Tis the season

Makin cookies on a rainy day!

Playing in the leaves!

Temple lights!

Eggnog shakes!

Town festivities.. playing in the bubbles at the fountain outside of pictures with Santa

And finally pictures with Santa!

Goodwill treasure

I found this book shelf at Goodwill one day for 5 dollars and I couldn't help buying it. It was just calling to me to re-do it. And I was in a crafty mood so I couldn't resist. I forgot to take a before picture, but just imagine this but black with some nicks and scratches on it.. took care of those and gave it a nice cleaning and paint job turning it BROWN.First coat of the brown and let me tell ya it was already looking better. But I decided to dress it up some more and make it more fun. I got some cute scrapbook paper and modpodged' (Spelling?) it up. I wasn't IN LOVE with it but I was happy it at least looked better then when I bought it.

Our good friends were have a garage/bake/boutique sale to raise money for their daughter who just got cancer. Sweetest family ever, anyways I decided to donate it to that and help them raise some money. I have no clue if it sold for 1-5-10-or 20 dollars but I was just glad to help out.

I liked doing it though.. and now i'm going to look for more treasures at Goodwill.. just you wait. Some day ill get good at this stuff like my sister and my in-laws and ill have a house full of cute things!

-Thanksgiving Week-

Desert with the Phelps fam

Holly and Tysons wedding

Kelci here alll week

Littles came

hanging out with friends

temple lights

black friday

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and this year proved my point yet again. I love seeing my family. Hanging out with friends. Great food and a just a great week, although I am very very excited for Christmas :)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was full of family. friends. and fun.
And I am SO thankful for all three.
Thanksgiving was full of food
And boy was it delicious.
Thanksgiving was full of memories and laughter.
And THAT was the best part of all.
Oh how I love my family :)

An eggnog toast

A toast! With the most delicious drink of the season; eggnog!

This is to me.

To being who I want to be.

To making my own decisions because I know me better then anyone else.

To being happy all the time.

To accepting change.

To grow and learn from everything I go through.

To becoming a better person.

To serve.

To love.

To smile.

To enjoy.

To live life everyday with no regrets.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Know that if you are reading this then you have more then likley changed me for the better, because just by knowing you I have one more friend.
And friendship is the most valuable of all gifts.

Cubs stay, Dland

This is my dad, being the cool guy he is. Ya thats right he got his very own cubs jersey with his name on it and number 16, who was my dads favorite player for the Cubs (He has a cool story why he liked that player so much) Anyways if you know my dad then you know this is no big deal to him because he gets cool stuff all the time. Although I will say he was pretty happy about this considering he loves the Cubs so much. Anyways, this was at the victory party at the Hilton after the election. and Prop 420 passed! The cubs will stay and we will build them a new stadium. I am really happy they didn't go to Florida. My dad grew up skipping school to go to Cubs spring training games with his dad. I grew up skipping school to go to the games with my dad. and I want to be able to take my kids out of school some day to be able to go to the Cubs games!!

On a completely different note, I went to Disneyland for my first time (that I remember) and it was SUHWEET! Ill do another blog on it because I have a ton of pics, but it was seriously a blast! Thank you so much mom and dad for such a fun trip!!!

HAPPY

HAPPY FALL AND HAPPY SUNDAY :)

I am the best aunt, and worst sister!

Friday night I spent the night at Staci's house and woke up to these cute boys! They were SOO cute and funny all day! We painted these boxes that they had bought, rode bikes outside in our pjs, ate breakfast about 4 times, played in the back yard, played hide and seek, and then after feeding them 4 times with that food covering their bodies I decided to stick them in the bath so they would be clean for their mom. Buutttttt... I let them paint in the bathtub because I am the nice aunt I am. And being the nice aunt I am I also let them destroy the house and the outside of it. I really was planning on cleaning up.. but things happened and my sister was very understanding. Instead of paying me she got to clean up ;) (thats why im a bad sister) hah anyways I really did have a good reason for leaving and not cleaning up and stack understands but for real people. Just look at these pics, you cant tell me these are not the cutest kids ever!!

WARNING CUTE BUM BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I asked parker what his full name was and he said pookie-bear-burrito-allen. I asked him what Rylers full name is and he said bubba-ry-pookie-allen. And I LOVE THEM!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO.......

THE BEST DAD IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!

My dad is the most amazing person I know. He is such an exmaple and role model in my life! He has always supported me in sports, school, any decisions I make and he is always right there to give me advice. He helps with with my homework and encourages me to always do my best and never lets me forget that success isnt given, you have to work hard for it! I love all his quirky dad jokes and how he has fun everywhere he goes! I love you pappa and I hope you have a great birthday today, you deserve it!! :D