HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Can you believe it is 2012!!!??? Wow last year flew by. Was it a big year for my family? I'D SAY SO!!! 


January- last year I was engaged only 2 months away from my wedding, Joshua was home, Alise turned 18. 


February- Curtis and I signed a contract for our first apartment and moved our stuff in. 


March- I received my endowments and the next day I was sealed for time and all eternity in the Mount Timpanogos Temple to the man that I love more than anything else. We spent a week in Southern California. Came home to our apartment and started our lives together.


April-July- We both worked and just enjoyed our time as newlyweds. 


August-December- Alise moved up to Rock Springs Wyoming for her first semester ever at college on a full ride scholarship for volleyball. Curtis's first semester at USU. He did extremely well, I was so proud. He worked so hard. In October I got a "grown-up" job in a call center and finally swore of Papa's forever. In October Joshua got married to my friend Bailey and I am so happy for them. It was a big year for my family. 


Curtis and I had a party for New Years Eve, and we played games, ate lots of food watched the count down, kissed at midnight, and then. One of our friends brought the floating lanterns like on Tangled!!! We wrote our wishes/goals for the new years lit them and watched them float away! It was a great ending to a great year. Can't wait to see what the new year holds! 2012 here we come!

The only picture we got of our lantern on Curtis's cell phone but at least we got one :)

Our First Christmas: Part 3: Christmas Day

 So early morning on Christmas I woke up like a little child at 6:15am and anyone that knows me knows that I am NOT a morning person. This is the ONLY day in the whole year that I wake up quickly, early and happy all at the same time. Curtis was a little more like the normal me sluggish, tired, complaining, and wanting to sleep longer. When Curtis is usually the opposite he is a morning person through and through.We went into the living room to look in our stockings and see what Santa brought us.

Then we opened our presents to each other we had a great time and then we opened our wii from santa and played our games. We had breakfast together and then grabbed our presents for my family and headed down to Lehi to see them for the day. We went to church with my family and had dinner and exchanged gifts and played games. We had a wonderful day filled with remembering the birth of our savior and enjoying our changing family, with two marriages, one in college, one a senior.

We are such a blessed family, we have so many blessings, so much love for each other and so many things to be grateful for. I love my family and all though I only get to see them once a month I am thankful for their love and support. Merry Christmas to all and to all a happy new year as well!!!

Our First Christmas: Part 2: Christmas Eve

So we decided to spend Christmas Eve with Curtis's family and Christmas Day with mine. So early Christmas Eve we got up and met Curt's Sister and her family to ride with them to West Valley. We got down there and Curt's mom had started the food preparation for the yummy brunch we were going to have.  I got to play favorite Auntie and color with the girls and watch the babies. We ate talked and let the kids run wild.

 Then Curtis and Brad read the Christmas Story, then we sang christmas carols, and then we got a surprise visit from Nolan Santa ;) our nephew dressed up as santa and brought us $2 bills and fruit and asked what we wanted for Christmas. He was so cute some of us sat on his lap others just stood or shared the seat so we wouldn't hurt him.

  Then we opened presents, our camera died so we only got a few pictures, I got a wonderful book that I highly recommend, The Wednesday Letters, from Nan. We got wipeout wii from Karla Curtis's sister. Curtis got a box of clay pigeons from his mom. His mom also gave us the attachments for Wii Sports Resort and a game Wii Party Games. 

After all the fun and games were over we came home to spend Christmas morning at our house. We put baby Jesus in the manger before retiring to bed to wake up at 6:15 the next morning.

Our First Christmas!!! Part 1: The setup

This was our first Christmas married! We were so excited to get ready together and spend time as our own family for Christmas! 

Our Irish Christmas Tree

Our Belleek Crystal Nativity

Setting up

It took us an ENITRE day to set up everything. It started off with ALL of our lights not working from last year. Most of them were brand new too :( It was frustrating we took the whole tree apart to try and fix them, no luck. Curtis's mom was coming up to spend the weekend with his sisters family, so we asked her if she would stop by modern display on her way up and pick us up new lights for the tree. So we took a break and went to go buy some other decorations for our home.

We finally finished decorating by 11:30pm I love my cute Irish christmas house :) so glad Curtis's mom had the genius idea to make a christmas tree of the country that her boys served missions in while they were gone. Such a fun idea :)