Happy Thanksgiving

Just thought I would post and say Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I am grateful to be with family and friends. We had a great Thanksgiving dinner, and I love spending time with everyone. I am grateful for all of them. I am grateful for my husband, education, the free country we live in, health, vacations, nail polish, clothes, make-up, Cafe Rio, washers/dryers, purses, high heels, cowboy boots, jewelry, laughing, dancing, singing, music, church, good examples in my life, being able to read, coaching cheer, doing nails, working out, beaches, sleep, my bed, my computer, and having a fun time . Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!

Winter Wonderland

Well last night I went to the Bateman meeting, and I got an email from one of my teachers. She said that I had to do a presentation on my country report. I didn't know until 9:00 last night that I was going to have to present. Since I was gone last week on the cruise everyone signed up and the only time open was for the next day. I was stressed out because I had a law test and another presentation the next day. Well I woke up early and made a poster, researched information on Costa Rica (my country) and then I went to class. I presented both, and I handed out bananas since Costa Rica's main cash crop is bananas. Luckily, since the huge blizzard was coming through they closed the testing center! I was glad because I was already worn out with all the school work. They are going to let me take the test on Monday. I also got a parking ticket because I took my parking permit off my mirror on the way to California and forgot to put it back on. Luckily, I was able to talk UVU out of charging me because I never had a ticket before. I thought this day was going to be horrible, and long but it went by and things turned around. It is nice being home and have it snow outside. It hasn't snowed as bad as I thought it was going to. I am excited for Thanksgiving too. 

BYU v New Mexico

We went to the BYU game with my cousins. It was cold, but BYU beat them. We had fun and we hung out and played games later that night. Whit and I went to the Riverwoods Mall and they have it decorated really cute for the holidays. They even gave us free apple cider, and we bought apple pie carmel apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory :) 

Mexico

The Baja races were going on while we were in Ensenada, Mexico. There were so many people there but it was warm and fun.

Mexico

This is in Ensenada, Mexico; and on the Cruise when we ate dinner when we dressed up for dinner. 

On the Cruise

This is on our cruise. We stopped at Catalina Island and it was fun to tour the town. I had been on this same cruise with my cousins before, but Eric's work got this cruise. We had tons of fun and Laken and I sang "Cowboy Take me Away" by the Dixie Chicks one night that they had karaoke. 

I Love the Vegas..

This is in Vegas. We stayed at Tahiti Village and Whit came and stayed with us. We stayed here on our way to California. We went to Claim Jumper and relaxed in the hot tub and of course- Whit and I had to stop at H&M :)!

Winter Cupcakes

These are some cupcakes I made for a get together at my Grandma Walpoles. I got the snowflakes from Cracker Barrel and they are made in German and they are edible! They were pretty good, I just thought they were really cute. 

Halloween.. I'm a little behind..

This was on Halloween 2010. Olivia was dressed as a lady bug and we gave her all the candy we had because we thought that we were going to be gone before any trick-or-treaters came by. However, four kids showed up and we were all out of candy! We only had Mountain Dew so we asked their parents if it was okay if they had that for treats, well the kids loved it! It was hilarious. I made these Oreo Bombs for our Halloween party. We had a doughnut eating contest and I dressed as Dorothy and Eric dressed as a pirate. It was lots of fun. (My pictures wouldn't turn for the blog .. sorry)

This is down by Greenriver. We went down and rode the rhino, four wheelers, and the boys rode their motorcycles. It was perfect weather and it was such a fun ride. I loved it. 

These are pictures of the girls that I coach at Maple Mountain High School. These pictures were taken at their homecoming game and their last home game. 

This is at the Race Against Malaria 5k I ran a few weeks ago. It was fun and it was in Mapleton! 

Union Station

More from DC

This is when we went to the Pentagon. We got a personal tour. It was an amazing experience. We got our pictures taken in the Department of Defense Press Room! 

This is on our tour of the Capitol Building. We were able to go on a tour of the building, and meet with Senator Hatch and Senator Bennett's press secretaries and learn about public relations work from them.