Masters Here we come!

So we got some exciting news this week. Brandon got accepted into the Masters program at ASU's WP Carey School of Business. i am so proud of him and all the hard work he has done. He will gradate this May with his Bachelors degree in Accounting. then he will have a 6 week internship this summer with CBIZ (an accounting firm in Phx), and then he will start the masters program in the fall. i am so excited for him to almost be done! he has worked so hard over the past couple years. and he has accomplished some great things. I love you Brand!

And the other fun news is... we got a New CAR!!!! hallelujah! we got a 2008 Nissan Altima! it is black. this is pretty much the car i have wanted for a while. so knock on wood but hopefully this is the end of MY bad luck with cars. hehe

work x-mas party in Jamuay

we had our work party this year in january b/c everyone was so busy this year. we went to the spa friday and then saturday we went to dinner at City Hall steakhouse in Scottsdale.(it is right across the street from scottsdale fashion square) and after dinner we went to the Tempe improv. we all had a great time. Dinner was amazing and we all had some good laughs at the improve. here are some pics from dinner.

the girls doing a shot.

SPA DAY!

For Christmas the Dr i work for gives us a day at the spa. this year we went to Sanctuary. it is the same place that Jennifer Aniston, Brittney Spears, and Alicia Keys goes to. It was wonderful. we got there at 8am and went to a dance cardio class. it was fun. then we went and changed into our robes. we all waited in the lounge until we were called back for our treatments. Amy and i both had a manicure and pedicure first. after that i had about an hour until my next treatment which was a facial. while we waited we ordered some appitizers.then i had my facial. After the facial we all met back in the lounge and ate lunch. after lunch we had some time before our next treatment so Amy and I went into the steam room. That was funny experience, Amy turned this nob on the outside of the steam room b/c she thought it was the timer(like on a jacuzzie) but we learned the hard way that it was the temp gauge. lets just say it looked like i got a perm.(and my hair is straight) it was so hot in there! i hurried and took a shower befoer they called me back for my next treatment. i then had my massage. which was heavenly. i can't remember the last time i had a great massage like that. then about 10 min after that was the last treatment which was a full body scrub. that was amazing also. my skin felt like a baby's bottom. I had a great day at the spa. i just wish i could go a lot more often. here are a couple pics of us

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...