Holly Jolly Christmas!

Merry Christmas All!

This year was our first Christmas as a married couple and boy was it exhausting wonderful! 

We started our own small version of Christmas at our house on Christmas Eve. Since we'd be traveling all the next day we gave each other our gifts. 

 Ryan got slippers and socks! He then wore the slippers everywhere for about 2 days!

 I got super cute stockings and a wonderful necklace full of keys. 

What a happy MARRIED couple!

Then we traveled over to Grandma Davidson's Casa for our Christmas Eve dinner and gingerbread house making. 

 This was Ryan's first Gingerbread House so he had to read all the instructions!

 Marie and Dad argued over what team to put on their house, frosting flew but they compromised and did half and half.

 Luckily there was some Cutco around for Ryan to put to use.

Our finished product...oh so cute!

  We spent Christmas Eve night at my Dad's Casa, so we could go to church with him in the morning. Church was a wonderful production of song from all the different groups, ward choir, young women/young men, and primary. It was so much fun to watch the primary children. There were a couple grumps, but they sang all the words. 

  After church the Christmas Frenzy began!

 There was running, leaping.....

 and some quick lightsaber action. Marie took off Ryan's head.

 Ryan got a tent, hopefully this one will fit us both, and a wicked awesome Cars toothbrush.

 Marie made off with some wicked fun games!

 My dad calmly got all the Harry Potter Movies!

 Everyone got matching sheets!

 Dad showing off his loot!

 Marie's pile, she was most excited about a new phone!

We made off pretty well.

After much fun, we settled downstairs to watch The Office and eat Ryan's French Toast. Then Ryan and I hustled over to the Woodbury Household to do it all over again.

 Sophie was an amazing helper!

 She got a super cute rocking chair.

 We got Papa Bear a BYU tie which he promptly put on!

Ryan was very excited about his new BYU jacket. It looks exactly the same as his old BYU jacket, but Ryan has declared that whenever he is wearing this jacket he will only answer to the name "Coach!"

 I got a lovely BYU shirt. This is my first BYU shirt without any sponsors on it. I think I'm moving up in the world.

Mark was kind enough to send us each a gift from Mexico. Ryan is proudly displaying his "deer-leg-whip." One word....EWWWW!!!

After the gift exchange we ate a lovely linner of turkey and ham. D--licious!! Then we sat around until 2:29 when we promptly called Elder Mark Woodbury down in Mexico! 

I always feel so privileged to be related to Mark. He is an amazing missionary and example.

 Here is proof that Sophie was talking to Mark. 

After a very emotional phone call, Tyler, Melissa, and Sophie headed to the Spence household and Ryan and I headed to the Davidson household for the Annual Davidson Family Christmas Party!

 The party really kicked off after the family talent show. Ryan was very excited to participate. 

 Then we moved into the famous Grandpa Gift Exchange Table! This is my favorite part of the party. We love chanting and counting down as members frantically search for their gift.

 Grandpa made off with this wonderful hat for those cold BYU Football games.

 Before going home we took some good family photos.

 At the end of the day we realized how blessed we really are. We got so many gifts this year. Most of which were things we needed!

We finished the day brushing our teeth with our new favorite toothbrushes from Santa. Mine is Little Mermaid, Ryan's is Cars.

All in All one of the BEST Christmases EVER!

Happy Birthday Savanna!!

This weekend we celebrated Savanna's birthday on December 17th! The party started the day before as my parents and I brought cupcakes and party hats to Savvy's classroom. The kids were really funny. We gave them party hats and Savvy/Mrs. Woodbury had them play a modified version of "Duck. Duck. GOOSE!" called "Horse. Horse. Unicorn!" They, instead of running around the circle, had to crawl on all fours, and because of their party hats on their heads, they looked like unicorns! HA! The students then ate cupcakes with bright colored frosting. They all had pink or red or green or blue lips! And then they were quickly sent home with some extra sugar.

Later on Friday, my parents, my sister and her family, Ron, and Marie all gathered at The BO (Brick Oven) for dinner. And after dinner we went to the Eclipse Christmas concert. Eclipse is an a capella band, not a bunch of werewolves and vampires. The concert was amazing! I have only been twice, and I thought last year was swell, but this year was even better! This Christmas concert has been a Davidson tradition for quite sometime, so I am happy to celebrate my wife's birthday and Christmas with this tradition.

