Maybe Next Year. . .

Road Trip!

Friday, December 11 Highlights:

Driving to Salt Lake City airport.
Waiting at the airport for a couple hours and playing with Dad.
Andlie's first plane ride!
Getting to Oregon!
Eating delicious homemade alfredo sauce!
Playing Apples to Apples and laughing to our heart's content.

Saturday, December 12 Highlights:

Making a Gingerbread village!

Going to IKEA for the first time! (Loved it. Need everything in the store.)
Seeing this sign in the bathroom at IKEA: (Yes, I took a picture in the stall. Yes, my phone made the picture taking noise. No, I am not ashamed.)I especially liked how they called the waste #1 & #2. Awesome.

Going to the Saturday Market!
Seeing this sign at the Saturday Market:

Seeing the Portland Fire Department! (For my Daddy.)

Eating at Stratford's! Delicious!
Seeing the Portland Temple. Beautiful.

Eating treats, watching, "Four Christmases," and hanging out with each other all night long!

Sunday, December 13 Highlights:

Seeing Astoria Column!

Bryan even climbed to the top! (Me & Andlie waited in the car due to her needing food and a bum change.)

Seeing a Ship Wreck from 1906!

Seeing the ocean!

Feeding the seals at Seaside Aquarium! I opted not to touch the dead fish chunks, but it was fun to watch!

Seeing an octopus and touching an anemone & starfish at the Aquarium!

Seeing Haystack Rock!

Getting burped at in the face by the gas station attendant.

Seeing the Nike Headquarters.

Playing Skip Bo and laughing all night long!

Laughing every time Bryan got another 12.

Monday, December 14 Highlights:

Eating a bottle top.

Seeing downtown Portland!

Eating Thai food for the first time!

Seeing a "Scientology Church of Portland."

Getting delayed for two hours at the airport.

Getting on the plane to go home!

Thank you, Tony & Leslie! You were wonderful hosts and we had a blast!!! We love you!

The Making of Our Christmas Card

Andlie hated the Santa hat. I insisted. We took 51 pictures. We had a blast!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

December's Here?!

Lately, we've been busy:

Making Christmas chocolates!

Looking cute in new outfits!

Taking all of our wipes out of the box and tearing them up into shreds.

Taking our clothes off.

Laughing & giggling!

Playing with our shoes for a half hour straight. The velcro really caught someone's attention.

Wearing our Christmas dresses!

Laughing & giggling some more! (And showing our teeth!)

Being cute! As always.

And, the grand finale - Andlie is learing to walk and can take a few steps alone!

Hot Date!

A couple weeks ago, Bryan took me to a dance! Me & Mand decided to make the date a real true date so we asked our guys to the dance.

Andlie helped.

15 Ballons +

Bryan At School +

Cinnamon Bears, Hot Tamales, and Two Pears =

"We'd be a RED HOT PEAR if you'd go to the dance with me!"

Mand & Tim came to our house before the dance.

We all looked pretty good. Especially Bryan.

We had so much fun at the dance! We danced to quick songs (me & Mand were really, really good), we danced to ridiculous songs ("Cotton Eye Joe"), and we danced to slow songs (my favorite by far). It was so nice to just be with Bryan and slow dance and smile and whisper and. . . okay, that's all for PG readers. I loved it. Loved.

We even ended the night at our house playing Phase 10 and eating shookies with Mand & Tim!

What a fun night! I love my hubs!