OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS!

Please forgive the order and the lateness

but whatever this is what I'd do in my journal.

So here ya have it! our

first Christmas together!!

Brandon and His family came over to our place for Thanksgiving!and our little town had this is like Merry Main Street thing so of course I love the small town events so we went!! It was a lot of fun! they even had SNOW!!

This is my 2nd visit to

AJO!

So Brandon took me on the grand tour!

it took 5 min!!

ha ha no not really but it was short!

This is a super cool old building that

use to be a school but now it's apt. but anyway we had a fun time exploring in there.But really cool building!
This is the name of the
school.
I took it so I'd remember!

This is what I call the

Ajo Grand canyon!

its the old copper mine there!

and it was HUGE!!

Here it is! okay so all those little ridges each are 40 feet high!! and they would have trains go down there and the guy said that there was over 300 miles of train tracts just to get to the bottom!! crazy! and i think also that he said it's like a mile and a half wide! there ya have it Ajo's own Grand Canyon... well kind of

This is Christmas morning at my house.... yeah boxing... it was actually really entertaining to watch. I actually don't even know why they were boxing. nobody got gloves this year...boys...

This is what was on my present! MY love is so cute!!

Here is what I got!!

A FIRE PIT!!

Can't wait to use it babe!! thanks so much!

So I put these frames together and didn't know what to put in them,so they have just been empty frames for a couple of weeks. So while I was wrapping presents this is what came to me! ornaments and wrapping paper.

Not going to lie but I really like how they turned out!

And this of

course is our beautiful

TREE!! and our wonderful lights up on our house!

Yeah Brandon MADE me put up all the lights!!

ha ha just kidding Love!

he did them all except the ones on the roof!

We had a WONDERFUL Christmas and are truly so thank full for all the blessing we have and for the opportunity we had to spend Christmas with our families! hope your Christmas was just as fantastic!

TEMPLE announcement!

Gila Valley Temple open House: April 23- May 15!
Dedication: May 23
Opens: May 24!!

Okay I've told a lot of people that when the open house is going on that they could stay at my house. Once I get more info on my scheduale of next semester I'll put up a calander or something and we can start planning on when you can come visit and see the BEAUTIFUL temple!! for mor information on the temple visit http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/gilavalley/

Happiest Place on Earth!!

Toward the end of November

Brandon and I went to DISNEYLAND!!

I had four nieces dancing at

California Adventure Land and

they did great!! We Spent TWO whole days

there!! There was a huge

group of us but I never got a picture

with everybody!! but here are

some pictures of our

good times!!

Here is some of the group that we hung out

with the last night!! yeah we all drove back from Cali. in my little Sentra.... it was packed! but so fun!!

Us three sister that all went!!

Katie ended up flying in from Utah

to come to down for Thanksgiving via Disneyland.

My Love and I!!

Here is Kacie and Banana!! they did such a good job!!

Here's Braylin and Erin!! they did such a good job!!

Matterhorn!!!

When Katie found us at California

Adventure land, with NO cell phone!! That is amazing!!

This Picture is the best!

the whole front row and half

of the second row is all my family!

I'm Michael's first time and he

is scared to death, and still talks about it! it's

been 3 weeks! It was Austyn's first time as well and she was TERRIFIED!! it was so much fun!!

This is some of us on the

Jungle Cruz!! it was so much!!

love those cheesy jokes!

Yay Splash Mountain!!

Braylin and Kacie are so brave!!

I got SOAKED!!

Brandon "Helping" Kacie to one of the rides!

Grandma Treats

and some of the Grand kids!!

Yay Thunder Mountain!

Brandon and Banana on the

WORST ride EVER!! TEA CUPS!

I was so sick after!

Kacie and I on the Dumbo Ride!!

I think that was my first time going on it!

First entering DISNEYLAND!! oh how i love

this place!!Thanks Family

for making it a MILLION times better!

Cannin, Shootin, Halloweenin

SHOOTIN:ACTS Halloween Horror shotgun shoot competition!

We woke up super early drove all the

way to Tucson(2.5 hours) and spent the day listening to shotguns! it was really fun since it was

on Halloween a bunch of the guys dressed up and all the shooting stations were named after

some horror movies it was fun!

I have never been to anything like this before so I decided to stick around and watch the competition....

yeah there was one other girl there (until Wynter came) and that chick was in the competition. So yeah toward the end of the competition I started to realize why there were no other fans....

because watching guys shoot target all morning is fun and all but not after 4 hours of it!!

But I will have to brag all the other guys were jealous of Brandon because I was the ONLY wife there!

Maybe next year I'll compete. but I'll need A LOT more practice! Here are some pictures of the competition

Here are the guys getting ready for the competition!

Here are some action shots! And I'm really bad at taking pictures because i don't really have a whole lot of good ones

Here are ALL the Brothers after a long day at the competition!

This was all of the guys first time

doing anything like this

(well except Brandon but he hasn't done it with

a shotgun) they all had

A LOT OF FUN! and did great!

Here are all the guys that showed up for the

shooting competition!

getting directions on the team competition shoot!

(a video will be put

up soon once

I figure out how)

HALLOWEEN!!! we got back from Tucson and got ready and had A LOT of trick or treaters! It was so fun! Brandon needs more practice at talking to the kids but he did a great job! our neighbors had a party that they invited us too! it was so fun! and I'm so lame and didn't take my camera but just trust me it was a lot of fun! thanks guys for inviting us!


CANNING:
I don't really know if this really counts
but hey I mixed up the ingredient's boiled it then put them into a can and frozen them.... so I'm counting it! oh I made
buttermilk syrup! it's so YUMMY!

On the CATWALKS

Catwalks in New Mexico were so AMAZING!! We had so much fun there!! and the weather was great and we loved all the fall colors!! here are a bunch of pictures of our adventure!! this is a totally easy hike. really half of it is handicap accessible! so if your ever in the New Mexico neighborhood you should totally check it out I've never been to anyplace like this before!

pretty flowers on RED Leaves on the sides of the trail! and those boulders that were behind us were PINK!
























little bit of a view of looking down.









awesome bouncy bridge!





























stopping to enjoy some of the view!


fun fall colors!!

Hooray for timers on cameras!

waterfalls were everywhere!! this is one of the many times he went off the trail to get a closer look!

Here is a better view of the catwalk. yeah it's drilled into the rock and there is a water below you! it's so awesome!

I did a little wandering off the trail my self!

My dare devil!!

lunch before we started the hike! it was so awesome there was this amazing river/stream next to us yellow leaves everywhere! it was so great to be out in nature!

Yeah I'm still learning how to blog and i get this all messed up on how it puts them on backwards so yeah. here is the sign!

Thanks babe for making me go it was such a fun adventure!! It was really such a blast!! I love short day trips with you even when we do get lost on our way back!! New Mexico needs more cell phone service, road strips, and road signs!