Sunday, December 28, 2008

What was i Thinking?


I decided i would make these quilts for Amy and Rhonda for Christmas. Well my mom does these sort of things all the time. She makes it look easy. i will tell you what I am definatly not as good as my Mom. First of all i started way too late. a week and a half was not long enough to do these. But I pulled it off all thanks to my Mom. She helped me a ton. i told her if she did one more stich i would have to tell them they were from her. Thanks Mom for all your help. I couldnt have done it without you.
Rhonda and Amy loved them. I was so glad. They don't look the best if you look really close. but i was proud of them.

Our First Christmas

This was our first Christmas together. It was great! We woke up at my parents house and did Christmas with my family. our niece and nephews were so much fun to watch. They were in my parents room waiting for us to let them out to come see what Santa brought. as soon as we opened the door they came running out. They ran right past the presents and into the kitchen. I don't think they realized what they were waiting for. we got a good laugh. It took them forever to open presents every toy they opened they had to play with for a minute before opening another. It was a blast watching them.

After this we went over to Ty's family to open presents with them. It is rewarding to be married you get Christmas twice. It was alot quieter at the Gardiners no one was fighting over toys but just as fun. (Ty would like to fight CJ over his new i Touch though). We had a ton of gifts to open there and Rhonda and Amy wrapped them so pretty you didn't want to ruin them. It was alot of fun. we were lucky we were able to spend Christmas with both of our families
We were spoiled this Christmas. Our parents did way too much for us. We are so blessed to have such great families.

Ty always pretends he can play the harmonica when he hears one in a song. So, i found a harmonica. I thought it would be funny but it probably was a bad idea. Now he thinks it is funny to annoy me with it.

Ty gave me a GoodFellow Crusher T-Shirt that he got at work for free.(how thoughtful). It was a joke, underneath was a pair of pants he picked out by himself. they were the right size and everything. He did GREAT!

Christams Eve

We spent christmas eve this year with my family. it is a tradition to have clam chowder in bread bowls. I was so excited for it. Everyone was at my parents house and we all slept over. We definatly had a house full. It was a blast. The kids were so much fun to play with.

Ryter helping Grama with the clam chowder

Ty playing with Will

Every year we get Pj's to open on Christmas Eve.


Ty's were a little too big!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Thanks Giving

This was our first Thanksgiving together. We spent it with Ty's family. Ty's brother CJ races motorcycles and he had a big National race in Mesquite Thanksgiving weekend.
We left Wed. night after we got off of work. Everything was going great we were making good time till we got right outside of St. George and Cj was talking about years ago when they were going Vegas and got a flat tire and soon as he said "flat tire" we hear a POP! the tire on the Camper blew. there were sparks flyin,and it took the fender off. So we pulled over on the busy freeway and changed the flat. We finally got to Mesquite and we were just in time after they let us in the closed and locked the gates.
Thursday CJ had practice and afterwards we went to St. George for Dinner, we ate at the Cracker Barrell which wasnt that good, but i realized that Thanksgiving isn't only about the good turkey dinner, i was thankful to be with Ty and is wonderful family. We had a great thanksgiving even though it wasnt traditional. Cj raced the next few days he did great.

So this picture wasn't from this last weekend but i wanted to put it on here anyway.


We had a great weekend, and didnt want it to end but we had to come home and get back to school for finals.