Merry Christmas!

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Winter Wonderland

I decided to take a break from all my homework and put up our Christmas decorations. I love Christmas time! I can't wait until school is over and we can go see the Christmas lights, Christmas windows, ice skating, drink hot coco and sit by the fire:)

Dress design for Shabby Apple dresses

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This is my entry for the Dare to Design contest for Shabby Apple Dresses. I wanted to design a fun light dress that can be worn in Spring and Summer. This belted tunic dress can be worn running errands during the day with some flip flops, or can be paired with with some great heels and fun jewelry to be worn for a night out. This dress has a foundation layer made out of a light weight cotton knit and an overlay of a silk chiffon in a great print.

Here are the Contest Details.

1. The top 15 entires will be posted on the Shabby Apple blog by November 10, 2009

2. Blog readers will vote on their favorite entry. The contestant whose design receives the most votes by November 24, 2009 will win.

3. Winners will be announced on the Shabby Apple blog by December 10, 2009.

4. Winners dress will be sold at Shabby Apple.

So please visit the Shabby Apple blog and vote for me:)

It's Halloween Time

Our Little Lilly as a Lady Bug

She hates that I make her dress up

We started the celebrations early this year at the Couch's with a scary movie (which I couldn't watch any of), some yummy snacks and some great pumpkin cravings.

Thanks guys! We had such a great time.

Little Pirate Ben

Brady almost finished with his masterpiece.

From Left to Right (Jon's, Jason's, Brady's, Mine, Jon Haynie's)

They all turned out so great!

Next on our Halloween schedule was our ward Harvest Party

Here are some of my young women setting up games for the party. The young men and women were in charge of games and did a great job!

All of the little ones had the cutest costumes ever!

We had appearances by one of snow whites dwarfs,

Little fairies and lady bugs,

And even a fire fighter!

Brady was a good sport and played the Whip Cream Mystery game.

The donut on the string game was very popular and really funny.

After the ward party we came home and got ready for a party at the Woolwine's

Some muslin from my school supply was put to good use:) The costumes must have been good because we were scaring Lilly.

The Mummies

The Bellisarios

Mark was a pirate, Lisa was a parachuter, and Baby Lucy was a glow worm

The Hulmes

Were so creative and came has the N and J line of Muni

The Larsens

Came as LA gangsters

The Woolwines

Kristy was a vampire and Woods was Michael Jackson

The Brownings

Jon came as a wounded mountain biker and Diana came as a robot.

Baby Liam came as a monkey

The Jergensens

Rachel came as Lady Liberty and Ryan came as Woods.

The Fun Ship

Brady and I were lucky enough to go on a cruise this past break. It was so nice to get away and relax in the sunshine:) This was our first cruise and we LOVED it!

We were a little excited:)

While waiting to depart from Long Beach we helped ourselves to a little mini golf.

Our first port was Catalina.

I love this little beach town! It was so much fun walking around and seeing all the sights.

I love sea otters:)

"Del Sol Me Baby" was what we were suppose to say to get these free cool color changing rings, but the girls just gave them to us.

Our Second Port was Ensenada Mexico.

This is one of the largest flags in Mexico.

On our way to the El Bufadora we walked through the open air market.

We even found some church historical paintings:)

How great is this picture!

My cute husband waiting to see the el bufadora in action.

We had to splurge just once.

"Living the life of Riley"

Every night we were greeted by a new friend in our room.

Waterskiing at the Slough

We were lucky enough to be invited by the Jergensen's to go water skiing up at the slough. It was amazing water and weather. We had such a great time skiing until sunset, watching Ryan barefoot ( so crazy!) Thanks again guys for such a great time:)

Us and the Jergensen's

This is Brady skiing with an amazing sunset in the background.

This is Ryan barefooting. I have never seen it before. It was so crazy!

This is me skiing, sorry Brady missed my back flip;)

Oakland Temple

A month or so ago Brady and I went to the Oakland temple with some of our friends the Haynie's. It was such a beautiful day to go to the temple. We went to a later session, so by the time we were finished the sun was setting and we were able to see the skyline of San Francisco with the prettiest sunset in the background.

Happy Fourth of July

Happy 4th of July!

Brady and I had such a fun Independence Day. We went up to the Spruces in Big Cottonwood Canyon and had a BBQ with my family. We had delicious hamburgers, potato salad, and smores:) After lunch we went and played a little game of baseball with everyone. The field was a little over grown with itchy grass, but we still had such a good time. Our team the "Dominators" won. We went to Jordan High to watch fireworks and came home and lit some of our own. We are so grateful to live in this country that has so many blessings.

Moo, Brady, and Lou enjoying the shade.

My sweet Gram and Mario

Ty is finally home after living in Seattle for the past 6 years. We are happy you're home:)

I love this man!

Brady, Patrick, and Moo roasting mallows for the smores