Merry Christmas!!!

This Christmas has been one for the books. Definitely a first of many for our family. It's been the first Christmas not on angelfish drive that usually ends up everybody in the hot tub and swimming. Luckily Utahs weather is pretty sunny and about 50 degrees. Snow is on the ground and our snowman that we made is melting haha. It's really nice out though.


We all went ice skating at the cosmopolitan hotel. It was packed but actually really fun.


Gav took me to the magical special forest. I think I've outgrown that place. Or I need to bring a kid with me so that it looks like they maaaade me go on the train with them haha.


My perfect lil moo.


My lil monster Ethan.


Snow makes everything pretty. Even the "ugliest" trees are gorgeous. To me anyways.


Pookers loves the snow. Loves it.


1 of 2 trees up in this hiZZZZY.





Made some gingerbread houses.


My cute wittle Momsy.


Sooooo I put every single candy I could find on my gingerbread house. Jackie's was all proper planned and so pretty and mine was chaotic and crazy but I do that every year and I love it.





Lil Baylee loving her outfit and shoes haha.


Cute grown up Allie. I love this lil girl and shoutout to Allie and Ashlee the only ones that read my blog haha. Love ya guys.


My cute cousin was in the Christmas carol play in midway Utah the play was awesome. I never realized how talented Mary and kate were they have the most beautiful voices! Good job guys.





The sibs.


Cody's all about photo bombing these days haha. Annnd Jackie wears pimp clothes with her cute Tory burch boots.








Lil frosty.


These two yahoos. Haha they both came to my eye exam because I've been having tons of trouble with my eyes these days and I got great news for the most part! Best Christmas gift I could ask for.


My pretty cousin Mary. Lowkey she really looks like an angel.


Wittle romy!


Cody photo bombing once again. Haha. Momsy and me just snapping a photo outside of the pretty temple lights.


Lil bro.





Pooks was spoiled. We gave him a prime rib bone and he loved his life. Seriously.


Cody got skis for christmas!


I love the infinity lil thing. My mom and dad got me this.


Another bone on Christmas morning. Haha.


The perfect chaos of Christmas morning.


This Christmas was awesome. Were all healthy and happy and blessed. that's all that really matters. Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas. 2013 has been good to me.

Location:Sandy, UT

Blessed x infinity

It's been the best week ever. Lots has happened. Lots of surprises, dinners, laughs, decorating, and mostly lots of blessings. This semester to be honest, I didn't know how I was going to do it. My family moving, me moving all my crap, 6 classes, an internship and a full time job. Luckily everything has worked out, as it does and I knew it would. I made it through my classes at UNLV and I had the best time with my internship meeting all sorts of people and having such fun experiences.


Under the Bart Simpson head is my friend Gary. He was an intern at LVNG too this semester. He's a character, obvi.


Us three interns were given the task to decorate these giant towel bins to put toys in. It's probably the worst shape to put paper over to be honest but we somehow managed with little criticism and only a few rips that some tape helped fix. ;)


Taaaa-daaaa!


It's the little things. I love our lights around the window. Why can't these be acceptable year round?


We made it back to Stoney's on Thursday. I hadn't been in a minute. We had a blast as usual. Annnd the NFR was in town so we saw lots of country folk.


Maa giiirlllS.


Matt, me and Gary the interns. We actually raised a lot of toys for the charity "communities in schools." Someone even brought a bike. I was touched.


Bin #2.


My sweet gav. He got us tickets to the fray!!! Gavin degraw opened for them and auburn Sunset before them. The show was at the joint in the hard rock. It was such a great performance, all of the performers sounded really really good.


Balloons came down at the end and we had the best seats! It was the best night.








I went to the library and studied for a little bit. I abso freakin lately loved the library. There was just something awesome about it being quiet, warm and welcoming that I needed in my life that day. Then I started talking to two workers there about how the gingerbread house kits suck and everything needs to be homemade. They agreed and we talked about recipes and i just loved my life.


As if gav wasn't already too good to me..... He surprised me with a tree!!!! (And no dad there wasn't a ring or anything hidden in it or on the top) hahaha pre story:::: so this whole month is my favorite. I love December, hot chocolate, baking, cold weather, boots & scarves, and oh CHRISTMAS TREES!!!!! I love it. A month ago I was already talking about how excited I was to decorate the tree and have one up and blah blah. I put up colorful lights in my room (that you would think a 3 year old would have done themselves) and i called it good. Sarah has a fake Christmas tree in the garage that won't open. Not with our key, not with the opener and not even with new batteries. It's been frustrating. So as a surprise and early Christmas gift (2 things I love) gav surprised me and got me a Christmas treeeeee! It's a noble fir!! I love It. My fam would always get a real Christmas tree every year and somehow wed always be drawn to the noble firs. It smells awesome. I think that's why I enjoy the real alive trees as compared to the stiff dusty fake trees that are too convenient. They smell so good, each branch is different and you appreciate it more.


