Christmas Craziness

Christmas 2009, one of my favorite christmas and one I don't think I will ever forget!! Dallas and I decided to spend christmas with my family...and honestly I don't think I could have spent it without them yet! We had our christmas eve party at grandma Imo's house with dinner catered by Harmon's it was really yummy! I got to see cousins I don't get to see very often and one of the many reasons I love the holidays, I did not take any pictures with my camera of everyone but it was a packed house!! After the party my family drove up Christmas lane and saw Christmas lights (it was more exciting when I was younger!) Then the traditional Christmas lights in Layton city! It was tons of fun, after that we went home and Dallas and my dad of course started the x box!
Dallas, Macy and I all slept in the same room...so much fun we stayed up laughing most of the night, and decided Dallas needed to do the traditional Roosendaal set the alarm and wake up at 6:30 to open presents! It was one of my favorite Christmas being with my family and knowing christmas wasn't over yet cause we still had to go to Dallas's family the next day...so more opening presents!!!

Here are my presents! Santa Clause spoiled me..that is an understatement! I got a kitchen aid, lots and lots of nice clothes, recipe book "cooking for two" hopefully we don't have leftovers anymore! Then got more spoiled as the day went on!

Dallas got a video game chair from Santa! You can hook your x box, TV, Ipod up to it and it plays right at the head rest, and then the chair vibrates when there is a lot of bass! Santa is too nice sometimes ;)

Early Christmas morning, we look like we did just roll out of bed! I made us new pajama pants for christmas! We look pretty snazy I think!!

My mom bought Eggnog...just for Dallas! He loved it, just don't understand this drink!

Merry Christmas Max

Mom and Dad
Daddy and I...Merry Christmas!

This is my dads favorite picture covering my "big mouth"

okay check this think out, it is called a shruggie! Dallas's mom got this from a lady she used to do nails for, she made it, let me tell you it is the weirdest looking thing I have ever seen!!

Dallas could not wait to open his present from his brother Logan, I got pestered so many times about what he got him! A Texas Longhorn hat (I was mostly excited for that because his old one is disgusting) A U of U jersey that is like gold! Then the big gift from his parents a blue ray for the both of us!

Another Busy Weekend

This last weekend was an exciting and very busy weekend! On friday night we drove to Payson, Utah (if you have never heard of it before...you are not the only one!!) for one of my best friends wedding dinner. Dallas and I had a lot of fun at the dinner, eating some really yummy dinner and talking with some friends. But as always Dallas has to leave with a bang, me screaming in the car, the parking lot was perfect for doughnuts and of course we had to do not one or two but 10 or 20! On our drive back we managed to drive right past In and Out, no stop this time :(. Saturday, was Nikell and Barrys winter wedding and I got to go for the first time to see the sealing...it was beautiful and took me back to our wonderful day! Nikell looked gorgeous and I'll post pictures in a minute so you can see for yourself, I am so happy for her and am so glad that I got to be part of her special day! Although it snowed she missed out by missing our wintery blast on Sunday, lucky girl! Then on sunday my mom had tickets to the music and the spoken word at the conference center and I know how much my mom loves to see the tabernacle choir, I wasn't going to let her miss out on going because the weather looked iffy, or nobody was going to go with her. haha, so on sunday Dallas and I woke up at the crack of dawn and drove back to farmington and went to hear the music and the spoken word! It was beautiful, I love listening to their music it brings the spirit in and makes you feel like there is nothing you cannot conquer!! We were lucky enough to have a mini concert after the half hour segment of the long concert the tabernacle choir had been putting on for the past 3 previous days!! Natalie Cole was there, and her voice is amazing and a renound author who told the history of a christmas song "I'll be hope for christmas" it brought both kinds of spirts into our hearts...the spirit of the Lord and of christmas! After it was over we braved the winterwonderland and headed home...my mom's van barley made it up the hill, so Dallas and I were snowed in at my parents house and I loved it! We played games, laughed, and ate my mom's yummy dinner!! It was a busy but so fun weekend!! Nikell and Barry December 12, 2009 the happy couple!!!
Showing off her shoes haha its a classic boots with snowmobile socks on!! Toes will stay warm forsure!!


