Warning- Picture Overload!!!

Ok, you were warned. I am trying to catch up, and this is the worst time to be doing so because December (as always) was a crazy busy month. We are so lucky to be able to spend so much time with so much family and friends, and we look forward to it all year.

We were able to go to Phoenix to celebrate Shalice's big 30th Birthday. She and Dusty came to San Diego for mine, and she told me 6 months ago that this would be a party not to miss... and it wasn't.

These photos are in no particular order.

Shalice 50+ people there (if you know Shalice you shouldn't be surprised because she is the most social person ever), and Dusty did an Asian theme with dinner. Homemade lettuce wraps, spring rolls, wontons, asian drinks, and of course cake!

Here is the Birthday girl preparing for her big party!

Laura and Nolan on New Years. Can't wait for our Riviera Maya trip with them in May.

Me and Jenny on New Years, they are also going with us in May! Super awesome friends!

We hosted a cocktail/mocktail party at our house with a bunch of friends and it was so much fun. We are lucky to have such great company.

Me and my bestie Crystal

Me and Brett on Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Ahhh, the gift that keeps on giving- I was hoping these would be handy! Oh and they LOVED them!!!! I think? The IPhone 4S doesn't have anything on these babies...

Shalice and her new beach cruiser

Brett and his dad

Stacie and Parley

Jen and Zipper - haha. She is a good sport because she has outfits for EVERYTHING! You should see her on Halloween.

My mom and Freds talent show. It's pretty fun to see how good all the grandkids are doing. And Tate nearly steals the show every year playing the Cello.

Ever the baker, Becky made 9 different types of cookies for the party. Have I ever mentioned she loves to bake? If you're ever looking for some "sweet" catering, give her a call- she is amazing! I don't think I have a pic of all the cookies.

The big Gift exhange at my moms- it even gets a little heated at times... Oh the Holidays!

Happy Birthday to the Birthday girl

My stupid computer won't rotate these for the blog, but this is me with my grandparents. It is always fun to visit with them while we are in AZ. And we were in luck because my granparents have about a dozen orange trees, some pecan trees, and a pomegranate plant or tree (?).

So of course we loaded up!

My grandpa getting us some fresh oranges. Oh, and they were sooo yummy. Big thanks to them for having us over to visit for the afternoon.

Brett and grandpa bagging the goods.

How cute is this? Reece got a new rocking horse, cowboy boots (which she won't take off), and a cool cowboy hat from Santa Clause. So much fun at Christmas with the nieces and nephews.

Us at my work Christmas Party. I am very lucky to have a great job, a great boss, and my co-workers are the best!

I hope everyone had a great holiday, here's to 2012! Can't wait to see what this year brings us!

Christmas at our house

Well we finally have our Christmas up, well what little we have.

Unfortunately, we have been home nursing a major head cold all day, but at least we caught up on our sleep.

Here is our tree this year, and you can see little Brian's stocking at the bottom. :)

And just for fun, here is my attempt at a Pinterest project. I am not a crafty person AT ALL, but I can occasionally find a cool idea and copy it....

Well here goes another post

Because my computer has been acting up lately, you must scroll to the bottom of this post if you want any reading material.

Ok, I am determined to blog more. So much has happened the last couple months, I won't post pics of everything. I will just name a few:

-Me, Becky, and Lorrie all survived another 1/2 marathon, this time the Hobblecreek Half. While I can't speak for anybody else, I am done - I almost threw my shoes out the window on the way home (to prove it we didn't even do the Turkey Trot this year!) But I did manage to cut almost 10 min off my time from last year, so that was a positive.

- It was fun to get together for Brett's Grandpa Marx's big birthday party and reunion in August

- Me and Brett's birthdays are close and we always do fun things for that.

- We went on several awesome camping trips, and we went deer hunting this year and had fun- but no deer.

- We've been staying busy going to numerous ropings and barrel races and so far are enduring the cold weather riding.

- I have developed a newfound interest in Pinterest..... mostly because I love new recipes, and I hate to admit this, but I have even attempted a few crafts I've see on there...

- We have been staying busy with lots of friends, some new and some old, and of course our awesome families- who we are so grateful for.

-As for work we are both staying really busy, and for that I am always grateful.

-Oh, and I went on a 9 girl getaway to Cabo in Oct and it was soooo fun. May as well post a few pics of that trip. If you haven't ever been to Cabo, you should- it was so awesome. The weather was so nice, the water perfect, the company better, and our resorts were spectacular. I say resorts because we stayed an extra day due to an overbooking at the airline, and they put us at the Barcelo there, which was incredible. I just wish they would have overbooked us a few more days......

These next few weeks are going to be busy for us, so stay tuned.....

Where to start.... I suppose Lake Powell

Well I really need to catch up on blogging, so here goes.

I was going to just go one big post for everything, but then decided Lake Powell deserved its own post.

I LOVE LAKE POWELL! I pretty much grew up in the summers on Lake Powell, and know it like the back of my hand (Wahweap anyway). I spent nearly every birthday there, but last year opted for San Diego with Shalice and Dusty instead.

It was nice to spend my Birthday there again (my 31st) with my family and husband.

Movie night in the houseboat

The blue lights in the wake of the boat

Awesome birthday sunset

the sink hole

It really was their idea... to just be dragged by the boat.

Lacy did awesome!

Ah, Spyglass! The best home away from home!