These are my awesome decorations that I love.


If you know me you know I gotta have at least one cat pic perf blog post. Haha.





The beaut herself.


December is flying by. This week I have 5 finals. 2 tmrw and 3 on Wednesday. I can't wait. I am incredibly blessed with awesome friends and family. I couldn't be a happier person.

Thanksgiving 2013

 This thanksgiving was one for the books. Lots of new things happened this year... obviously my family moved to Utah so it was their first thanksgiving in Utah. We usually have our thanksgiving at a church in Utah that all of my relatives, cousins, grammys everybody goes to usually that's around 100+ people. Obviously it's very very stressful and difficult for the fab ladies of our family to cook for that many people every single year, so we decided to just have smaller Thanksgivings this year. 

 Luckily this year my famous blog sister, Jackie and Brandon could make it. Also, my Grandma Gourley from Sweet Home Oregon came to visit for a bit. 

 Got the whole fam together.. almost. Also, I refuse to admit Cody is as tall as me. 

 See look? He's shorter than me... we went to the Salt Lake City Temple where they had the Christmas lights set up. The lights were beautiful, they had lots of horses trotting around with carriages full of families and couples snuggling under blankets. It was freezing and it wasn't even snowing. I had boots over my knees, a hat, scarf, gloves, everything you could possibly need in the cold and I was just freeeeezing.  

 A day after thanksgiving when the wishbone was dry we each made a wish and 

pulled annnnd naturally I won. Cody was a good contender though. 

 Our cats are so unique.

 Moo actually climbs the christmas tree and so does Romeo.

 They're hilarious. 

 So we had thanksgiving. Then the next day we had a "2nd" thanksgiving with Aubree and Andrew and Ethan, Baylee, and Lilee because they spent it with Andrew's family. So, this photo isn't of my first thanksgiving plate, but my second plate. Pretty sure I don't need to be eating for a whole month. 

 We were suckers this year and we went black friday shopping. With that being said let me just say that if you're going black friday shopping, go in UTAH. I kid you not, everyone was so nice. The lines weren't long at all, granted we weren't brave enough to go to Wal Mart... but whatevs. We went to target, Bath and Body Works, Old Navy, man I can't even remember where else. The point is we went. 

 Baylee is growing up. She's a beaut. Love her to pieces. She's such a good dancer these days. 

 We played this game on the kinect called "Hole in the wall" and it was hilarious. Your body has to configure to whatever the picture is on the screen. We passed most of them. 

 I couldn't get these two to sit still. Baylee just kept pushing the chair in circles... that's when I knew I was old... When I got dizzy sick from that. When you're little you can spin in circles without getting sick, then when you're older you get sick. 

 So let me begin by saying before I came to Thanksgiving, I expected Christmas decorations to be up. Now I'm not talking lights outside, frosty the snowman blown up thing in the front yard or anything.. just a few things inside the house, especially the tree. When I came wednesday though.. there was no tree in the house. I brought presents with me because when I'm coming up to utah in december I'm flying and from salt lake I'm flying to Louisiana, so I can't bring presents with me then and I'm definitely not shipping them to utah so I had to shop in the past month for everyones gifts. So with that being said my Mom and Dad kind of realized that their tree should be up and decorations should be out, so we put up the tree and christmas decorations, even frosty in the front yard.. So I'm a happy girl. 

 Our 10 foot fake christmas tree is in three different parts... the very top needs to be put on with a ladder obviously. However, we were too impatient so I had cody put the top on by getting on my shoulders. I didn't think about the fact that he's like 106 pounds. Needless to say, I need to get a massage when I get home, cause I'm sore. So pathetic. 

 Fun fact about christy... I'm not a fan of pies. Between my Mom and sister Jackie, we had cherry, blackberry, apple, and pumpkin pie. I was complaining about how I don't like pies and blah blah so my mom made me a chocolate pie WITH  crushed oreo crust and homemade whipped cream. Uh can you say best mom and grandma ever? I love them. 

I captured this photo of pookie when we were putting christmas decoration outside. He'll only be cute if he doesn't suspect you're looking or taking photos of him. 

This thanksgiving has been awesome. No complaints by me. I'm headed back to vegas with leftovers for months. I have the best family. I say that every single day I know, but its too true. I'm sitting here, just drank hot chocolate that my dad made, and at first it was too cold and didn't have enough chocolate in it... so I was appreciative but had mom fix it... and then dad made toast with jelly because he thinks that goes with hot chocolate, and now I do too. They are perfect. Dad, I know you are going to read this, just know that  you are awesome and I love you so dang much. Best thanksgiving ever with the best family ever.