Huge stress lately! So every 4th Wednesday, we combine the mutual activity with 6 different wards and my Young Womens group was in charge this month. After much thinking, we decided that we would have a trash bag fashion show. Trash bag fashion is just that, you get a garbage bag and make that your main piece of attire, you then take whatever junk you can find and make an actual garment out of it all. We split the girls up into groups and had 2 models in each group. Wow, they were all so creative!!! They all had so much fun with the activity. At the end, we had a runway fashion show to some awesome music so that all the girls could strut their stuff. All the stress of planning and shopping was worth it! Everyone had a great time and the girls were so funny and creative. Loved it!

Wow, it's definitely been awhile....sorry. I'll catch you up. I was lucky to have Christmas off of work, so I was able to spend all of Christmas with my family, both Aaron's and mine. It's tradition to have breakfast at my parent's house and then open presents.
In the afternoon, we always go to Grandma's enchilada dinner. She is 100% Mexican and man can she cook! Everyone looks forward to her enchiladas every year because she only makes them on Christmas day. She's 85 years old and she makes everything from scratch, including the tortillas. She's incredible, but it is really hard for her to do all that work. We appreciate it very much though!
The food was fantastic and what made it even better is that I got everything I wanted for Christmas!!! My most favorite gift this year was from Aaron. I finally got my kitchen aid mixer!! I've been wanting one for about 3 years now, but we've always been too poor to buy it.

Aaron also surprised me with the watch I've been wanting for months too. It's a Nixon Vega watch in the Mirror style. Apparently that style has been discontinued. On Christmas Eve, Aaron was able to get out of work a little early and he called all over Utah to try and find this style watch. Finally he found one in a shop up in Park City. On Christmas Eve at 6 pm, he drove clear up to Park City to get this watch for me. I think that was one of the sweetest things he's ever done for me.

The weekend after Thanksgiving, we went to Flaming Gorge to chop a Christmas tree. Aaron's family has had this tradition for a long time and this is the first time that we've all been able to go together. We stayed at the Flaming Gorge lodge overnight.
We say some gigantic buffalo in Wyoming on the way up to Flaming gorge. I had to stop and get a picture of them. We decided that they had to be at least 1800 pounds!


We got to the lodge a little late, so we had to find a tree fast because we were losing daylight quickly. We found the perfect tree for Aaron's family, my parents, and us. We got home on Sunday and decorated the tree. It looks a lot bigger in the house than it did in the forest! It turned out to be about 10 feet tall. It's beautiful though. I love Christmas!!!!

5 Year Anniversary!!

Our 5th anniversary was on November 22. Wow, it seems like we just got married! For my anniversary present, Aaron sent me to the Shirodara Day Spa in Fort Union. It was a complete surprise. He told me to go to a certain address at a certain time on a certain day. I kind of figured it was a spa day but I didn't know what I was getting done until I arrived. I ended up receiving a glorious 90 minute full body massage and then I received a inch loss, cellulite reducing body wrap. I had never had a body wrap done......and wow! It was quite the experience...basically they measure up and down your entire body, put you in a little makeshift bra and panty set, then rub you down with a cinnamon type lotion, then they shrinkwrap you and let you marinate for an hour, then they measure post marination to see the inch loss. I don't think I can show my face there again....lol. On the positive I did lose 8 inches total after the humiliation. During the marinating phase, Aaron had a dozen red roses sent down to me. They were beautiful. I have to say that it was quite the romantic day, despite the wrap!

Time flys!!!

Well, since the last post, a few things have happened! We have a big announcement.......We bought a new car! Yes, that's right-sexy face is gone and in has come Dead Sexy! We bought a new fully loaded black turbocharged V8 Chevy Impala SS. It is the most awesome car ever. We love it! I bet you thought we were going to announce a baby--nope sorry friends. The other exciting thing is that we have booked a trip on the Norwegian cruise line for a 7 day cruise to the Mexican Riveria. We'll be leaving in February. This is momentous because Aaron and I have never been on a trip together. We didn't even go on a Honeymoon :( We're making up for it now because we finally are making money! We're also considering buying a puppy. I've never had an animal in my life- my mom was anti-pet. Aaron grew up with many animals and he's dying to have one. I'm still a little leery.

Family

We're cool now too!

It seems like everyone we know has blogspots and we still don't. However, that's changed now!! Hopefully this will be less time intensive than myspace and we will keep it more updated than myspace.