President's Day Weekend

Valentine's Day and Lady A

For Christmas I gave Becca tickets to Lady Antebellum on Valentine’s Day.  One gift, two holidays.  Brilliance. :)  Truthfully, we have a tradition of hitting up converts on Valentine's Day.  It is a great way to spend a cheesy holiday, and I much prefer live music to candlelight any day.  Valentine's Day fell on a Tuesday and we decided to play the evening cool as cucumbers.  We ordered our favorite BBQ chicken pizza and cheese pull-a-parts from The Pie.  During dinner we cleared out our DVR by watching our favorite reality TV shows.

 After dinner, we moseyed on down to the Energy Solutions Arena via Trax to watch the show.  Darius Rucker opened for Lady Antebellum.  While not big Darius fans, I was completely gaga over his performances of Hootie and the Blowfish classics "Hold My Hand", "Let Her Cry", and "Only Wanna Be With You".  90's swoon.  His new song "History in the Making" was one that struck me as very sweet, and very much describes how I felt when I was hanging out with the lovely Becca Swain for the first time: 

 Tonight, maybe tonight
Is a start of a beautiful ride
that will never end
And baby I’ve got a feeling

This could be one of those memories
We want to hold on to, we want to cling to,
One that we can’t forget
This could be our last first kiss
The door to forever
What if this was that moment
That chance worth taking
History in the making

 

History in the making.

 

Waiting, waiting

Spring 2012 Career Fair

So...I planned a Career Fair.  I never blog about work, and it happens to take up 40-60 hours of my week, so here's a little snippet.

With the Ambassadors, a student program I generated

Christmas 2011 looked a lot like this:

Family photo in front of our makeshift Christmas...ledge.  Can't be called a tree, because we used the entertainment center as well as a wall piece to hang ornaments on.  One day we'll have square footage for a fern, but still fun.

In the spirit of tradition, we have started collecting an ornament every year that represents the year we've had.  Right now we have a University of Utah (thanks Swains!), two from Moab (2010 is the wooden bulb; 2011 is the sun); a cat (thanks Momma Janene!), and Ellie's first collar.  This is a growing tradition and we love thinking and scheming about where next years ornament will come from. 

Bundled up to see the Christmas House in Holladay,UT.

Family Photo Shoot

For Christmas 2011 my siblings and I pooled our gift giving resources and had family pictures taken.  The last professional family photos we had done were taken when Taylor (14) was 4 years old.  So...yeah.  It was time.  Thanks to the fabulous Justin Reeves, of Justin Reeves Photography, we set photos for December 23rd. It fell right in the middle of Christmas crunch time, but was also the singular date that all of us could be present.  Austin returned from basic training in Mississippi, Nate took a long lunch break, and the rest of us trekked to Sugarhouse Park.  See for yourself....

It's A Boy!

We can finally publicly say that Nate and Hollie are having a baby.  They are due June 2012 and it will be little boy.  Can't wait to be an aunt! We are so happy for Nate and Hollie and can't wait to meet our first nephew.

 

The Christmas Onesies.  This kid is going to be spoiled rotten!