Christmas Morning

I just Love the holiday season. I love the spirit of Christmas and spending time with my family. This is a picture of the family on Christmas morning after we saw what Santa brought to us! I hope everyone had a great Christmas too!

Family PJ Party

We had a Family PJ Party last night for our Christmas Party.

It was fun to eat breakfast and play games and watch

the football game.

Weekend Fun

Friday Night
We surprised Amy for her birthday and had a big
party! She didn't have a clue- it was great!

Charise, Amy, and Melissa

Some of my friend went to The Forgotten
Carols- Saturday night. It was such a
good performance! I love the
spirit of Christmas!

Some other friends were down from Salt Lake
and we went around looking at
Christmas lights!

Friends Christmas Party

We had a fun Friends Christmas Party last Saturday night. It was so much fun! We had around 45 people show up. Everyone brought tons of great food and we had white elephant gifts! Everything turned out awesome! These pictures are just a few snapshots!

No More Homework!!!

Oh! Happy Day! Yeah! About 10 minutes ago I submitted my last assignment for this semester! This means I will have about 4 1/2 weeks of NO Homework! I am so THRILLED! :) Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Can you tell, I'm a little excited ? :) Now I can think about Christmas! I love Christmas time!

A couple of my friends decided to be festive last night and make a Christmas Cake with sprinkles on top and play some card games, it was a fun night just to chill with the friends.

This is my Mom's awesome Christmas Tree that my sisters decorated this year. I wish I would have been in town to help, but they surprised my mom while she was out of town so that her tree would be finished when she got back! All of us sisters have decided that Tai Pan is wonderful! :) I don't think this picture does justice, it looks way better in person!

Gift Boutique

The Boutique turned out great! Thanks to all those who came or participated! It looks like we will be having another one at the end of January. If any of you were interested in any of the products and couldn't make it last night let me know what you would like to see.

Happy Thanksgiving

Sad that I didn't end up taking any pictures on Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful day and I love thinking about all the many things I am thankful for in my life. The night before thanksgiving, I went down to Vegas to pick up my friend Shandra. She flew in from Pheonix and we went out to PF Changs for dinner. It is one of my favorite places to eat! And then on Friday I went back to Vegas for some Shopping! I went with Shanna and Kelsey and we shopped until we dropped! I'll have to get a picture from Shanna of all of our shopping bags when we were done. We drove in Shanna's truck and we all three had to ride in the front seat on the way home because the back seat was full to the brim with shopping bags, it was great! And the best part is we are pretty much ready for Christmas! What a fun girls day we had. Today has been wonderful to have a day to run errands and do homework, I love having a few days off of work :). I've got to get started on my Christmas cards, now that Thanksgiving is over!

Jubilee of Trees

So after being harassed by two of my friends :), I guess I need to update my blog! I can say that this month has been super busy and crazy. Work and homework are enough to keep me on my toes, but then you throw in the social life and everything else. :) Last night a bunch of my friends did a group date, we played three legged soccer- it was a blast! Life is good, just super super busy, but I am super exicted for the holidays coming up! Christmas is my favorite! :)



So on this last Friday, we took our first graders on a field trip to the Jubilee of Trees. It was so much fun to walk around and see all of the fun Christmas trees. The first graders helped make some of the ornaments and two of my wonderful room moms helped put everything together and make it look fantastic! Thanks Lyndi and Mandi :). Our field trip turned out great!

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween! This week has been jam packed with fun nights! Monday night we had a combined singles activity-Halloween dance. This pictures is of Nicole, Chelsey, and I. It was a great night. Everyone dressed up and had a blast dancing our hearts out! Tuesday night we watched a scary movie- ahhh! Probably not the best thing.

On Halloween, we had a great class party at school thanks to my wonderful room moms! I couldn't ask for better ones! We had fun games and then the whole school had a parade. If you want to check out cute pictures of my students go to Lyndi Dunlavy's Blog to check them out. I have great students and they were so cute on Halloween :). Later that night I went to my parents ward Trunk-or-Treat to see my adorable niece and nephew. Here is Rushton and Paige- our Super Kids!

Recipe Swap

My friend Camille just tagged me for a recipe swap and I think it is a great idea! I love getting new recipes. So here are a couple of my favorties!

This recipe is one of my very favorites! It tastes great and is easy to make!

Chicken Bacon
2 pkgs. Wafer thin sandwich beef
1 lb. Bacon
8 boneless, skinless chicken breast
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup
1 carton sour cream

Lay beef on bottom of 9x13 pan. Wrap chicken breast with bacon and lay on beef. Combine soup and sour cream. Spread over chicken. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Bake uncovered at 250 for 4 hours. Serve over rice.

Cookies- Oh how I love cookies!

Gardner Oatmeal Freckles

Mix:
1 cup of shortening
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of brown sugar

Add:
2 eggs
2t. vanilla
1t. baking soda
1t. salt
1 ½ cups of flour

–Mix in 1 package of chocolate chips and 3 cups of oatmeal. Bake at 350 for 8 minutes.

Fun Projects

I love having a few days off of work! Fall Break has been great this week. Sadly enough, I wasn't able to go to California with my family, but I have had some good times at home. Besides writing papers and doing homework, yesterday was a day to play. Amy, Sara, and I went shopping and decided to make wreaths. This was a new adventure for me. This is my project for the day, since I am a project girl and love to make things! It was great to spend the day with friends!

Family Time

I love spending time with my family! They make me so happy. Sunday nights are the best night of the week. All of the family who is in town usually gathers at Mom and Dad's house for a yummy homemade dinner and some great times together. We catch up and have fun. I love to see my cute neice and nephew. Rushton is 4 and Paige is 6 months old (and they are in Grandma's lap-the best place to be). This picture is a quick snap shot I took on my phone. They are both looking up at Alisha (mom), but I thought it was adorable. My family is wonderful, and I'm super excited for the holidays. Christmas is my favorite!

Swiss Days Booth

Julie, Camille, and I had a booth this weekend at Swiss Days! This was our first buissness adventure! We were sort of disappointed because of the weather. Saturday we got rained out! So we are planning on having an open house boutique around the 18th of October if anyone is interested! We've got some cute stuff. Camille has made quilts. Julie has baby slings, headbands, binky clips, and tag blankets. And I made homemade cards!It was a fun adventure to hang out with the girls and we are excited about all our products. :)

Boutique SnapShots

Here are some Snapshots of our stuff at our Swiss Days Booth.

Boating at the Lake

I love going boating with Amy and Jayson and friends at the Lake! We have so much fun wake boarding and surfing. It is always nice to have a break from work and school. Teaching is going great! It is my thrid year teaching at Bloomington Elementary! I have great students and I just started my masters Degree!

Summer Summary

Shandra, Amy, and I went to Hungintong Beach in May to start out our fun Summer!

I got to visit my cousins, the Searles, in Pheonix, Arizona in July!

Rachel, Shauna, Me, Shayli, and Nicole. All the girls went out to lunch!

I also got to go to Houston Texas with my Aunt Lori. We visited my cousin Kristin and her Famliy! It was my first time to Texas.

Hello Friends!

Hello- I'm figuring all of this out!