HAPPINESS

When I sat down to write this post I had the intention of venting about my bad week but as I thought about all of the things that happened to me I realized something...

I have way too many things to be happy about then to waste my time on the negative things. My problems are so small compared to so many people that are struggling in our world. Granted I have days where I get out of the car and step into huge puddles of water, or days that I spend searching the house for whatever is causing that horrible smell only to realize we have a dead squirrel in our fireplace...YAY, or wanting to pull out my hair because of other things that stress me out, but I realized I have way too many things to be happy about and too many other things that bring me true happiness then to waste my time dwelling on things that really don't matter and I no longer feel the need to complain. To instead be grateful for what I have. An amazing family, a great job, a car to drive home in at night, a house to come home to, and a wonderful husband who knows me, who really knows me and that makes me happier then I ever thought I could be.

I SEE LONDON I SEE FRANCE...

AND I WILL IN MARCH OF 2010!

I felt this awesome news deserved its own post!

My sweet husband SURPRISED me on Christmas with the trip of a lifetime to Europe!

Can you believe it?

So I guess that means my next venture is to learn French!

Can you say Rosetta Stone???

DON'T WORRY I DIDN'T GIVE UP!

Do you ever go a while without posting and then all of the sudden so much time has gone by and the thought of posting sounds completely overwhelming? Well, that is about where I am. So I am just going to do one giant catch up post then I will do better because I have too many fun things coming up to put it off.

We went home to Utah for Christmas. I absolutely love going home obviously to see our families and friends but also because it is our home and it feels good to be home. We were there for about 10 days. And it was 10 days of bliss! We got to see everyone we hoped for. And Christmas Day was amazing! We are so lucky to have such great families. We got WAY WAY too spoiled! Here's a recap of our trip!

Ski day at Snow Basin with Harv and Lara...

Skeet shooting with Cody's dad...

We are so hard core! hahaha

Camerons baby blessing...

Me and baby Cameron...

Me wrestling with Drake in my church clothes...

Don't mind the socks, I had boots on...

New Years eve with my brothers Matt and Ben and my sister-in-law McCall. (Lauren was still out of town.) The best part of the night was when McCall popped open the Martinellies and realized they didn't have champagne glasses so we drank out of clear plastic cups. It was funny when we realized it looked like beer. So of course I had to take a few pics of pregnant McCall drinking her "beer"

Me just throwing back hahaha!

AND no pictures from Christmas Day or of Cody's moms festivities!!!! What is wrong with me? The day is always so busy for us running from place to place. We opened presents on Christmas morning with Cody's mom and then she made her famous breakfast. Then we headed to my parents to do Christmas "morning" with my fam and then we headed out to Cody's dads that night. Always fun but it is A LOT of driving. But don't worry its worth it!

OUR CUTE NIECES AND NEPHEWS

My family got together last Sunday and took this picture of all of our nieces and nephews. We couldn't be there so I wanted to post about it. We miss them so much!

THANKSGIVING FESTIVITIES!

We just got back from our Thanksgiving vacation to Utah. I must say Cody and I are getting extremely good at jam packing 50 things into one weekend. We started off our week by driving to Utah! We swore we would never do it again after we drove the big huge Penske truck but when you are getting paid to do the drive it makes it better. Our intention was to make the trip in one day but we got on the road later then planned so we decided to get a hotel and finish the drive the following day. So where did we stay??? Yep! Wendover baby! ha ha

The next day we met my family in SLC for some lunch and a little shopping. That is where I got to meet my nephew baby Cameron for the first time! Only 8 days old! Thanks Kate for bringing him!

Then later that night we headed down to St. George with Cody's fam for the rest of the week. St. George is always so fun because it is so relaxing. We saw 2 movies,

THIS

AND

THIS,

both SO GOOD

and went shopping, played games, went to dinner, etc.

And this is Cody's cute family! Mar wanted some more pics for their house so we took a few! This is just one of the many!

Thanks everyone for such a fun trip home!