family |ˈfam(ə)lē|

Here is a much needed update of a family photo we took while we were in St. George

My cousin Savanah took it here is her photo blog I love it, love her!

http://savanahsmilesphoto.blogspot.com/

Oh and shhh because it is a Christmas surprise for my mom. My dad told her he lost all the copies of the pictures, she was not to happy. But hopefully she will be when she opens up a huge framed copy of it on Christmas Day. :)

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For Thanksgiving we headed down south with my family to Vegas and St. George for a week to spend some time with my grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins!

These are all the Vegas pictures I got, too busy shopping!

We had to take the classic/cheesy cousins on the stairs picture, but were missing half of us.

girls cousins whom i LOVE, my wonderful grandparents, cute little Karston, and of coarse some football watching

more Karston, cousins in the WARM St. George weather, boys, and siblings!

We had a great Thanksgiving with LOTS of the best things family, food and shopping!

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a colormekatie picture, thanks MB for introducing me i am only a little obsessed

how rad is this picture

i love colored tights

i love them so much that maybe i wore around my new purple tights all day even though i was just doing homework at home, just maybe.

i also love lower case i's so much better then capital I's. Ryan thinks that i just forget to capitalize and that i am punctuating wrong (which okay he has a point i do that a lot) but hey its my blog i will do what i want. :)

love letter

Ryan and I like leaving each other little notes around the house when we might not see each other for a while, I guess you could call them love letters. They were quite frequent last fall in d.c. because our schedules were so opposite lucky now we see each other lots but that means less letters.

I love Ryans letters they are always on lined paper in black pen and always make me smile. I save them all he is so good with words.I am not so good with words so mine or usually a little different, they are random shapes and colors and short but sometimes there are lots of them :) When i went to Europe i hid twenty i love you notes all over our apt for Ryan to find while I was away some harder then others so he would not find them all the first day. He found them all except for the one in the microwave, yes the microwave he did not use it for two and half weeks!

Anyways what reminded me of love letters is i got one today, ry's out of town and it was on the fridge when i got home from work and it made my day.

So sense I wont be home when he gets back tomorrow i left him a note, we will see if he finds it i tried to put it in a spot that was not too hard.

ta-da

inside the bathroom mirrors

i love my hub

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is to sing loud for all to hear

Thank you buddy the Elf... that is my new plan of attack to get my bahumbug husband excited for Christmas this year. Today the christmas decorations went up, it was our first time and it was fun. Oh i am so excited for the holidays!!! Thanksgiving in four days and we leave tomorrow for St. George/ Vegas.

Also can i just say that New Moon made me so happy, i want to go again STAT.

I went to the movie wearing an Edward shirt because Edward in the book is just dreamy, but I left the movie wanting a Jacob shirt...

i mean seriously....

Taylor Lautner you have made me a

Jacob fan and even made me tear up when

when you were asking Bella to choose you,

because I knew she couldn't.

chesse

Pictures with Ryan's Family!

Ry's aunt took them she is awesome

the list

How cool would it be to have a gigantic library in your house like in Beauty and the Beast, where there are ladders to climb and endless books to read. i want one.

Lately i just want to read, lots, but don't have that much time at least not for another 4 weeks and then I can get started on my list of books I want to read. It keeps growing faster than I can read them, but one day I will.

the list

in no specific order

The Other Boleyn girl

Pride and Prejudice

Wuthering Heights

Huckleberry Finn

Macbeth

Dracula

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Secret Life of Bees

The hundred secret senses

Work and the Glory

1776

Chronicles of Narnia

The count of Monte Cristo

The Difference Maker

Series of Unfortunate Events

Les Miserables

Stand for Something

The Kite Runner

Anne Frank

Gone with the Wind

The Hunger Games (currently reading)

Catching Fire (next)

Sense and Sensibility

Feel free to add some more of your favorites to my list