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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Geek!

Geek, Nerd, Dork...call me whatever you want but Matt is convinced that this is when it all started downhill for me! He says my parents should have warned me! :)

You see, I was looking through my mom's old pictures and found this one and was struck by one of my favorite memories ever!!! So I of course showed Matt the picture and then recounted the memory.

I was 5 years old and in kindergarten when I heard of an upcoming assembly at school! We were having Polynesian dancers coming to our school to "hula" for us! I was so excited. My Grandma and Grandpa Styles  had recently brought home a luau skirt and bikini top for me straight from Hawaii. I was so excited about the whole thing that I wanted to wear my hula skirt and binkini top to school that day for the assembly. I wore it all day and when I got into the assembly they were so impressed that someone was so excited that they wore a luau skirt, so they decided to call me up on stage! I got to dance the "hula" with this group in front of the whole school!!! And at the end, two girls reached down and kissed me on the cheek! They had bright lipstick on and I had lip marks on my cheeks for the rest of the day! I was not about to wipe them off! I wanted the whole world to know that I had been the one up on that stage with them dancing. It made my whole year. :)

Anyways... after telling Matt this story he was convinced that this was the start of my dorkiness! He said "Who does that? You should have known right then and there that you were a dork!"  :) ha ha I love it! I've always had quite a bit of dorkiness in me, but that's what has made my life so fun! I didn't see any of the other kids having the time of their lives up on stage doing the hula!

So like I said, call me a geek, nerd, or dork......... I don't mind :)

It's Christmas Time


-CHRISTMAS EVE-
We were lucky to get invited to a family's home for Christmas Eve. They had family and friends over, so we had a decent size group. We ate dinner, enjoyed the company, and read "The Tale of Three Trees." It was really fun to spend Christmas Eve with a bunch of people!

-CHRISTMAS DAY-
Matt and I had a very relaxing Christmas this year! We got up, opened presents, made a nice breakfast, stayed in our PJ's and watched movies!:)
This year was the first Christmas that Matt and I actually bought presents for each other! Usually we just put the money towards a vacation...but this year I thought it would be fun to get a few things for each other!  We set a budget, but then we kinda overly spoiled each other! :)
This is what we got! 




It was our first Christmas all alone in New Hampshire but it turned out okay.... but next Christmas I think we'll be heading home to share the special time with our family! :)  

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Live Nativity


There is no better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to be in a live Nativity!
Here are the pics that were taken by a ward member....
I had never even seen a live nativity before then but now I have been in one! It was a lot of fun! We met a lot of super sweet people and it gave us something gratifying to do together during the holiday season!
Hanging out before, after and between shows :)

Thursday, December 9, 2010

I love Company!




12/3- 12/8
My mom came out to visit NH for the first time and Bre and Alaina came to visit too! I love company!























Our trip included:
  • Dinner at Chilli's
  • Shopping (with no sales tax) :) 
  • Walking around our "Gilmore Girl" town and visiting local shops
  • Meeting in the Milford oval for Christmas caroling and the lighting of the town Christmas tree
  • Showing off my visitors at church 
  • Sleeping in.......when do I not?
  • Learning to make my mom's specialty meals and teaching her one of mine
  • Just spending nice quality time together! 
Things having to do with Alaina
  • Dressing her in all the clothes we have to see how cute they are actually on a cute little girl.
  • Painting her nails and putting snowflake stickers on them
  • Spending lots of time smiling at her, so she'd smile back
  • Taking lots of pictures! :) .... here they are
He's so ready to be a daddy! But for now, he loves being an Uncle!

Such a good mommy! Already excited to teach her to ride a bike!


Cutest lil outfit!

Posing for the camera!
I just woke up, but decided to do her nails.
They turned out cute, huh?

Check this out, she slept a long time like that!!! :)

There's her cute lil smile!

And there is her cute lil bum bum! Look at her face, she is loving being nakie!