Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

New years Eve..... we went on an extremely fun off-roading adventure!  So it was snowing in Roosevelt-I could not believe it!  We decided that it was most necessary to go off roading in it- at the time it seemed like a grand idea now that I think of it not so much BUT it happened! Well we have a rhino and only one jeep now, sad day, Herbert(my jeep) was sold to my cousin in Cali so we no longer have 2 jeeps...which means that not everyone could fit in the jeep. Yup you guessed it right Lauren, Chris, and I pleasurable got in the rhino meaning NO TOP!  You should have seen us, it was a comedy show, each of us had about 5 layers of pants on which included tights, jeans, 2 pajamas, and sweats and for the top long sleeve, short sleeve, jacket, sweatshirt, heavy coat, and for our heads, beanies, headbands, and 2 hoods!  We looked like 3 oompa lompas but it was freezing out, could you blame us?!? The entire ride was actually fantastic it was not too cold until we were headed back and we hit a blizzard literally!!!!!  I thought my nose was going to fall off, the snow was hitting us so hard on our freezing faces I could only laugh/cry.  It was quite the adventure but life is what you make it and that was definitely a memory that I will never forget!! 

 So for the actual night we were just bums, actually the whole week we were super lazy, I have officially seen all the new toddlers & tiaras and played the dance game enough to want to keep playing!!  We lit off a couple fireworks and laid by the fire all night, Lauren and I made New Years Noodles- basically an experiment dinner that we thought was delicious and Chris said it tasted gross and then it was midnight, of course I got my first 2011 kiss from Christopher Jon Malmanger, the man of my dreams and the only man I want to kiss for the rest of my life and then me and him stayed up and watched I believe it was 3 movies- Yours, Mine, and Ours & Wanted & My Big Fat Greek Wedding!!   I cannot believe it is already 2011~ Happy New Year!!  
Now for the normal new years resolutions I only have a couple because I always come up with more as the year goes by but here are the few..

1. Make someone smile everyday

2. Get back into shape

3. Get better grades then last semester (cross our fingers NO B's)

4. Eat Better

5. Keep on crafting!!

6. Make sure to find time to blog 

7.  Stay on top of everything! 

8, 9, 10 shall be filled in at a later date  

Christmas

This is my AMAZING family!!

The wonderful day of Jesus' birth!!!!  What an exciting day to celebrate with family and friends.  Christmas was a little hectic but well worth it.  Christopher decided he was going to join us this year, yay (I was a little excited, ok alot of excited ;) ) So Christmas eve after he did Christmas with his family he came up to the lake house!!  Oh how I love the lake house, sitting by the warm cozy fire, snuggling on the couch, looking at the christmas decorations, oh how wonderful!  Christmas morning we were all woken up by my obnoxious in a loving way sister, Lauren, even though she is 18 years of age she still believes we need to be up at 7. So her wish is our command rise and shine for everyone- which means Chris, me, Mom, dad, Kera, Brian, Grandma & Grandpa Cake {even though I know they were already up}  Time to open presents....or so you think, my dad has this lovely belief that we need to drag Christmas on FOREVER to make it last all day, sounds great in theory but not if you are excited to see what you got.  As always we started with the stockings....the normal but fun trinkets in stockings to name a few, See's candies, gum, bath & body, toothbrush (I must be stinky), jewelry, gift cards and much more....Santa sure does love us :) Then Santa's presents---Wii games, Yahoo!!  We got this Dance game that me and Lauren are pretty obsessed with its truly super fantatsicly fun!!!!!!  {Chris secretly loves it too even though he wont admit it}  And of course as I said earlier Dad likes to drag Christmas on for ages, so we had breakfast the traditional Jeuvos Rancheros (not sure if that is how it spelled but thats how I am going to spell it), mmmmmm DELICIOUS!!! That is one thing I look forward to every year and only get it once but boy o boy do I love it!  For those of you who have never tried it, you NEED to! Then everybody had to go get ready for the day to you know drag the process on longer.  Then it was time to open presents and for those of you who dont know how presents work in my family we get 3- a want, a need, and a surprise!!  The three things I got which I am so stoked about let me tell you a crock pot {a super fancy one}, a TV {so now I can actually have a desk in Tucson}, and this was so a Dad's present but a huge tool kit full of tools that I do not even know how to use but I have them and thats all that's important, right?!? Actually it was a great present because I do need tools for my apartment so I can hang pictures up and do other things without hopefully hurting myself.  Soooo this was super exciting but I wanted to save it for my Christmas post since it was a Christmas present from Christopher I my present was for us to go on a dinner cruise!  Probably the sweetest thing ever, I had no idea what we were doing until we pulled up to it.  It was at Canyon Lake on a ferry boat, we had dinner {steak, chicken, bake potato, salad, and dessert) Delicious!  and it was 2.5 hours around the lake with wonderful music, words cannot express my love for this boy but it was probably the best present ever (possible even better then my ring because I got to spend a whole romantic night just with him) Anywhoo back to Christmas, after my family's shenanigans Chris and I headed down to Gilbert to spend Christmas night with his family, it was so great to spend time with both family's on Christmas!  I also did get some wonderful Christmas presents from everyone, though I do not have time to go into each one, I love each present dearly that I got from everyone and appreciate them so much so thank you!  And that was Christmas....  

Lauren and I playing our new dance game in our wonderful feetie pjs!

Precious :)

Love her!!!