Winter Wonderland!

We took a little vacation to Colorado over President's Day weekend to visit Stacey and Heath and the boys. It was so fun!! More details later, but here is a super cute video of Jace and some sledding fun!

Newest Member of our Family

Yep, Ryan got a new car for CHRISTMAS! This was his excited face... I video taped the reveal but due to lack of excitement and no "Toyota", or in this case "Ford", jumps I have not posted the video. Photos will have to do...

The story? Well, we had been looking for a new car for a few months, and Ryan wanted a truck. Of course I didn't... Ryan did a lot of car shopping with me while I drove, and drove, and drove many different types of cars, with still no decision made. Once I suggested he go look at trucks, his eyes lit up and he did his shopping. He came home one days with deals from the Ford dealership and the Toyota dealership. All we had to do was go sign the papers. (And let me tell you, they were AMAZING deals!). I still didn't like the idea of a truck...

SO, I decided I would surprise him with the truck he had already picked out for Christmas! It was a really fun surprise! I didn't tell ANYONE! The dealership was kind enough to keep the car for a few weeks so I could bring it home for Christmas. I asked a friend of ours to help me pick it up and then he drove it to his house. While we were out on Christmas Eve our friend parked the truck in the back yard. (We have RV access... in case we ever get an RV...).

Anyway, we opened all our gifts on Christmas morning and then I told Ryan there was something else in his little ornament stocking. It was the car key. He was pretty excited. We drove around the neighborhood in our PJ's. It sure was fun!

Oh, and just in case you were wondering, Ryan did get me some awesome gifts for Christmas including crown molding!

We did some other fun Christmas things in December, like visit family, attend Christmas concerts, celebrate Christmas with friends, see Santa, and of course celebrate the birth of our Savior. BUT, I think the thing that we'll remember about Christmas 2009 is the new truck. It was fun for me to get and I know Ryan loves it.

Special Day

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November

So we started off November with our 4th wedding anniversary. Ryan had 2 weeks off because of his finger injury, and as luck would have it I had to work most of those weekends Ryan had off and he went back to work on the DAY of our anniversary. Not such good timing however we did have a fancy meal to celebrate!

I was so impressed! Ryan took it upon himself to make dinner AND he made some things he had NEVER made before! He made lobster tail!! He just asked some lady at the grocery store how to do it and he did it! He also made shrimp and scallops and all of it was just delicious! He did such a great job! Really impressive!!

We spent Thanksgiving in Thousand Oaks with the WINN clan. It was a blast! Ryan was lucky enough to have Thanksgiving day off and then he took Friday off too! We missed him Saturday and Sunday but that's just kind of how work it I guess...

Anyway, we had a blast! We did a turkey trot with the kids, we made these cute turkeys, we ate turkey and we sewed and slept a lot. It was really nice and really fun. The entire WINN family was there and we loved it! Ryan brought his bikes and the boys had a fun time biking, playing tennis, roof pong (an invented game by them), and of course eating and sleeping. All in all, November was a great month, except for the weight gain and excessive eating... ;)

October

Ok, I know. I have been a total slacker. However, nobody complained, so you can't have missed me that much! Here are some fun things we did in October!

We had a mini pumpkin carving party with just a few friends. Here is the outcome of our fun party!

Ryan and I on the left, Matt and Ginger with their two kids in the middle, and Brian and Heather with their baby on the end. Our dear friends Joelynn and Eli left a little early to put their little tyke to bed so we are missing them in our photo.

Ryan and I with our scary pumpkins. Ryan's finger was hurt, as seen in the previous post, so he wasn't able to do much of the carving, but it looks pretty good to me!


Ryan and he friend Jeff were kind enough to make our house a little nicer by filling our empty attic with insulation! Here is a weird photo of Ryan standing halfway in the attic as I look up to take the photo. I'd like to say that the insulation made a big difference, but we put it in before it got cold and it wasn't hot at the time, so we don't really have anything to compare it to... We will really be able to tell next year when we run the AC. We'll compare bills.

We went to the tri-ward Trunk or treat for about 30 minutes... We decided we needed costumes, so this is what we came up with...

Here are our cute friends Joelynn and Eli with their little shark Caleb. They came too, but after a little bit we decided to leave the "party" and hit Golden Spoon. Much more enjoyable!

Trip to the ER

Poor finger... Ryan actually considered leaving all the blood on his hand for halloween except for that it is over a week away...

How you ask? On a can lid. He used a can opener but the can didn't open so well. Ryan's little finger tried to help but the can won. Luckily Ryan still has the tip of his finger. 7 stitches! OUCHY! Just glad he didn't loose the top of his finger!

The only good part about it was that because of Ryan's job he knows all the staff in the ER pretty well. He actually took himself to the hospital as I hurried to meet him from work. He didn't go in the front door, he went in the back door and they took care of him right away. One of his job perks I guess...

It was pretty gross. The tissue inside his finger was coming out so much they had to cut the tissue out and pull the skin on his finger back up to close it! I didn't really like watching it but Ryan didn't seem to mind and blood poored from his finger. Probably because he couldn't feel it.

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