Seattle with Cherise!

In the beginning of December I texted my friend Cherise and told her we should fly to Seattle because tickets were really cheap! I didn't think she would say yes to going but she did! So we flew out of Vegas and in to Seattle! We had such a fun weekend! It was so great to take her to all of my favorite places back home. We spent one day shopping in Tukwilla and part of that day in South Bellevue area. Then the next day was spent in Bellevue at Bell Square shopping. We also saw the Winter Wonderland show that happens in Bellevue and it is SO fun! They have live actors that are dressed as toy soldiers who march around, dance, and play instruments! They have snow that falls and Christmas music. Oh and can't forget the lights that are going! It's amazing! After we watched that show we went and saw the movie Blind Side. That movie is amazing! Seriously, one of my favorites. Sandra Bullock did an incredible job. Actually everyone in the movie did. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone! While we were there we also spent a full day in Seattle of coarse! We did tons of shopping, saw the gingerbread houses at the Sheraton, strolled through Pikes Place, and went to the Seattle Library! We had the best time! By the end of the day our feet were killing us and we were so tired. But we had a blast! We also drove by the space needle, which looks so cool at Christmas time with the tree on top! On Sunday we visited the LDS temple, went to a YSA ward in Bellevue, and the Christmas Devotional put on by the first presidency. Before we flew out on Monday night we went shopping again and then went down to Puyallup and had lunch with my dad at The Rock. One of my favorite pizza places. The trip to Seattle was wonderful! It was fun to see Richelle Gregg again and her family. You guys are awesome! Thanks for letting us stay with you. And..Cherise, thanks for the great adventures, lots of laughter, and advice about life! You are a great friend and I am so lucky to have you in my life! :)




Seattle LDS Temple

Me and Cherise (lots of pictures in the airport!)

Us on the famous Pike Place pig

Cherise with the amazing flowers!

Oh Seattle, I love you

The view from where we stayed in Burien

Gotta love this one :)

Bellevue

Winter Wonderland Show

Thanksgiving weekend

Thanksgiving this year was great! We had so much fun as a family and it was tons of fun to have some of our extended family down to St. George as well. The first night everyone got here it we decided around midnight to start up a bonfire and do smores! We roasted marshmallows and every one's new favorite was star bursts that were cooked! So yummy! They are hard and crystallized on the outside and gushy on the inside. Then the next day was Thanksgiving day and that was spent cooking and just playing games. Thanksgiving dinner was delicious(as always). That's pretty much all that happened on Thanksgiving day, it was just a really casual fun day. We spent the next day having a girls day and all of us girls went to a huge Christmas craft show and then we went to my new favorite restaurant called 25 main! They have really yummy cupcakes and food. It's just a fun place to go! Honestly, I am just so grateful for a great family! For the knowledge that I have that as we work hard and follow God that we will be together forever. What greater blessing than that! I am grateful for so many things in my life and am just glad that we had such a successful weekend! :)

Halloween Makeup/Costumes

So this year I was in charge of costumes in my house, since I love to do makeup and everything. So I dressed my little sister up as a princess, a fairy, a fish, and then the last night it turned out to be more like a bird than a fish. haha. My mom is an alien lady and I was a bird(since I was "flying solo"! I had so much fun doing all the makeup and costumes! This is the only reason I like Halloween! I love to dress up. And..can I just say I LOVE DOING MAKEUP! ( Not like you didn't already know that)

Princess and the Frog

So my beautiful little sister Alexea and my handsom frog for a father had an achievment day activity the other night and they went as a princess and the frog. I did Lexi's hair,makeup, and helped her with her outfit. My mom sewed part of the dress. I think they look great!

SUCCESS WITH MY PERSONAL TRAINER!

So we signed up for a gym right when we got here to St. George and ever since I have been part time working with a personal trainer. They have a cool program called face to face that you get to work with a trainer for 5 sessions that includes one session where they take measurements, two that you workout and come up with a game plan, one that is a nutritional one, and then the last one is a weigh in. So after almost 1 1/2-2 months I am excited to tell you that I have some great results!! I lost 6 pounds and 9 inches total! :) I gained 3 inches in flexibility as well!It is just the start but I feel so great emotionally, physically, and mentally! I love how working out makes you feel. It really does help you in every way possible.

This picture is from like 3 weeks ago but its a recent picture.

My visit to Provo

Yes I do know how to cook. haha..this is why we got it on film, for all of you that may question that one. ;)

One of the shirts I made

Beautiful view of Provo from Tiff's deck

So last Sunday I decided that I would go up to Provo for a visit. I haven't really been there since April except for a small visit I made in August. It was kind of rough to be back at first just because that place holds so many great past memories but in the end the trip was a great success and I wish I could still be there!

