yes i have neglected my blog.

I have some major catching up to do and I told allison, "i haven't even blogged Thanksgiving yet!" she told me I should forget about it but i can't! You see I make those blog books out of my blogs so it is like my litlle journal so i can't miss a beat. So this is not going to be very informative rather a quick blog entry about thanksgiving for myself to remember.... =-)

Well Russ and I flew down to Phoenix for thanksgiving and we had a blast! It's always fun to escape the cold weather and wear flip flops in Phoenix. Very refreshing.

We got there and were picked up from the airport and were surprised with a suns game! My dad picked us up and said we were meeting mom downtown for dinner but dropped us off at the Suns game instead ! It was a very happy surprise!

Thanksgiving was sooo soo fun! We went to my Aunt Veronica's house and I got to see lots of my family! Since I only really see them at holidays I really enjoy spending this time with them! I talked to everyone trying to catch up and of course took some updated pictures of everyone! (i took one of jeremy's family but i accidentally deleted it. sorry guys) We went over to visit nikki and her family after the party and checked out her new house! I hadn't seen it since she has painted and decorated! Good job nikki!

Then my mom took me trail riding at Thunderbird Park right by my house on the horses for the first time! I loved it! we were the "horse people" on the mountain for the day. it was pretty cool....

look. oreo even smiled in both these pictures...

Then we had a little friend get together at The Reid's residence. no, not my parents house, RYAN'S HOUSE! it is very cute! i am pretty jealous! We had some food, some games, and some company. For some reason I didn't get a picture of leigh ann. I forgot to take pictures until she had already left. so she as there too! i love you Leigh ann!

They tried to be legless like russ....

Russ looks leggless

I even got to see danielle tanner for this first time in like 4 years. And her boyfriend Dominic. I got to take some pictures of them which was fun too!



I also took pictures of Ashley and her brother too for her mom for Christmas. Man i love her! this is what we made her!! Isn't it so so cute!?

And don't forget allison's cute family. I did these for her and printed a few for her christmas present. Why are the barry's so cute. No the real question is why is sam so cute! I want to steal him and take him home with me. I don't think allison would like that though....








That is pretty much the rap up! THe end (stay tuned for many more updates on Christmas!).....

"THE PIZZA MAN IS HERE"

Cody. Jake. This is for you! The Pizza man is here! Cody and Jake are our new found friends. They invited us over to make pizzas with them one evening and it was so fun! Jake discovered that Russ could spin a pillow/books on his finger like a basketball and decided Russ should learn how to spin pizza boxes and become a pizza delivery boy. Just imagine. you open your door to the pizza man and he is spinning both your pizzas on his fingers and says "The pizza Man is Here!". That would be sweet.

Merinda SURPRISE PARTY

JJJEEEZZZ I AM SO BEHIND! I HAVEN'T EVEN BLOGGED THANKSGIVING YET! GGRRRR. I'm going to make this short and sweet so i can catch up on my LIFE! Well we love our friends up in Utah. It makes it actually fun to live here. It pretty much is what makes me want to wake up every morning. haha. wow, they are going to read this and freak out. DON'T DO IT! I need you! haha. But really we have met some super cool people lately and it feels good to hang out with people you actually like. =-) Dallin (a man that sounds EXACTLY LIKE OWEN WILSON) planned a surprise b-day party for his wife and our friends Merinda. It was a really fun party. She was TOTALY SURPRISED! How old are you Merinda, 27 now? She looks so young huh!? It was so fun, and yes i am bogging this to let the whole world know that we are cool and we have cool friends. the end.

Paul and Ruthie

The Bearded Dragon and Cody

The BIRTHDAY GIRL

Owen Wilson himself!

GOOD FOOD> MMMMMM

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the night ended with cody breaking the blinds....

Here is the SURPRISE! See it for yourself!

Paul and Ruthie gave Merinda a SWEET rap for her birthday. i thought this was pretty DANG FUNNY!

The Merinda decided to give us all a show! i kind of egged her on....

Then Paul and Ruthie just couldn't control themselves...

I can't help myself...

I took some pictures of my BEAUTIFUL nieces Lola and Ruby tonight and they are so freakin cute I JUST COULD'T HELP MYSELF! I HAD TO BLOG A FEW! Here is 2 week old Ruby (she was an ANGEL!) and her big sister Lola. I bet you can't tell that Lola was a wiggle worm during this shoot.....

Wanna paint our portraits!?

Ever since Russ and I have been married whenever he says "what do you want to do tonight" i always say "Let's paint each others portraits!." Russ always rolls his eyes and says no.....Well one day he said no again and I didn't take no for an answer! I went and got out the paints (which it ends up I only have the colors cranberry, different tones of blue and white) and paper and brushes and everything. So Russ played along. I started painting Russ and he was drawing an "outline". I didn't want his to be way better than mine (because i was free handing it) so I crinkled up my paper and started drawing. Come to find out I don't do "outlines" I just plain started drawing Russ. Russ started painting my portrait and I looked at my drawing and I didn't want to ruin it with paint. So I ended up not painting anything! hahahah! Yah, Russ gave me a lot of crap for it because I have been bugging him to do it forever and when we actually did it I didn't do it! hahaha! Oh well....it was a fun time....

mollie + selena = love

So again I am behind on my blog posts.....whats new. But I have had a few pretty long days this week, plus I just got back from Phoenix during thanksgiving and it was a BLAST! I will post about that a little later. But before I went home I got to spend some time with my friend Mollie. She came up to Utah for a photoshoot and had time to squeeze me into her busy schedule. I met her and her sister Hailey and friend Maddie up at Temple square to see the "temple lights" that mollie thought were up. Well, guess what, they were not up yet. SOOOOOOO we went to get some hot chocolate and went to Red Iguana, a GREAT GREAT mexican food place in Salt Lake. It was so good! But the salsa was so hot none of us could taste our food when it came because our mouths were BURNING! Good thing we went back to Orem to our house and ate ice cream and the biggest cookie you have ever seen! Hailey and Maddie showed us how to eat it, right out of the pan. It was a great time and I always like it when friends come into town. Hooray for friends! whooo hooooo!

We started the night with a mollie/selena photoshoot at the salt lake temple, you know the usual....

Hanging out in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, warming up....

no one wanted to sit by me.....

The Red Iguana. amazing. i love food.

like i said, i love food....

Russ got to join in with the cookie extravaganza!

And here we pig out.

It acually made me so sick, but it was so worth it....hahahaha!