New Years Eve

We celebrated the New Year in our traditional way of going to Tucano's with the Atkinson's. I LOVED that all of our kids were there with us and felt very grateful going into this new year! Nothing better than celebrating with family and our longtime friends!!!!!

 Our waiter, Jai, was awesome!!!! :)

 Most hilarious thing of the night...Ana answering her phone while it was still attached to the selfie stick!

Christmas Events

It seems that I got so caught up in the holidays this year that I didn't take many pictures. So, here is a sampling of our Christmas Events...

I got so many of the presents wrapped really early this year so it was fun to see them under the tree for awhile.

 Hailey and Tara went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert and Brian and I were their drivers. We hung out around Temple Square and City Creek Mall waiting for them.

 We finally met Harrison at the Walker Family Christmas Party. We LOVE him!!!!

 Nick was so sick over Christmas and funnily enough had a tissue stuffed up his nose as he opened his present from Bryson & Courtney...which appeared to be more tissue but was really dollar bills taped together. :)

 Hailey opening some fun gifts from Bryson and Court.

 Christmas Day nap.

 They actually watched an entire movie with us the day after Christmas...it's a Christmas miracle!!!! :)

Holiday Lights

Nick got to drive the teams for holiday lights this year so Brian and I went and took a ride with him.

It was awesome!

Documentation

This is a very low-quality picture but we had to document the fact that Nick met us for dinner on a Friday night. We can't even remember the last time he's done this. :)

Deer

Nick hit a deer on the way home from his friends house the other night. 

SAD!!!!

Thank goodness he's okay.

Happy Halloween

Hailey has been working at The Sweet Tooth Fairy in Draper and they had to dress up for Halloween. Hailey was a VERY cute Sully! :)

Nick dressed up as a pheasant...hahaha!

Homecoming

Nick accidentally fell asleep before homecoming and woke up when his friends got there to pick him up. Ya gotta love friends who will literally get you dressed for a dance. :)

 Heading out to pick up Nick's date...I guess he was stretching and getting ready to boogey. :)

Happy Anniversary to Us!

Brian and I decided to celebrate our 19th anniversary a little differently this year.We went and got sandwiches, chips and cookies from Gandolfo's and a drink from Slurp and headed up the canyon. We took our soccer chairs and found a place by river in Canyon Glen and ate our food and chatted. 

After we ate we took a walk along the path and chatted some more.

It was perfect!

SURPRISE

Courtney sent me a text at work today asking if we had anything planned for Family Home Evening tonight. She suggested we get together and play some games which sounded great to me! She even managed to get Nick there which is a miracle!

As I was getting some games out, I noticed they put a box of cupcakes on the table and I thought that was so sweet of them to bring treats. Nick even grabbed a cupcake and starting eating. Then I noticed a funny look on their faces and got suspicious of the cupcakes. I asked them if they were announcing something and they told me to read the lid of the box.

THEY ARE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!

I am SUPER excited about being a grandma...even though that makes me sound kind of old! :)

Brave People

We had the Ackley's over tonight and some of them actually held Nick's giant snake. 

Crazy people! :)

 Even Hailey got in on the action although she wouldn't put it around her neck. :)

50th Anniversary

It was mom and dad's 50th anniversary...WOW that's a big one!!!!!

The neat thing is that Jenny was in town for the party. The sad thing is that I didn't get a picture of mom and dad together before dad went back to his room.

 We had a hard time getting Brian and Dave to cooperate with a picture...and Dave looks pretty darn excited in the 2nd picture...hahaha.

I'm sure thankful for my parents and all that they've done for us throughout the years. I love them for who they are and the example they are to me and to my children.

1st Place

Nick's friends all have show dogs and they needed an extra person to show one of the dogs at a big show this month. So they paid for Nick to have a couple of private lessons on how to show a dog and Nick KILLED IT! 

If you're going to skip school to show a dog, might as well take 1st Place! :)

Visiting My Boy at Work

We don't see much of Nick these days so I decided to pop in on him at the farm. He took me for a little ride on the carriage and I gotta be honest, I was pretty terrified. I really needed a seatbelt to make me feel better...haha. I felt like my life was in this horses hands (or hooves). :) But really my life was in Nick's competent hands and I'm still alive so he did very well! :)

Bear Lake 2015

We always look forward to the annual Bear Lake trip with the Atkinson's. This year we just went up for the day and it was a little chilly but we still had a blast!!! Once again, too bad Nick had to work, along with Bryson and Courtney. We missed them!