Christmas 2010

So, I picked names for everyone. And no, I didn't "adjust" the results Ashley. I wanted to but I didn't. Here they are:

Ryan gives to Kristin, Kristin gives to Brodie, Jim gives to Christian, Ashley gives to Brittany, Brodie gives to Jim, Brittany gives to Matthew, Christian gives to Ashley, and Matthew gives to Ryan.

The end. Check it. Word.

Happy Birthday Ashley!

Happy Birthday to Ashley! You sure are getting old ;)
You are a great sister and mother and we love you !

Happy Birthday Mom!

We Love You!

Happy Birthday!

And Happy Birthday Too!

Happy Birthday Ryan! You are truly getting old :) Hope you enjoyed your birthday cake and cupcakes from Sunday!

Congratulations

to Ryan on getting the Salt Lake Residency!

Family Fun

Liked these pictures Ashley sent me so I thought I would post them for all to see! Sorry there aren't any pictures of Kristin or Jim, I guess Ashley doesn't like to take pictures of you guys ;)

Christmas

So here is the list of who has who for Christmas. Have fun shopping!

Ryan > Ashley

Kristin > Ryan

Jim> Brittany

Ashley> Matt

Brodie> Kristin

Brittany> Steven

Christian> Brodie

Matt> Christian

Steven> Jim

Lame

I really wish someone would update our blog. It is seriously pathetic. Steven, how about you give it a whirl and discuss our Montana trip and add pictures. I believe you are the one with the most free time at this point. Thanks buddy.

Nu Skin

Well, in case you haven't already heard. I started at Nu Skin today. It really is an amazing company... if you don't believe me check out their website. Anyways, I think I'm really going to like working here--tons of great benefits and apparently we'll get a lot of free product, which is cool because they make a lot of different personal care products (even make-up) and dietary supplements. Hallelujah.

Job!

Hey everyone! I finally found a job. I'll be a cook for the Provo School District. It's 30 hours a week, 6:45-1:15. A little early, but I think I can handle it. I'll start training next week at Centennial Middle School. After training, I'll probably start at an Elementary School. I think I'll enjoy it, it should be pretty fun.

Baby Update

Ok so if any of you were wondering how this baby thing is going, here we go. I think I am 9 weeks along, meaning my baby is the size of a grape now. Exciting. Two weeks ago it was a blueberry, last week a kidney ban and now a grape. The baby is getting bigger.

Being sick. Not so much fun but do able. I throw up every morning. My food is digested so it is always lots of exhausting dry heaving. Lately I have been getting sick after eating too. Not very often but it has happened about 6 times. I ate lunch the other day and a few minutes later it all came back up. It sucked because I had to go back to work and I was real hungry soon after. Besides that I get nausous throughout most of the day. Some days and good and some are real bad. Just depends.

Hunger. Mainly when I am having a good day, not very nauseous, I get really hungery. I eat and eat and eat and eat, and am still hungry. It is weird. My little grape is real hungry.

Sleeping. All I need to say is I sleep alot. I go to bed real early almost every night. It is sad how much sleep I get. Life is boring right now becasue all I do is go to work, go home for a few hours and then sleep. It does seem to help me feel better the day after I get a ton of sleep so I will just keep on sleeping.

Doctors Appt. Still not here yet. It seems like it has taken forever to get here. It is next Friday November 7th. I guess time slows down when you get pregnant. It is going to be a long 9 months.

I still haven't told everyone. I decided to wait to tell people in our ward and on facebook until I have gone to the Doctors office. Some people I have told get really excited and others not so much. It is interesting seeing peoples reactions. Alot of people's reactions suprised me. More negatively though than anything. Suprised some people weren't excited for us. Oh well. I do want to thank you who did get excited and happy for me. Mom and Britt made me really happy. Thanks!

Well thats the update for now. I will let you know how the Doctor's visit goes next week.

Love you all!

Poor Shelby

Poor Shelby, too bad he couldn't live on forever, we all loved him. Here's a picture of him that I took over the summer. Although I think we would all agree that he was in bad shape, and that he's better off now.









On a brighter note, I'm including a picture or two from up here in BYU.

