Christmas Day!!

We had a wonderful busy Christmas day and Im sure did all of you guys.. But i have to say that Christmas is definitly not the same when you get married.. Don't get me wrong, it is still a blast, it is just different. Christmas morning Nathan and I got up about 6:30 to open our own presents at our house. It was funny because I bought Nathans gift off of his list and I also bought my own gifts off my list. So opening presents was fun because we finally got to use what we had already bought ourselves! LOL! Nathan was sweet to give me a few surprises too. I love that kid.

It was really funny to see Ernie with his gifts tho.. we got him a big bag that was full of all sorts of stuffed animals and squeeker toys. He started to rip the paper and then we finally had to help him. (He is just like our little kid) After it was opened Nathan dumped all of his toys out in front of him and he didn't know what to do. He just looked at them and started whining. It was hilarious. I hate it when you have too many toys that it just wants to make you cry.. poor thing.
We then headed up to my parents house to watch them open up their gifts. This is when Nathan finally got to open his present that I have had hidden for months.. thanks to Brian. Thanks Brian. YOu are AWESOME! Nathan has wanted some crash pads for climbing for a long time and so I saved up and bought some for him a while ago.. I had to have his friend at work lie to him and tell him he couldn't buy them until they went on sale at the first of the year. But it was all worth it to see the look on his face when he opened them! Last year Nathan surprised me and bought me my Nativity so this year was my turn to get a little surprise for him.. Look at the pictures.. they don't do justice for how fun it was to watch him. After we did that we headed up the the Binghams to eat a delicious breakfast prepared by Rosann and we opened gifts and hung out with the fam. It was such a wonderful Christmas and we can't wait until next year.. well.. actually we can.. :)

A million new posts..

Holy cow!! Do the Holidays wear anybody else out? We had an amazing Christmas and New Years but I am so happy they are over. I was a little sad that they came and went so fast but it is nice to get back on our regular schedule (if you can call it that.) So instead of doing one big post, I am just going to do a bunch that have themes so I dont leave anything out! I hope you all had wonderful holidays as well!!

ZOO Lights and Po-Po's

My sweet brother Brody was nice eonough to plan a little double date with him and his beautiful girlfriend Nicole, and also my cousin Cory and his wife Jenna. We went down in the 20 degree weather to the Zoo to look at all the lights. I was a little surprised to not see as many animals as I thought. I don't blame them for not wanting the animals to get cold.. but seriously.. we saw like 4. But we still had a blast walking around and burning our tongues on hot chocolate we couldn't help but drink. It got so cold that we were running post to post where they had tall heater things that you could barely feel the fire. Oh well, what do you do. After we got done at the zoo we headed down and ate at the Macaroni Grill.. I love that place. It was a riot! Of course when you get Nathan, Brody, and Cory together they are funny as heck.. I was laughing so hard all night it made my stomach hurt. I love it when that happens. But the funniest part was when we were driving home. We all had about 10 layers on because it was so cold outside so we had the heat cranked up in the car. Brody was driving and decided he was too hot and started to take off his coat.. about 2 minutes later.. not exaggerating.. 3 cops pull up behind us and turn on their lights. We were just thinking that maybe he sped up a little when he pulled off his coat.. no big deal.. Well, then 2 cops..one on each side of the car.. hold up their flashlights to the car, make us roll down all of our windows and put our hands on the front of the seats where they could see them. They then took his license and registration and crap and a couple minutes later they came back to the car and made Brody get out.. A couple more minutes went by and Brody came back laughing.. I guess they had 3 calls about a suburban drunk driving.. What? Yep.. thats us.. It was awesome..

O Christmas Tree

Here is a picture of our beautiful christmas tree this year.. yes, that is climbing rope we used as tinsel and there is Santa climbing up our tree.. He is new to our family this year. And there is Ernie.. What a cute dog..

My New Nativity..and my crazy Fam..

Ok so I got it last year for Christmas but this is the first year I got to put it up so Im super excited! And also, its a little late but my family has a tradition of jumping in the pool on Thanksgiving day. So here is the pic. We didn't wimp out but Nathan had just injured his foot and I had the stomach flu so we skipped jumping in this year.. There was still ice in the pool.. and we tested it at 35 or 36 degrees I think.. Crazy Kids..

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This post is to apologize for the last post that aparently seemed a little more explicit than I intended. Blogging life is a little bit of a challenge, because obviously, sometimes you write things that are meant to be read one way, but when someone else reads it they think of something else. So I apologize to any of you that I offended in writing it and I mostly apologize to Nathan for having to put up with all the crap that became of it. I promise to be more careful when I blog.
P. S. This is all meant to be read in a happy, sincere, innocent tone of voice. :)