My Cranium Hurts!

Christmas was so much fun. We ate, played and it was so fun seeing all the babies together! Tavan and his family gave us the game Cranium for Christmas and the whole famliy enjoyed it, well, at least for the most part. I am not sure if the girls love it anymore. The stinky boys beat us twice. There is just no explanation except for cheating! I have asked the makers of Cranium to start an investiation on how the boys could have possible won and hopefully us girls can get our pride back and be deemed the ultimate champions!

Christmas Come Early (For Scout)

We are taking a plane to Reno for Christmas and would not be able to fit Scout's presents in our luggage, so Scout's Christmas came early this year. We set out her presents last night and she got to open them this morning after a little breakfast and dragging mommy out of bed. We made a video, but for some reason we can't post it. So, below are some pictures of Scout enjoying her new toys.

Christmas Has Come

I will try to make this story brief, but I felt like I should post it to hopefully spread some Christmas cheer (without getting anyone drunk...). So, my record player stopped working about a month ago, which was really bad timing because we have a handful of great Christmas albums on vinyl that we enjoy listening to. This is the third Christmas Sarah and I have spent together and so far we have always listened to our records, so we thought this year would just be a bummer. Well, our home-teacher, the infamous brother Brian Phillips, is a graduate student in the electrical engineering program here at BYU so I thought I'd ask him if there was anything he could do to try and fix it. Well, to make a long story longer, he came over and we disassembled the record player and he told me the motor was shot. After finding out that in order to get a new motor, we would have to make a bulk order of at least a thousand motors, we felt a little helpless. Well, my calling-magnifying home-teacher is not easily daunted so he took the motor apart to see if he could fix it. He did indeed fix it. He came over tonight and we reassembled the record player and then stood in silence and listened to the Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies from The Nutcracker. Brian didn't have to take time to do this for me, especially during finals week, but he did and I'm very grateful. Merry Christmas.

The Ward Christmas Party

This post may very well be an excuse to post more pictures of Scout for the Grandparents! Yesterday was our church Christmas party. It turned out so well. The food was good and the talent show was awesome. There was even juggling, unicycle riding,throwing of crazy objects, Chinese yo-yo and accordion playing (all by one guy!) Cedric played and sang Bing Crosby Christmas songs that he arranged so cleverly. Here are some pictures.

Our life is one big never ending party

I thought when I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints my crazy hectic life style would be done with. Almost three years latter I have come to the realization that "the party of life" it self is raging more than ever. Crazy and hectic don't even cut it. The past two weeks have been so busy. First our cars transmission went out. Out came my mom from Sacramento with my dad's Tacoma to the rescue! It was so nice to see her over the Thanksgiving weekend. I rented a bed from BYU and she stayed in our tiny apartment and was happy when it was time to go! That same weekend and all in one day we had Darin, Ross and Toby Tiner over for brunch and then the neighbors over for dinner and visited numerous times with our other neighbors Missy and her girls while somehow in there we managed to fit in a visit from Maria and Brookie! Then it was back to workout group, grocery's, work, and trying to be a good mom, friend, neighbor and wife. Anyway, I love my life and all the people and things that are a part of it. Here are a few pictures.