It's Official

So I guess I am officially part of the Orem team now.  I received my name plaque to hang on my cubicle.  I told the controller that she won't be getting rid of me now.

Fancy

The Eigth Day Of Christmas

My kids pretty much had this destroyed by eight the next morning

The Seventh Day Of Christmas

I love me some tunes

The Sixth Day Of Christmas

MMMM peeps for all seasons

Jinju's Blessing

Last weekend the kids and I went to Idaho to watch Ryan bless his baby.  He decided to do it in our home ward instead of in his home Korean ward.  Steven stayed home because he had to work, having to arrange things around working on the weekends is going to take some getting used to.

We had a luncheon at our ward building after church.  It's nice because recently Inkom built another building so my parent's ward has a building all to it's self.

 Boppy and Jinny

Photo bomb!

 

My mom paid a friend of hers to make this dress

Edward

Hailey and Zach (seriously what's with the beard)

Sisters

Grandpa and Grandma Layton. (Ryan is a craphead)

Heidi displaying salt

The Fifth Day Of Christmas

Five M&M ice cream sandwiches

The Fourth Day Of Christmas

Four cornish game hens that I now get to cook.  Yum!!

The Third Day Of Christmas

Three loaves of homemade french bread

The Second Day Of Christmas

These are two Dove chocolate bars and two packages of turtles (which surprisingly Paizley likes pecans)

Tweleve Days Of Christmas

So someone in our neighborhood has started doing the twelve days of Christmas for us.  They are ridiculously into it.  They have been very creative so far and I think Steven has enjoyed getting the gifts every night more than the kids.  He has been trying to bust whoever it is.

The first day of Christmas

 

 

#51 - See Temple Square Lights In December

December 8th was a pretty busy day, not only was it our anniversary but it was sweet Bethanie's birthday.  Laron and Laura were gracious enough to include us in her celebration.  We let balloons go and ate angel food cupcakes at the cemetery.  It was a very sweet experience to remember a little girl who barely got to live.  There were some tears and some laughter but overall there was a great feeling of love. I'm sure Bethanie was there with us.

After the cemetery we decided to go downtown to see the lights at Temple Square.  The Utah county extension of Frontrunner was opening that weekend and if you brought cans of food for the Utah food bank you could ride it for free.  Even though it was cold we bundled up and drove over to the American Fork station. 

The train was really crowded.  It was standing room only and everyone had to get super cozy.

Paizley and Steven

Tommy, Sadie and Xander

Lucie, Luke and Laura

Laron

 

We arrived at the Lehi station and then ended up sitting there for almost 25 minutes.  We got very close to bailing several times but held on and after that the stops were only a couple of minutes at each station.

 

Looking out the window at the tracks

Paizley having a Jayne sized melt down

Laura on the train downtown

 

After we got off Frontrunner we transferred to Trax in the free ride zone over to Temple Square

 

The Chick-fil-a Santa cow was handing out sandwiches at Temple Square

Score free dinner!!!

 

A pair of nice sister missionaries from Maine and Spain took this group shot of us

The small Ross family

The large Ross family

I think it's cool how you can tell it's snowing in these pictures

The reflection pool.  I love how they do the floating candles

 

The trip home was much less eventful and we made it in plenty of time for Steven to make it to work.  He was pretty tired the next day but I think it was worth it.

 

 

 

 

12 Years

December 8, 2012 was our twelve year anniversary.  I can't believe it's been that long, I swear time has been in fast forward.  I love my Steven Ross very much and I can't wait to spend another twelve years with him.  He's a great husband and father.  I love his sense of humor and his passion about things I couldn't care less about.  I think spending more time apart has really made me appreciate him more.

Paizley Jayne Turns 4 Part Two

When Paizley was in Idaho between her birthday and Thanksgiving my Mom and Heidi had another little party for her.  I wasn't there so I don't know much about what was going on in the pictures but I thought they were super cute.

My Mom made these ladybug and butterfly cakes

Balloons!

Aunt Goat gave her a lava lamp

Princess Paizley

And A Yoshi In A Pear Tree

The week after Thanksgiving I had Steven root the Christmas decorations out of the basement.  I love Christmas time, it always makes me feel super festive when we finally are able to put up the decorations.

We have a fake tree.  The first couple of years we were married we did the real tree thing.  I hate having to clean up after it and the mess that is getting rid of the tree after Christmas.  It took a couple of years but I have successfully converted Steven to the wiles of a fake tree.

Classic Steven exasperated look.  We had three strings of lights and they were all half burned out.  We ended up having to buy new strands.  Steven was super vicious.

Xander placing his ornaments

Paizley finding the perfect spot

Steven was doling out the ornaments

Sweet kitty

Yoshi kept it interesting by attacking anyone that came near the cat tree

She looks so innocent until you get through the thin sweet layer to the rotten.

Fancy

Giant pile of turd Ferguson

I don't know if you can tell, but she is actually sharpening her monkey teeth on the tree branch.  Yoshi has officially taken up residence in our tree.  She will climb up to the top, shimmy out on the branch and knock off the ornaments from the top.  Also she burrows under the tree and gnaws on the presents.  I swear she is half goat.