Thursday, December 4, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!! (a little late i know..)

It has been a while since my last blog.  I've been real busy and well nothing exciting has really happened worthy to blog.  But I just went down to phoenix for Thansgiving and it was amazing

It was a short trip, left after work on Tues, stayed Wed and Thurs and then back to Utah Fri morning and straight to work from the airport.  Ya I know, but someone had to pay the bills (and it's not Russ, haha).  It wasn't the most relaxing vacation, trying to cram as much stuff as we possibly could in, but we enjoyed it so so much.  Russ was texting me the countdown till we left.  We got to see Allison's wonderful baby (the new love of my life) and I just got so happy and so sad all at once.  I was so happy to see allison and devin and sam but a then I was sad that I don't ever get to see them.  It is just so depressing.  I miss them already!  How am i ever supposed to be the favorite aunt if I'm never around!?!  I can't let Whitney and Becca take that position!  haha.  I also saw Leigh Ann and her sweet babe Chance.  He is so so big!  And so smily and cute!  Here are a few pictures from our reunion....









We had to say our goodbyes but not until I stalked Sam and took as many pictures as i could!  Why is he the cutest thing in the world!  I'm going to premier these photos.  Allison has not yet seen all of them.  So here are a few!!  So cute!!

















Anyways.  that is the new love of my life.  cute isn't he!?!

Well Thanksgiving went fast but it was a blast!  It was soooo refreshing to see my family and friends!!  I miss everyone so so much!  There is so much going on in everyones lives I am still trying to catch up!  We came down just in time to see and SMELL some Arizona rain and get some beautiful weather.  I wore a sweater one day and started sweating!  It's much colder in Utah and is only getting colder!  ew!  I miss Arizona!  Thanks to my parents we were able to come down and enjoy some good company, good food and good climate.  Why don't we live in Arizona again.  Oh ya, Russ is still in school......and will be.....for like.....2 1/2 years......I don't know if I can make it.  Haha, We've both just been a little homesick and busy with work and school lately that it was real nice to get a quick break.  i got to see my niece Madison and new nephew Tanner.  He is so big now!  Tanner and Sam met very quickly ad they were due around the same time but little Tanner came early so Sam has some catching up to do!  Madison is hilarious!  She talks her head off and the funny thing is you can't understand half of what comes out of her mouth!  She calls grandma "muga"  (she says it kind of backwards) and now repeats tons of things you say.  I was trying to seat-belt her in one day and I couldn't get her in so I said "dang it"  she immediately repeated the phrase and I could not help but laugh.  Mom gave me a weird look that "be careful what you say" look.  It was fun sleeping at home in my bed.  Although Russ and I are used to sleeping on separate ends of a king size bed and were forced into a queen (but it feels like a full)  So it was a little squishy.  He can't be by me in order for me to fall asleep, i need silence and well, Russ sleeps with is mouth open so I occasionally have to push him in the middle of the night from snoring anyways.  HAHA, i'm going on a tangent but ya.  I love my house.  I wish I could be closer to family.  It's more fun that way.  But Utah is our home now.  I know I do a lot of complaining but this is Russ and I's first home together so I better have fun while it lasts.  We really have nothing to complain about.  We have a nice place to live I have a great job, Russ has the opportunity to attend BYU and finish his education so we are happy.  It's late and I think I am rammbling on and on. But the point it we had fun.  We miss Arizona.  We miss family.  We misse friends.  We want a vacation.  and it was a fun trip!  Can't wait to see everyone again for a longer trip at Christmas.  Dec 23rd to the 4th!  Love everyone!  Here are some fun fam photos!





















Monday, November 10, 2008

CONGRATS ALLISON!

I'm SO EXCITED ALLISON HAD HER BABY!!!!! I just had to show the world that I love her and her little baby barry! Born today at 1:09 he was 8 lbs and 13 ounces. What a big boy! They named him Sam William Barry!!! i'm so sad i don't get to go down to the hospital and stalk her and take pictures of her whole experience (she is probably glad about that) But I will be home soon to hold him and love him, in two weeks to be exact! I love The Barry's!!! Devin will be such a sweet little dad, they will go camping together and suns games and allison will be such a fun mom! I wish I could see her now, she will probably be awkward at first. I mean I would, what do you even do with a baby! haha, and little Dixie will entertain the little guy and they will snuggle and wrestle (because he will learn this from dad) and they will be such a sweet little family! I'm so jealous of everyone who gets to see them! I want to see pictures!! I love you guys!!


I'm going to upload a few pictures of the Barry's I know and love. They will be some fun amazing parents!





















And this was the allison and devin child that I put together a while ago. We will see how accurate it is....










And also, Russ and I took family pictures on Saturday with my amazing studio Highlite Photgraphy. check them out, we are pretty hot.

www.highlitephotography.com/sorensen

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

winter is coming...

i hate utah.

look what was outside our house this morning...

Russ said there was more earlier. but i slept in today....


Monday, November 3, 2008

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Anyone who knows me will know that I am a freak about halloween. I love it. I love dressing up, i love blood, and i love candy. Since I am married and too old to trick or treat now and have no friends I tried to make the best of Halloween. Luckily Amy (my favorite person in Utah besides Russ) saved me from doing nothing (he "Halloween party" she was invited to canceled) and they came over to have some fun! Russ and I did some last minute costume shopping and came home to decorate the stairwell (since we live in a basement). We but black trash bags above to make it like a tunnel and put some Halloween decorations outside and some scary music to make it look good scary. I took this old costume of mine and stuffed it and put it at the bottom of the stairs to make it look like a real person. We had to light some candles to lead the people to our front door which is on the side of the house to make sure we got trick or treaters. Amy and marcus came over (not dressed up) but don't worry I made them put some costumes on. Amy was a pregnant cheerleader and marcus was batman. They were really good sports about it, and amy was really hot in the cheerleading uniform. Lola was a cute pig until she spilled soda all over her costume. We ordered pizza and Ryan and his girlfriend Bri came over and we ate, passed out candy and played scatagories (we printed off new scategories lists off the internet) We made some muddy buddies too......mmmmmm......Russ and i dressed up too. I was a pirate and Russ was Waldo from where's waldo. He looked really good. I made him dress up too but in the end he really liked his costume and was glad he dressed up. All of our Primary kids we teach came over to trick or treat too. I of course had to get pictures of the, We saw all but one but then on Sunday discovered he had come by too in a mask so we didn't know it was him. We had lots of fun! I'll let you see some pictures of our night but I'm going to take a quick look down memory lane....these are some of the other Halloween costumes I have had throughout the years.....








Ok...those last ones were pretty scary.  It went from newst to oldest as you can probably tell.  I am such a freak.  haha.  Ok here are the pictures from this Halloween.  Enjoy!  



The whole gang.....gotta love us!
Lola was checkin Russ out.  He is kind of weird looking.
This is Marcus terrorizing the neighborhood..
look at that cute couple.  Look, no blood this year...
Batman knocked up the cheerleader.
Here I am cutting amy's baby out.
and killing ryan too.
look, it's a black fairy and "nash at the after party"
Making Muddy Buddies!
Little lola.  we love her.

Me lola and our skeleton man outside our door.
Lola trick or treating.  sweet huh?
Our primary kids!