Weekend of Fun!

The weekend started off with one of Jarom's mission buddies staying at our house! It was fun to listen to them talk about stuff from the mission! Than on Saturday night we decided to have Jarom's sisters stay over at our house because it was Jarom's parents anniversary. It was great, we played poker and as you can Larissa had beginners luck, and watched Iron Man and than crashed. It was lots of fun, thanks girls!

Jarom and his sisters!

Jarom being the dealer!

Thanks Nelson for the good times!

Christmas with the Dudleys!

Jarom and I have decided not to travel on Christmas day, but we are still taking turns with Holidays... anyways the very next morning after Christmas we took a very short trip up to salt lake to be with my family and celebrate Christmas with them. It was so much fun, and I pretty much love my family especially my nieces and nephew they are so darn cute.

Grandma Dudley and the Great Grand Kids. I love this picture, and I love my Grandma Dudley!

First Christmas Morning!

Christmas morning with Jarom was so much fun. We were both like two little kids! I love this man so much and he knew I would be missing my family lots on Christmas so he made sure to make it extra special! Thanks honey! :)

Christmas Goodies

Yes I know it is almost Valentines day, but better late than never. And i'm pretty proud of my Christmas goodies. Jarom and me had a few people we wanted to give gifts too so we decided to do treats!!!! yum! I got this amazing Sugar cookie recipe from my sister-in-law Tiff and than a great frosting recipe from my in-laws! I think they turned out great and I think they looked cute. But for those of you that don't know this is huge for me, because I don't cook and I cooked everything (with help from Jarom).. again even the frosting was homemade!!!

I have turned into what???

I know.... it has been forever since I blogged, I have turned into one of those people. The bad part is, is that I don't have a good excuse I just haven't done it. Well don't be too mad, i'm not blogging anything important right now, but posts will be coming soon. I promise!

First Christmas as Hubby and Wife..... AWWWWWW

Jarom and I decided that our tradition would be to put up Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. It was such a fun day. And thanks to our mom's and the dollar store, and a free tree we were able to make our home for very Christmasy. Now I don't take pictures well so these decorations may look a little ghetto, but I promise they are cute!!! :)
Jarom did a great job putting the lights on the house!

Our first tree together!!!! Jarom decorated most of it, with his mom helping with Festival of Trees while he was growing up I think he has learned a few things about decorating a tree!

Me wrapping present, I don't look great.. It was late but I was so excited for Christmas I wanted to start as soon as possible!

Christmas Decor on top of the fridge..

Christmas Decor on Table.

Thanksgiving Goodness!

Thanksgiving with the Taylors was a blast. It was my first Thanksgiving away from home. Don't worry I cried Wednesday night.. Great times!!!! anyways food was great, company was even better, and than we had fun times playing games. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Taylor for hosting Thanksgiving this year!

Mike and Kim

Taylor and Cassie

Grandma and Grandpa Taylor

Happy Birthday Jarom!!!!! the big 28

Beware... Below you will see some crazy pictures. My husband makes some of the weirdest faces. He is just being silly, he really isn't crazy and he really wasn't upset about turning 28. This was the first birthday for him while we have been married. He doesn't really like surprises. So the morning of November 25th (ya this post is way late) I got up early and taped that sign up that said Happy Birthday and than gave him a card. That night we had a family party with cake, ice-cream, and presents. Happy Birthday honey, I still can't believe you are 28, my oldest sister isn't even that old! :) crazy! I love you so so much!

Guests: Jarom's grandparents!

Guests: Jaroms Aunt Kim, Uncle Mike, and their kids. They were here for Thanksgiving so it was a nice treat to have them here for his birthday too.

Love you Birthday BOY!!!! (wow I have turned into one of those wives.... funny)

Crazy pictures I was talking about!!!! He makes me laugh.

THE cake, and I mean THE cake. Jarom asks for this cake every year. This year was no different, and also his mom has to make it. I offered to get the recipe from her and make it, but he said it had to be her. I don't blame him... :)

Twilight Weekend

With just the girls on the Lewis side of the family we all went to Twilight. It was so much fun. Jarom and I drove up Friday night. He spent the whole weekend with cousins and I spent the whole weekend with the girls in my family. So much fun! I did miss him, but it was still a blast :)!!!!

All of us girls at lunch! It was so great to get to see all my cousins, aunts, grandma, and mom and sisters. It was so much fun!

My brother and my dad got the lucky job of taking care of the kids while we were gone watching the movie. Thanks guys for letting Tiff and Heather come kid free!

Friday night my mom, Heather, and me spent the night at Mike and Tiffs house... Slumber party's are great!!!! On Friday night my aunt and cousins came and visited us, well actually they wanted to see Mike and Tiff's house and Maddie, Chloe, Mckenzie and Brody! I don't blame them, they are so darn cute best nieces and nephew ever.

Sisters!!!!

Anne and baby Chloe!

Re Doing the Shower AGAIN!!!!

In our Master Bathroom we had to redo the tile in the shower, for the SECOND time.. The grout was bad from the first time we tiled. As you can tell Jarom did all the work. He's Dad helped a lot too. Thanks guys!!!!