Favorites of 2011

January

It was our 3 year anniversary!

I couldn't believe it was already three years and now we're almost to 4!
Not to mention we've been married 3 months.

Also, it was Branden's 23rd birthday on January 6th!

February

Valentines Day. Honestly I don't remember what we did and I didn't take any pictures. I'm sure whatever it was, was epic :)

March

The month we got engaged! He had rose petals all around his house and had me go on a little scavenger hunt. Each room said either WILL. YOU. or MARRY. and he was waiting in the last room on one knee with the ring.

April

We went to the monster truck races/show thingy haha

It ended up being a fun and LOUD date night!

May

We got our engagement pictures taken by the fabulous

Nema Blanchard.

Alsooo I turned 21!

June

Summertime. Swimming. Tanning. Snow cones. Windows down. Ya know ;)

July

We went to the midnight premier of Harry Potter 7 part 2.

We were camped out outside for a few hours waiting.

Definitely worth it :]

August

The blackfoot fair is always a must! 

I also had my bridal shower!

September

September was a fun and busy month!! Misty and Hailey threw me a bachelorette party. I threw Jessica a bridal shower. 

And we got married!

Then we went to Vegas on our honeymoon. Came home and Jessica got married the next week!

October

Halloween was our first holiday being married! We carved pumpkins with my family and spent Halloween night waiting for trick or treaters. Too bad we never got any! 

November

Thanksgiving! And yet again I didn't take any pictures! Darn.

December

Christmas was my favorite part of December!

Besides that, December was kind of a biotch. 

Here's to a new year!!!

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Favorite movies of 2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (*****)

Who can even believe that Harry Potter is finally at an end?

They did a great job with the movie and I loved it!

Epic.

Bridesmaids (****)

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 

Here's me dying of laughter. 

Hi-LARIOUS!

Just Go With It (****)

Who doesn't like a movie with Jenifer Aniston & Adam Sandler?

Definitely enjoyed this one.

Friends With Benefits (***)

I mainly wanted to see this movie because I love me some Justin Timberlake.

It seemed like it was going to be to similar to No Strings Attached but it  actually wasn't. It was pretty funny :]

Crazy Stupid Love (*********)

This is one of my new favorite movies EVER. I loved it so much.

If you haven't seen it you are missing out. Go watch it now.

Ryan Gosling is heaven.

Anyone else have favorite moments or highlights of 2011?

Happy New Year!!!

Loves from us :)

Merry Christmas!!

I freaking LOVE Christmas. 

It's so sad when its over.

This year we spent Christmas eve at my moms playing cards, having dinner, and going to look at the Christmas lights around town. 

Well the lights were a major let down this year. 

There were only one or two good houses. Owell. 

Christmas morning we went and opened presents at my moms house and Christmas afternoon we went to Branden's parents to open presents and have dinner etc. 

Between the millions of kids and our husbands, our tree was exploding!!

Jaylen got Just Dace 3 for the Wii. They will probably kill me for this buuuuuuut

here is Ashley and Jaylen getting there dance on!!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!!! 

I'm super sad it's already over but excited for a new year!!

XOXO

Scenes from the week...

 If you can't tell we spent most of the last week in the hospital. 

Branden had to have surgery on his "boys" 

And really, who wants to have surgery down there??

On the bright side he gets to kick back and pop his pain meds while I

get to play nurse and love on him :)

I'm just happy to have him home with me again!!

<3

Holiday Q&A

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate? Hot chocolate with marshmallows 
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Well at our house Santa usually just puts stuff in our stockings and put the presents unwrapped next to them :)
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White for us!
4. Do you hang mistletoe? I haven't. Maybe next year???
5. When do you put your decorations up? After Thanksgiving this year. Who knows in years to come...
6. What is your favorite holiday dish? I like rolls. (Not necessarily a dish but still)
7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? When we used to have a Christmas elf stop by and leave us little surprises ;)
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I think I gradually stopped believing in him so eventually it was just like he wasn't real.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? At my dads we sometimes get Christmas pj's on Christmas Eve. Besides that all presents get opened on Christmas!
10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Red and silver
11. Snow! Love it or dread it? Dread it to the max. Yuck.
12. Can you ice skate? That would be no.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? When I got my Ipod nano. I was pretty jazzed about that ha! Every year I get a new favorite thing though.
14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you? Spending time with family. Also, I love to Christmas shop for other people and see them open their gifts!!
15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Cheesecake
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Putting up our Christmas village and driving around to look at Christmas lights.
17. What tops your tree? Some kind of silver twig looking things? I don't even know how to explain it hahaha
18. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving? Well both are pretty great. But I love buying for other people and seeing them open their presents. So giving wins on this one.
19. Candy canes: yuck or yummy? Eh not yuck but not yummy.
20. Favorite Christmas show? Probably The Holiday
21. Saddest Christmas song? The Christmas Shoes. So so sad.
22. What is your favorite Christmas song? Tinsel Town. For sure!

I tag all 5 of you who read our blog to do this little Q&A!!

Happy Holidays!!

Temple Lights

This weekend we went with my family to Utah to look at the temple lights.

It was freezing outside but the lights were beautiful!

And then there was the nice looking lady walking around in her chonies/swimsuit?

Get it guuurrrrll! 

She must have really wanted to make a statement because holy moly it was

FREEZING. 

Gingerbread House Contest

On Friday night we had our first annual gingerbread house making contest.

There were 5 teams

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Team 1- Branden and Jaylen

Team 2- Carly and Hailey

Team 3- Megan and Kanoah (sp?)

Team 4- Derek and Kolay

Team 5- Me and Branden

(He was on mine and Jaylen's team depending on who won ;))

Here is our lovely little Gingerbread neighborhood

All of the houses are posted on Facebook for a vote.

So far I am WINNING! 

Oh yaaaaaa!!

Weekend in pictures...

Gingerbread house making contest

Temple lights

We had water leaking from the ceiling in our basement.

So Branden was trying to find where it was coming from.

hahahaha

Branden surprised me with these new red pants.

He was lovin me <3

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Tis the season

Here's what we're loving about the Christmas season...

-Our Christmas tree. It'll be sad when it leaves.

-Shedaisy's Brand New Year Cd.

Especially Tinsel Town. Favorite Christmas song ever.

-Peppermint hot chocolate. Tasty.

-Christmas presents!! Also, fun wrapping paper!

-Vanilla Bean Noel. Enough said.
Stay tuned for more Christmas favorites...