To the Cutest Niece and Nephew I have!

Christmas Eve,

 {Ams} and I set out to take some super cute pics of the kids for Mom for Christmas. 

Our Super Secretive Mission: 

                .....ACCOMPLISHED..... 

Without mom even having a clue!

  

The one that made it into Grandmas Christmas Wrapping. Framed 8x10 style! 

I LOVE THIS ONE!!
Ams was pretending to be a monkey behind me, at least that's what I deducted from the sounds she was making.
 I love the tears in {Binkers} eyes and her nose flaring with laughter. 

Blue-eyed little {Bugs}. 

{Binker} is probably one of the most enthusiastic models I have.
She loves to strike up any sort of pose! 

The Past Two Weeks of Adventure and Awesomeness!

In the Past 2 weeks I have:

• Grappled and rappelled off of a random tree. 
• Gone to St. George for Thanksgiving. 
• Sledding in the Big Cottonwood Canyon. 
• Started up my photography business and had my first client this week!!!
• Been Dancing. 
• Built a fort/cave in our basement.
• Built a gingerbread house.
• FINISHED the Christmas lights outside and put them all on timers. 
• Read a couple of different books. 
• Played the piano and guitar for about 2 hours a day. 
• Swam a couple miles this week. 

Tommy, one of my really good friends and shipmates from the crew is up from the Dominican Republic right now and we have had a blast this last week doing all sorts of crazy stuff I've always wanted to do

 . . . So we . . .

• Rode our bikes up and down and around 3 Mountains. 

Half the time, we didn't really know where the trails were,
maybe because we were where most people would NEVER go Mountain Biking. 

We ran into some pretty spectacular hikers as well, and one was willing to take our picture, and he even managed to get in it somehow . . . 

Our view from midway down South Mountain.

We had just scaled down South Mountain from SunCrest, you know, where they paraglide . . . Yeah, my legs were so done and I had to sit down. But the ride was so worth it! The sock was to keep the pant leg from getting stuck in the chain and gears . . . highly fashionable, I know!

• Rode our bikes around downtown Salt Lake (best way to see the city). We parked up by the U of U next to a trax station and rode all the way down into the city. And when we were done, hopped back on Trax and got our door to door delivery service! It was Fantastic! It started snowing the last little bit to, so we found a little hot chocolate before we ended the trip. And then came on home. 

The Lights are incredible at the Temple right now! This year is one of the most spectacular displays I can ever remember! (It may be because I can, in a tiny way, appreciate all of the hard work that went into each tree and branch now) 

Abravanel Hall

Joseph Smith Building

The Gateway

• And the real kicker was tonight, for the first time ever in my life . . . we made SUSHI! 

It tasted SO GOOD!!

 I must admit, I fell into a two and a half hour sushi coma afterwards . . . I fell sound asleep. and then we watched BYU beat Hawaii soundly. (Tommy was raised in Hawaii) So, it was not a fun game for him, I quite enjoyed it. 

Such a great couple weeks! Filled with some crazy times! 

Welp, that's as good of an update as I've ever seen. Catch yah later! Thanks for sticking it to the end. 

May each day be better than the last!  

Have a good week!

Christmas Lights!!!

3 weeks . . . 

. . . . . 6 blown fuses. 

              . . . . 2 branch slaps to the eyeball. . . . . . 

And only a couple THOUSAND Lights Later . . . . 

And I Couldn't Be More ExCiTeD

About how Great our house looks this year! 

HaPpy HoLiDayS!!

Salt Lake Temple

Pictures of the Salt Lake Temple that I took today. 

Swimming in AZ

So, Basically I go swimming everyday!! Love it! I took my camera to the pool one day, and got some sweet shots. Our must haves at the pool . . . at least 3 tennis balls and my neighbors viking helmet. 

The Garden . . . AKA strip of dirt in our 'backyard'

My latest project . . .

Transforming a neglected weed festering strip of dirt into something pleasant.

                                       before                                                                   after

Even our Turtles that we keep in the back are happier!
They don't have to bush-wack it to there little home. 

Before

After
I also planted rows of lettuce and sugar snap peas on the other side of the Phoenix Roebelenii bush by the bikes. 

It has been a long process especially cause the only time I have to work on it is on Tuesday and Wednesdays. And at that time, everyone else is working, so it has been a one woman task . . . but definitely worth the effort. I go outside everyday to enjoy it. But, now it is up in the 90's so, don't know how often I'll be going out there . . . HOT!!!

Little Bit about Life as of Late

Well.

I am home for conference. Figured I would let anyone know, just in case they wanted to play this week. I'll be here until the 6th of April.

Work is going SO Well! I love it! I have my schedule figured out and am working 4 twelve hour shifts a week. I work Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 5 pm to 5 am. And then Mondays at 10 am. Kinda hard to switch to the day shift like that, but that's the scheduling office for yah, they really didn't think that would affect me and my partner to much. The hard part of it is, my weekend is on Tuesday and Wednesday, so dates are hard to schedule (not like I get asked much anyway, but hey).

I work on ambulance AP49 with Jason, who is freaking amazing!! He knows exactly where everything is and what needs to happen. I'll turn around to ask him to set something up, and he'll already have it ready, he anticipates like crazy! He is so good! We have way to much fun! We get run ragged though. The second we clear from a hospital after taking a patient there, dispatch drops another call on us. Which is good because it makes the night go a little faster, but it is very taxing! They only have a few ambulances running at night on the weekend covering the whole valley, so you can imagine how much they run us. The craziest part of it is, we'll easily put over 200 miles on a rig a night. Poor Jason has to drive so much, and he gets so tired sometimes. I have only had to throw things at him a couple of times from the back of the rig while we've had a patient, just to make sure he's alert, yah know. At any rate, I am loving my job, loving my room mates and my house. I am in the process of planting a garden, that will probably be my next post, that backyard is very neglected, but not for long.

Anyway. Life is grand!

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