Mom time :)

So, my Mom randomly came to visit me last Friday and it was good to see her.  We only hung out for like 2 hours and she wanted to check out WinCo so we just grocery shopped and talked.  It is so nice to have some quality time with your Momma, even if it is only for a little bit while you grocery shop!  So we just caught up and then she came back and watched the end of Pitch perfect with me and Raymond.  It was a nice night :)  

Shreddin'

My whole family likes to go play in the snow :)  It was really nice to go up Fairview canyon because I haven't gone in a REALLY long time.  It's awesome that you can snowboard for free!  I was really out of shape and out of practice but it was still SO MUCH FUN!  I am excited to get new gear that actually fits me and a new board... snowboarding is just so dang expensive!  One thing that was super fun on this trip is that I brought a bag of my many birthday mini reeses and introduced my family to them, they loved them and we ate a few bites before each run down the mountain! 

This is me with my daddy and brother, they are a couple of studs!  I love them to death and I love going snowboarding and to concerts with them.  

Me and my broseph! He looks so good in blue! 

My Mom and Dad are so cute!  I love them so so much :) 

Me, Bobs and Dad! 

I'm basically a professional snowboarder... except that I'm not.

It wouldn't be a family outing if Ricky didn't come!! 

Soldiers Hallow

For Messina's 27th birthday we went sledding at Soldiers Hallow.  It was SO much fun :) It was freezing and it was snowing a lot of the time we were there.  Provo Canyon was scary to drive through.

He is so good at ugly faces... I think he was given the talent for it! 

It was so nice just to ride our tubes up the hill.  I def ruined these boots though skidding my feet as I went down.

I look so ugly in this picture, we went to Sammy's after sledding in Provo, it was pretty good.

The gang minus Alexa and Garret because she was working.

Bailey and Messina :) 

Me and Ray

{twenty-one}

Well, it happened... I turned 21.  I realize I haven't written in awhile, but honestly, turning 21 may be the only important and exciting thing that has happened since Christmas!

This is the lovely view I woke up to!! A pantless wonder she is :) 

So the first thing that I did on my birthday, is go and take my Chemistry exam.  I know, not your ideal birthday activity, but alas, it had to be done!!  Afterwards I just went to class.  A woman named Ginger in my '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' class, brought me a pack of mini reeses!  It made my day because I told everyone in my presentation on Friday that I would love whomever brought me mini reeses for my Birthday!  She is such a sweetheart! 

After school, Alexa picked me up and took me to Yogurtland and then I went on a shopping spree to Playdough's Closet and got a TON of pants... which were much needed.  Then I came home and got ready to go to Spark in Provo to continue my Birthday festivities! 

Shop 'til you drop! 

At Spark we got non-alcoholic beverages and I got these weird pork things on sticks... but they were good and I got full really fast!! Then I opened my presents! 

Tasha even brought me a cupcake so  I could blow out a candle on my Birthday! :)



Next we all went to see the movie "Identity Thief", it was WAY funny.  I liked it.

This is my loot at the end of the day!! I got soooo many good presents and I am blessed with great friends and roommates!  I ended up getting about 7 total bags of mini reeses for my birthday... it was FANTASTIC!! :D 

So that was my ACTUAL DAY OF BIRTH... I will now tell you about my chocolate birthday party at home!  It was AWESOME!  I kind of had a chocolate overload that week I think! 

Here is a sexy picture of me blowing out my candles!! 

My Aunt Wilma makes THEE best chocolate cake in the entire world!! My family literally has it gone by breakfast the day after a birthday because we all eat a piece in a bowl with milk poured over it.... MMMMM :P

We dipped strawberries, pretzels, cinnamon bears and rice crispies in chocolate!

All of the same pictures from above except the bottom right is of me and my BCF DPW (best cousin forever dr. pepper whore), he made it to my birthday party!! 

I absolutely love this picture of my Gramps, it is so funny!! 

I think this photo explains a lot about the relationship I have with my family....

We played charades for a good hour!!

'tis the season

Wow, sorry I have neglected my blog.  I feel like I have to be in the mood to write on it and I just haven't been in the mood!  It's kind of like my journal, I need to catch up!! Does anyone even read my blog?  Or am I just too boring of a person?! 

In this picture Alexa & I made Christmas cupcakes for our girls that we visit teach, it was really hard not to eat them! Also this is our beautiful tree :)  The letters 'C,A,T' are not spelling CAT, they stand for Chana, Alexa & Tasha.

We decorated the TV stand, it looks super classy! 

Our sweet mantle we made.  There was this board in the hallway for a month that said 'BEWARE' for Halloween and so we took it and nailed it to the wall! We also made a fire made out of tissue paper, it was WAY flipin' cute.

I may have molested Santa at work! 

Me, Garett and Alexa at Temple Square!

We had such a fun time going to Temple Square, riding the tracks, and eating dinner at the Cheesecake Factory at the new City Creek Mall :) Good times with the roomies! 

Me and my roommate!  I love the girl and our beautiful red faces.

The sunset on my drive home for Christmas! 

When I got home on Saturday night, we went to Ft. Green and waited at the church to go on a ride to a live nativity.  Trailers with hay stacks on them connected to tractors picked us up and brought us to some sheep sheds on the outskirts of Ft. Green, we watched a short 4 minutes clip where one of the wise men had a creeper look on his face and me, Sade and Aubri started to crack up.  You should watch it... I'll put a link.  He's the wise men on the left hand side!
http://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/glad-tidings-of-great-joy-the-birth-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng

If the link doesn't work, the video is called:  'Good Tiding of Great Joy, The Birth of Jesus Christ.'

Just watch it, you'll see it.

My Mommy & Daddy 

Me, Sade and Bobs all bundled up! 

The beautiful tree! 

Christmas Eve at my house was so much fun!! We went to the annual Christmas Eve program at the church and it included little dance crew dances, caroling, santa, bags of nasty authentic Christmas treats... the works.  Then we invited DJ's new renters to eat dinner with us and we had sweet and sour meatballs.  Next we played Just Dance and I read everyone a Christmas article from the December Ensign.  We opened Christmas jammies and then watched 'Elf' while drinking Sade's delicious hot cocoa.

Discovered a new app called Face Juggler and laughed until we cried all Christmas Eve.
This picture is what it would look like if my Dad and I swapped faces!  

This is Aubri and my Dad if they swapped faces!  My Dad looks like a major stoner.

Scraping Tony Stark to go pick up a Dr. Pepper at the soda machine on Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning Mom made breakfast cookie muffins and bacon!  Mmmm, then we opened presents.  The family loved the gifts I gave to them.  After presents we watched the other half of 'Elf' and then I made Dad watch 'Holes', because I told him our family is cursed like that movie with bad luck and we need to sing a song to some mystery person and carry them up a hill on our back and let them drink from the stream so we can break the curse! Lol, after the movie we had cheese ball and grilled cheese for lunch, it was awesome!  Then I had to go because I had to work :/ Bleh! 

Marissa loves Polly Pockets! 

I made my Dad a Steelers blanket & Raymond bought me one so we matched!! :)

Merry Christmas from the Thompson's and I have a super fat face! 

Ricky got a new bed and a new hedgehog toy! 

I had to come home and work on Christmas, blah! 

I went sledding with Jake, Jess, and Brian!  Brian and I went off a huge jump and then my butt slid out and I was being dragged backwards and was holding onto his legs for dear life!  It was way fun :)  Then we went hot tubbing at Rain Tree!  Good times!