The Brandin' Iron!

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New Year's 2009!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!
(wow I can't believe it?!)

This year was pretty uneventful for NewYear's but probably one of my favorite New Year's at the same time! We had to work pretty much all day (which totally sucked) but oh well - atleast we have jobs to work at! We went over to Keilee's house and Mateo made dinner for all of us! We hung out there for awhile and rang in the new year back at our house by ourselves! It was a nice! On New Year's Day we went and saw Marley & Me.........it broke my heart :( it was really a good movie but I think there is something wrong with you if you don't shed some tears when you go and see it. After that we had trent, dad & raquel over for some more dinner that Mateo cooked! we are all huge fans of his cooking ;)

Christmas!

Christmas was hectic as usual for us this year! We spent Christmas Eve with my dad and Mateo's mom. We went to my dad's Christmas morning to open presents...then off to my Grandma's for breakfast...then to my mom's for lunch & more presents...then back to our house for gift exchange with Mateo's mom and Sister! Very busy day - no time for resting...But this year was extra special because we got to go to Vegas and meet Mateo's dad's family for the first time :) It was a really exciting day and I'm so glad to have finally met them! We were stupid and didn't take any pictures down in Vegas :( But he has a really awesome and very loving family! and they make some excellent food!

this is us on christmas morning at my dad's...we're tired...

Ruben always has to be right in the middle of everything on Christmas morning!

Siana - Mateo's Mom - Vinny at our house opening their gifts! :)

Snow Day!

Trent loungin..................


Mateo had a few good runs down the hill!



Keilee had some really good crashes..........

Mateo, Ruben and Me

My 2 favorite boys!

Today we went up to Pine Valley and went snow tubing for Keilee's 23rd Birthday!!!

We had a really good time and Ruben had so much fun playing around in the snow!

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Can you believe this snow?! I love it! It feels like we are living in a Winter Wonderland for once. I swear this never happens in St. George...the last I remember it snowing this much at all was when I was in 9th grade and we had a snow day and didn't have to go to school! That was like in 1997 or 1998?? I hope it keeps up so we can go snow tubing in Pine Valley this weekend. I heard there was like 2 ft of snow up there already!
:)

Lost Dog

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Please help! Missing dog! Please visit this website......

Time to catch up...

Ok so I need to catch up on what's been going on with us the past week or so...It was Ruben's 5th Birthday!!! I can't believe I've had him for 5 years already!? He is such a big adorable baby - I love him so much it hurts my heart sometimes. We got him a 3 ft. bone and he was thrilled! He wouldn't let anyone come near him. My dad had to end up cutting it in half because he was having trouble maneuvering it around the house :)

What else is new this week??? TWILIGHT!!! I'm so obsessed with it its kinda annoying. We went and saw the movie and I've had to start rereading the series again. I just finished book #2 again. I thought the movie was good but I wish it had more passion. I know its hard to show all of that emotion and passion onscreen but I left the movie needing more! All in all I thought it was really good but I think I need to go and see it again.

And then there was Thanksgiving! We had dinner at my mom's last saturday nite so that we could be with both families this year. and on Thanksgiving day we went up to Pine Valley and had dinner at the B.I. with my dad and Mateo's family as well. It was really nice - it snowed! Thanksgiving in Pine Valley are my favorite. Mateo had to make his famous garlic rosemary mashed potatoes for both dinners! I'm pretty sure he's gonna get stuck with this job for the rest of our lives :)

We also decorated our house for Christmas too! We put up our tree... I love Christmas and I am looking forward to spending time with my family during the holidays!