New Year's Eve in Malibu

For New Year's Eve we were invited to stay the night with some friends who were house-sitting in Malibu. We went along with a few other couples and we had such a great time!

We enjoyed ourselves eating yummy secret-recipe burgers made by Josh, playing a fun Charades-One Word game, swimming in the pool, watching the Big Apple Ball drop at Midnight while drinking sparking cider, and even a 3am game of Risk. We had such a wonderful New Year's Eve and we even enjoyed some sunshine on the car ride back home.

We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends here in LA!!

The Girls won the Charades-One Word Game!! Woot Woot!!

The Flower Boys. Aren't they cute!?

Waiting for the ball to drop!

Austin and Rachel Robinson

Rachel and Heather preparing the Cidar! YUM!

Happy New Year's with our New Year's Hats on with Heather and Kael Alden

3am game of Risk

Happy New Year 2012!! We had such a great time! Thanks Sarah and Josh Rivera for inviting us!! We had so much fun!

Christmas in Utah!

Annual Christmas photo at the Daynes' home

This past Christmas Michael and I were able to drive out to Utah with some of our friends here in LA since our parents both live in Provo. It was really nice to take the 11-hour drive and be able to sit back and relax the entire time (thanks Kael for driving) and we even made some great stops along the way at the outlet mall and a yummy Greek restaurant. Once we got to Utah we spent some really exciting days with both my family and Mike's. Our agenda included my family's annual Christmas Fondue Dinner, Christmas Eve at Michael's sister's home, some wonderful, but very sad visits with Michael father in the hospital, and breakfast at Joe's in Provo before we headed back home. Unfortunately, we didn't get many pictures, but we still have a wonderful Christmas Vacation, nonetheless.

My super-duper adorable niece, Emily.

"Happy 30th Birthday!" "To ME?" "Yes, to you!"

That's right! I just joined the 30+ club. This is going to be my year, do you hear me?!? :)

Valentine's, Birthdays and an Engagement, oh my!

First, I have to start off by giving a big "Happy Birthday" shout-out to such a great husband. Michael turned 29 yesterday on the 15th and we celebrated by having a very delicious dinner at our friend Eric's house in Santa Monica. And since Michael has a twin, I want to be sure to send a "Happy Birthday" gretting to the best sister-in-law in the world, Tish.

YEAH!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU GUYS!!!

As for Valentine's day, we simply went to church and took a nap and gave each other our presents, a rose and chocolates for me and some more chocolates for Michael. Also, my brother and his girlfriend (who happens to now be his fiance) came to LA to spend some time at Disneyland and stayed with us for a few days. Because she is a super-fanatic about Disneyland, he proposed to her during the fireworks on the 12th. Congratulations! And we can't wait to have you in the family Stacie!

Well, since we still don't have a way to upload pictures and now we have very limited internet access (our computer broke) I haven't been updating more than every few months. As soon as I'm able to I am going to do my top moments of the past few months. We've done a lot of great stuff, but I don't really care to post without pictures, and that's why you have not heard of any of it. So, look for my TOP MOMENTS LIST soon!

Happy Halloween!!

I love Halloween, mostly because I love the fall and I love candy. I also love watching Spriket24 videos on Youtube.com. Karen Alloy is pretty funny and I've decided to give you a taste of what her humor is all about. Also she's had a couple of Emmy Nominations and even won one for her video 2012. Happy Halloween and stay clear of those zombies!!

Halloween isn't Halloween without Candy Corn!

Since Michael and I have moved into an apartment with a security door we don't plan on having any trick-or-treaters this year, but what is Halloween (BOO!) without sneaking some of the candy meant for those doorbell ringers. Well, to satiate my sweet tooth this year I decided to limit myself to cheap candy that is still festive and I decided on these yummies, Brach's Milk Maid Caramel Candy Corn. I enjoy candy corn anyway but I've discovered that these are delicious, even more so than normal candy corn. Their only 88cents at Rite Aid so you should try them. The only problem is that since they aren't individually wrapped I just keep eating away at them. I think I need to go and buy another bag... and I've just discovered that they also make Chocolate Caramel Candy Corn and Caramel Apple Candy Corn. YUM YUM!

But I thought Santa was nice...

I just had to add these really great pictures because I'm sure that as children we were ecstatic about getting gifts from a random stranger for no reason whtsoever who was known to sneak into our homes in the middle of the night, and eat all our cookies we slaved away making. But if it ever came to meeting the guy?... FORGET IT!!



And this is my favorite. I think Santa must have been having a rough day too.