So the week started off by me staying at my friend Taylor Thetfords apartment. We did a killer workout the first night I got there and stayed up late talking that night. Also that same night I got to see my friend Heidi Robinson who I love so stinkin much! She is such an incredible girl. I don't know what I would do without her! But we met up for a few hours and had frozen yogurt and just talked, we had a great time. Thanks girl for the yummy frozen yogurt. :) Taylor and I did a few more random things while I was at her place but mostly just talked and hung out. Thanks Tay for letting me stay at your apartment, I really appreciate that. Tuesday night I went in to my old school and saw my friends Emily Haskins and Tiffany Cook, it was really fun seeing those girls! Tiffany did a few highlights for me and they turned out good. It was fun to go back in the school, its crazy how much it seems to have changed. Well I just think its that all the girls I went to school with have now graduated and all. After that I went and hung out with my friend Evan Stock who I hadn't seen for probably 2 1/2 years. We went to Best Buy and he bought the new Sherwood CD. Which by the way is a pretty good CD, I like what I have heard of it so far. We played Beatles Rock Band until the store closed and then went to Taylor's place and he burnt tons of Cd's for me and we had some pizza and just talked. It was great to catch up. Thanks for the Cd's Evan! Wednesday night I went with my friend Tiffany Cook to institute. It was a little bit of a hard class to get into but we learned some new things and I really want to start going to institute again.

So I spent Thursday till Monday morning with my friend Tiffany Cook. We stayed up way too late every night and I mean like anywhere from 2-4a.m. But we just had so much to talk about and we just couldn't ever make ourselves go to bed! We did some wedding planning, went and saw "Where the Wild Things Are" at midnight on Thursday, made the cutest shirts, went to her cousins Alice and Wonderland birthday party and that is where I got that adorable white teapot from. They let us each take one home. It was decorated so cute! I am a big fan of themed parties. We watched a few chick flicks and watched pretty much all the episodes of the TV show called Say Yes to the Dress. LOVE that show! The dresses are so amazing and the people on there crack me up. It is so crazy how people act when it isn't even there wedding.

Ok so a crazy little story..as you will notice in one of the pictures there are ants all over the cookies. Well Tiffany came out of her room eating this cookie and was like hey do you want some cookies? I said sure so she handed me the bag and I went to get one and realized there were ants all over the cookies, so I started to freak out and threw the bag. She didn't know why so I started to yell ants and then we realized that she had a cookie in her mouth, so as she was screaming I had to remind her to spit out that cookie. haha. Well comes to find out her room has become an ant farm. Her walls, floor, and furniture were covered in ants! We only had Windex to kill them so we sprayed that everywhere and that killed most of them. We also put out ant poison and Tiff called the management company. haha. It was so nasty to have all of those ants everywhere but from what I have heard they are now all gone. :) Thanks Tiff for such an amazing weekend! I love you girl! I had so much fun and can't wait to do it again.

Fall has come again. :)

General Conference

So far in this lovely month of October I have done some really fun things. In the beginning of the month my family and I drove up to Salt Lake City and went to general conference at the LDS conference center. All of the sessions were amazing and I feel so lucky to have been able to go and see the prophet and to hear of his council and guidance. We really are so very blessed!

Halloween Package for Elder Aaron Leonard

Another fun thing I did was early on this month I put a Halloween package together for Elder Leonard and his companion Elder Peerey. I was able to get about 25 people who Elder Leonard knows to write him letters of support and love. It was so great to see the support he has and I hope he can feel that as he reads those letters. It was fun to put this package together and I was able to yet again use some of my creative juice to do so. Here are a few pictures.

VEGAS

So saturday October 10th was my Vegas day. First thing in the morning I had a bridal party to do. I went on location to her families home and did the brides and bridesmaids makeup! We had such a good time. They all looked beautiful! I loved working with them and hope to see them again. I love doing makeup for brides, they are really easy going and just want to be pampered and made beautiful. Love! :)

Then I went and hung out with Mark Leonard and a bunch of his friends. We went to In and Out burger here in St.George and then drove down to Vegas. When we got there we went to a tailgate party and hung out there till the BYU vs. UNLV game. It was my first BYU game and it was a lot of fun! Thanks to Mark I was able to understand the game and I really enjoyed watching it. It was a good day for sure. My little sister Alexea performed at half time for the game with her dance group. She did such a good job. Our drive back to St. George was kind of crazy. haha. I drove back with my family and we were all so tired and everything was just like overly funny to us. I love times like that when you can just laugh at anything and everything.