woke up to these...
 had a fun filled day...
 gave him this... with tickets to the Jazz game (thanks Michelle)

and house decorations...

it was perfect. love V day.

we celebrated my mom's birthday at our house. i made a good vegetable soup, opened gifts, had cake, putted in the family room and watched some football. my mom's kind of birthday. it was fun to have them with us. happy birthday cute mom, love you!

new years at granny's house. just a low key night, sparkling cider and family. great way to bring in the new year!

excited to wear my new boots!

we celebrated his 27th birthday! i always try and go all out especially since he has a december birthday. so this year we bought him a 20ft ladder, clothes, golfing things, had a party at our house and went to Tucanos. he deserves everything he gets, love him!


party at our house.

.church
.opening gifts
.listening to my mother in law play the piano
.cute little nephews
.delicious food
.mistle toe
.i love christmas!
.helping the littles with their new toys. so cute.

i really loved Christmas morning this year because it was just us, Alex and I waking up in our new home. it was perfect. we made cinnamon rolls, had the christmas music playing, opened gifts and set up our new sound system. it was so sweet and a day i will never forget. i loved spending it just with him. He of course surprised me with some amazing gifts, he always has something up his sleeve. i am one lucky girl.

 he is so cute! excited for his new surround sound.




i had a lot of fun this year decorating our home!

i love this day. so much family time and fun activities with the Davis'...
*it begins with morning bowling, the best girl bowler gets the trophe and best boy gets the family shirt
*next is pizza at Pier 49 in American Fork
*then we all go to see a movie, this year was Shirlock Holmes
*we finish the night with an egg nog toast & our gift exchange.

it's the same every year, we love it!

this year i could not decide what to take to all of our new neighbors and close friends for their christmas gift. i went back and forth with many ideas and finally settled on banana jumbos! one of my friends gave me the recipe and i have made it several times since. i liked that it was something unexpected but also something everyone would like, well if they like bananas. i was really happy with how it all turned out!

for a funover, as we call it. we love these two little boys so much! if our future children turn out like them we will be so lucky! we borrowed them for the weekend to get pizza, play games, watch Elf and go to church. it was so fun for all of us. Alex's nephews are just a good time. a favorite thing we like to do with them is play finish my sentence and would you rather. such clever little guys :).

our home was finished in the second week of november and with christmas around the corner we decided to throw a few parties of our own! the first one was with our friends from woods cross/farmington. we had lots of treats and played games. i loved having everyone in our home and seeing them again since our big move.

the Jone's, the Richardson's, the Wright's and Ryan & Emily


some of my best friends, love love these girls! Ciara & Megan.

christmas parties this year were very fun, probably our best yet! for my work party we ate at Ruth's Chris. their food is amazing, such a nice restaurant. then at the end we were given the new nikon j1 camera! i was so excited!
then for byu Alex had 2 parities. the first one was with all of the baseball team and was held at Coach Law's house. it's tradition for the team to have it there every year. following dinner each player and coach gives their gag gift to the person they were assigned to. they get up in front of everyone and explain what they bought. i got to know the players really quick from this. it was hilarious. the things they buy and their reasons for it are so funny. the player who had Alex bought him a chocolate bar and a bill cosby dvd... he said he was guessing that Alex likes chocolate haha, because of me. too funny.

the second party was for all of the Athletic Department at BYU and was held at the Cougar banquet room. it was a great dinner and after they gave all the staff a gift basket full of mugs, root beer, ice cream coupons and a blanket! they also received the Prophet's book, Thomas S. Monson. Amazing! We had such a great time and were so happy Alex was apart of it all.

the girls i work with after dinner at Ruth's Chris

it's a family tradition to go to the concert every year. we really look forward to it and love the christmas spirit that it brings. the church does such an amazing job with the music and their guest vocalists. we all met up and took the trax into downtown salt lake. it was smooth and easy. we were so excited that Ben could come, Lindsey's boyfriend and Rachelle & Steven. after we went to the Marriott and had hot chocolate and pie! loved having this family time together. can't wait for this year!
trax ride


 we got there very early, which made for great seats!
Love our family!

i decided it was time to update our family blog. we have done so many fun things especially now that we've moved :). and i have set a goal to make the "blog book" and finally print it out. so here i am blogging all the way back to october/november of 2011...

byu football games...
 one of the many perks to Alex's job at BYU, is being able to attend all of their other sports. we went to several of the football games and had a blast. took a lot of our friends too.
these are just a few pictures that i took, but really we went to so many games that i wish i would have taken pictures. next time :).

more to come...