DISNEY WORLD

was amazing.

Santa was a genius for sending us there.

Pictures are coming.

A few of my favorite things:

Ansen meeting the Beast...the size difference just was too cute.

Braley meeting Cinderella. Seriously, she was hyperventilating.

Jayden and Mulan knuckle bumping. Cause that's what tough girls do!

It was a wonderful week.

Something

SOMETHING HUGE

is happening at our house tonight.

Jason and I can hardly contain our excitement.

Check back tonight to find out what!

Merry Christmas.

I Am NOT Thankful For....

My piecer of a computer. It's dead. Not just "mostly dead" as defined by Billy Crystal describing Wesley (or the Dreaded Pirate Roberts) to Inigo Mantoia and Andre the giant in The Princess Bride but completely dead. Dead. Finito. Ka-put.

Boo.

No computer=no fun pictures of Jason and I in San Francisco last week enjoying 2 new favorite places:

1. WICKED. Need I say more? It was A-Maz-ING!! Beyond Amazing. Paint me green and call me Elphie. I loved it that much. I may have sang along to 90% of the performance. Don't judge me.

2. Alcatraz. Who knew we would love a old dilapidated prison as much as we did? We even met a former inmate of The Rock. That's right, I run with a rough crowd.

(I won't tell you he is now a perfectly reformed criminal with 9 children and a whole lotta grand kids...that would ruin my new bad girl image).

Dear Santa,

I've been good this year (mostly).

Please don't make me use the Library computers.

I may get H1-N1 by touching the key board.

That would be bad.

Love,

Dana

*p.s. I'll throw in some extra cookies if you can make this happen before Christmas.*

Hallloween

Yes,

I know Halloween was two weeks ago.

Here are the kiddos and their pumpkin masterpieces.

They toiled over what to be for a few weeks and then bam! It all came together and they looked great.
Ansen was Iron Man.
Look at those GUNS. This kid has been eating his Wheaties!
Yeee-haw! This little cowgirl defiantly made her own statement by adding pink to her ensemble. The most stunning piece of her outfit?
That would be the pink rhinestone cowgirl boots.
Chop sticks in hair? Check.
Beautiful kimono? Check?
A undeniable need for pork fried rice? Check, check, check!

Here are a few random pictures from our ward Trunk or Treat.

Braley is such a cute cowgirl. I just love her.

Jayden is cute too. I just love her style.

Ansen and his friend Hailey. They costume swapped this year.

Don't they look great?

Halloween was spooky, fun and, as always, sugar filled!

For Kristine

One of the best things about being in Vegas was that I got to see one of my favorite people, my cousin Kristine. I also got to spend the morning with her cute family while Jason worked. I got to meet this little cutie patooie.

Everyone, meet Micah.

Alessia and I meet for the first time too.

The girl has great hair.

I am totally jealous.

This is my best picture of Curtis. Yes he's throwing his sister to the floor. So what. In brother-sister speak it translates to "I love you."
Kristine and I. Who would have ever thought we would be all grown-up, married and raising kids of our own? Kinda a scary thought but I think we are doing a pretty decent job.

Love you guys!

Around Here Lately

Child labor.

We believe in it here.

Auntie Jamie is just trying to instill good physical labor habits.

We're okay with that.

Bigger is better.
Finally after 13 years of marriage we bought our first tv.
We have always had one but we have never purchased one.
TV's just kind of have a way of finding us.
Jason has been saving his pennies and this is his new beauty.
(notice our old tv in the background)
Little man was just as excited as daddy. It must be a boy thing.

The ladies promptly moved into the box and have been sleeping in there all warm and cozy.

For Christmas they are all getting empty boxes.

Ansen got a new bed this week. He chose his bed spread all by himself.

Jason couldn't have been more proud.

Ansen's exact words, "Mama I NEED the bed with flames and the motorcycles. Its so awesome."

Things have been busy around here.

Just the way I like it.

Viva Las Vegas

Jason and I went to Vegas a few weekends ago. I'm not really the Vegas type but every once and a while, why not?

We hit The Strip and did some fun things.

First we went to a (weak) Haunted House.

Because I am a scardy cat I was screaming. Jason just laughed at everyone working in it. He did hold my hand. My hero.

Next, we went to the Shark Encounter/Aquarium at Mandalay Bay. It was such a cool aquarium and we basically had the place to ourselves.

What could be better?

And because we were on a mini-vaca there was heavenly ice cream involved.

Finally we rode the Roller Coaster at NewYork NewYork.

Good coaster but it was a rough ride!

And to top everything off we ate ourselves silly. We had a amazing steak dinner-just the two of us. That never happens and it was really nice.

This little lovely was my breakfast and it was soooo good!

Next time I am in Vegas I will be having myself another one of these. Okay, why lie...I'll most likely have 2!

I think Vegas is growing on me.