A Fond Farewell to 2008

For Christmas this year, well I guess now its last year, we headed down to sunny California to get as far away from the snow as possible. We had a busy week.........

shopping in china town with Sam's best friend Curtis, my brother Robby and his wife Zenna

then we added one more friend to the mix, Trevor, and played a little frisbee golf. Who would have thought a little frisbee could make your arms so sore?




The next morning we opted for a little sand volleyball, making the rest of my body so sore that even laughing caused severe pain.

Minus the sand which smelled like pee (probably because the court is the neighborhoods litter box) and my freezing cold toes, it was a lot of fun.

We visited young Quinnton, or rather Elder Braden, on his mission. It was so fun to see Quinn, get a little lunch, and watch sam and him stand on their tip toes to see who could be taller for the pictures. Silly brothers.

We ate at Salsa and Beer, but no worries there was no beer for us. And Jana, Im sorry you couldn't be there also. Quinn says he misses you very much.

Soon enough Christmas morning rolled around, so we opened a few presents with the family.



Sam made out like a bandit with some warm moccasins, new pajama pants, a nice drill, and an ipod touch. He was very surprised and extremely happy.

The rest of the week was filled with fabulous dinners made by my mom



A little bit of quilting

Hanging around and playing a lot of games


A little golfing on the coldest evening we were in town. We sure know how to pick them.


It took a few hours for my limbs to thaw out, but it turns out I am a natural at this ole golf thing;)

And lastly, a little bit of surfing to end the fun week. It was Sam's first time and if you count standing on a sinking surfboard as surfing, he did awesome! (Its not his fault, it was a mini surfboard and it could happen to anyone.)

Thank goodness for wet suits, the water was freezing, or so I heard because I did not go near it.

I stayed on the shore, by myself, bored, and worried that those pesky seagulls were going to poop on me or that the biggest and scariest pelican I have ever seen was going to try to attack me. Luckily it was a big no on both accounts.



I think that next time I will take a friend to keep me company. Any takers?

Hope you all had a terrific holiday!!!!!!

Quick Question???

So, have you ever gotten into your car with your husband (or wife) a little bit grumpy and a lot hungry a few minutes after 9:00pm on a Monday night looking for someplace delicious that is still open. And then after what seems like hours of driving around aimlessly you finally come to a unanimous agreement of Panda Express, so you enter the drive thru, after that car that sneaks in front of you, decide what to order, order it, and then realize that neither of you brought your wallets. So you frantically look through the car for cash and change laying around and come up with $2.00, which leaves you about $5.50 short. So you start to contemplate backing out of the drive thru to save just a little bit of face, only to have a car pull in behind you right then, blocking your escape?

Well if you have not, let me tell you how this ends. You sit in that drive thru for about five minutes fighting a little, laughing a little, deciding whether you should tell the cute little asian man what happened, just drive off, go home and come back, or just cut your losses and call it a night. Its finally your turn and without a definite decision your husband (we will call him "Sam") explains that we have no money, so the nice little asian man employee meals our food and we get it for $2.00.

So in our marriage we have decided that blaming one another is not healthy, but in this circumstance I have to go with 80%-20%.

20% my fault for actually thinking Sam would bring his wallet. What was I thinking?

80% Sam's fault because well.....you know.

Here We Go.....

Hey, have you all heard of this new blogging thing that has popped up on the internet? You can post pictures of your cute families, all your amazing vacations and fun social gatherings to keep everyone up to date on your lives....

We are going to give it a whirl and let you know what we think ;)

I guess its better late than never, right?