"Christmas Letter"

Sorry it's been awhile... I will start with a review of our lives in 2008.

This year we started out in Austin, TX. After getting married in March of 07 we moved down to Texas for a little over a year. We realized that even though Austin is a really neat city, it just wasn't becoming home. We were really far from family and friends, so we started thinking and praying about what the next step in our lives might be.

Neither Trent nor I, ever wanted to move to Vegas, (in fact, I recall our first trip here back in fall of 06 for him to meet my dad and Angie, he took one look at the landscape and said, "Just so you know, we will never live here!" (Luckily, we've discovered Mt. Charleston)) but we didn't really want to move back to Northern Utah either and Vegas kept coming to our minds. So, we decided we were headed for Vegas!

We got here in May of this year; while I found a job pretty quickly with a law firm, Trent didn't have the same luck. Since we moved here with the idea of getting into a house ASAP, the mortgage company put some restrictions on us. Trent was limited to getting a job in the construction industry or driving (he drove a school bus for 2 years before we were married). Because of the housing market here, the builders were laying off... not hiring! But after about 2 1/2 months of searching, Trent got a job driving for a construction company and we were able to start looking for a house!

In the middle of September, we found a house in NW Las Vegas and we moved in the middle of October.

Trent and I have no doubt that the path we have taken was and IS the right one for us right now! Everything has worked out perfectly for us, even with the bumps along the way, things ended up being better than they were before! We have been so blessed this year, and we are always thinking, "Heavenly Father REALLY really loves us!"

We are happy to be living near my Dad and Angie and my 3 little brothers, and my sister Tara and glad for the time we get to spend with them.

2009 is gonna be a BIG year for us, and definetly a VERY exciting one!

Photo Shoot

Remember the guy on the back of the Stephens Hot Cocoa canister? (I'm assuming its Stephen) That was our inspiration for these:I love Trent's face in this one, even though it is cutting off my head. It just makes it that much tackier.

Trent and I had a Christmas card photo shoot...

I like this one just cause Trent looks like an elf.

The Forgotten Carols

Trent and I went to the Forgotten Carols Monday night (we'll call it FHE). Of course, it was amazing! Even with all the cheesy jokes, the spirit is so strong. Of course, Michael McLean calls it the "magic in the air", but we all know better.

Trent has always made fun of me cause I love his music, but he admitted that he walked out of there with a new found fondness for McLean.

Each song takes me back as if I was there, and I just wish so much I could have been there that night Christ was born. I especially like the Innkeepers song, "Let Him In". Seeing the show is the most perfect way to remember the reason of the season, I believe it something every family needs to make a tradition!

I love that it ends with everybody singing, "We can be together forever someday, We can be together forever someday, We can together forever someday..." and he even makes everybody "link up" with the strangers next to them. I thought I would post this from YouTube of my favorite song from the show... Please excuse the beginning part, it was the only video I could find...apparently LadyKami21 likes JapanimationWe can be together forever someday, we can be together forever someday, we can be together forever someday

A Chrismas MIRACLE!

It is snowing on our side of town in Vegas this morning

I hope all you in Utah are keeping safe during your blizzard

Merry Christmas

My Christmas Shoe List...

Again... just in case you were wondering...and of course, a couple bags...




Just a few of the 100's of things I would love to own... or even lease for a day!

My Christmas List...

In case anybody is wondering... and it can all be found at Anthropologie... my most favorite store I just love Vintage... but unfortunately, I can't spend $100 per blouse...

A Wedding to an 11 year old boy...

Need I say more?But he never complained a single time... he just sat there looking bored and depressedPoor little guy.

Bret and Danielle's Wedding

We got to go to California 2 weekends in a row, the 2nd time being for my brother, Bret, and now sister in law, Danielle's Wedding. They got married in the San Diego Temple on Saturday. It was great to get to see most of our family, with all of us spread out between many states, sometimes you go years without seeing them! Now they are off to Lake Tahoe for a week of honeymoon bliss and snowboarding...
Bret looked exactly like a gangster, his suit was awesome! Me and my mom...

Thanksgiving

For the Thanksgiving weekend, we went to California. I got to show Trent my elementary school and where we lived in Carlsbad. We also went out to Balboa Island, where my grandpa lives; we got frozen bananas.
That's about it.

The boys came over for a sleep over, we let them jump from as high up as they want - -
until I got this picture.

Go ahead and look for his head, it's there.
Don't ask me how he survived this one. I also got this little beauty.
I was laying on the ground and he jumped over me...
BOYS!

Climbing in St. George - Do you like my sunglasses?

For old times sake, we stopped at the Oasis in Mesquite and ate at their buffet.
It was disgusting.
How are buffets a real thing?

This is what Channel 2 News had on their website about Elder Wirthlin:

"Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, the oldest apostle for the LDS Church, died at his Salt Lake City home late Monday night. He was 91.

Elder Wirthlin passed away at about 11:30 p.m. of causes incident to age, according the the church Web site.

He was ordained an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 9, 1986 and was sustained and set apart as an Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles on April 4, 1975. He served in that capacity until he was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 1976. He was set apart in the Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy August 28, 1986, where he was serving when called to be an Apostle.

Wirthlin was proceeded in death by his wife, Elisa Young Rogers who died in 2006."

He will missed, but I'm so happy that he has been reunited with his eternal companion.