Here is our trash can, we had a deal to stack the trash, and whoever knocked the tower over had to take out the trash. I eventually thought it was disgusting, so I then took out the trash.
I drank some orange cream soda, and it turned my tongue orange. I thought it was funny because it was the same color as an oompa loompa from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Anyways, I'm having a great time out here, especially since I had practically no homework to do today. I hope everyone else is doing well also.

Trip to California

So I know it's been over a month since Christian and I went to visit Mom and Dad in Cali but we finally found a cord so we could download our pictures. Funny thing is, we didn't actually take very many pictures while we were there. Anyways, here are a few...

This is the only photo we managed to get from Jet-skiing at Lake Berryessa!

Here is Mom, side-ways mini golfing at Scandia

Here is me and Steve, looking angry...we were probably losing or something

Here is the cheesecake I made from Mom's recipe for the Cheesecake Factory's White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake. And it was darn good, at least I thought it was. Too bad I didn't get a picture of the amazing ribs I made...

In addition, we went with Steve to Six Flags, we all went to Mendocino to sea-kayak (which was soo hard & tiring and where Dad almost drowned), and I went to Claim Jumpers for the first time (where Mom had the best salad of her entire life, just ask her)... plus we experienced a train ride to California instead of a flight, that was ... interesting, to say the least.

Shelby, We Miss You...

Anyone with pictures or memories, please post them ...

He was such a cutie.

Thanks Ashley...

Ashley,

This provided a whole night of entertainment for me and Christian ... the only problem was that I couldn't find any pictures of Ryan to use...

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Ode to Ma and Pa

Well I have just been thinking the past couple months how lucky we all are to have such great parents. I have talked to alot of people with crappy parents. One's who don't really care about the kids, are disrespectful to the kids or all in all bad parents. I am just gratful we all got so lucky to have gotten Mom and Dad. You guys rock. I sure do love you and am pretty sure the rest of the kids do too. Thanks.

Free Gas

So Tuesday night there was an IFT Social up in Liberty Park in SLC. Christian and I decided to go, mostly because of the free Famous Dave's! It was really good BBQ and I ate way too much. Well, the best part of the night was the raffle. Last year, Christian won our DVD player and this year I won a $50 gas card to Flying J's. The only problem is that we don't even know where a Flying J is around here. I guess we're just lucky, alot.

Christmas

I bought my airplane tickets for Christmas!!! I am officially going home for Christmas! I am so excited it has been 3 years. Everyone else should hope on that train too. I want everyone to be there since I will for sure. Love ya.

We need to have a talk.

First off. Steve, Congrats! You are off to college. What a fun and exciting time of your life. You will love it. Find lots of cool friends and have an awesome time!

Second. Mom. Don't be sad. We all love you and wish we could all live with you in Benicia, but we can't. Just think of all the free time you will have for yourself and dad. Yeah. Also you will just have to start planning more vacations to visit us. I found a good website that tells you of good deals on flights. You can put where you want to fly to. I put in Spokane to Oakland and it tells me off cheap flights. I just saw one for $160 to oakland. It was only in September so I didn't get it but they have some good deals. The website is airfare watchdog. You all should sign up for there emails.

Lastly. To everyone else. Your lives must not be very exciting since there aren't very many posts. Unfortuantly I don't believe that. Let us know what is going on. Love you all.

Question for Everyone

Hello everyone. I was thinking about planning our next year fam reunion here in Montana so I was wondering a few things. How long could everyone come for? There is alot of stuff to do and I could plan over a week of places to see and things to do, but how much time to people have? A week or a weekend? Also when could everyone do it. Mom mentioned we would have to do it before Steve's b-day in July because he will be leaving on his mission if we want him to come. The only prob is that it isn't super hot here at that time so we would run into a few issues. For one if we go to Glacier National Park the "going to the sun road" which is the road that goes through the park, might still be closed. It was this year. Next I thought it would be fun to rent a boat or jet skii's and have a fun day on Flathead lake. It is a huge beautiful lake. It might not be hot enough in June to enjoy it. So let me know what everyone thinks. June, colder with steve or August, more fun no bro. I guess the real question is when would everyone be able to go on a trip. Because obviously we all want Steven there. Let me know. Once I know I will plan an awesome trip for yall.

Also, I started my own blog for bro and i. It is brodieandashley.blogspot.com. Check it out. Love you all.