I wish I may

I wish I might

Have a crystal ball in my possession tonight

Life and its choices. My life feels like a big fat huge ?

If only I had a crystal ball - I could see to my future and see what we're supposed to be doing now with our lives and what's the right choice and how to go about this and that and that too and everything else that seems to have been shaken around in a yahtzee roller cup.

Christmas

I wish we didn't have to come home back to reality. We had a great time. We drove down to Vegas on Friday the 18th and didn't come back till Saturday the 26th.

A lot of what we did up until the Bowl game was determined by the schedule laid out for the team and bowl. Matt/the team practiced every morning and we usually had some bowl activity to go to that afternoon. I managed to forget my camera so I don't exactly have any pics of our adventures ... I'm still kinda mad at myself for it.

Here's the highlights of our week:

We stayed at Planet Hollywood - very nice, big rooms

Saturday night we went to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA instead of going to Terry Fator with the rest of the team. It was amazing! Soooo good - highly recommend it.

Almost all of our food was paid for and we went to a couple buffets so we ate A LOT of food.

Sunday night we went to the 'Outback Buffet Bowl' at Fremont Street ... that was interesting. 'Candy and the Canes' entertained us and we pretty much ate food and then left. We got to pick our bowl gifts using a point system thing - we got an HD Sony Camcorder and a Sony point-and-shoot digital camera. We're excited for them.

That night we got to go over to my sister's and visit with her and my bro ... so fun.

Monday - we had the 'Kickoff Luncheon' ... we were supposed to eat while the program was going on but our table managed to get overlooked and we ended up eating as fast as we could while people were standing up to leave ... it was good food though.

Matt and the rest of the traveling team left to stay at the JW Marriott for the night and prepare for the game. The wives came over to the hotel for the Senior Tribute ... Matt and his group were pretty funny.

Tuesday - GAME DAY

I went shopping and relaxed in the room. The game was awesome ... freezing but awesome. Matt played awesome - he's had a GREAT SEASON. It's still weird to me that it's over for the year. Matt's parents came down for the game and Heather and Billy came as well. Heather took some great pictures at the game - I haven't gotten them from her yet so those are to come later.

Wednesday - ate crepes at Paris. Visited the Tigers, Lions, and Dolphins at The Mirage - saw 5 month old white tigers ... soo adorable. I wish I could have a tiger for a pet. Went to Aunt Dawn's for a family dinner - it was so fun to be with family and spend time with that side of my family. Here's some pictures Dawn took:

The girls: me, Alyssa Eubanks, Aunt Dawn, Heather, her kids (Pammie & Will) Grandma Douglas

Christmas Eve - we went to my mom's gravestone. It's been a few years since I've been there - it was special and definitely sobering for me and that I could share it with Matt. We had a family dinner at Heather's with Jimmy and Michael.

Christmas - we woke up bright and early so we could go see Heather's kids open their presents and see what Santa had brought them. Always funny with her kids. Keller: "Pancakes! Yes!" as he grabs the box and hugs it and starts walking around with it. Then off to Grandma and Grandpa Alger's for traditional waffle breakfast with all the extended fam. We played games and visited with the fam - it was a lot of fun and I was so happy that I got to share with Matt what Christmas was like for me growing up. We had dinner at the Worthen's - Billy's parents.

We left the next morning as soon as we got everything packed .... once back in Provo ...

We went to my parent's house that night - first meeting them for dinner at Applebee's. We had an extended Christmas celebration there.

After church on Sunday we headed up to Matt's parent's house and continued Christmas to that evening. We came back to our apartment with tons of stuff. Thank you so much to everyone! It was so much fun being able to take a break from school and work and spend the time together and with our families. We really had a blast. I kinda rambled off a little bit but oh well. Now it's on to the New Year.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! A new year ... new adventures.

Happy Birthday Mom

To an amazing woman ... who made everyone smile and laugh and lit up the room when she walked in. I miss you desperately.

Matt and I visited her gravestone Christmas Eve morning while in Vegas - it was Matt's first time being there. So many memories flooded back.

I wish I could have a 2 way conversation with you. I wish I had a moment that I could have stopped and cried and pondered and watched home videos ... maybe it's better that I didn't. I wish I could hear your opinion (out loud ... not just through your writings). I wish you and Matt could meet face to face. I wish I could see you play with our kids someday - your grandchildren. And the list goes on ...

I know you're watching over me and I guess that has to be good enough. You got to spend your birthday with your mom and dad though ... hope you had a great day wherever you are. I love you, happy birthday.

Christmas Bowl

We're back home .... we've spent the last week in Las Vegas for the bowl game and then celebrating Christmas with my side of the family. All sorts of fun and relaxation and enjoying each other's company. It's been an awesome week...I wish it didn't have to end.

