Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Christmas Fun


This is going to be a lot of pics- be ready!
What a fun Christmas! We always have a lot of traditions that we always follow on Christmas. We always spend Christmas Eve at one of my aunt and uncle's house that rotates each year. This year we were at my Aunt Sharon and Uncle Doug's house in Apple Valley. It's always so much fun to get together with the whole family and my grandparents. Always a lot of laughs each year.

We spent the rest of the week at my parents house in the cities. It was my year to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at the hospital, but I was able to spend a lot of time with my family. It was a lot of fun and was very relaxing. It was my parents, my sister, Heather, and her husband, Dan, and me and Brent. Here are some pics from Christmas:


Heather and I at my parents house for Christmas


We all got North Face jackets! Matching family :)


My sister and brother-in-law gave us a bike rack for our car! It'll be perfect for bringing our bikes with us to Nevada. We'll only have 1 car so Brent can now get around instead of being stuck at the apartment.


The weekend after Christmas we all went to Heather and Dan's cabin. They just finished building it this summer. It's gorgeous!! We went snowshoeing that morning and then came back and played dominos when my parents got out to the cabin later on Saturday. Here are some pics from snowshoeing:


Bella loved running around in the snow. She even ran in the river and got soo muddy!

It was a lot of fun but it was so cold! When we got back to the cabin we thought we should give Bella a bath in the utility sink but it was a lot smaller than we thought. Bella didn't enjoy this so much... Thanks Heather and Dan for a fun weekend at your cabin!!
Brent and I had our own little Christmas on Sunday and opened stockings and lounged around for the day.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Baby it's cold outside...

Brrr! This weekend was so cold! We hung out in our house all weekend watching movies, playing cards, making chili, and watching football. I helped Brent shovel the driveway on Saturday. The best part was an hour after we were finished shoveling, the snow plow came....Brent was out there again shoveling us out again. We had wanted to get our fill of snow in before we left for Nevada and well, We are ready to get out of here!


Bella was freezing! I thought she'd like the snow more than she did, she just sat by the garage shivering
Brent working hard... So maybe I didn't help shovel as much as I thought I did. I just took pics and played in the snow with Bella :)

So my computer says it's -9 degrees out right now! Maybe I'm not leaving my house today...

Monday, December 15, 2008

Exciting News!!

Well we decided it was finally time to join everyone and get a blog...Hopefully I will be good at remembering to update frequently and post pictures right away. I tend to procrastinate so this will be a challenge for me.

Exciting news...

WE'RE MOVING TO LAS VEGAS, NV IN 3 WEEKS!!!

I took a travel nurse position at a hospital in Las Vegas. This is my very first travel assignment so I am struggling through all of the paperwork and requirements right now. I start on Jan. 12 and will work there until April 5. Our plan is that we will do this 13 week assignment this year and see how it goes. Maybe in the future we will do another assignment, maybe not. But we're SO excited!
More updates to come in the near future....