On the road again...

We are ALWAYS out of town. Seriously. We love spending time with our family's but its starting to get ridiculous. We have been out of town 7 out of the last 11 weekends. And some of them we have to come back before church for Bryan's calling or not leave until after church! The saddest part to me is that we have no friends because of this! We want friends but since we are always gone on the weekends we never get a chance to invite people over. Which is too bad because we are both pretty good cooks and could make some good meals if we had some friends to cook it for. (Yes, that was a sad attempt at bribing people to be friends with us).

Well this weekend we went up to Salt Lake because our cousin Misty had her mission homecoming. We didn't get to go to her farewell because it was right after Ethan was born and I wasn't up for traveling. I was good friends with her from college and she set Bryan and I up on a blind date which is how we met so we like her a lot. =)

We also took the family Santa picture. Every year since 1988 Bryan's family has taken a picture with Santa. Its Bryan's dads favorite thing and its cool to see how the family has grown through the years when you look at the album. Ethan of course freaked out and Santa said to us "Between 18 months and 4 years is the hardest stage. You have 3 choices: 1. Not take a picture. 2. Hold him in your lap and be in the picture or 3. Have a screaming picture." And Bryan and I looked at each other, smiled and both said "we're okay with a screaming picture." I mean every kid has to have one right?


(Bryan's family from Left to right: Me. Ethan. Bryan. Kyle (above Bryan). Santa. Kristi with her arms around Dario and Alex on the floor.

Alex was really cute and wanted to make a gingerbread house with Ethan really bad. Ethan LOVED it. He had a ton of fun and kept laughing at himself. He did a really good job by himself spreading frosting. As you can see we are all in pajamas. We had a very lazy Saturday watching movies, baking, gingerbread houses, ping-pong and scrapbooking.

( I love that Bryan looks like he is picking his nose. I dont know what he was doing, but Bryan isn't a picker. I'll vouch for that.)