A Very Merry Christmas

This Christmas we:

Wore our Ugly Christmas Sweaters and partied with friends at the 5th Annual Ugly Sweater Christmas Party!

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Finished making our own Christmas stockings (I guess we need to have 4-6 kids...haha)

Played all Christmas Eve with the Bailey's

 And, all fought over holding the cutest nephew in the world

Jeff wins for making baby Luke laugh the hardest!

More than anything, we are grateful for the time to worship the birth of the Savior and spend time with those we love! Hope everyone had a happy Holiday Season!  

Thanksgiving Break

It seems we’re about due for a new post!

Thanksgiving break was filled with friends, family and fun.

We had “Friends-giving” (You know, thanksgiving with friends…) with some of our closest friends. 

Dave and Brooke flew in from Laguna and we had a great time hanging with family, free of work and school for a few days!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving feast at Grandma and Grandpa Andersons:

 

The boys spent some quality bonding time riding four-wheelers and shooting- doing what boys do best!

The girls cooked up a feast of Mexican tamales—It truly was a “tamalada” (tamale making party!)

 I finally got to share the tips and tricks I learned from an 83 year-old woman in Mexico for homemade, truly authentic tamales!

We visited Grandma Allen and Aunt Linda, went bowling, played games and had a blast!

Can’t wait for Christmas to spend some quality time with the Bailey clan!  It’s always the best time of year when family comes to town!

Fall Fun

It's been awhile since my last post so I thought I'd give a little update.  Besides being very busy with work and school we have been:

Enjoying beautiful fall weather and leaves in Park City with some family photos

Helping Bryce and Jessica move to ST. GEORGE! We are so happy for Bryce and his awesome new job but it will be soo hard not seeing them so often!  

We'll especially miss this little face

 Having a little Halloween fun making "haunted" graham cracker houses, craving pumpkins, and doting over our other adorable little nephew!

Matt Knoop Memorial Park

Today we got to be apart of a really special honor for our dear friend Matt. 

Park City recreation is honoring his memory by naming the newest basin recreational facility the "Matt Knoop Memorial Park".  The groundbreaking for the park was this morning and it was so fun to join our group of close friends and community members from Park City to honor our friend.

It's been 3 1/2 years since Matt passed away and this park ensures he will never be forgotten within our community.

The Park Record wrote a really nice article about the park here:  http://www.parkrecord.com/ci_18938549.

Finally Home!

After the longest 18-hour car ride straight home from Edmonton, Jeff and I have barely had time to breathe!

All of our family was in town this weekend so between moving back into our apartment, getting ready for school and work to start, and seeing family, we had a BUSY, fun-filled weekend!

Dave and Brooke came in town from Laguna Beach to drop Jennie at school and help get her settled. While they were here we picnicked at Kiwanis park, went to a Bee's game, and BBQ'd in Glen Canyon Park. It was great to be together again, throw the baseball around and play outside. 

We spent Sunday with the entire Bailey clan! Jeff finally got to meet baby Luke, and we hadn't seen Chris and Mike since last Christmas so it was so great to be together with everyone!
We pretty much just lounged around together all day chatting, laughing, playing the Wii, and cooing over the baby.

I've missed these girls!

Chris and Mike also met baby Luke for the first time.  He's the most adorable baby and it was pretty much just a fight to hold him the whole day!  Luke's a little cuddler and just likes to snuggle up against everyone. So cute!

Now that family has gone, we're settling back into Provo with lots of new changes in our lives!

NEW Semester:  Jeff started school on Monday and is on track to graduate from BYU in April.  He's taking a full load of classes and is also enrolled in an LSAT prep course at night.  He's going to be one busy boy this semester!

NEW Job:  I just started a new job with The Green PolkaDot box--an online buying club for whole and organic foods!   I am the assistant to the Marketing Director--writing and editing content. 

It's the fastest growing company in America right now, and I'm super excited about the possibilities it brings!  Check out their Web site here--it's an awesome company!