My BiRtHdAy!

Dec. 23rd

A birthday to remember.....for more reasons than 1.

My BIRTHDAY! it was my golden birthday this year. i turned 23 on the 23rd. i didn't do too much for my birthday i never do b/c it is too close to xmas and we are always so busy running around. Patrick the Dr i work for did take our office out for lunch to celebrate my birthday. we went to Catina Loredo out at the San Tan mall. it was very good. i will definitally go back again. it was cool they brought out a sparkler on my brownie. as you can see by my face i have never seen one before. (i don't know how to rotate this)
we had a great time even though 30 min before we left brandon called me and said the car had just broke down. ya i know the story of my life ;>

so when we got back from lunch my mom and i drove out to where brandon had left the car so we could have AAA come and tow it somewhere to be fixed. except for one miner detail. i didn'e have the keys. (brandon had taken them to work. oops!) so after everything we got the car towed and on the way back to work realized that i had left gifts in the car for a family my office and my mom's office had purchased christmas gifts for this year. so i dropped my mom off at work and drove back and got the gifts. thank goodness i remembered them.
i got back to work and realized i only had an hour left. holy cow i didn't get much done today. it doesn't help when your not there. oh well, crap happens!

my father-in-law picked me up from work and let brandon and i use his car because we were going to be delivering gifts to the family that my office and my mom's office bought christmas for. so i hurried and picked up brandon from work. and we got home and dressed up. finnished wrapping some of the gifts and headed out the door looking like this...
(i don't know why the pictures are rotating funny)

we unloaded all the presents on the porch and knocked on the door. the dad answered the door and was a little surprised to see santa.

this was such a neat experience for me. i was a little sad that only 1 of the 4 kids were home but. the little girl was so excited. it was amazing. here is a pic of the family...

afterward we went home changed and brandon took me out for dinner. we went to chilli's. and then we went over to my nannie and papitos house because they had offered to le tus use their car so we would be able to go to prescott for christmas. so we got the car then went home.

like i said a birthday to remember!

December Where did you go?

I know i am not te only one that somehow the world skipped a few weeks and we missed the month of December;>

Well here is a long update on us.......

Dec. 4th

we went with our friends Chris, Mindi & their son Riley and delivered a Christmas tree and decorations to a family that lives in our ward boundries. Then afterwards we got some hot chocolate and went to look at the Temple lights. We always love going to the christmas lights.

Dec. 9th

my brother-in-law and sister-in-law and nephew came in town from New york and we celebrated our christmas eve with brandon's family a little early. we all went out to dinner to julio j's. brandon and i miss tanner, erin, and davis. it was fun to see them. Davis is getting so big. here are some pics of the fam that night.

Dec. 10th

So my girlfriends and i get together every month for icecream and celebrate the birthdays for the month. well this month is my birthday and 3 other of my friends. so we all met up at this great frozen yogurt place on valvista and baseline in dana landing, called ocean blue. i highly recomend it. anyway we all just get together and talk and laugh and have a great time. here we all are..

Dec. 12th

so today was the last day thet tanner and erin were in town so we went to lunch with them and just hung out we had fun at lunch we went to olive garden

Dec. 14th

My cousin satchel turned 12 on 12-12-12 this year and we went up to prescott valley this weekend because he got ordained to be a decon. we are so excited and proud of him. here is a pic of him and my grandpa.

Dec 18th

Skousen Christmas party

We all got together and ate the traditional french dip sandwich and played throw the ping pong thru santas mouth game. And then we read Luke 2 and sing christmas songs. it was very fun. DJ and i had fun making faces at each person as they tried to throw the ping pong ball. we were tying to distract them so we would win. we are such goofballs.

Dec. 19th

We went our clifford family christmas party. we had a pot luck dinner and desert. we had a short program. each family had a part. then we played some games. it was great. here are a couple pics

Dec. 20th

We went to the ASU vs. BYU Basketball game at the university of Phx stadium in Glendale. it was fun. here are some pics...

Thanx Giving Weekend

Brandon and I had a great thanxgiving weekend.

It started with the Turkey Trot. A 10k(6mi.) run. We had a great time. we realized it is not a smart idea to try and run a 10k when you havent run for 4 years! so we made it about 3 1/2 mi. then stopped. We walked back to the finnish and cheered on the rest of our family as they finished. I am pretty embarrased that i used to run 5- 10 mi. a day and now i can barely run a couple miles.

then we had dinner at my aunt's house. there was way too much food. we were all stuffed and there were tonz of leftovers. Nobody can beat my Grandpas smoked turkey. it was amazing!

My mom Lisa and I went to Michaels after we ate for some thanksgiving doorbuster's. We got some good deals. then we went home.

BLACK FRIDAY!

yes my mom and i went out shopping early. We acctually shopped for 14 hours. Yes we are Crazy but it was very fun and we got some great deals.

Here is all the stuff we got.

I hope you all had a great thanxgiving!

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Bella's Bracelet!!
For all the many twilight fans out there i am selling bella's bracelet. please use the link on the side and visit my jewelry blog to see pictures and details. You can contact me via email or a comment if you are interested.
*They make great Christmas gifts!!!

Pics of our Condo!

okay so this is long overdue and there are a couple people who have been waiting to see pics of our new place. so here are pics of the kitchen and living room. my craft room is a disaster right now because i am planning an enrichment activity so i will take a pic of that another day.

i still have to buy a mirror kit to hang up my big mirror over the couch but whatever. this gives you the idea.