Happy Birthday Momma!

We celebrated my mom's special night together as a family and ate our favorite...spaghetti and alfredo pasta then had ice cream cake for dessert! It was delicious! 

10 Things about Pam....

1. She is my best friend...after getting through the tough junior high days of course!

2. She teaches me patience and compassion for others

3. She rocks out to country music on a daily basis with me!

4. She has gorgeous blue eyes

5. She is a great example of a wife and mother

6. She has a mad obsession with Gary Allan :)

7. She cooks the BEST lasagna

8. She loves sugar cookies and I inherited her massive sweet tooth

9. She is so crafty and every year I try to learn something new from her!

10. She has crazy curly hair....and I love it!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

Burrr Lake and the Cisco Disco

The weekend of January 20th we ran up to Bear Lake to play in the snow and do the Cisco Disco! The weather was clear but cold! My dad and I woke up early Saturday and Sunday morning and drove over to the East shore to Cisco Beach to scoop up some fish! It was much harder than we were told it would be! Saturday morning the wind was blowing so hard and the waves were HUGE...we stayed for about 3 hours and didnt catch one single cisco fish! So we headed back to the condo and took the kids sledding and then went to the Marina to watch the polar bear plunge and hang out as a family! Sunday morning we woke up and the weather was gorgeous but freezing cold...we got to the beach and the water was so calm...we walked out and immediately caught the first fish and then had a great day! We went home with 15 little cisco and were so proud of our first CISCO DISCO and cant wait to make it a family tradition! 

 Saturday morning...the picture doesnt do justice for how big the waves were! 

 Big Poppa and I

 My first cisco experience! 

 Gorgeous sky!

 Tater so excited and so nervous for her first downhill sledding experience!

 Tuggin' the princess up the hill!

 First ride down...cried at first then laughed all the way down!

 Real men wear purple!...and pink boots!

 Mandi and her little man!

 Nonna, Mayci and Poppa enjoying the sled hill!

 Sledding Champs!...we raced Mandi and J and won!!!

 Racing...meeting Gram at the bottom!

 Beautiful Bear Lake Marina in January

 Girlies

 Tough guys

 The polar bear plunge!...crazy people!

 Sunday morning's first catch! 

 Serenity

Scoopin' some cisco! 

Neff's Canyon

I needed to get out and up into the mountains Saturday and Amanda called wondering if I wanted to go snowshoeing with her. I was out and about shopping at the Patagonia outlet and got some new snow pants regularly like $250 for only $29 bucks! It was a steal of a deal! So when Amanda called I was all over getting out! We hiked up Neffs Canyon and I had never been there before so it was fun to see a new place! It was beautiful, so close to home and best of all I got to take Sad with me and she had such a blast chasing Pike all over the place! 

Back to School!~

Today was the start of my final semester in nursing school! Wahoo! It's been a long time coming! This semester I get to do my high acuity clinical's in an ICU at the University Hospital and my community clinical's at the county jail...Im both excited and scared for my life but so happy that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and my career as a nursing student for the last 5 years will finally be coming to an end! So here's to the next 4 months of my life being dedicated to the books!

Bye Bye 2010...

So many great things happened in 2010...

it was a year full of love, laughter, lessons and loss

and experiences I wouldn't change for the world!

 Visiting the 4 corners and being in 4 places at once! 

Hiking Angels Landing in the winter

 Trip out to Estes Park, CO to hike Rocky Mountain NP

 A fall trip to Zions and hiking on a cold, rainy day which created AMAZING waterfalls!

 Trick or treating at work with Mayci

 A gorgeous fall with the brightest leaves! 

 Girls day out!

Only 1 semester left of nursing school!

 Jayden's first birthday

 Tons of trips out to the lake!

Snowshoeing with the Grizzly Girl...missing her a lot!

 Hiking

Standing in the pouring rain for 11 hours listening to country music!! Totally worth it!

Zip-lining through the jungle in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico...one of the most amazing days of my life!

Swimming at Bear Lake!

The year 2010 taught me a lot of really great things and I got the chance to experience amazing places with fabulous people! Im so grateful for the life I live, the people who surround me, and all the opportunities I have, I truly am one lucky girl! Im looking forward to all the wonderful things ahead in 2011!.... and most importantly finishing nursing school!! 

Addicted!

The Bachelor....

Brad Womack is back and looking better than ever! 

As of tonight Im pulling for cute southern Emily!...let's hope she doesn't turn out crazy! 

He will be my new Monday night addiction for the next 2 months! 

Please don't interrupt me between 8 and 10 ;) 

Thanks!

Ringing in 2011

For new year's eve we originally had tickets to see Gary Allan at the House of Blues in Las Vegas but he had to have vocal cord surgery so it was cancelled and our tickets were refunded. So we rang in the new year snow shoeing, ice skating, and hanging out in -9 degree weather in Heber. Utah got a really good snow storm the night before we went up and there was 28 inches of fresh snow making for an amazing winter weekend. It was freezing cold but we had a great time!