Happy New Year

We spent New Years at home, like most years. I kind of hate this holiday; it's always retarded. We ended up watching "Going the Distance", which was pretty funny and by the time it was over, it was past midnight. We chugged down some "sparkling cider" and went to bed. Whoop de doo. We did take lots of silly pictures, as you can see, before the kids went to bed though.


You're probably wondering why in one of theses pictures, my face looks like it does. Well, my daughter looks all cute, right? Well, two seconds earlier she burped in my face and it was very unpleasant, right as I was snapping the picture. BURPED! Oh my gosh it was nasty and so my face is too. I normally wouldn't post such a horrendous picture, but I felt you might need to know the pain my nostrils were in.

We have many New Years resolutions like always, and I hope we can stick to them. Things like: Savannah not watching so much tv and doing more "school" type activities, eating out less, exercising regularly and getting organized around the house. Oh, and I want to be more "girlie". Not that I'm tomboy-ish at all, but I feel like their are plenty of "girlie" things that I haven't done for myself in a long time. So, I painted my nails on New Years Eve. With really sparkly pink polish that I just bought. When was the last time I did that? I want to wear perfume more. Not body spray. And wear my jewelry and lipstick or gloss. Things like that. Kind of funny, I know, but when I'm walking around in my sweatpants feeling grungy, maybe I can look down at some painted finger nails and feel "girlie". And like always, I'd love to fit in my cute jeans. Cuz I love my old jeans, not really the current ones. We should be moving the elliptical machine upstairs and out of the basement tonight so that we'll use it more. It's too damn cold in the basement to work out.

Well, I hope everyone had a good New Years and will be able to start 2011 off great! I know I hope this year starts off better, because pretty much the first half of 2010 was crappy.

Cheers!

Checkin' it out

So, Carter's Dad and wife Carol recently were given a new home by one of her sons. Yes, given. It's a pretty crazy story, but I won't go into all those details. Anyway, we went over to have a after Thanksgiving/pre Christmas get together with them a few weeks ago. The house is amazing and the kids totally loved it. They had a fun playroom with toys for all the kids and dress up clothes, which as you can see, Savannah took advantage of.

Here's Cooper before we left, at our house.

At the new house.

Yeah, she knows she's cool. Can you tell?

I am not a fan of the cold, but....

I kind of love it when he has to wear this coat.

Thanksgiving Festivities

This year we really wanted to host Thanksgiving. We'd never done a turkey before and that was the main thing we were worried about. Well, coincidentally, I happened to buy one that didn't require a lot of work. The giblets and all the junk was already taken out. Sweeet. It cooked itself and even finished earlier than expected. Everything came together pretty nicely. We had our meal with my family and then later in the day went over to Larissa and Jake's house to spend time with the Cherry family and 8 pies.

It was actually a pretty relaxing day, which I hadn't really expected. That's probably why I don't have many pictures either cause I was chillin. I know I ate way too much pie, but you gotta try it all right?

I'm super excited for Christmas and hosting again.

We are a Jazz Family

We've been fortunate enough to be able to go to a few Jazz Basketball games lately. In late October, Carter and I went to one of the pre-season games. Carter heard a promotion on the radio that if you brought canned foods to a certain place they'd give you tickets. So we did! Then a couple weeks ago we were at the mall looking for some Jazz gear and they were running some awesome promotion at the sports store. If you spent a certain amount of money, they'd give you tickets to a game a few days later. We thought surely they'd be crappy tickets, but in fact they were like $130 per ticket! Score! So we totally did that deal and those seats were great. You could see the guys faces and everything was so much better. That game was crazy and had a double overtime. Very exciting. About a month ago we got tickets to go on a "Family Night" with Shelby, Steven and Kacey and we decided to take Savannah. In due time Cooper will be able to go. So we went to that game this Monday. Savannah had been sooo excited to go. She was talking about it all the time. It was her first game that she would remember; we took her twice when she was a baby. She enjoyed herself but towards the end was asking if it was time to go yet. And sorry, these pictures got all out of order; I haven't done them like this in awhile.

My parents watched Cooper for us on Monday, so we had to snap a picture of him in his gear before we left.

At the game.

She would clap when we made a basket, scream DEFENSE, and she was cheering for Paul Millsap. I'm guessing that's because at McDonalds their is a big cardboard cut out of him and we see it a lot (which is a sign that we need to frequent that place a lot less) and tell her it's Paul Millsap. Although, he is a great player and maybe she recognizes that. Maybe.

Aunt Kacey and Savannah. And Carter sneaking in there too.

At home watching the Jazz Game. Since we have tv now, we're able to watch the games and have caught most of them. Some of them have been so exciting lately that while we're trying to put the kids to bed we've got our tv on in our bedroom and are running in there every few minutes to check it out. Or we just DVR it, because DVR is the best thing ever.

This night they tried to serenade us during the game.

These were the awesome seats we had, although they don't seem that great in this picture. Just believe me. Best seats we've ever had; even a little better than our first date. Did you know that a Jazz game was our first date?! It was my first basketball game ever too. Now I love them.

I'm pretty sure this was our faces when we went into double overtime.

We're excited to watch and go to these games as a family for many years!

More movies

He is saying Spider in this one.

Ahhhh's on a pretend rock = Ariel impersonation

You'll probably need to pause the music at the bottom of the blog to be able to hear.