now I know why older pretty girls (with a rack) shouldn't sit on Santa's lap!! :) Ha ha!!!

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CHRISTMAS WITH THE CARRS

Our Christmas this year was really fun! Druw understood things like Santa and stuff alot more so it made it even funner! Probably like alot of other peoples tradtion, we too open up one present Christmas eve and it's always a nice new pair of pj's to sleep in!! Druw loved his Lightning Mcqueen pj's and light up robe!!
Another Traditon that we just started up (The St. Johns in our ward gave it to us :) is we have a "Special Santa Clause Key" that we put out side our door so Santa can get in our house to put the presents under the tree. Druw got really into it!!! He was so cute to watch hang the key! And he was even cuter to watch once he woke up in the morning and realized Santa used the key and really put presents under the tree for him. I love the cute fun stage he's in right now!!!

Druw is at the age where he is into ALOT of different toys and movies and things. He REALLY loved all the fun presents that he got but his all time favorite was the small Toy Story figures that we gave him! He LOVES Buzz and Woody!!!

I Got Nate some Jazz tickets for christmas so it was fun to go as a Family and enjoy the game!!

The BEST part of Christmas was being able to take a break from work and just spend time together as a famliy!!! Famliy is the most important thing in my life and i'm so greatful Nate and I have such fun goofy and loving familes!!! Thanks for all the nice gifts and good laughs this Christmas!! We love ALL of you!!!!