On Savvy's birthday, she let me go play basketball, while she got her hair cut. How nice. We then went to lunch and the temple. It was very refreshing. We then came back home and read and did some normal Saturday chores. We then went out for dinner and went to the movies. We saw Sherlock Holmes. We both thought it was really good!

For one of her gifts, Savvy got a foot rub, scrub, and cream. Well, she could wash her feet all by herself, but that would be crazy when she has such a nice husband... long story short... I was happy to wash my wife's feet. She is the most beautiful woman I know. She makes me smile and laugh. She also helps me focus on the things that matter most. She is the love of my life.

Happy Birthday Sweetheart.

 The Davidson Family at the Eclipse Concert!

The Woodbury Family at the Eclipse Concert!

Tis the Season

Long story short, blogger has been hating on me for awhile. (about 2 weeks that is) I tried posted this earlier, like when it happened but blogger wouldn't let me do any pictures and what is the point of a blog without any pictures? It takes skill to blog without pictures, skill that I don't have. Finally I have pictures of the most wonderful date of the season; going to Temple Square to see the lights! This was also the first outing with the new camera and we had  a blast figuring out all the different settings. 

Ryan took this beautiful picture. Temple Square has cut back a bit on the lights, there weren't as many this year but they still looked so amazing!

We love being silly-heads! 

This is Dalton and Maggie, they are cool but not as cool as the Shopping-Cart-That-Doubles-as-a-Stroller in the background! 

Here is what the original post looked like 3 weeks ago. It let me upload 2 pictures and a small post.

I love my new camera! It makes me laugh how eager I am to post pictures on the blog, if I don't have pictures chances are it won't make it onto the blog.

For some reason blogger is not liking me today and yesterday and the day before yesterday and thus you only get two pictures of our double date to Temple Square with Dalton Haslam and his girlfriend.

It was cold, and lovely and romantic and awesome. I love Temple Square and Christmasy feelings. I don't know why but this year I am so pysched for Christmas. I think it is because I'm a married woman now and thus get to start our own traditions and fun with Christmas. It's a new chapter in our lives and I'm excited to celebrate with the most important man in my life, my husband Ryan!

Cute huh!?

Oh one more thing that happened 2 weeks ago, I got a small case of Shingles. Ryan and I noticed 5 little bug bites on my back, they itched like crazy! All day at school my students would catch me itching my back. After a week I went into the doctor, who proudly declared I had shingles! That was fun.

                                                 

New Camera!

I got a camera for CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! (a little early I know but I was extra good this year so Santa said I could have it so I can record our first Christmas together)

We have a wonderfully cute little tree! My camera has lots of fun setting to play with.

Ryan has been growing out his mustache for No-Shave-November. He was rather proud of it.

Ryan loved to play with his stache like this all the time, which has become a habit.

What a stud!

Off comes the stache!

Smoother than a baby's bottom!

Look at my new camera. My favorite feature is that it is BRIGHT PINK!

Thanksgiving is not just for TURKEYS!

For Thanksgiving this year the fam all went down to the condo in Beaver. (The condo is still without a name, suggestions would be appreciated.) Jill, Craig and all 4 of their CRAZY girls came over on Thursday for sledding, fun, and food. Here are some pictures in no particular order of all the fantastic fun we had.

On the way to the Sledding Hill, full of smiles!

Kela was so kind to Cleo. Cleo is getting really old, and slow; Kela was so wonderful to always sit by her and give her some love.

The first thing to happen was moving a terribly heavy cabinet up to the loft.

Here is the set up for the big move!

Cleo loved sitting right by the heater on her warm blanket.

Marie sporting the latest trend in snow-pants with only one strap.

After lots of turkey it is required to play the Laughing-Game.

If you give a 9 year old your phone you will get lots of fun pictures to look at.

By lots I mean about 100.

So good! What a crazy!

We love sitting around singing Christmas songs. We waited until after Turkey-Dinner of course.

"I wanna go back to the condo!"

Sledding Fun!

Silly, Happy Times!

On the way to the Sledding Hill!