New Blog

Thanks to Andi I spent about 3 hours today updating the look of my blog. I created one entire template then found new cute winter themed stuff so I went and created a 2nd look. It does take some time I can tell you that! Thanks Andi I love it!

Happy New Year 2008!

Our front yard on Christmas morning!

Well, sorry my blog got so boring for the last month. I guess the blog was boring because my life was busy and I didn't have time to update it much. Time or energy. For about 2 weeks before Christmas I had a cold/cough that would not go away. I am still a little coughy but its not anywhere near as bad as it was. I blame the ozone. Speaking of ozone, our Questar bill was ridiculous this month. We only paid about $12 less that Eric's parents and their home is 3 x the size of ours. If anyone can help us figure this out, we'd appreciate it. But back to the holidays... Christmas was so exciting with visits from Rob, Mandy, Evan and my newest niece Lily and a surprise visit from Jdub, Andy, Ashton and Brice. We battled the snowstorm on Christmas Eve coming home from Logan but we still made it to grandma Barb's for dinner and fun. Although, I do have to say that at times during that 3.5 hour drive from Logan going an average of 30 mph, I didn't think Eric and I would make it to our one-year anniversary. We were both so tired and ornery that we couldn't speak or remain silent without getting on each other's nerves.
I am proud to report that we did make it and are still happily married... so long as we never get caught in a horrible snow storm again! :) Our anniversary was a really great day! We just got to lay around all day, which we probably haven't done since our honeymoon, and then we went to dinner at the Mandarin in Bountiful and went to the temple. We did have a miniature miracle while driving up to the Bountiful temple. We were going up that really steep hill and suddenly, our car just stopped going forward. The tires were spinning on the snow and I was really scared. Eric managed to get enough traction to turn around and he said, "I am not going back up there, we are just going to have to go to Salt Lake." Then as we were driving down the hill, two snow plows crossed our path and we were able to turn around and follow the plows, which worked out perfectly!
New Years was also fun! We played Rock Band at Kent and Ann's with the family and ate and talked. Rock band is really fun! I enjoy singing because my deepest inner self really would love to be a great singer. I would even settle for a good singer... but Rock band doesn't require that much skill and so I can sing my little heart out.
All in all, life was pretty good the last month so here's to 2008! Here are some of my favorite pictures from the holidays.

Roscoe with his Christmas rope! He's smiling!

Grandma Ann trying to figure out how to assemble the game for Parker. Brenda burnt the bacon, again! The oven was literally an inferno. Hilarious!

This was my favorite picture of Lily with her hand on her forhead. She is so precious.
Eric is so excited about his scientific calculator on Christmas morning!

I look happy about the Kite Runner but all I have done since then is cry. Oh that book is so unbelievably sad! I also cry when watching Gremlins and Teen Witch.

This was our Chick rock band.
Andy might not like this picture but c'mon, Ashton with his shirt off on the drums is priceless!