Wedding!!

They did it!! Tyson (Dustin's brother) and Alli were married January 10th in the Idaho Falls, ID Temple. It was such a beautiful ceremony, I was tearing up the whole time! The sealer gave some really amazing advise and it was so neat seeing so many family members from both sides there. It was a privilege to witness everything first hand.
Dustin and I are SO happy for them! It's so neat to see them so happy together and so affectionate. We couldn't help but be brought back to our own sealing and the feelings we felt that day.
I took way too many pictures, if you want you can check out my facebook to look at the whole album, but here are a couple.

Christmas!

For Christmas, Milan and Julie got us a digital camera. It's pretty snazzy! I've been playing around with it alot the past 2 days.

I had been saving up since the begining of October for Dustin's Christmas present. I was able to buy him with my own hard earned money an ipod touch. He had absolutly no idea he was getting it. His face was in complete shock when he first saw it! I tried to video tape it, but then I realized later that I never pressed the record button. DUH! Dustin also got some clothes, socks, ties, and beef jerky.

Lillie got way too much stuff for a 1 year old. Santa brought her some blocks and sports balls and a few cute outfits. She got a couple 'Little People' sets from her grandparents, cute clothes (from everyone), and her Aunt Dana made her this really cool "Seek and Find" bag for her to play with at church. I'm pretty sure Dustin likes that one the most. Dana also made for us some candy lights (see below pic) that I've wanted for years. Aunt Elisha got Lillie some monkey plates.

Dustin gave me some running clothes (bad hint?? lol). He also surprized me with a new purse! I love both gifts alot. My dad is making me and my sisters beautiful jewelry boxes. He's been in the garage making them for weeks, and unfortunatly wasn't able to finish them before Christmas. I can't wait for the finished product! My dad is very talented in woodworking, and it will be nice to have a gift from him of his own craft. I also got a cute grey sweater from Kristi.

On Friday night Dustin and I went over to Tyson and Alli's house. We played some games. They're fun to hang out with. We are SO excited for them to get married (Jan 10th, Erika B's Birthday). I think I offended Tyson when I emptied out his bathroom garbage. Sorry! Just a bad habit of mine, I guess.

Oh, and did I mention all the snow??? It's CRAZY go nuts! It's pretty darn pretty though. We were gonna go back to Magna today, but I don't feel like driving for 6 hours through icy roads when it normally only takes us 3. I don't work Monday, so we'll just stay a little longer. No rush! We love it here.

Lillie and Alyse

My little goober!

Dustin and Dad taking a Christmas snooze.

Just playing uno!

Lots and lots of snow.

Candy lights Dana made. She's so creative. Aren't they awsome?

Tyson and Lillie playing the piano.

SNOW DAY!

It snowed about 15-18 inches today in Magna, it was beautiful! We bundled Lillie up all tight and took her outside. I think she really liked it. After a couple of minutes her teeth were chattering, and even though she was still giddy and laughing, we thought it best to take her back inside before she got sick or something.

Vancouver!

Dustin and I drove to Vancouver on Thursday in the middle of the night and got here on Friday morning at about 11:00. We came for Adam Stevens' wedding reception. He and Britney looked so happy. Their reception was really cute, they had a hot chocolate bar with tons of doughnuts! We forgot our camera, so we don't even have any pictures, darn it!
It was nice seeing my family though. My mom and dad had no idea that we were coming. They loved spending time with Lillie.
We're headed back to Utah tonight. We're driving in the middle of the night so that Lillie will sleep the whole time. We would have stayed longer, but I need to get back to work tomorrow night.
Oh, and still no job. Dustin's been looking fervently- just nothing he wants is available! I think he's planning on just trying to find anything at this point, even if it's not exactly what he wants. Hopefully there's something.

Aw, Man!

Well, Dustin got laid off of his job today with M13 Construction. I guess they usually have 10-12 big jobs at a time, and now they only have 2. Dustin's boss typed up a really good recommendation letter stating that Dustin was a fabulous employee with many great skills, and that M13 was sad that they had to let him go due to the financial integrity of the company. They said, however, that if things pick up, they would love to have him back. So yeah, we're hoping things will pick back up!
In the mean time, we're actually not too worried. We've been through this before (but who's counting??) and we know that we'll get through it, yet again! Heavenly Father has always blessed us so much. We've never had a time when we didn't have food, a nice place to live, a car, and other things of that nature. Plus, we have too much to be grateful for to complain about anything, like our health, our constant safety, our family and friends, our testimonies, a happy baby girl that always makes us smile, etc.. So we'll just do what we did before: get unemployment, sell plasma twice a week, and I'll pick up a few more hours at the Temple. Please don't worry, because we honestly aren't.
We're excited to go up to Idaho for Thanksgiving. It's nice to be around our families, and we haven't been up there for over 2 months now. It'll be nice to have a break and laugh a lot!
We hope all of you have a wonderful holiday!

Go Cougs!

Dustin and I have never attended BYU, but we did attend BYU-I and there are no real sports there, so we really enjoy going to BYU football games. We got to go to the sold-out one today, thanks to KSL.com/classifieds. We got a great deal on some really good seats that a kid was selling. They were in a student section, so we were standing the whole time and we were the only ones not dressed head to toe in official BYU Football clothing (we were still wearing navy and white though). It was a blast! Cougers won somthing like 41 to 7. Lillie was tired the whole time. To tell you the truth, we will probably never bring her to a game again. Who knows, maybe by next season she will be old enough to behave? just kidding. She mostly just ate popcorn and sucked on those 2 fingers.

After the game we went over to a friends house and I got some pictures of Lillie playing in the leaves. That little stinker wouldn't look at the darn camera! I still like the pics though. We're having a great weekend!

Halloween!

For Halloween Lillie was a pink poodle. She was pretty cute! I can't even believe it's already her second Halloween.

When we got home Lillie ate a bunch of smarties and a few suckers. She was definatly on a sugar high! She had a good time though, I think.