Thanksgiving & Christmas-time

It's been awhile! We've done so much since the last time I blogged! For some reason the pictures I took at Thanksgiving will not come up on my computer. So...I stole a few from my sister-in-laws blog-thanks Brandi! We spent Thanksgiving with Logan's family in St. George this year. We had a lot of fun seeing family, eating a ton of course, and shopping. It was nice to get away for the weekend and just relax.

Lorri, Logan, Presley, Me & Grandma



Brandi, Lorri & I had some time to do a little crafting. Aren't they so cute!?






I finally got around to making us a Christmas wreath that I have been wanting to make for quite awhile now. I love how it turned out, I had to share it with you!




The first weekend of December Logan and I went to Festival of Trees. It was pretty fun, but we went on a really crowded night so it was a little crazy. The most impressive things were the gingerbread houses. This is just one of them but they were all incredible!





A tree made entirely our of Christmas Ornaments



My favorite car :) a Fiat Cinquecento. I used to see these everywhere when I was in Italy, it was so fun to see one in person again!


Last weekend we had a little get-together at my cousins and made gingerbread houses. Ours was pretty sad and slightly unfinished. But hey thanks to the Silhouette we had a sleigh with reindeer and a little forest outside our home.

haha...everytime I look at it I am reminded of how pathetic it was, at least we had fun!



Maddox, Kara & Lani
I love this picture!



Logan & me



Lola & Logan
When I pulled out my camera Lola asked to see a picture of uncle Logan. I told her I didn't have any pictures of him on there then so she said she'd take one with him. She crawled up on his lap and sat perfectly still. I took the picture then she got down and came and saw the picture since uncle Logan was in it. She is so cute!

this morning

This is what our counter looked like this morning when I left for work. Logan went to bed not feeling well and still didn't feel well this morning. Hopefully he gets better soon!

Fisherman's Friend-the BEST cough drops in the world, they taste pretty nasty but they work miracles!

Emergen-C-what we both have been downing to get some extra vitamins in our body

L-Lysine-what I am taking cause I'm getting a cold sore from stress mixed with too much citric acid from the Emergen-C!

Aspirin

Night Time Relief so Logan can sleep good and get better

Day Relief

Purell-gotta get rid of germs!

Just my luck...

So last Friday the 29th of October I was planning on making chili for our ward chili cook-off. I went to the store to get white beans (because I forgot them when I went to the store earlier in the week-of course). I went to Macey's grocery store and the shelf was completely empty, I had to get the chili in the crock-pot ASAP so it would taste good. So I asked a worker if they could check the back...NOTHING. SO I rushed down the road a few miles to a Smith's grocery store. It took me awhile just to find the aisle because I don't usually shop there and just my luck, the shelf was empty. They were completely out of white beans as well. Weird. So I splurged and bought the organic ones, I wasn't gonna risk going to another store to find an empty shelf.

Then, on Saturday the 30th, we were going to decorate cupcakes, as seen below, so I went to WalMart to buy a bunch of candy. I really wanted licorice strings and I figured WalMart had to have them. Well as I was walking down the candy aisle a looked to my right where all the licorice should have been but of course the shelf was empty, wow what luck.

Finally on Thursday of this week I ordered Logan and I some pizza for dinner. The pizza guy said it would be about 30 mins til it was done. So I left about 25 mins later to go pick it up. When I got there they asked if I was here for the Robins pizza, I said yes and this is what they said. We are out of cheese. Honestly??? You're out of cheese? How is that possible? So I said, ok well how long will it be? They said about 5-10 mins, which I totally didn't believe, so I said ok I'll wait in my car. By the time my pizza was done I had waited about 25 mins, but in the end we got an extremely delicious pizza, free cinnamon knots and 20% off our order. It was worth it.

Next time I go anywhere for ONE thing I think I'll just expect them to not have it!

Halloween Festivities

FYI there are a lot of pictures in this post! My oldest brother, Zac works for Adobe and every year they go OVER THE TOP with Halloween. There are 3 huge buildings and each building has a bunch of teams in it, each team gets a theme and that's where it all starts. They decorate the entire office with their theme and get some pretty wild costumes. Some teams even brought gravel and sod into the office, and another team built a waterfall, it was pretty crazy. Zac and Kara invited us along with Blake and Julie to the party on Friday afternoon.

me and the Adobe lego man

Lola showing uncle Logan her teeth

Duck Hunt-this building was all about games, my brothers team did battleship and everyone on his team dressed up as sailors, it was pretty funny.

the gang

Lola loves the Shrek movies right now so she had to get a picture with Shrek

this section of one office was all about breakfast cereals, nice face Blake ;)

A week ago we carved pumpkins at David and Natalies house, we had so much fun! This picture is about a week after we made them so they don't look very good. Logan's on the left was a silly smily face and mine on the right was a witch on a broom.

