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Our poor lizard didn't like his travels this weekend. He's safe and happy in his tank now, in Marysville, Washington! He LOVES our HUGE apartment and getting to see the outside so easily :D (Sorry for the loud background noise!)

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We finished off the year of 2011 in style :) I'm so glad these guys were willing to wear my cute hats I found us :D

We got to celebrate with Dan and Patty with sparkling cider and sparkling fire :D

yay for having family so close! :D aka-right next DOOR! We've sure enjoying that.

Teancum enjoyed the festivities too, in his own little corner. You kind of have to look hard to notice but our lizard is in our nativity, how precious is that! (this is a pic to demonstrate how I need a better camera...just sayin...;) )

Sorry these are all mixed up, I was realizing though, my title is always backwards so it's fitting to have the pictures backwards too, right? Yeah, that's what I thought. :D So we spent Christmas in Vernal for the first time and it was SO much fun! We got to play with my adorable nephews. We played lava monster (pictured below) as well as other exciting games :)

We also got our pictures taken by our awesome friend and neighbor and afterward Hallie stole my camera for some candids...aren't we adorable?

We got invited over to play with our nephews new toy, XBOX Kinect. It was SO fun slicing those fruits! It was even more fun watching these two dance around though, haha.

I love how Aadyn stopped to pose for the camera, I didn't even ask him to. ha.

We also got to meet Sophee Lynn, the most adorable little baby girl :D Tim and Linds are so lucky to have her, she is PRECIOUS.

she's even cute when she scowls, right? Yep, yep :D She takes after me except when she does that, then she looks like her dad. ;)

Teddy even got in on the party, not by choice of course. haha. Isn't he a loving doggie daddy? (this is Alex by the way)

Here's a shot of Scott's new mug. I think it's pretty awesome, and so does he! :D

Why yes, it does say: "I pooped today!" Why do you ask?

John had his place all decorated up, he got his Wal-mart building for Christmas, haha, so awesome. I especially like how it's so much bigger than the rest. haha.

On Christmas Eve we went down to the cemetery and wrote notes to Grandpa on balloons and let go of them at his grave. It was a sweet experience.

Tim's writing "still no turkey" I guess he's been complaining on his balloons to Grandpa because we haven't had turkey on Christmas since he passed away. Mom & Dad fixed that this year though :) I was totally not emotional at the cemetery until I looked over at Tim. He and Grandpa were super close. Precious.

I've been getting my craft on recently thanks to pintrest. Here's a view of my craftiness of life:

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I met up with Scott, Dan, Patty, Alex, and Emily in Salt Lake on Wednesday night and we drove through the night down to Vegas. We spent Thanksgiving day and weekend with Sarah & Larin in their new home. We played pit...

did some shopping... (I got peices of each of these fabrics and spent 3 hours waiting for my turn to get mine cut. It was totally worth it though! I saved $86.77!! & only paid $27.00!)

saw some sights...

talked with the K fam on the big screen...

I went down to the strip :)

OH! and we even ate some tasty food...

Thanks Sarah and Larin for letting us crash at your place...and thanks space shuttle, for getting us there and back in one piece...

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Why does blogger have to be so annoying? The pics are all skee-wamp-us but I'll just explain each...

I went home to Vernal to see my family for a few days before Thanksgiving. I left Scott with a crockpot full of chili and it lasted him while his beloved cook was gone :) while I was home we celebrated Hallie's 16th birthday...um yeah, she's that old. CRAZY!

We had dinner at Alex & Meagan's-Meagan made the best chicken enchiladas I've ever eaten! :D We also were entertained by their dogs while there. Rango, the German Shepard, thinks he's a puppy still. So Meagan was telling Teddy, the Pomeranian to sit on Meagan's lap and Rango just heard the sit on lap, not Teddy's name so he hopped up and sat on her lap, what a good dog...haha.

Here is a better pic of my hair, after Tina did some work to try to make it less green. I took out the front ponytail though because Mom and I decided that I looked like Dracula's wife...haha.

Rango and Teddy don't get along real well. haha. Teddy thinks she's the queen of the house and doesn't like that Rango is encroaching on her family. So they fought a bit while we were there, haha.

Hallie had some special helpers to open her presents for her. I'm pretty sure they were all open within a minute, ha! :D so cute.

here's all the boys on all their electronics...3 on ipads and one on playstation...haha.

Mom & Dad took us girls out to dinner one night. It was so fun being home and spending time with everyone.