Family is Everything

Monday, January 28, 2008

Man of God.

As so many of you already know,

President Hinckley was welcomed home last night by what I can only imagine to be one of the most amazing reunions ever.

I will miss you my dear Prophet.

Thank you for your service to the Lord and to all of us, His children.

I love you.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Happy Birthday Janice!

Today is my dear friend, Janice's birthday.

She and I have been friends since we were 12 years old.

I can tell her anything and trust her completely.

She is beautiful, strong, ambitious, supportive, and just an amazing person all around.

She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on Christmas day!

I can't wait to hold her!

I hope you have the most lovely birthday ever Janice!!!

I love you!

Monday, January 21, 2008

Arizona Desert

On Saturday morning Chris went to the desert to help his brother, Ben, find the deer he shot earlier last week.

While they were looking he found time to stop and take some pictures.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Date night

Last night we went out to dinner with the

Mechams, Nielson's, and Jones' at

Red White and Brew.

So yummy! Their prices are pretty low and the portions are huge!

It was highly recommended to the Nielson's and

now we highly recommend it to everyone else!

If you haven't been there yet you should definately try it out.

I have a whole list of items I want to try.

Thanks for a fun night guys!

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Disneyland Jan. 10th

Our 2nd day we started out at California Adventures.

We were first in line to get inside and we were first in line to ride

Soarin' Over California (twice).

We rode on California Screamin' 3 times back to back.

SO FUN!!!

We also went on the Grizzly Bear one, Mulholland's Madness, the one that shoots you straight up and back down, a Bug's Life 3D show and

Tower of Terror twice.

These could come in handy, but they were more than I was willing to spend.

The Aladdin Show was AMAZING!

I'm so glad we took the time to see it.

Then we spent the last couple of hours at Disneyland again and hit

Space Mountain a couple more times.

We didn't discuss what pose we should do this time and we ended up doing the same thing!

Except I look scary.

Just can't get enough...

(we were impressed with the old man behind us. I swear I think he came by himself!)

Our parting pictures as we left the parks.

Chris had our camera in his pocket and he accidentally rammed into a post at a turn stile and it cracked our camera. So bummed! We can still take pictures, but we can't see what we are taking. I'd say I did a better job at getting the whole picture than Chris did.

We had such a wonderful time!

I recommend that every couple goes on this trip!

Thanks for the best Christmas present ever honey!

You're the best!

Disneyland Jan. 9th

Our plane left at 7:05 am on Wednesday Jan. 9th.

We arrived at 7:25 am California time and hopped in a Super Shuttle.

When we arrived at our hotel across the street from Disneyland we checked in and got our room right away. No holding our luggage for us and getting our room late at night since we would be gone ALL day. We walked around Downtown Disney until we decided on a place to eat breakfast.

We finally settled on the Jazz Kitchen, which isn't really settling at all.
The magic must overflow out of Disneyland that the birds thought we were Snow White and ate right out of our hands!

Waiting in the Space Mountain line.
We're so cute when we're having fun!

This one's for Peyton!

Splash Mountain is in our top 3 favorites!

We were able to ride it 3 times back to back! (5 times all together)

One time we didn't even have to get out of the log since there was no line!

I guess not many people like getting wet first thing on a January morning.

Brrrr! But too fun to care!

At night when the sun starts to go down TONS of black birds would fly in and land in the trees.
This tree and the birds really compliment eachother.

Chris remembers this one as a kid.

He said it use to really shock you and test how much you can handle.

Now all it does is vibrate really loud and shake the candy stand behind it and everyone stops and looks at you.

This shop had the prettiest ceiling and chandelier type thing.

It reminded me of the Temple.

Space Mountain is one of our very favorite rides!

We managed to ride it 7 times!

Since we rode it so many times we tried to spice up our pose at the very end.

And to end our first day we went on another favorite,

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. (3 times total)

Good thing we had one more day.

We were no where near done!!!

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Tee-gra

For my first post of 2008, I would like to introduce,

Tigra.

She joined our family on December 18th.

She was a stray at Taylor and Preston's school.

The janitor found her and brought her to Taylor's teacher, a lover of 7 cats already!

She had some of the kids call and ask their parents if they could have a new little kitten join their family.

Thanks to Chris and his secret love for cats (ok, just kittens),

she is now part of the family.

Her name was inspired by her tiger like markings and this

little diddy.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Christmas Day

The best part of Christmas is spending time with family

and

the sweet happy smiles on my children's faces.

Peyton got the coolest rocking horse and a bunch of Toy Story paraphernalia.

Ellie got princess shoes, a baby born, and a starstation.

Preston got a robot, knight in shining armor dress-up so he can save and protect his sisters who are of course princess', walkie-talkies and marbles.

Taylor got a jewelry holder, baby born, Junie B. Jones books, and a body pillow so she won't steal mine anymore.

For our gift to ourselves Chris and I are going to Disneyland, just the two of us, for two days, on

January 9th and 10th! We are so excited! It's also to celebrate meeting 1o years ago on the 10th.

I love you baby!

(p.s. we are so hot in the morning. Just trying to keep it real on this here blog.)

After presents it was off to Grandma and Grandpa Prince's for breakfast.

They have everyone come over anytime between 8 am and noon for breakfast every Christmas morning. They are the best!

Grandpa took over the eggs for a minute to help Grandma out.

Such a cutie.

When our tummies are full we have to sit and ask everyone what they got.

Then home to play with our new stuff and rest from rising so early and staying up so late the night before. Then we head over to Chris' parents for a gift exchange.