Free Zoo Day

I love free stuff! I saw a post that the Hoogle Zoo does free days and we decided to catch it. Stef,Jael,Steve, Ty and I enjoyed a nice spaghetti lunch and made a run to the zoo. We had a blast. We saw monkeys, tigers, bears ... the normal. Most of the animals were keeping themselves warm from the three inches that had fallen in Salt Lake the previous 4 hours.

We were looking at the animals hang out and have their own lunch while we shivered. It got me to thinking. What are there animals thinking? Probably something like "man humans are idiots. Here we are in our warm cages and they PAY money to come into the freezing cold! And they say we're primitive." I would agree with the entire statement - minus the paying part of course.

We headed home to play games, clean and enjoy our last few days before the next decade. This year has gone so fast. It scares me that times seems to go faster and faster. Our big move is pending. Thank heaven's for a new year to right the wrongs and just live a better life.

Christmas

I'm going to give you just a snip of our christmas results .... see if you can guess what we got.







Can you guess what we got? lol it's a hard one.

It's always hard to leave family after such fun times. Tyson always pushes our "coming home" time further and further. I don't blame him. His family is wonderful. His parents are so wise and giving. They know what true priorities are.

I am specially excited for Debbie's and Gaylan's trip to Greece and Italy. They are living the life that we are headed toward. Yeah. More pictures to come.


LAST MINUTE UPDATE:
I found some pictures today (12-05-10) while looking at Tyson camera of pics of my parents Christmas. Thought I would put them in.

Lame

Tonight did not turn out like it was suppose to. Tyson and I came up with this brilliant idea to host a late holiday party - you know the kind that is last minute, super fun but not stressful? Well everything turned out great expect - oh yeah, no one showed. I get it, I get it ... who's dumb enough to throw a non-family party right before Christmas and expect people to show? Oh wait, yours truly. This is why I hate throwing parties - read it, HATE IT.

Another thing is that I am looking over all my last years goals and sadly, for the first time in many years .... I did not hit all of them. I'm a very goal oriented person and I've been lucky to always hit my goals. I have found that as life gets more "complicated" It's harder to reach goals. Tyson and I have done some pretty amazing things - but most of them are internal growth. My friends are buying homes, getting pregnant, having kids, traveling ... all things that you can see. Ty and I are embarking on some amazing things - but right now only we can see it. I wonder if this is the time that women start to get baby hungry just so they can get something started, prepared for and done. Just kidding.

I get that life is not always exciting, new and bold. I'm learning to stop. look. appreciate. I realize in a couple of years, kids, business and life will probably keep me even from blogging - so I need to take this time and just be grateful.

Tomorrow we head to Logan for Christmas. I love Logan. It's such a special place. Jael and Debbie are there - two women that I just adore.

Steve's Graduation

Just got back from Denver. Will post pictures and stories later.

I wanted to recap my sisters husband (steve) big graduation day! We just love Steve and had such a fun time orgazing his big day.







The funnest part was that we were SOOO loud when Steve walked the stage - we are famous for being a crazy bunch.







CONGRATS STEVE - YOU ARE HEADED TOWARD BIG THINGS.

Packing up ...

Tomorrow @ 9:40 am our plane takes off to our first visit to Denver. We have a dinner with the top two RVP's Wednesday, Thursday night opp nigh and tons of people to meet. I'm excited. It's does not feel quite real either - probably would explain the excitement and not the panic.

Ty is just giddy - he loves new adventures. The house the clean and organized. I'm about to start packing. Something inside me tells me this is big. I'll for sure take lots of pictures.

Thanksgiving

Man, is anyone else weirded out that we are in December already? I am all done with my Christmas shopping - which means less stress. Time just flies by in December though.

Tyson and I started our first tradition - to read an advent storybook with tiny stories before we go to bed. It's been nice - it's also only been three days :)

Thanksgiving was great. Good food, a successful Black Friday Shopping, tons of working out ... sadly it was also my little brother's first breakup. It's hard to see your little brother suffer, but I also know this is normal and healthy.

Here are some great pictures. We are headed to Denver on the 16th for our first visit before the move - I've never been there but we are already packing it out with meetings and people we are trying to contact.