I've got lots more to come about our adventures .... unfortunately not a lot of pics cause I managed to forget my camera but I'll have a few from my sis and aunt as soon as I can get them from em.

Merry Merry Christmas!!

Where Did It Go???

Time flew by waaayyy to fast these last 4 months ... my body still thinks it's September .... and there's SNOW on the ground. I've been in shock the last week at where did all the time go. But I guess it flies when you're having fun .... right?

It does not feel at all like I've watched an entire season worth of football games. I haven't even posted about ONE since the first game. I'm so ashamed. Matt has had a fabulous, amazing season. I have so many pictures and experiences to blog about with football - I feel like such a bad wife not blogging bout my hubby's achievements. And we're headed down to the bowl game this Friday - so weird.

And it's the end of the semester!! We're taking FINALS this week - I feel like I've only gone to classes for maybe a month.

It's DECEMBER! I really can't explain how confused my body is - it seriously feels like it could maybe October at the latest ... not wintery, snowy, cold December. Christmas is in less than 2 weeks ... goodness gracious. I will say that I'm so proud of ourselves - we've had all our Christmas shopping done for a week now ... pretty sure that's a first for me.

It's been almost a year since I was promoted to supervisor - weird. I'm organizing and going over year-end stuff ... awkward. The old supervisor came in with her little baby girl bout a week ago to show me the ropes of year-end (she's so super sweet) and I couldn't believe that her baby girl is 7 months old! It feels like maybe a month ago that she left the company to be a mom and I officially took over.

We've been married for almost a year and A HALF - it feels like it was NOT that long ago that we got off our 1 yr. anniversary vacay - that I don't think I ever finished posting the pictures from.

Am I getting the picture across how weird I feel about how fast time is flying?

And everything else that's been going on in our lives that I haven't spoken of:

We beat the new Super Mario Brothers with Michael last Wednesday - 3 days of all day playing and we beat it! ... all by ourselves. Michael invited us to come over and play last last Saturday and we were hooked. We were there ALL day Saturday (that's how we spent our first Sat. without a game together ... what a good way to spend it) and then back again Monday night for FHE and Wednesday night until we beat it (Michael rented it so it had to be returned Wed night at midnight). It's the FIRST Video Game I've ever beat!!! .... even if I was just helping along side Mike and Matt ... it is still a great accomplishment for me.

I am SO GRATEFUL our car has heat. The previous 2 years, my car has been heatless and so every drive to work and school and wherever was a freezing one. It has been such a blessing to have a heater and defroster that work wonderfully! So lovely.

I got my hair cut and colored today ... I love it - maybe I'll take a pic and post it ... maybe.

Last Saturday was our Ward Christmas Party and we're on the activities committee so that entailed me making 140 sugar cookies Friday evening and then going and setting up at the church for another 3 hours .... Sat morning setting up for another hour ... cooking eggs and hashbrowns for 2 hours .... eating for 20 min then cleaning up for another 2 hours. It turned out to be a really good party though...I'm not meaning to complain. We brought our christmas tree for decoration and forgot to bring it home ... so our Christmas tree is still at the church and is providing a lovely decoration in the foyer.

We love RedBox-ing movies. And we're not good at returning them the next day - you'd think we wouldn't love it so much ... but we still do.

We've had some really fun trips to Ikea in the last little while - we've done a bit of remodeling at our place.

Oh and Thanksgiving! was so much fun - It was so fun and relaxing to spend time with family and play with the nephews and niece. I'm so grateful for family - I've come to appreciate it more as I've grown older ... not that I'm really that old or anything but still.

We love our Primary kids - although sometimes they drive us crazy ... we still love them and they're definitely teaching us a lot. One of them brought us some chocolate covered pretzels he made for us - sooo sweet.

I've been asked if I'm related to Matt and if we're a couple? a few times in the past few weeks ... never if we're married. Awkward but hilarious.

Hmmmmm....this is really long .... sorry to those of you who have actually taken the time to read this whole long ramble. Kudos to you.

I really need to go to sleep now. I'm sure I'll think of more that needs updating tomorrow. Toodles.

New Moon pics

Here's the pics from the first time I went to see New Moon with the girls. I have now seen it 3 times.... with Matt twice. Good times.

Boo!

The Friday before Halloween we headed up to Brigham City for one of Matt's old friend's Halloween party. We had a good time. On Saturday, we got to see some of the nieces and nephews costumes - they were so cute. We went to dinner with Dave and his family. visited his parents ward party and then we headed back to Provo.

Little kid ghost and Magnum PI

I'm wearing white mascara if you can tell