Saturday, January 05, 2013

New Year

In Utah,
we've had some record colds
for the past week.
I've loved all the snow.

I don't think Olive has though.
Check out her water
frozen over.



We've all been enjoying our
Christmas gifts.
Caroline is up to her same antics.
But like her shirt says,
she is the best present ever
so it's o.k. that
she's spoiled rotten.
Right?

Notice that Santa
did bring the girl
all she wanted.
Make-up and nail polish.

Sophia finally got a fijit (she's wanted it for 2 years
and Santa found it on sale at Target for $15.)
Caroline with her make-up case.
 She has carried it around the house with all her treasures.
Bella with her FurReal Pets.
Abigail with her combat boots. Katniss style.
My favorite gift you ask?
It is a 50/50 toss up between
my pizelle maker
that I asked for on pinterest
and
the diamond earrings
that LG
picked out
all by myself.


But my favorite of all was this purse.
I've been looking for the perfect purse for 3 years.
LG and I spotted this at TJMaxx a week after Christmas
but it was $100 so I put it back.
LG went back to the store
on his own accord and
surprised me with it for no reason at all
on New Year's Eve.

He said it is my
"the party is over" purse.
That means I'll have it to enjoy
when I go back to living on a
non-Christmas bonus budget.
It makes me so happy every time I see it.


I love this photo from Christmas.
Abigail thought that Bella's present was awesome.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is
taking the girls to the Dollar Tree and letting them shop.
It always proves to be entertaining.
I justify the expense by only letting them shop
for a select few and by
not doing stockings.


Oh yeah, this post was supposed to be about New Year.
Well, we had a great New Year.
We got to be reunited with our good friends
The Varnon Family
from Knoxville TN.
They were bringing Jordan out
for his first semester of college
and stayed with us a few days.

That's Jordan.

The kid figured out that he can dominate
at Just Dance4 by only moving his arm.

Yeah, our family room is not made for 13 people,
but cozy is how we prefer to do things around here.

I suck at dancing.
But man I'm looking fit,
even with that layered looking
hanging all out.

Isn't Caroline the cutest?
She's a great dancer.

So are all these girls.

Of course we took the obligatory outoftowners
sightseeing trip to
Temple Square.
Here are two of my favorite photos.
I wish I had more time to play with  my camera.



Here are the Varnon's
in front of the historical
Salt Lake Temple.

And here they are
in the Conference Center.



We stopped in at the church's
Historical Museum.
They have a pretty great kids' wing.

LG was pretty sick that day.
What a trooper.


I'm always amazed at how
some of my favorite pictures
are the spontaneous ones.
I sure love these kids.





Oh yeah,
we have rung in the New Year
 with the Varnon's
every year but 2011 for about 10 years.
We missed our other
partners in crime
The Ryan family.

I am pretty certain
this year was the best.
The photo says it all.


We did some other fun stuff
while the Varnon's were here.
We went up to see
Bridal Veil Falls.
We saw a funny movie.
(Highly recommend Here Comes the Boom).
We went to BYU.
We checked out Deseret Industries.
And last but certainly not least,
we went sledding.








If you made it this far in the post,
you are our true friends
and you are invited
to come and crash at our house
past the 3 day
fish and family stink
rule
any time.

Happy New Year y'all.

We love you Varnon family.
Hope you still love us
after spending that much time at our house.

3 comments:

Lori said...

Wow, that was an awesome monster post!! I love your purse.

Laura said...

Happy new year!

ShEiLa said...

Hey Miss Alice...

I have missed you and reading this post made me all sorts of happy inside. Your girls are beautiful and it has been my pleasure watching them grow up.

I love the RED bag... but I am a bag lady at heart. My problem is I have a hard time spending more than $20 on a bag because between 3-6 months... I want a new bag. I guess I like change.

As always I love your photo sharing.

ToOdLeS.