Christmas In Mission Viejo California (We had a fun family reunion with my husbands side of the family.)

Jameson holding our new nephew Talmage (only two months old!)



Our first Christmas together, awwwwww :)!



My husband is such a wonderful man... this is him in the kitchen Christmas morning making all German Pancakes for 10 people and 4 kids, all by himself! They were very delicious, thanks sweetie.



The night before Christmas, just hanging out with the fam.



Oh man Grandma Gigi's back yard was beautiful she had birds of paradise and all kinds of beautiful plants, and of course a palm tree. My personal favorite was the avocado tree, everyone needs one of those... at a dollar or more per avocado at the grocery store, yeah I'll take a tree filled with those.

We got way too many presents and had way too much fun... except of course the part where I was sick for three days and didn't want to leave the bed. But I will say that it was so fun to see everyone and spend some time with those of you I didn't get to know too well at the wedding. I married into a great family who are all very accepting and full of love. I am a very lucky girl. Hopefully I will be able to post our family photo soon.

Just a few things I made this year

We learned the basket weave in my second course of cake decorating.



Then we learned Fondant in my third course of cake decorating and I got a little carried away and spent 8 hours on this little masterpiece. Those snowflakes were little strips I cut out and stuck together.



These earrings also took me about 8 hours each and the silver ones were for my work and the gold ones on the right were for Becca (A really good friend who got married at the end of November.) They were made for her wedding.

Christmas Party... Yes we hosted more than one this year!!

This is Erik participating in our blindfold karaoke.









It was a really fun party! We had a white elephant gift exchange, and prizes for the funniest gift given and also plenty of eggnog and hot chocolate served with cookie dough and ice cream and just everything that is not healthy! We made Christmas ornaments out of peppermint candies and finished off the night by watching Elf... the funniest Christmas movie ever!

Ugly Sweater Christmas Party

So you can't tell us these sweaters aren't the hottest thing on the planet!

So we know you were all sick of seeing the Halloween background all through Thanksgiving. Well I will try to post some new photos soon like the Christmas party we held at our house, I am pretty sure that Jameson and I won the ugliest Christmas sweater worn contest. We are very excited for Christmas to come... We can't wait to go to California and see everyone! Jameson and I are trying to get together our Joseph and Mary costumes for the pageant :) It will be so fun.

So this was at our ward Christmas party!
Plenty of laughs, cheese cake and photos being taken:)

Updates on our life.

Okay so just to fill you in on the recent changes we have made.... I went to part time at my work for Nancy (www.nancybarruscouture.com) making custom wedding dresses. I now am also starting my own business on the side doing alterations. My blog for my business is ProfessionalAlterations.blogspot.com there are also several photos of my dress for all those who have wanted to see it but haven't had a chance. I cannot do custom wedding gowns here in Provo Utah because well lets just face it that would be really mean. My boss has taught me all I know about making custom gowns and I am so grateful. Her business is here and as of now she has no competitors. But I will do temple gowns and all the alterations I have time for. That works for me for now until we move out of Utah at least.

Jameson has started a club at Triathlon Club at BYU and the members have grown to almost 600. He is putting on a triathlon here at BYU this weekend and I am so proud of all of the work he has put into making this club succesful. He has gotten a bike company named "FEZZARI" to agree to make a BYU edition bike and discount it to the triathlon club members. He has also quit both his jobs at the campus library and the physical therapy clinic to work for Fezzari (www.fezzari.com), because the owner liked him so much. He hired Jameson to do all his advertising and filming for his company. We are pretty excited. Jameson has also found someone to make the club a website that features some photos and films of triathletes... its pretty inspiring. PS some of the photos are of us. Check out the website at www.BYUtriathlon.com