And last night for Halloween we went over to Blake and Julies. We made homemade pizzas, decorated cupcakes and watched a Harry Potter movie.

Blake's silly face with his silly ninja turtle cupcake

my lumberjack husband, his cupcake was a tree stump with an axe in it

Oh Nathan...his cupcake was a snowman in springtime!

I made a mummy

I loved these cupcakes, Blake is holding Frankenstein and a pumpkin, David is holding a pumpkin and Natalie made a really cool spiderweb. (sorry Natalie about David's face!!)

These were a good part of our cupcakes, we had a lot of fun with this.

Julie (Hermoine-is that how you spell it?) and Brenna (a super cute Giraffe!)

Lumberjack Logan and Curly Cleoptra

Hermoine and Storm Trooper

David-didn't dress up-borrrring!! JK, Nathan wearing his costume from Disneyland when he worked at the canoes, Logan and Blake. They were trying to be in character, pretend Logan is holding an axe.

Happy Halloween!!!

Maddox

My brother Ryan and his wife Lani had their little baby on September 22 and I could hardly wait to see the little guy. Ryan came up to Utah for a job interview and I was expecting only him to come. But when he got up here he called me and said "Dresden walk out to the car I have something for you." So I didn't really think much of it but when I got out to the car he opened the door and there were Lani and Maddox!! Such a fun surprise, sadly I was very sick at the time and couldn't even hold him. Luckily they stayed most of this week so by the end I was well enough to hold him. And it was fabulous!! It's so fun to hold a newborn. Maddox is such a good baby he rarely cries and just stares at you. So congratulations again Ryan and Lani, you've got the cutest little boy in the world :)

AND all in the same week I found out I am going to be an aunt AGAIN! Congratulations Zac and Kara on the new baby you will be bringing into this world sometime in May (I think), Lola is gonna be such a good older sister!

10/8/2010

Lola and Maddox-Lola did pretty good holding him and giving him lots of kisses but when he'd cry or get fussy she'd get a little scared :)

The Best Two Years...so far

2/2008 Orem, Ut

3/2008 Rancho Cucamonga, Ca

3/2008 Provo, Ut

5/2008 American Fork Canyon, Ut

7/2008 Lake Arrowhead, Ca

8/2008 SLC, Ut

9/2008 Maple Grove, Ut

9/2008 Los Angeles, Ca

7/2009 Lake Arrowhead, Ca

11/2009 Bisbee, Az

12/2009 Salina, Ut

4/2010 Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Ut

5/2010 Disneyland

6/2010 Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Ut

8/2010 SLC, Ut

8/2010 Salina, Ut

Last Summer Vacation

Last weekend Logan, Blake, Julie and I met my parents in St. George for a little vacation. It was supposed to be my entire family, but my oldest brother Zac just started his Master's Degree program at UofU and Ryan's wife is about to have a baby. I guess they had good excuses not to come ;) Luckily we found out that Sand Hollow Lake in St George is an awesome lake to go to so now the whole family can go there another time. Through my high school years my family vacationed in Laughlin every summer, it has been awhile since we did that so this trip to the lake was very exciting. I LOVE being at a lake, I am not an ocean/beach girl in any way, I love knowing there are no sharks in the water I am swimming in!
Logan's parents were coming down for our brother in laws demolition derby so they came a day early and spent the day at the lake with us. It was fun having them there and we're glad they made it!

Logan and I looking very lovely after a long day at the lake



Our niece Presley loves the water, I had just tried water skiing ( I didn't get up unfortunately, it's been a few years since I last did it) so when I was about to get out Presley decided she wanted to swim with me.



Blake & Logan both jumped off this cliff



This picture was taken right after we set up our day camp, notice how Logan is not sunburned? Well he got fried that day!



Logan's parents joined us for the day and brought this water weenie...
it was definitely the hit of the day.



Logan, Blake, Lorri, & Lynn



Almost everyone who went, Brandi & Presley joined us later
in the day for a couple hours of fun



Logan, Lynn, Blake, Julie and Brandi
(of course the times I went on I didn't get any pics, I promise I did go :))



Tough Guy ;)


Well Friday was a wonderful day on the lake but we were not up for another day. Saturday we spent the day driving through Zion's National Park and relaxing before the demolition derby. I've been craving Mexican Food for about 2 months now and finally I got to have it. We ate at a delicious Mexican Restaurant just outside of Zions, finally got my fix!

Me and Logan



We stopped at one point because there was a whole
family of these guys, so cool!


Our brother in law Roudy was in a demolition derby on Saturday in Hurricane. He has been working on his car for a year now so we were all pretty excited to go. This was my second demolition derby, if you can call the first one that-it only had 4 cars in it! It was a lot of fun, the trucks were our favorite by far because they went a lot faster and hit harder. Good time overall!

This is Roudy in his car just started out in the derby



Sadly Roudy's car didn't last very long...here it is being dragged out of the arena