Christmas and new stuff

We had a great christmas this year. My brother and his family came from New York to be with us for christmas. We started out going to a light show in town on Monday. Then Wednesday we went swimming at our fav. Swimming pool. On crhistmas eve we had some friends from our ward come and we put on the story of Jesus' birth for everyone. Nate and I were wiseman. Lilly and her cousin Garrett were sheep. Brooke was mary, Crystal was joseph. Grant was a donkey and Shepard, Aleisha a wiseman and Alaina the angel. Even though it was kind of crazy it was fun. Then nate and our friend bro. Dalley played the guitars and we sang christmas songs.


Garrett the sheep





Christmas Morning



Lilly on her new dinosaur from Grandpa and Grandma. She loves it!


This is a ragged quilt that I had been working on for nate's parent's for christmas. It has all the grandkids handprints and some blank ones for new grandkids. I had to wait to post pics of it til after they got it. But I had fun putting it together. They have 21 grandkids and 1 on the way. Its made out of flannel. When I was thinking about what I wanted to make it out of I wanted it to be comfortable, something that you would want to cuddle up in. So I thought of flannel pjs and I went with that.

Quilt upclose, I embroidered " Families are forever" on the front.

The back

Christmas morning


Garrett and Lilly at the pool


This is my salon that we had been building in our basement for the past year. Nate and I worked on it together. I can now say I have Drywalled and plastered and painted, and laid flooring. It was fun to do together and to have it done. I really enjoy having it in my home where I can stay with lilly but still make some extra money. The salon name is Colette's Salon de Cheveux. I went with a french theme and high fashion. I have coutour pictures on the walls. The phrase "Salon de Cheveux" is french for Hair salon. So I just added my name, so in french it says " Colette's hair salon." My name is also french that's kind of how I got the idea. I hope that makes sense.

Thanksgiving

So this year for thanksgiving we went to Billings, MT where Nate's family is. I'm kind of upset at myself b/c I didn't take any pictures. But we had lots of fun. Nate has 4 siblings that live in MT. Only one that lives in Utah. We were able to visit all 4 families and spend some time with them individually which was really nice and Lilly had so much fun with all her cousins. She loves little kids and trys to hug them everytime she sees a little kid like her. Nates nephew Kade who is just one month older than Lilly was scared of her the first time he met her but lilly went right up to him and hugged him than he started crying. Every night lilly went to bed sweating from playing so much. We appreciate all the families and nate's parents for having us!! Nate got up at 4am in the morning on Black friday to get a pistol for 200 when it is usually 400. There were only 50 of them. So he was pretty excited to get it and I'm excited b/c now I don't have to hear him say how much he wants another gun, and that he didn't have to pay 400! But we had a great time!

surprise

These lovely deer were in our flower bed in my front yard. The one scared me a little bit b/c I was downstairs exercising and I came up and there it was in the view of my front window. But they were there for quite a while. I took the pictures from our front room. We always see them at the neighbors and they ate some of my pumpkins but this was the first time they were so close.

Halloween and my new love!

For Halloween I was a 50's girl, nate was a skeleton and Lilly was cinderella. We went to our ward party on Friday and I won "One of a kind" chili in the chili competition. I was just glad I won something. It's getting really hard to take pictures of lilly b/c she just wants to come grab the camera. This is her with pigtails for the first time. and her cute pumpkin outfit.










This is my new Love!! I was so excited when I got this piano. The delivery man asked if I was taking lessons and I said nope, I had lessons for 12 years. So to have a piano for myself is wonderful. I sat down and lilly and I started playing.

lilly's one year photo shoot

I took Lilly to get her one year pictures done. The photographer didn't do as good a job as I would have liked them to have done but I got a few cute ones. Lilly has grown up a lot over the past year and its gone by fast.

4 Years

Its been four years since nate and I were Married!! Crazy how time flies! The first picture is one when nate and I were dating. It was the first time that he met my family in Yellowstone. The second is our wedding on Oct 20, 2006. Happy Anniversary Nate, I Love you!!

SAN FRANCISCO

All the people gathered for the Blue Angels Show in the park and Ghirdelli square and old factory.

This is jimmy Hendrix's old house on the top and the houses below are from the show "Full House". The house on the end (below) just sold for 5 million dollars. The prices in San Fran are pretty expensive. On one of the houses theres a sign in the window that says that it is not the full house, house and they do not do tours.



We took a tour of Chinatown. Our tour guide was from chinatown so she knew all the ends and outs of it. This is a buddhist temple that we went in. There are buddhist nuns that live there.

We went to a market where they buy there food and you can get animals that are not dead yet. Like fish and a whole chicken is 5 dollars. You take a live chicken home with you in a plastic bag.




This is a fortune cookie factory, but there are only 2 people making them.

This place is the daycare center that was in the movie "the pursuit of Happiness" in chinatown. It of course looks different on the outside.


We were able to Walk across Golden Gate Bridge. While we were there it was sunny everyday.






While we were there it was Fleet Week. Some navy crews came into port and the Blue Angels performed air shows. I didn't even know who the Blue angels were but it was really fun to see the performances. Nathan of course knew who they were and was very excited. Also the navy were letting people come aboard their ships and take tours but we chose not to b/c we would had to wait in line for two hours.






This is Fisherman's wharf and pier 39 where the sea Lions come to veg. It was fun seeing them in their natural habitat and not the zoo. We had fish and chips while we were there.








This is City hall. The city gives tax breaks to those companys who display art outside their buildings, so theres a lot.




This is Bay Bridge which goes over to Oakland, CA






So I didn't know that San Francisco is so Fashion Friendly!! I was pretty excited to go shopping while we were there, especially in H&M b/c I'd never gone shopping there before. It was fun to see all the stores that you wouldn't normally see like Louis Vutton and Prada!




Lilly was lucky to stay with my parents for the few days!! Thanks mom and dad. Nate and I haven't been on a vacation like this in awhile.