Nikell, Kelise and I.

At the reception, I felt so bad I was wearing levis, I forgot to bring a skirt to my mom's house later!! Sorry Nikell!! But she looks so beautiful and he is pretty dashing! It was darling to see them snuggling up next each other during the night!

Cutting the cake! Classic line we heard from them.."How do we cut it?" and "What do we do now?"

Macy caught the bouquet!! My dad wasn't too happy about that when we got home and showed him!!

This is Sunday walking back from the music and the spoken word! Dallas is so silly!! We had two umbrellas but this one obviously is broken and Dallas just kept saying its doing the same thing; even though it looked so silly he wanted to use it!! I fell in love with his dorky side!!

Outside the conference center...it was snowing pretty hard but looking at the Salt Lake Temple was so pretty!!

***As you can see a busy but fun weekend! We got it all a wedding, snow, christmas music and time with our family!!****

It's time for Christmas

Our first Thanksgiving was so perfect, our first thanksgiving as a married couple!!! We spent it with his family, eating tons of food and doing the Berrett traditional thanksgiving bowling. I love that tradition, it is a lot of fun to bowl with family although I pretty much embarassed myself...I still had a lot of fun!! Then BLACKFRIDAY!!! We braved the cold...hit some stores and fought over a couple of items...one of which was Dallas fighting someone off for season 3 of the Office, he lost of course! Then we went to eat with his brother Austin, and his cousin Hunter, at good ol' Village Inn, that was so much fun!! We are so proud of ourselves because we got a lot of our christmas shopping done, and got some pretty good things at a great price!! But of course we had to buy ourselves a couple things...like the Office! We love that show!!
After shopping my family has the tradition of the day after thanksgiving you set up the christmas stuff...I love it! I had made these blocks (Dallas thinks they are silly, but I love them!) They are sitting on a table right by our front door of our apartment. In case you are courious the litte guy with blond hair is from the cartoon of Rudolph the red nose reindeer, his mom bought that for him when he was little because dallas's hair used to do that swoop thing (automatically) and his mom gave it to us in rememberence of little Dallas.

Our stockings, I made these last year for us...because I had a feeling the next christmas they would come to good use!!

Here is our fireplace decorated and our christmas tree!!I love our christmas tree...it just totally brightens up our room.

A close up, Dallas mom donated a lot of her old decorations to the help Dallas and Kyla have a Merry Christmas fund! haha, she was wanting to redecorate, so she was soooo sweet and let me come over and go through and pick out what I want. I love her, now our house is complete for christmas.

On saturday Dallas was craving IN and Out (after thanksgiving??? silly boy!!) I gave in and we drove to IN and Out in Draper....but only if we could stop at Dallas's new favorite store IKEA! haha! The line here was incredible, it was so long! We decided to go inside and order our food instead of going through the 1 1/2 long drive through! Dallas ordered a double double animal style with animal style fries, and I decided to make the drive worth it by ordering a double double animal style with regular fries! Not gonna lie, it was worth the drive!!

Here we are, since IN and Out was so crowded there was no seats inside! So we had to eat in the car! We got our way to cool In and Out hats, pretty sweet! Our mementos from that sweet burger!!

After In and Out we decided to top our date off with stopping at the temple to see the christmas lights...my favorite tradition each christmas time especially now with my husband!! It was so much fun, the lights are gorgeous and I loved holding Dallas hand and looking at the temple we both just so recently got sealed in, it is so special.

More of the beautiful lights!!

Dallas thought this picture would be picture perfect because I was wearing my red coat and ther was a huge red tree...picture time!! haha, it is hard when it is just the two of us on our date to take pictures of both of us so we had to take turns. The day was busy but yet so fabulous...I got to spend the day with Dallas and that is nothing less than hallarious and makes a very good day!!!!!