Christmas 2012

We love Christmas at our house.  Michael has been playing Christmas music since July and I love getting out all of the decorations and decorating the tree with our childhood ornaments.  I made two new wreaths this year.  The Santa wreath and the tinsel one.  Our house looked so cute and festive. 

 We are always trying out new Christmas trees.  Tall and skinny, short and fat, this year we went with more of a Charlie Brown tree.  It was pretty spread out and had cute little pine cones on it. The

 This was the first year we have been able to put up Christmas lights and so we put some up.  Mom and Dad have plenty to spare so they let us have their old house lights.  I didn't take a picture of it, but Mom surprised me with a cute old fashioned lighted snow man to decorate our yard with.  He is a cute hard plastic snow man with a pipe and top hat. 

The weekend before Christmas Michael and I took a trip to temple square to enjoy the lights and have a honeymoon getaway.  We ended our little trip with our first car purchase as a couple.  I love my new car.  It's a hatchback cross over that will be great for our little family. 

Christmas Eve we enjoyed some tasty food, exchanged our home made gifts and everyone participated in the family Christmas talent show. 

 Grandpa always gets to emotionally touched when Granny plays the piano.  So cute.

  After the talent show Michael and I spent some time with his family because we would have to take off early Christmas evening so I could be ready to go back to work on the 26th.  It was a short trip but so fun.

Hernandez Thanksgiving Day

This year after Thanksgiving dinner the Hernandez family went shooting in my parents field.  We had a BB gun for the kids, .22 rifles and a 30.06 rifle for the grown ups. We lined up cans and old food storage tins for practice.  Later we had our very own target practice competition.

Josh and Nick shooting.  Nick ended up with the highest score at target practice and Josh with the lowest. Better luck next time!

 The 30.06 was really loud, even with ear plugs, so we all covered our ears.

 Cammy and Megan took turns helping the girls shoot the BB gun at the pop cans.

The first Hernandez family shoot out.

The kids posing with the BB Gun.

 Megan out shot Michael!

We had a great thanksgiving with good food, fun shooting, and Christmas crafts.  Cammy brought supplies for the girls to make Christmas ornaments and for the women to make pretty Christmas wreaths.  This is how mine turned out. 

I am so thankful for the wonderful family I married into.  They are so loving and fun to spend time with.  Michael and I are very blessed to have them in our lives. 

Football

Michael's Dad came up for AJ and Jordan Hernandez's wedding reception and we were finally able to take him to a BSU football game.  It sprinkled on us a little but the game was a victory and a lot of fun. 

Chelsi's Homecoming!

 Chelsi has returned from the Alpine German Speaking Mission and I am so happy to have her back home!  She did not get to report in the old Unity ward because they are doing some extensive remodeling. Mom and Dad now meet at the LDS church on 16th st. Unity building should be completed next summer.  Nonetheless, Chelsi did a beautiful job and it was fun celebrating with family that weekend.  I am grateful to have her back home.  Chelsi is a positive person and always kind and thoughtful.  Now we are saving a $$ to fund a trip to Germany.  Michael and Chelsi wish very much to go back and visit.  It is fun having another German speaker in the family!

They are using part of the baseball field to make additional parking.
  

The gym is now going to be overflow to the new chapel that is being added to the West of the gym.   They are also taking out the upper primary, and lower young women's room and bathroom so that the building is wheelchair accessible. The old chapel will turn into classrooms.  I am excited for the finished product next summer!

North End Zone: BSU vs BYU

 Dad felt a little torn between BSU and BYU at the game, since he studied at BYU in his younger days :).  He wasn't alone.  In the bleachers in front of us we saw a mixed BYU/BSU family.  The girls even sewed half of an orange BSU shirt to a gray BYU shirt.  The game wasn't much to watch with the score being 0-0 at the half.  It didn't pick up much from there with the end game score of 7-6.

 We sat in the North end zone.  It was fun watching the kids get super excited to catch the football after the warm up field goal kicks. 

Boise was really smokey today.  Just look at the sky in this picture of Michael and Me.

 Boise State runs out the clock.  Game over. Boise State Wins.

 So glad Mom and Dad could come and take us to the game.  It was a lot different then sitting in the student section.  Next time bring ear plugs... because we were right in front of the speakers.

Orlando Florida Vacation

 We spent a week in Florida with my family for Christmas in 2010 and somehow, I never blogged about it.  But just recently Michael surprised me with the most awesome gift.  He made me a picture book of our trip to Disney World through Shutterfly.com.  I couldn't believe it!

Disney World is Huge and there are so many places to visit that it took us 2 days at Epcot, 1 day at Disney's Animal Kingdom, 1 day at Magic Kingdom, and 1 day at Disney's Hollywood Studios. We also spent one day at Universal Studios and saw "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter." Disney World is great fun! It was super decorated for Christmas, which I loved.  We had a coupon for a free book on shutterfly and I had totally forgotten about it.  I guess it was about to expire so Michael beat the deadline and created this awesome picture book for me.  What a sweet guy!

Happy Harvest

I have really been excited about canning and eating from our garden this year.  We (Mom, Dad, Julio, and I) all helped out in the garden this year and it was our best yet.  We grew peas, beans, pumpkins, turnips, basil, radishes, carrots, squash, corn, red potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce... and I am probably missing several others.  I love eating fresh tomatoes and other fruit from Mom's yard.  Her pears did really well this year as did her raspberries, currents, and strawberries.  I had to take a picture to remember our beautiful garden. 

Dad helped me pick corn from Pat and Darrell's house.  We picked 5 bags or so.  Then we came home husked it, washed it, and prepared it for the freezer.  Dad helped me with it all!  I was so glad to have been able to spend the morning and early afternoon working with my Dad in the kitchen and that Pat and Darrell had plenty of corn to spare!