Tucano's

We love this place!  It is always amazing!  This time we were lucky enough to go with the ENTIRE Winn family!  Dad bought us all gift cards here for Christmas so naturally we used them together!  Thanks for a fun night guys!

The Whole Family

Can you tell Madi was excited for that giant chocolate cake??

Silly faces from Cody & Lexi

I don't think anyone enjoyed dessert as much as Halli!!

I have lost my mind...

Seriously, I have lost my mind. Don't believe me? Want me to prove it? Fine, I will.

It was a cold January morning, 5:42 am, I was DRIVING down the freeway on my way to work when all of a sudden I got really anxious.  I had forgotten my CAR KEYS!! I frantically began searching the pockets of my coat, the pockets of my hoodie, the pockets of my scrubs, my purse, my cup holders, yes even the ignition.  I finally found my keys on the passenger seat when I realized, I am still DRIVING.  So obviously my keys were somewhere with me!

I am grateful for modern marvels, such as my key-less entry and the fact that my car keys don't have to be in the ignition to drive, they must simply be in the car.  It's really nice and convenient. I have even become very lazy when driving other vehicles that require a key to start the car.  But on mornings when I have left my brain in bed, it would be nice to know my keys are nice and safe in the ignition!!

Told you I had lost it.  Someday I may stumble across it.

Stacie & Tyson...Are Moving!

So Stacie & Tyson are moving...to Kansas!  Crazy huh!  Stacie thankfully doesn't leave for a few months but Tyson however leaves next week.  Of course we wanted to get together before he leaves us so we headed to Famous Dave's!  We love going here with these guys!  We always get the All American Feast which we were able to polish off once upon a time but now we must be weak because we had TONS left! We ended up being there for several hours just chatting!  It was so fun to go out with both of you for one last time!  Good luck, Tyson! You will do great at Cerner! And don't worry, we will be coming to visit sometime soon!

Life...

Life has been going good, very busy, but good.  We are just holding on tight, trying to enjoy the ride!  There has been lots of work, visiting with Amanda & Stacie, visiting Marci & her new cute baby, babysitting Briele (I just LOVE her!!), dinners with family & friends, sending out Christmas cards (yup, I just mailed them, and don't feel bad if you don't get one, pretty much I only had time to send them to grandparents!), dinner & movie nights with Thurston's, Raymond has started school so lots of homework, lots of scouts activities, lots of cleaning...I had glitter everywhere from our Christmas Decor, like I said...busy. Being busy helps keep us warm, and since our house is FREEZING, thats great!  Hope everyone is having a wonderful January!

Happy New Year!

Our new year celebration was quite mellow this year which was great by me.  We started building our storage room since we have been trying to get to it for months and we both had a few days off.  We spent new years eve building, had a delicious steak & potato dinner, then we headed to Brigham and hung out with the Whipple's for a couple hours.  We played a new game that was really fun!  I think it's called Things, I want to get it!  Then we headed over to Thurston's to hang out, eat some good snacks, watch a movie and ring in the new year!  I got a nice big smooch at midnight, which I quite enjoyed!

On new years day we went to church, worked on the storage room, had a good nap and then we went to Cody's house to have dinner with him, Lexi, Jess & Kip.  Once again, delicious steaks...I promise we do eat other things too!  Lexi and Briele wore me out!  Those two gals are SO active! On Monday, I ended up getting to hang out with Lexi which was great, we played games, watched movies, ate pizza and snuggled!! Raymond and our friend Danny worked on our storage room and then we worked our day away til we went to bed!  Not the most relaxing couple days off but we are so happy our storage room is well on its way to being finished!! Yay!!

New Years Eve & Day

So I had been gradually getting ill since before Texas.  As we were flying, I realized the near-death of me due to explosion of my sinuses is not normal and it only got worse as time went on.  So at the cabin I was getting sicker & sicker to the point of severely disturbing my sleep, and Raymond's.  So then when we got home it hit hard!  I was miserable and completely useless.  So it kinda put a crinkle in our New Year plans.  We had planned on partying it up with the Thurston's but instead we headed over to Jess & Kip's (since they don't care if I am a sniffling sneezing germ infested mutant).  We were able to hang out with them Briele and my dad.  We had a delicious steak & Cajun shrimp dinner with wrapped jalapeños & stuffed mushrooms...seriously my favorite meal!  We played Smart A** like 10 times and watched some of the New Year's Eve show at Times Square. It was way fun! On New Year's Day we chilled throughout most of the day and then we went to El Parrel for dinner with Jess & Kip and Cody & Lisa.  We then played the Wii and relaxed at Cody & Lisa's.  It was a great day!!