Busy Past Month

WOW, so why haven't I blogged in a month? Pretty much because I was overwhelmed by how much I had to blog about..I mean geez--Christmas, Birthday, January...don't get me started..actually I should get started so I will. December was fab of course, Christmas Break was amazing and I think I'll just give a brief synopsis of what we did...even though my "brief" isn't always that brief......

Before we hurried off to Dallas, we had our own little Christmas here in Utah, we exchanged presents and pretended like that was our only Christmas even though it really wasn't..it was still a lot of fun and our tree is too cute.

Once we got to Dallas, we spent our first week with Randall's fam. It was waaaaaaaaaay fun! Let's see what did we do? We went to the Fort Worth Zoo which was amazing because it was like 80 degrees out and in Heaven. We went with the nephews so that was loads of fun seeing their reactions to all the animals-SO CUTE. What else did we do that week? We went shopping for Christmas, we got to babysit our nephews one night which was sooo great--they are too fun, we went and saw "True Grit" Um...weird--yeah it was..fo sho. I got my hair cut to my ears!--not really, but I did get like 7 inches off!!, we hung out with the in-laws, we went to a really good Mexican place called Chueys with Ryan and Brit because Ryan builds them all over the south east part of the U.S., we had an amazing Christmas Dinner with all the good stuff,man, I can't get enough of that food, we had an awesome Christmas Day watching the kiddies open their presents and seeing all the fun things we got while also playing Loopit!! Yay for Loopit! Randall of course played basketball a ton, it was just overall way fun and I'm so happy we got to spend that week with his fam!! See amazing pics below :)

Look at that cutie patootie tree! It's actually one of two for a set you would put outside your front door, but since we don't actually have a real "front door" yet, we just use one as our X mas tree!

Ahhhhh...Randall looks a little tired, but I like the pic

"Before" hair pic--it got sooo dang long!!

"After" hair cut pic! It definitely looked the best that day I got it cut--definitely can't get it to look like that again..there was maybe a gallon of product in my hair..

Look at our cute sister Brittany and her amazing fam! This pic of Ethan is SO Ethan

It's Christmas Day in the morrrrr nin (the song)

My nephew and I at the zoo--he is such a cutie, kinda dark pic, sorry

I could not get over how nice it was that day, I pretty much should have brought shorts to wear

Havin fun at the Zoo

My nephews are too dang cute..they had fun riding on the crocodile or whatever that fake animal is..

Maxwell got such a thrill out of feeding the birds--one even came up on his lap!!

Max and Uncle Randall

The next week we spent with my fam. Oh so fun! On Christmas Eve we went to the Nutcracker!! Can I just say I LOVE the Nutcracker, we use to go every year with my grandma, but the tradition kind of died as time went on so we had the chance to see it again with her and the whole fam (well..accept Russell and Rhett..I guess not the whole fam) SO we went and saw that and then made crepes for Christmas Eve Dinner and had a talent show! My talent was doing 10 hand stands in a row..everyone was really proud-yeah right, I wish, I actually played the piano as an accompanier to everyone else that sang, Heather played the violin, Roycey told a story and sung with Heather, Rhett looked awesome, Robert showed us a performance he did, Randall did push-ups, Russell showed us kung fun (kung fu), mom showed us her talent for sewing, and dad showed us his coin collection, such talent the Severson family has!!

That next week the festivities began! My mom made a calendar with a million things we were going to, of course we didn't get to all of them, but we did get to a lot. On Monday, we did a Mystery Dinner consisting of 5 courses--not knowing what you're ordering for each course, if you really don't know what it is, then look it up, but it was way fun and one of my courses consisted of all utensils! It was amazing, OH and one of my courses I ate my ice cream with a pita chip. The next night was cheese tasting contest--of course I lost b/c I do NOT know my cheeses, but it was still waaaay interesting and ate chocolate cheese! (I have eaten this before) That night we went to a wedding reception and took pics in a photo booth they had there!! Sorry..I don't have them to put online..just tangible copies. We also ate sushi and really good cake balls. The next day we got our professional pics done!! I wore my prom dress from high school, ha, that would be too funny, but we did get professional pics done and unfortunately, we don't have those either to put online, just tangible copies, you'll have to come visit me if you want to see them. I think we had our road rally or scavenger hunt that afternoon and it was SOO fun, we had to go to all these different places and take pics! Fun times, and then the meeting place at the end was put put!! Thursday, i really don't remember what we did, but Laura came over and we made yummy macaroons, only the yummiest treat of all!! Then on Friday was New Years Eve! We went out and partied all night long! Not really. I actually brought in the New Year by eating fondue with the fam (I made a caramel one that was too good to be true) and then scrapbooking!! HA HA HA, who would have thought? Me...scrapbooking as the clock struck 12, but don't you worry because my mom and me totally scrap booked all week and I think I got like 7 or 8 pages done of my wedding scrap book! It was amazing and we got to work on mom's new cricut!! Anyone who scrap books should invest in one. SO we did that and of course played games all week and that night and drank lots of wine, I mean martinellis and had a gay ol' time. Anyway, that was the majority of the weeks that were just very exuberant and wouldn't have asked for anything more. The only thing is that I used up all my vaca and now i have none left so I really don't know how I'm going to make my hubby's graduation in April but it will happen..somehow..someway... oops::)

Us at the Nutcracker at Bass Hall! SOO good!

There's nothin like getting a family pic with my dad's balding head right smack front in the middle

This was part of the road rally! We had to get a taco with an expired coupon--this lady truly loved being in this pic! I was too excited!

Um..don't ask me what I'm doing with my hand and my face and this ice cream...

We all had to sample frozen flavored ice..yum

um..yeah

SO that was the amazing 2 week break that we both indefinitely needed. My birthday came a week later and we celebrated by going to Happy Sumo!! The best sushi in pretty much all of the United States..ok that's probably a lie but I haven't had much sushi and that was Randall's first time trying it!! SOO good! Randall got me Pen and Teller tickets so we're going to Vegas over Presidents Day Weekend and we get to see them perform! Most Mormons don't know who they are..I think that's funny..don't worry, they're clean. On Saturday night, Royce, Heather, Russell, and us went to The Garden for my b day--great view of the temple!

January has been pretty much me focusing on the fact that BYU Basketball and Jimmer is amazing. I'm sure I'll look back in 20 years to this blog post and ask myself why I blogged about BYU Basketball but they are so dang good that I just had to mention it. We've gone to a bunch of the games and we'll continue to go!! They've only lost twice!!

Anyway, that has been of late, this was oh quite long but so much to say!! Yay for December and January. I really hope to never fall this behind on blogging again after big events because it just takes FOREVER to catch up, I know all you bloggers know what I'm sayin sayin. Peace.

I mainly wanted to show this pic because look how cute my sweater is that I got for Christmas! It's pretty much darling. These flowers were so sweet of my hubster for my b day.

Um..why does it look like this game is consuming me up?

Penn and Teller tickets! So exciting!

Us at The Garden for my b day, pretty good food.

Russell! Why did you eat my green beans?!

Heather made me a huge cupcake cake!! It was awesome! We frosted it green and put sprinkles on top, Heather's such a good baker

This is my pretending to blow out the candles even though there wasn't any ;)

Us at the BYU Basketball game!! woo hoo!

Go Cougs! I'm a Coug and I'm proud of it..in both ways :)