Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Christmas 2012

This year was our year with Papa and Grandma Allie!  We had a blast!
It snowed while we were there so we had a white Christmas...perfect!

Hot tub in the snow!



Making waffles with Grandma
Gingerbread houses


Kai spent the entire time trying to shove as much candy into his mouth as he could...this is him looking at me, trying to sneak another piece of candy!
Everyone was done decorating their houses except my dad...lets just say his house was perfect!  :)
Sledding



Julien loved to go off the jump!
Christmas Eve at Nanny's
Getting ready for the Nativity



Christmas Eve jammies

Cookies for Santa

CHRISTMAS!!!


 All Kai cared about was the candy in his stocking...I think he ate ALL of it before we were done opening presents!







Julien checking under the tree making sure he got all of his presents!






Sledding behind the 4 wheelers





Temple Square


Wednesday, January 2, 2013

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

So at our house, pretty much the day after Halloween we start getting ready for Christmas!  We LOVE Christmas!
 Putting up the tree!  Julien decorated almost the entire tree by himself!



 Kai helped a little...mostly by taking ornaments off the tree  :)


 Christmas at the outlets...the tallest real Christmas tree in the country!

 Our neighborhood had a snow day!  The boys LOVED it!  It was kinda strange playing in the snow in 70 degree weather.



Halloween

Halloween was just a few days after closing on our house and the boys were excited!  Papa, Grandpa Garner and Grandma Garner were all at our house and helped us celebrate! 
 We carved pumpkins on our cement floor...haha!
 Kai of course Loved cleaning out the pumpkins and getting as dirty as possible...Julien preferred to use a spoon and keep his hands clean.

 Carefully planning out his design

 Our Ghost and Ghostbuster!

 So proud of their pumpkins!  Kai carved a basketball and Julien carved a very scary face!
 Trick or Treat!
 It didn't take long for Kai to bust open his candy



 CANDY!!!

Friday, December 14, 2012

That came out of nowhere...

Life never happens the way we think it will...ever!  I feel like every time we might have our lives all planned out something crazy happens and we end up going the opposite direction.  Everything was going great with Landon's job, we had good friends and actually liked living in Utah and being so close to family, and we were just weeks from moving into our brand new house that took 9 MONTHS to build and then BAM!!!  Landon was offered a new job with a new company and for some crazy reason we both felt like it was the right thing.  So, we left the life we thought we were going to have and packed everything up and moved to Phoenix!
It was a very bumpy road the two years we were living in Utah trying to find a home.  We looked at homes and made several offers and nothing seemed to work out.  So finally we decided we would build...holy nightmare!  As much as I was attached to that house I am glad we finally realized it was not worth it!  Looking back now I feel like maybe the reason we had so much trouble trying to buy a home in Utah was because we were not supposed to be there.  Things have just seemed to work out perfectly for us in Arizona so far so hopefully this is where we are supposed to be.  After such a long hard search for a home in Utah it took Landon and I only one weekend to find a home here and so far we love it!  Things are going great with Landon's new job and he is excited about all the many opportunities ahead!  We love the warm "winter" weather and love the pool.  We have met a few new friends and are excited to find more!
 The boys loved the truck!

 Getting ready to take off on our new adventure!

It started to snow as we were leaving...it made leaving a little easier!

Kai was so excited about our 12 hour journey and the fact that he had to ride in the car while Julien rode in the truck.
 We stayed over in Vegas on our way down.  The boys loved the Bellagio and the street performers.

Arizona!
 We made it!  The truck was crammed full!
Home sweet home! 
Time for the insanity to begin...
Before and after pics coming soon!