Arizona, Hockey, and Family

The day after Christmas we traveled with my brother and parents down to Phoenix Arizona for Caden's hockey tournament.  I was so excited for this little vacation in warmer weather and to see my dads side of the family as well! The only thing I wasn't excited about was the 12 hour drive to get there, I am not a big fan of being stuck in the car for that long. Well it turns out that 12 hour drive would turn into about 20! We were following down our family friends who's son also plays on Cadens hockey team. We were about an hour outside of Vegas when their transmission gave out! We were stuck on the side of the road for about three hours trying to find a tow truck company and a rental car so we could continue, this turned out to be really difficult because of the holiday no one had rental cars. We ended up having to drive back to the Vegas airport to get them a rental car. The whole ordeal turned out to be a 6 hour delay. Oh and lets not forget about my mom and Jeff getting lost after we picked up the rental car, another 2 hour delay! The whole drive down turned into a comical of errors haha, we rolled into the hotel in Phoenix around 1:30 AM finally!

The next couple of days were filled with warm 65 degree weather, hockey, and family. Cades team played pretty good, it is so much fun to see him play! My dads brothers and their family were able to come to Caden's games too, it was good to see them and my cousins!

Collin was trying to hide from every picture, but I snapped this one :]]

We even got to go to a Phoenix Coyotes game! I was so much fun, they won 6-3! 

On the 30th we headed to St. George to ring in the new year with Gma and Gpa Green and the Baumans. It was so cold! I have never been to St. George when it has been that cold before, at least it was sunny :]] We spent a lot of our time watching college football, puzzles, and hangin' out at the pool. We also saw two movies while we were there; How Do You Know?, and The Tourist. I liked them both. It was so much fun, a great, much needed little get a way.

Our First Christmas

Our cute tree with all the presents.

It was mine and Gare's first Christmas together as husband and wife, awe cute:]] It was so nice to be able to spend the holiday together it was a nice break from work and school and great to be able to spend time with family.  We opened our presents from each other and from his family on the 23rd before we went to West Jordan for the rest of the week. Gare got me a new CD deck for my car and a new ipod nano! I love it, it's so cute look. . .

 

I got Gare a bunch of different things, his favorite is Donkey Kong Country Returns for the wii (it is so fun and super addictive) and a Seattle Sea Hawks hat. I also got him a pretty sweet mini marshmallow shooter that is kinda fun haha. Gare's parents gave us some cool stuff too, a pressure cooker and a hand blender! We can't wait to try those out, thanks mom and pops Kofoed:]]

On Christmas Eve Eve, we had dinner with my family, my grandparents and the Baumans at California Pizza Kitchen, it was delish. We all slept over at grandmas and exchanged gifts in the morning, my favorite, memory foam for our bed and a couples massage! I am pretty stoked about that :]] 

our cute stockings at Gma Greens house :]]

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were amazing as well, just hanging out and spending time with family. One of my favorite traditions is going to Grandma "Glorys" house Christmas night hanging out with the whole family and of course chowing down on grandmas amazing macaroni yum :]] I would also like to give a shout out to my amazing husband who worked on Christmas Day so that he could have time off to go to Arizona with my family (which will be talked about in a later post) :]] I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

xoxo, Pres

Happy Birthday Cade!

Love this picture:]]

Its my baby brother's birthday!! He is the greatest I can't wait til we go to Arizona and we get to see him play some hockey, he rocks! Anyway, happy birthday brother love you!

xoxo, Pres

This week. . .

Monday-Thursday
Gare and I finished our finals! AND on Thursday we got to go to the David Archuleta MoTab Christmas concert! It was lovely, we went with Brent and Carolyn, had dinner before (Gare made homemade lasagna) and dessert after (root beer floats). 


Saturday
Carolyn and I went and got pedicures :]]  Lets just say our toes look super cute, I went for the red polish with a cute white snowflake painted on. Love it! Of course the cute little Asians were doing our toes, they were fun and could speak pretty good English, however, I always feel awkward when they talk to each other in their Asian language. I am convinced they are talking about me "this white girls feet are nasty!" or something? Does anyone else feel this way?


When Gare got home from work we headed up to my parents house to make sugar cookies and have dinner with them! We made a mess making cookies but we had fun :]] I love decorating them, my dad was pretty funny and inventive when it came to the decorating part, he took a turtle dove cookie turned it sideways painted it green and added an eyeball and turned it into "the mask" haha what a goon :]] Here are some pictures of the event. . .

The fun decorating stuff my mom got.

my cute Gare rolling out the dough

All done!

My favorite

Gare made this cute soldier

Sunday Night Fun

Sunday night Gare and I made the cute gingerbread village grandma Green gave us! It came with five little houses for you to decorate, can you guess which ones I decorated vs. which ones Gare did? We had fun, this entertained us for a couple hours, we decorated and watched the Hangover haha :]]

xoxo, Pres

A Night With The Girls :]]

This Saturday I tended my sweet little cousins, Addie, Jordy, and Sophie. We pretty much had a blast. The night started off with playing the wii and Addie totally kicked my butt, she is seriously so good, I could beet her at tetris though :]] Then Sophie came over and we played dress ups! We had three little princesses running around the house, Belle, Ariel, and Addie (she wanted to be herself).

Princesses

Soph got pink sparkly ones

pretty nails:]]

 After playing dress ups the girls wanted to paint nails. I painted Soph's and Addie and Jordy painted their own ha that was an experience. We had fun and finsished up the night playing with JENNY the hampster and watching Nickelodeon :]] 

xoxo, Pres

Happy Sunday :]]

 I have had such a great Sunday! Wonderful church meetings with my babe, got together with the Hirzes for dinner, then went to the Christmas Devotional with family and friends, walked around Temple Square to look at the pretty lights and temple. Such a good day! The fog/nasty Utah inversion made the temple look really cool and when you walked around outside you could feel ice crystals hit your face! So awesome, what a beautiful world we live in.

The fog made for a cool picture!

xoxo, Pres