White Elephant Christmas Party

I love planning parties and activities... I really do. This one we kept pretty simple

and so I actually enjoyed the party itself, not just planning it.

However, on the way there I managed to:

• Slip on my way into Smith's (my feet flew out from under me, landing on my butt with an audience of customers and everything)
• Shatter my serving plate for the fruit on the parking lot pavement
• Shed a (little) tear of frustration when Josh wanted to put some Fritos he found in the kitchen on my Cranberry Red and Deep Sage color-coordinated table. I'd put a lot of thought into how I wanted the table to look, and Fritos were not a part of my vision. Luckily, I got over the last little burst of stress and had a such a fun time.

We brought a cute pet mouse as our gift. To hear about the reaction... click here: www.college19thward.blogspot.com

Thanksgiving

My dad's side of the family had our reunion over thanksgiving. Technically it was Josh's holiday, so we were running back and forth- but it was so good to see everyone. We feel so lucky and blessed to have the family we do.

Josh's mom gave me this cute idea, and they were such a hit with our little cousins! I wasn't too happy to find that the stores skipped right to Christmas a little premature (for my liking), so the only candy corn I could find was red and geen.

BBT baby! Bean bag toss was one of our competitive events, as well as Battle of the Genders (when we called it by it's real name we had a few cute little cousins get nervous about it)

We (all 35 of us... sorry no pics of the whole group) hiked around the narrows. It was great to get some fresh air and exercise after consuming a few too many calories the day earlier.

My brother Chase and I ran down the canyon. It was so refreshing!

My dad took all of these photos on his work camera. I'm hoping to inherit one of them if one were to get outdated or something... He takes the coolest shots!

Boating in November?

Gotta love St. George!

The first group of these pictures are posted in memory of summer... (AND because it takes me about 2 months to get them on here...)Look at those cute farmer's tans...

Eye-Eye Captian! I half-begged Josh not to get the boat, but I'm so glad we have it.
It's already been worth it! (We're 3-way owners with his dad and brother)

And, yes, the rest of these were truly

taken at Sand Hallow in November.

We camped out on the lake!

Anyone up for boating/camping in December?

While the boys fished away (they caught apprx 18 fishees!)

We rocked it at SUDOKU!

sleepin' on the boat.

It was such a beautiful night with a huge full moon,

so the lake has a cool, twilight-y feel to it.

woodbury pumpkin patch

'Arry Potta! (aka Harry Potter)

Josh had the swine flu (so we think) and so we stayed in the whole weekend and carved a couple pumpkins. It was actually kinda fun to stay cooped in for a change.

Frankenstein

Josh turned 27! He has lots of gray hairs to show for it too, seriously! (He LOVES ketchup if you didn't already know, hence the gift.)

The 2nd Annual Woodbury Reunion

Our immediate family had our reunion up in Kolob this past weekend.

Grandpa Woodbury actually built the cabin himself!

Josh and I rode on the same bike (yes, at the same time) down this beautiful road.

I was a 'yittle bit scared to go down the hills, but it was a blast.

We had 2 new additions (baby William and baby Jack) to our family this go-around and I was in heaven! They are all way too cute for me to handle.

I missed the first day and a half because I have mandatory training for my new job (that I love, by the way) but Josh told me how they made the smartest omelettes ever. You put all of your ingredients in a ziplosk bag (egg, cheese, veggies, whatev) and boil it! Easy clean-up and moist, delicious eggs that you can't burn!

As long as we're on the subject of family reunions... Here's a few pictures from our Hirschi reunion that I never got around to posting. Back in June we camped in Moab and these are pictures at the famous license plate arch....

I quit!

I'm downsizing my work load and it feels so good. I'm driving back to St. George right now with my very high-tech boss to interview some candidates for my marketing rep position. He has high-speed WiFi from Verizon in his car! I will be sad to return my awesome G1 phone that I have so deeply fell in love with.

I found a new manager to take over at Green Tea HP and it feels so good to shed that constant responsibility. I have really loved that job and I will miss it. I've met so many great friends there.

Hello Allconnect- I'm ready to take on something new! I start a "regular job" as a relocating specialist at the first of October!

Gunlock Reservoir

For our last ward activity we went boating at Gunlock. We had Jimmy John's sandwiches, shredded it on the wakeboard, and even caught little fishies (which we named Gunner and Lockey) with our bare hands! We were the pround parents of our first pets... and then they died about 20 minutes later. We'll just forget about the last hour or so when I got so sick that I lost my lunch :( It was quite a feat to set this canopy up, so I just had to take a picture.

Chase and Danita Williams... Some of our very best friends!