Christmas Day

We had a great Christmas Day. As usual my Mom, Bob and Taylor came over to our house. This time they came over around noon because we don't have any anxious children awaiting their Christmas gifts ;) We all figure we might as well take advantage of the easy going Christmases before they disappear in a few years.

Anyway, there are no pictures of me here because I was the one taking all of the shots :P Some of the highlights of my gifts were a new Cricut Expression machine, the Sims 3 computer game, Seinfeld Monopoly board game and a cashmere sweater!

Below is a run down of some of the other highlights of Christmas Day ;)

Here is Chris with his Butt Station tape dispenser :P

It's a tradition in our house to put all of the bows on Bob's head. This is just the start of it.

Chris is opening a board game from one of his best friends. It was wrapped in a movie poster.

Taylor got a new computer - built just for gaming and built by Chris. Taylor loved it!

Ramin and Babak look deep in thought. Babak is reading about Chris' new board game. Ramin got some Florida Gator gear.

Mom got a Chia Herb Garden from "Santa" - she's laughing so hard because it matches the SpongeBob Chia pet Bob got from Chris ;)

When you have loose ribbon it can't really stick on your head, so it went on Bob's wrist :P

I got some Terracotta Warriors straight from China for Chris. He was super excited about them!

Ramin opened his Millsap jersey I bought him. Go Millsap!!

And mom's gift from me was the finale of the day. I'd already given her some smaller frames with pictures of the family in them and this was the icing on the cake :)

Also, as a side note, I got the exact same 16x20 frame and put the same picture of the family in it as well and I hung it up near our picture wall. So now we have the same picture in our houses :) I'll take some pictures of the picture wall soon so you all can see it.

Remember the Letterpress?

So remember the Letterpress I posted about a few weeks ago? (Just scroll down a bit)....well now they are GIVING one away for free!! So I'm totally entering the contest.

Here's a link to their awesome blog: CLICK HERE

Wish me luck!!!

Big Snow in Utah

It snowed pretty much all day today. I snapped these pictures earlier in the morning when the snow flakes were gigantic! I don't think I've ever seen snowflakes as big as the ones that fell this morning. AMAZING! We had a good couple of inches are our house today and it was so cozy watching the snow fall while I listened to Christmas songs on the stereo. Cheezy I know, but it was fun. I especially loved listening to The Nutcracker Suite.

Anyway, I think we're slated to get more snow tonight and tomorrow. I'll take more pics if it's good enough ;)

Christmas Time!

I only have one more day of class left for the semester! Wooohooo I made it through my first semester of Grad school :) I just have one paper to write but I don't think it will be too difficult. It's MAJORLY cold in Utah right now. When I was driving home last night the car temp read 7 degrees outside. YES, 7 degrees! We have lots of snow and it's super cold but it seems rather ok. I'm saying that now of course, I'm sure in a few weeks I'll be sick of the snow :P

Anyway, on to the happenins. Over Thanksgiving we had the chance to babysit a dog for one of Ramin's friends. This friend actually was the one who gave us Belle and he watches her sometimes when we go out of town, so it's only fitting that we watch their dog. OH MY GOSH - this dog was the cutest, cuddly little thing alive! Her name is Kitty and she's a Shih-Tzu. Keeeee-utest thing ever! I LOVED watching her cause she cuddled with me ALL of the time. I got some cute pictures of her before she left our house. Ramin thought she was ugly but I don't care what he thinks, she's super cute.


Also, I'm not setting up my tree this year. I'm just not into it I guess. It's just so much work and I don't think anyone really cares hahaha...it would be one thing if we had kids to decorate it with and they could have it for memories, but with just us (me, Ramin, Chris and Babak) there's really no point because all of those guys really don't care and I'd have to do all of the work so I just didn't feel like it. BUT, I did do something, I decorated the entrance table and I did put some lights outside around the door and railings. So I did something and I feel good about that because it's all we really need ;)


So next week I'll officially be DONE with school - not that I have much to complain about. This semester has infinitely been the easiest semester of my life and I have no idea why. Possibly because the work was actually fun and they give more leeway to grad students? I dunno.

Oh yeah! Ramin and I are going to Dubai in mid-March!! His cousin is getting married there and a lot of Ramin's family from his mom's side will be there too! We are both super excited for this!! In preparation for this, I have been on a strict diet for the last 3 weeks. Well I'm in my 3rd week now. I started it the week of Thanksgiving (crazy I know)...but so far I've lost 4 lbs which is 2 lbs a week. My goal is to lose 10 lbs a month until the trip. I could go all into my plan for how I'm doing it but I won't right now. Just know that this time it's working and I'm super pumped and excited because every day I make a little more progress!!

Ok thats all for now!