Chrismas Festivities!

Christmas this year was SO great! We were able to spend time with both of our families (a LOT of time!) and it made it that much more special. Christmas eve we went over to my sister's house in Orem and ate great food and opened the presents from the siblings. (We exchange names). My parents gave us all our presents then too. We had to open them all at the same time...and what did we get?!!! An all-inclusive trip to somewhere tropical! All the kids and the spouses, no children, are going on a trip in February! I'm SO excited!!! After that, we headed over to Ryan's home in American Fork. Their family exchanges names with the siblings as well and we opened those too. We stayed the night there and woke up Christmas morning and opened the INSANE amount of presents. I really wish I had a picture of the amount of presents that were under that tree. Around noon we headed over to my parents house to see the nieces and nephews open the presents we got them. Man, those kids make a haul! We went and saw the movie, Marley and Me. It was cute. Then we headed back up to AF to spend more time with Ry's family. His aunt Cathy and uncle Chuck came from Cali, so Ry wanted to spend as much time with them as we could. The next few days we saw more movies, did more shopping, played games with family, and ATE! I'm STILL stuffed from all the goodies...and YES I AM looking SO forward to getting back into my gym routine. Oh, and another good piece of news...my little bro Dan got engaged over the break! More news to come on that! Overall, this Christmas was great! I'm sad it's over, mostly because I don't want to go back to work, but I realize I have SO much to be greatful for. We are truly blessed with great family and friends and everything we could ask for. Merry Christmas everyone (a little late). We love you all!

Sorry, I didn't take many pictures...usually I'm WAY camera happy.

Me and Ryan Christmas morning at his parent's.

Me and my parents new puppy, Gracie. She really IS a miracle puppy! To get the full story, read the "parvo" and "puppy's breath" posts here.

Family Pictures!

This past Sunday at my parent's home, we took some new, updated family pictures. I just love it when we're all dressed alike. I mean, who doesn't?! No, but really, it was fun. We got some good shots and we all LOOK happy, isn't that what counts? :) All kidding aside, no one was too angry or harmed during the shooting. I must say we are a pretty good looking family! We're finally all married off now! Well, Dan's not technically married yet; but we went ahead and included Christy in the family photo, since she will soon be inducted into the Weber zoo.

The whole gang!

All the siblings.Nana and Papa and the grandkids.The Hanvey's.

Be-lated Thanksgiving Post

Sorry about the posts being out of order...Christmas parties THEN Thanksgiving. This was mine and Ryan's first Thanksgiving together as a married couple. The day was full of great food and family. First, Ryan went to play football with his brothers while I went to spin class at the gym with my sister, Brooke. It was too bad for Ryan when he got there to play and realized no one was over the age of 13 or 14; so he went to his parents. I met up with him there later where we enjoyed a wonderful thanksgiving dinner with his family. After being there most of the day, we went down to my family's house for dessert. After dessert we went to see the movie, 'Four Christmases.' I have to say I was disappointed in the movie and was embarrassed at some of the parts since my grandmother was down at the end of the row. Overall it was a great day and I have many things to be thankful for.

A Night Away!

So this last Friday was my dental office's Christmas party. I was so excited when I found out that we were having a sleepover at a hotel, and even more excited when I found out it was at this place...

The Zermatt Resort up in Midway. We each were in a nice room with a king-size bed! I was excited for the king-size, since Ryan and I squeeze on a queen. The rooms were gorgeous, the service was better than I've ever received, and the party was great! We had a nice catered dinner, followed by some guitar hero, poker, and billiards. Then we had the pool and the hot-tub reserved for us later that night. It was SO great to get to know everyone in the office outside of the work environment. AND our Christmas bonuses were VERY generous. I am truly grateful for the job that I have there and that they let me be a part of it. I am blessed to have such wonderful bosses and work with such great people. And I can't wait for next year's party!

Christmas is a time for giving, loving, and ... ugly sweaters?!

To kick in the holiday season, our friend held an ugly sweater Christmas party at his parents house in Highland. I must say it was quite entertaining. Ryan will probably be mad at me for posting this and the pictures, but man did he wear that sweater vest with pride! The party was fun! There was rock band, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation playing in the theatre room, plenty of hot cider, and chili! There were even prizes for the most festive, the ugliest, and the most unique sweaters. Ryan SHOULD have won the most festive; however, the contest was a little rigged. We had a great time and we even got a nice picture with the massively large, life-size reindeer. Happy Holidays everyone!