Ok, stop snowing now

...or just when I have to drive in it. What a commute this morning!
Has anybody else had the yucky bug that is going around? I've had mine since last week and now I think it is morphing into an ear infection. Yah, it has been about 20 years since my last ear infection!

Well, our ward leaders finally caught us at tithing settlement. We are speaking on Dec. 28. So now I'll be worried about my talk all through Christmas! Oh well, it is inevitable when you move so darn much! I should be getting used to speaking in church by now!

I got to take pictures of the Aguilars for their Christmas card. Oh my garsh, those kids are so cute! I could take pictures of them all day. I've got a bunch at home, but I need to upload them so I can post them here. You'll all die, they are such cute kids. Haha. Squeeze attack!

Is anybody else having a hard time with all these Christmas treats floating around? Me, my sis, my mom and my grandma made Christmas candy on Saturday and I couldn't stay away from the peanut butter cups. I gobbled those right up!

I tried to exercise last night. Not a good idea when you are sick. I was wheezing and my throat hurt so bad, I could barely swallow. Go away yucky bug!

Snow & Blessings

It's snowing...finally!

Audrey's blessing was Sunday

Beautiful baby girl

Took lots of pictures of Rachel & Audrey

Poor things could hardly sleep because of the camera flash

Got up too early on Saturday for the ward party

I could hardly stay awake that night

Couldn't even finish Elf at Keith & Cami's...I must be getting old!

Updates

oh my goodness.
it has been a while.
updates:
audrey and rachel are cute as can be.
me & ty spent a fun week in san diego with ty's fam. beach, sea world, lots of fun.
we spent thanksgiving with both families, lots of food and fun.
we watched christmas vacation (a classic) with my parents. popcorn, doughnuts and hot chocolate.
u of u is undefeated.
i think i've already gained weight this holiday season. boo.
we saw twilight. boo.
keith and cami fed us lots of sweets on saturday.
ty thought he was in a sugar-induced coma.
we are helping to plan our ward christmas party for this saturday.
lots to do!
ty is traveling...a lot. i miss him.
life is good.
we have lots to be thankful for!

christmas is coming

counting down the minutes...

...until

Jord and Chelo

have

their first baby!

Rachel Rasmussen,

we're waiting!

Movie Time

Yeah, we're a little behind on movies. I think the last movie we saw when it was in "regular" theaters was "The Dark Knight". We usually wait until movies come out in the dollar theater, then we go see them!

We saw "Get Smart" on Saturday. It was so funny! It must be Steve Carell. He is funny in whatever he's in. Anne Hathaway was good too!

The Two Trees

Long ago in a garden there lived a man. He took care of the garden and tended to all of the beautiful flowering plants; he was the gardener. Every morning and evening he would walk through the garden and admire the little plants that grew along the path. There were daisies and lilies here and posies and petunias there. The soft dirt path wound around the garden and through the center where it passed a small grassy hill. Each day the gardener would walk the garden path and sit upon the hill to admire the plants in this wonderful and beautiful land as the warm sun passed overhead.

The gardener was settling himself into the grassy hill to admire the flowers one day; he began to feel that something was missing. Days went by and the feeling did not leave, he sat himself upon the soft green hill and the feeling returned. One day the thought occurred to him, finally he knew what to do. He reached into his gardener’s pouch and pulled out two tiny seeds. On one side of the hill he planted one seed and on the other side he planted the other. Each day he would return to the hill, water the seeds and sit as usual.

After a while the gardener noticed a single green leaf began to emerge from the dirt, first on one spot and then on the other. Before long the trees were tall enough to nearly reach his waist. That is when it began to happen, the trees began to bend. The gardener tended and fertilized and watered but the trees still bent. This troubled the gardener for he loved the trees so he began to think. He thought and thought; he tried sticks and wire to prop the trees up but they still grew toward the ground. Finally he settled on the only solution. The gardener reached for his trowel from his gardener’s bag and began to dig, he dug up the first tree and then the other and began to dig at the top of the grassy hill.

The gardener placed the two trees side by side and rested their tiny, withering branches upon each other’s branch. The trees continued to grow, but now, whenever they began to grow downward the branch of the neighbor tree began to grow around and support the tender stalk.
Seasons came and went; all the while the gardener cared for the trees and the other plants in the garden. But, above all the other beautiful flowers and shrubbery in the garden, he loved the two trees he placed in the center. They were his pride and joy; he could not speak of the garden without speaking of the trees. When the sun got too hot over head as he walked the garden, they gave him shade. When the birds would fly by, singing their lovely songs, they gave them a place to perch near the gardener so he could enjoy their melody.

The two trees no longer needed help to continue growing toward the sky, but you could not separate them now. They had become one tree together, sharing roots and branches; sharing water and the sun. The nutrients they gathered from the soil fed them both equally and fully. The two shoots that became two little trees had now become one tall tree; they loved each other and together as one they loved the gardener.