merry super late christmas!

we've been in arizona this whole time and maxson has kept us busy the whole time.
boy that kid is on the move.
family is fun to be around.
it's also fun to outside sans boots, coats, and winter items.

someday (soon) hopefully i'll blog of our recent lives.

kisses!

Merry Christmas!

from us to you

christmas in arizona part dos.

on to christmas eve and christmas!

a friend tipped me off that bahama bucks had a groupon going on a few months ago,

so we picked up a party pack for half price and brought it home.

it was beyond awesome, we got to share the bahama bucks wonderfulness with the whole family for christmas.

flavors chosen were cotton candy (the favorite), blue raspberry, and a new found favorite, kiwi.

we of course had to get the cream to go along.

and now, as we're here in wyoming, casey has some left over syrup and has been making snow cones with the WY snow! ha

we've had an annual silly string fight with our neighbors for over 10 years now!

it actually only happens every other year now due to us being at our in-laws

but every year we've gone to their house and surprised them.

this year, they tricked/surprised us and came to our turf for the first time and on christmas eve!

ha, what an awesome silly string fight we had this year!!!

we now understand the feeling of being in your house, and suddenly being vulnerable and under attack without our silly string being ready!

ha!

when we were younger, our neighbors, the walkers, would light off flares so santa knew where we were!

we revived the tradition this year and lit our own flares christmas eve so santa knew where we were!

it was so special to us all!

we exchanged sibling gifts that night as well (some were loveingly and cutely handmade!).

my sweet mother also set up our very favorite holiday game, again, for us.

we call it, the credit card game!

she buys 2 gift cards to restaurants, wraps them in a billion layers of wrapping paper, tape, and duct tape,

we then roll dice and hope to get doubles.

if you do get doubles, you put on the gardening gloves and try ripping that baby open!

but as soon as someone else rolls a double, your turn is up, no matter how long you've had the chance to open it and the other person rips those gloves away from you!

such a hoot every year. 

it's actually just super savage and that's why we love it so much :)

christmas day was wonderful.

we had german pancakes,

opened presents, 

napped,

went to church,

and celebrated the birth of our lord and savior, jesus christ.

that night we talked about a bunch of the background research done about the savior's birth,

information we all may have not known which was so special.

i love christmas because it is that one time of year the world gathers to reflect on the savior and then our families.

if you'd like to learn more of Jesus Christ, you can visit mormon.org for all the questions you have and info you hope for

or you can ask me and we can chat :)

merry christmas everyone!

cruise part 4: christmas cruise festivities

last, but certainly i want to share a little about our christmas on the cruise!

this cruise was the cutlers very generous christmas gift to the family and we were so ecstatic when we found out!
so we tried to make a very memorable christmas day!

it seemed like all day long though we had to keep reminding ourselves it was christmas day!

we went on a little walk around the ship trying to find the bow of this ship, but alast, we failed.

we did get close to the water!

we also went to a little christmas show and saw cute treyson in it!

treyson is on the very left

for christmas eve we read a cute christmas story while the kids were still awake and the story of Christ's birth in Luke 2. it was a wonderful activity and reminded us of the reason we were all together and of the most beautiful gift any of has received: our Savior who provided us the atonement so we can return to Him.

when mom c. was with us, she read us a christmas book as well

after the kiddies went to bed we went to the fancy dinner together (which was hilarious thanks to too much alejandro, our server),

took some super cheesy/cute pictures,

danced a little to live music (we actually did this many times while on board which was a blast! and casey got to actually use his awesome cha cha skills which impressed many of our onlookers! it's seriously so much fun to dance with him!)

 also, on christmas day the kitchen made some totally awesome food art for everyone!

these were our favorites:

the santa and words are a watermelon!

and lastly on christmas day, we watched a beautiful sunset together and tried burning that moment into our minds :)

it truly was a wonderful christmas with the cutlers!

thanks again family for the great memories!

 

today

today i slipped on the ice straight onto my bum.

by myself.

it would have been funny if i was with someone,

but it was just pure stupid bc i was by myself.

i then went into our apartment with a pouty face blaming casey bc he wasn't there

today i forgot my keys to our apt AGAIN.

not exaggerating, casey and i have locked ourselves out about ten times this semester.

luckily our landlord is awesome and nice and lives 2 doors down and always comes and unlocks it

he also gave the old neighbors next door spares to the apt too. we know them too now :)

but since it has happened so much lately, i was too embarrassed to ask him for help... again.

so i went across the street to a friend's house and waited there for an hour til casey got home.

thank you amy brown for living so close and being home.

today i broke a nail.

as dumb as it sounds, i hate when that happens

today i realized that it makes me oober happy when i hear a friend of mine is

a) dating someone

b) engaged

or

c) pregnant

so keep 'em coming folks

today i saw that all the BYU christmas lights were up.

 it made me so happy.

today i decided BYU is the absolute best school ever (actually i decided that a long time ago;).

why? bc we're one of the only schools in the country who gets to put christmas everywhere around campus, say merry christmas to everyone, and bask in the christmasness of the season and not having to worry about offending people bc...we all have faith in Christ.

i just love it.

today i also decided BYU gets the best christmas trees award.

since they have millions around campus,

all can have awesome themes and unique touches.

it's absolutely magical everywhere you go.

today i came to school when it was dark (6:30 am) 

and will be leaving school when it is dark (12:30 am)

oh how we love work.

no, really.

true i did go home for an hour in the day.

today while at work, 

a girl was trying to turn in a bunch of books at around 8:00 pm.

the cart was full and i told her, with a straight face, we weren't accepting anymore books today.

hehe, i know. i'm mean :)

the look on her face was hilarious: pure worry.

i immediately told her it was in fact ok to drop off her books though.

it was quite the funny moment.

today, my mom did some of my landscape assignments for me:

she took pictures of bad landscape designs that cause problems with turf.

her pictures were spot on correct which equaled hilarious as well.

thanks mom.

today i saw one of my most favorite girls in the library and talked to her for a bit.

it made my day.

today i also planned a little get together with another friend for late december in az...

the excitement will only build from here :)

last but not least,

today casey and i did not have the will to do any of our assignments.

we did get them done

(kimber= 1 paper, 2 small turf projects, and 1 accounting quiz...not that i'm counting though...)

but not without a good amount of kicking, screaming, and biting.

merry christmas!

 from arizona!

we found this house (above and below) that put santa hats on all their cacti! so cute!

 

 

(below) these are our stockings for this year

we bought mine (left) but i decorated all of casey's!

i was very proud of my craft skills :)

 

 

merry christmas everyone!!!!