Shawn's birthday and fun with balloons

This is Shawn's picture from his birthday. We had really yummy cheesecake with the Irwins.



Last year for our work Christmas party, we had a catered dinner with entertainment and raffles. This year, the economy forced us to downsize, and instead we had a pot luck where our boss made us balloon hats.

Janice and her flower hat.

Logan and his pretzel king hat.
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The Big 26

Happy Birthday Shawn!!!!!

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow

It snowed this morning. A lot. It took forever to drive to work, but I do love the snow!!


This was me trying to get the snow off my car this morning.

Shawn at lunch when we were playing in the snow a little bit.

This is from saturday. We went to Shawn's family's Christmas party. There was about 70 people there. It was pretty fun and it is always good to see family every now and then. Shawn's brother-in-law Stan was Santa.

PUPPIES

My little sister's Mastiff had puppies Saturday. They are adorable Black lab/Mastiff mixes. She had 10. Shawn won't let me have one.

All I want for Christmas...

Every year the Herald does a gift guide where we give gift ideas. Each person in the newsroom gets to choose 3 gifts that they want, one under $25, one $26-150 and one $150+. This is one of mine.

http://videos.heraldextra.com/p/video?id=2472736

Scrapbook Expo

This last weekend I went to St. George with some women from my scrapbook club, and we went to the first ever Scrapbook USA Expo down there. It was a fun weekend with very little sleep and tons of scrapping and shopping.

This is us (excluding Michelle who was taking the pic).

This is some of us with the Cricut.There is a LONG story behind the next 4 pictures, and so these are for Colette, Kristy, Brittany and Michelle.

update......

We have been so busy lately and I thought I would update the past couple of weeks worth of stuff.

Shawn and I went and voted yesterday. I love voting. I know that sounds corny, but I get so excited for elections and we are so passionate and when you get to have your opinion heard it is great! I spent the night at work keeping the website updated with National, State and Local results. Election nights in the newsroom are so busy and fun. I finally left work at about 2 a.m. after we got the results finished online. I had to be back at work this morning at 8, and I am totally running off Diet Mountain Dew now.

Anyways, I have some photos that I have been horrible about uploading. They are from the past few weeks.

BYU vs. UNLV

Harvey Unga scores the TD.

So at the games this year they sell this new thing called a Brat Tail. They have sold the Cougar Tails for years, which are really long maple bars (like 18 inches). The Brat Tail uses a Cougar Tail, cuts it like a hot dog bun and they put a 1/3 pound Bratwurst in between the two pieces of the maple bar with the frosting on the inside. They also put grilled onions on it. Our food reviewer from the paper was doing a review of it and Shawn tried it with him. We later found out that it has 865 calories and 69 grams of fat. :) Shawn says it tastes like a sausage with maple syrup on it.

Shawn and I before an Ohio State game.

I will update HALLOWEEN PICTURES when I get a chance!!!

HaHa

So I opened my Sunday paper when I got to work this morning and this picture was in there with the BYU story. Our photographer thought it was funny.

The weekend

We had a busy weekend. On Friday night we went to the Haunted Forest in American Fork with Jeannette and Lance. It was SOOOO Scary. We had a blast and got some fun pics. We also got some great Hot Chocolate afterward.

All of us outside the Haunted Forest.

Jeannette and her friend

Who you gonna call?

I love how he is looking at Jeannette!

Funny boys

On Saturday we went to the BYU game. GO COUGS!

A TD pass to Collie right in front of us. Our seats are really fun when they are scoring on our end of the field.

This is Austin Collie right after he scored a TD in front of us!

Sunday Morning we woke up to Snow. It was such a cold day.

Malcom Jenkins' Jump Around Clip!!

At Wisconsin, in between the third and fourth quarter, they play a song and the entire stadium jumps around. Ohio State played them Saturday and we thought this was funny!

Moving...again

Shawn and I are moving to Lindon this week. We just found out for sure yesterday. We are moving to a house down the street from his parents that we are going to rent from a friend (Thanks Brian and Annie for thinking of us!!!) It is a really cute house!




The Fire pit on the side of the house. YUMMY SMORES, and future fun times with the Irwins.
The fruit trees in the back.
The cellar and sheds in the back.

Greatest Olympian Ever

Shawn and his good friend Mike.

Seriously...

Seriously...my newest favorite blog to read. Anyone who has lived in Provo can appreciate this.

http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/

Slippery when Wet

We built a slip and slide at my parents house out of tarps and tent stakes. We put dish soap on it to make it slide faster. We had so much fun. Except for the part where I hit a rock and ripped out the back of my shorts in front of my brother-in-laws entire family.