"Lillie, Where's Jesus?"

Here's a short video of Lillie after church today. She can recognize almost any picture of Jesus, now. She can also fold her arms to pray, but everytime I try to take a video of her doing it she won't do it! That brat! (just kidding, we love her.)

Not a year over 21!

Actually, exactly a year over 21.

Dustin gave me the best Birthday ever! I've been working a lot the last few weeks, and it was SO nice to have the weekend to ourselves.

Dustin's parents are watching Lillie for the weekend. Dustin made me breakfast then took me tubing down this cool hill by Park City with a lift thing. No excersice whatsoever! YES!!

We also went out to eat at Applebees (my fav), then went to our hotel for the night. We used a gift certificate for a tower balcony room at the Little America Hotel. We slept in, then ate at the amazing Sunday Brunch (included in the gift certificate). They had freshly squeezed orange juice.

It was so relaxing and felt like a vacation. I missed Lillie, but tried not to think about it too much. It was nice to feel like a newlywed couple again! You forget how crazy things are until you take away the child!

We asked a lady to take our picture and Dustin told her it was my Birthday. She responded, "Well, you don't look like you could be a year over 21!" and I said, "Actually, I'm 22!"

Lillie and Momma!

Ice Skating

One of my best friends from High School, Kaitlin Ehlers, spontaniously flew out to SLC to see me! It was so nice to have a girl to go shopping with. We both lost our voices from laughing so hard, of course. She hadn't met Dustin or Lillie before, so it was a much needed visit.

Here are some pictures of Kaitlin, Eric Harker, Dustin and I ice skating at this really cool outdoor ice skating rink on Main and 2nd South.

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.