I have seen these frayed rosette bibs/necklaces all over the place! I found a tutorial and decided to try and make one. Here's the result. I'm kinda happy with it...it looks much better than the pictures show! I honestly have a horrible camera... So you just might see me sporting this thing around. I also think I might be making these for our next barn boutique this spring. 
Yes, I am going to publicly post my New Years resolutions so that I will actually try and follow through with them. Last year I didn't even make any! Maybe that was because then I wouldn't have to actually follow through with them. Anywho...here they are (and in random order):
1. Make more meals rather than eating out.
2. Work on my being a nicer driver. (For those of you who know me...I am somewhat of an aggressive driver. For those of you who know me very well....well, you know).
3. Run two half marathons. (I've already signed up for one! Yea! Go me! I will be running the SLC half marathon April 17th...next year I'll do a full).
For now, that's all I've got. I know, most of you think my resolutions are lame and typical. Well, that's me...lame and typical! Hope everyone had a great new year!
I can't believe how FAST this year has flown by! Christmas came and went super fast this year. Maybe it's because I'm no longer in school and the days just seem to blur together. Anyway...we had a wonderful Christmas this year and got spoiled once again. This year was technically "Ryan's" family's Christmas so we spent Christmas Eve and morning there and then went to my family's in the afternoon. Christmas Eve we ate, sang songs, read the Christmas story, and then played a fun game with prizes! We each drew a number and each number had a corresponding envelope. You couldn't see inside the envelope and inside each one was money, in varying amounts. There was $1, $5, $20, and $50. There was only one $1 and two $50's. I drew number one and I could either keep my envelope and take my chances with money or I could trade it in and choose between either bowl #1 or bowl #2. Inside one bowl was a $25 gift card to your favorite restaurant (which we were all asked a few days before) or you got a dud prize. There was no way on knowing which one you were gonna get. I kept my envelope and got one of the $50! AND I did get my gift card in my stocking the next morning. :)
Me and Ryan on Christmas Eve at his parents.
My goofball husband.
Check out those antlers!
Christmas morning. 
Us with my niece, Brecken.
Us with all of the nieces and nephews at my parents.Boy does my office know how to party?! This year for our Christmas party we all went up to Hotel Park City where we ate dinner at Ruth's Chris and stayed over night. Our room was HUGE! It had a big bathroom with a nice jetted tub, kitchen (with a dishwasher!), living room, and a nice balcony that you could see the ski resort from. Ryan thought I was weird when I busted out our camera after checking in and heading to our room...but I HAD to!
The super huge jetted tub!
They had his/her robes and slippers for us to wear.
I know this is weird that I'm putting a picture of the toilet up...but the first thing Ryan noticed was that there was a phone in the bathroom. :)
The awesome shower. It had one head coming out one side, another from the roof, and then another detachable one.
Doesn't EVERY hotel room have a washer/dryer in it?
The "living room."
The fireplace/tv/kitchen full equipped with a fridge, stove, and dishwasher.
This bed was THE most comfortable bed I've ever slept on! Everything from the mattress to the pillows had down.
Enjoying our room.
Other view.
After dinner, the games began! We had tons of fun playing Rock Band and other board games. I rocked the drums and the base.
The Dr's and their wives rockin' out.
This year Thanksgiving was great. It was our year at my parent's. And since both of our parents live within 30 miles of each other, we make an appearance at both homes. Dinner was great! The table setting was gorgeous...but you wouldn't expect anything less than that from my mother! She made each of us a gratitude journal to write down things that we're thankful for. Such a great idea! After an amazing turkey dinner and some pie we played some pool and ping pong, finished watching the Cowboys game (GO COWBOYS!), watched the kids play in my parents new spa and just hung out and enjoyed each others company. After we finished at my parent's house, we headed up to good ole' American Fork to go to a movie with Ryan's family. Some of us went to see New Moon, Blindside, 2012, and Blindside. I saw New Moon and I LOVED it! Yes, it was cheesy but oh. my. goodness! I want them to change the story and have Bella choose Jacob. Anyway...back to Thanksgiving...it was great! I have SO much to be thankful for. I am most grateful for my wonderful and loving husband Ryan. He is SO good to me and I love him more each day. I definitely married up!
Okay, now on to Black Friday. We shopped. All. Day. Long. We were up at 4:00 and met Ryan's family at 4:30 at WalMart in American Fork. I was there in all the madness when the siren went off. It went off early, and there was a manager running around telling everyone that it was just warning and to stop putting things in their cart...did they listen? NO! And I have to say I kind of got caught up in the madness and started throwing random crap in my cart. Whenever I saw only a few of a certain toy left, I grabbed one. :) Needless to say, the nieces and nephew's presents are all taken care of. After WalMart we went to Rod Works, Best Buy, Home Depot, Smith's Marketplace, Recreation Outlet, ShopKo, Target and then on to the mall. We literally shopped until we dropped! We finished around 2 pm after which I literally collapsed on a bed at Ryan's grandma's. This was my first real black Friday experience and while standing in line at WalMart I swore I'd NEVER do this again...but I really did have fun and Ryan's family is quite fun to shop with...they're so hard core! My kind of shoppers!
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4 am! Rise and shine...it's shopping time!
