CHRISTMAS MORNING

3:50 am: FIRST WAKE UP CALL
4:20 am: second wake up call, little brother said that little sister was
opening presents.
5:30 am: 3rd wake up call, only to inform me that they
could not get back to sleep.
5:57 am: 4th wake up call, officially time to get up. They could not and
would not wait one more minute.
6-7:17 am: opened presents while drinking 2 cups of coffee
7:30-8:30 am: nap time.
11:00 am: Mom set up the Wii and thats basically what we
did all day, and played pool. (Tyler beat me at everything but because it was
christmas I let it slide. Oh, I didnt cheat at anything either! GO
ME!)

My Christmas was amazing. My white elephant gift, even more amazing. Spending christmas with the White Family and my family was wonderful. Thank you for everything.
Especially to Ty, thanks for being there.

(pictures coming soon)

my love for him

IS totally out of control.

I love you with everything I am, and more than anyone ever thought possible.

..you are the sun in my day..

(especially because its snowing)

sneak preview....

I cant believe that families take pictures in matching shirts! especially from OLD NAVY! but then, Shanna told me once, that she got the american flag t-shirt from OLD NAVY and she couldnt wait to wear it for the 4th of july...

You can't have it all right now but they are coming....in the mail.

HOLLERRRR

mah main squeeeeeze yo

It looks like you have a ball in your stomach...a really big ball!

We seriously went to EINSTEINS every morning. No big deal.
1 bagel=5 pieces of bread
1 candycane bagel+1 not real candycane=1 sad kid
1 pumpkin muffin+delicious frosting= 570 calories
1 cherry coke+ 1 sprite w/rootbeer= 2 sick kids

Ty and I drove into "south" Phoenix for the afternoon. He wanted to show me some of the property he was thinking about buying OR property he just lived on for a week OR lived on for a minute OR slept on for a second...Huh?

Projects.

Ty and I were thinking about buying the one on the end right corner. No?

THE END.

ANXIOUS

I can't wait to be in Arizona again. I can't wait to tell my family how grateful I am for having them in my life and all that they have done for me. Its been such an amazing year, so far. We still have Christmas and new years. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful life and so many wonderful people in my life today.

Last night as I was going to sleep Maggie and Chico came into my room, jumped on my bed, snuggled into my arms and fell right asleep. I started tearing up...Animals finally trust me and they can love me for me. I spoil those puppies sooo much! Its unbelievable! I am grateful for Tyler, the family that I live with and has basically adopted me and my family. Speaking of family, I went to park city last night to visit them and my sister had made a book about what she was grateful for. On the back of this book she had drawn everyone in my family except for me...I was almost resentful towards her (she is 6) until I realized that its my fault. I never take the time to go up and visit with her anymore. Ty looked at me as we were driving home and said that we should go up once a week just to visit. I thought he was crazy but if it meant that my sister wouldn't forget about me then I would do it. I love my family and I love everyone who calls me out on my crap. I have learned many lessons this week, especially the most important one:

Learn to live with what you have
even if its not what you want.
God gives you what you need or what he thinks we need
to be happy.
There is no such things as a coincidence,
its God being anonymous
and doing for us
what we can not do for ourselves.
Appreciate the little things.

Randoms

I am really artsy...or so I like to think. Ty and I had a great weekend. We went and saw a 3D movie at the I-max theater. We had sushi downtown. We went to the western conference real game. we played settlers with kevin and emily. We saw changeling (super intense btw). We went to breakfast both mornings and I also helped josh do his spanish project. Actually, I basically did his spanish project for him but we wont tell anyone.

Oh my gosh...I forgot to tell you, Tyler played DDR on friday night! it made my year watching him and Kevin both play each other. I have a movie, coming soon.

can we pretend that I am really good at taking pictures?

I have never in my life, all 21 years of it, come across a bagged pickle.

who buys only two eggs for three dollars? just because they are cooked? ew.

bakers dozen, son.

Today I woke up, brushed my teeth and ate some delicious popcorn. After attacking my crazy/busy day I decided to bake, with some help from Josh. But, before we baked we also tackled maggie (she is a dog) to the ground and painted her nails. Here are some nice pictures of my crazy/busy day.

P.S. My day was absolutely not busy in any way, shape or form.

ew...

After I cleaned up my mess... I was not so into baking anymore.

The biggest cookie everrrr. It was amazing
Straight out of the box, just how mom did it.

**No animals were harmed during the making of this blog.**

I like snow. Snow likes me.

I didn't have shoes on or a coat and he thought it would be hilarious to make me go out in the freezing cold to take a picture with him.


The first snow. Its not much but its really exciting to see the change in seasons. The best part is watching Ty get excited over such a little storm, he thinks a light flurry is a huge blizzard.

Liars Dice

Was by far my favorite game ever. I had such an amazing time in Arizona, so amazing that I almost cried when we had to leave. It was so great to be a part of Tyler's life and everyone in it. His kids were absolutely fun, funny and adorable. I can't wait to visit again for thanksgiving and see everyone. It was overwhelming at times meeting everyone all at once, but by the end it didn't seem nearly as crazy and things started to mellow out. We went to the Barneys cabin and had a blast. Marley and Miles wanted to go fishing so we took them down to the stocked pond with cheese because we could not find any fish food. So, after all of this comotion getting down to the pond, tyler and I made cheese balls and started fishing...Marley and Miles wanted to collect rocks. We had a great time, we caught four fish in thirty minutes and made tyler do the dirty work. I think one fish died but tyler pushed it away because miles was watching and seemed worried. I better get back in shape so I am able to keep up with the White family, they are always on the GO.