Catching Up Again....

I know.... it has been awhile since our last post. I'm sorry to the few of you that check our blog regularly, I wish I could promise that things will be better in the future but I am sorry to say it probably won't. But here we go in catching up on the last few months... Enjoy!

Draper Temple Open House with Sheila, Brent and Ian

We had the great opportunity to go through the Draper Temple open house with Brandon's mom, step-dad and brother. It was beautiful! I'm so glad we were able to experience it together.

Linzie Gwen Christensen

My beautiful niece Linzie was born!!! She is so adorable and is now way bigger than when this picture was taken. Congrats Jared and Kristee!

Valentines Day Brandon treated me well on Valentines! He got me a dozen red roses and two new purses. We were able to set our camera up and take this picture of the two of us..... Brandon is lucky enough to have some long arms so he could hug the chair and me at the same time :) Pretty awkward.

Kalai Concert My friend Crystal and I decided to surprise our husbands for Valentines Day with a concert from our favorite singer, Kalai. It was amazing!! We couldn't have put it together with out all the help from family and friends. Thank you all for making it happen!

Here we are with our new friend Kalai....

Sledding with the Embley's Tradition has it that we go sledding once every winter with the Embley's. So here we are making it happen. We had a lot of fun!

Here is Rachel, Ally, Katie and Sarah all going down on one tube...

Jacob discovered that their dog, Nash, was more like a horse and could pull him down the hill...

Yes, we made this snowman....

Heidi didn't want to let go....

Snowboarding with Steve S. Brandon and Steve got a chance to go snowboarding together this year! I won't go with Brandon so other people need to. :) Steve was really tearing it up....

Happy Birthday Sheila!

We celebrated Brandon's Mom's 50th Birthday this year!!! We all went out to Asian Star to celebrate. It was a great time!!

Us with the birthday girl....

St. George with the PortwoodsWe finally were able to get a way for a weekend and go to St. George! We were so happy that the Portwoods were able to join us. We had such a good time together! The weather was amazing!

We did the adventurous "Crack". Here is Crystalyn and I preparing to go through...Rob took some deep breaths and made it through...We also did a little biking.... I look like I am having a great time, right? Now how do I look????....Embarrassing as it is... I did not last long on the bike. I'm not quite sure what happened?? Maybe it was the heat, or the fact that we had just eaten or maybe the huge mountain we rode up was just too much for me. But what ever it was, I thought I was going to pass out. I made Brandon stop and I found this little place to sit for a while. He kept telling me to get up, I think he was embarrassed cause cars were slowing down to watch. ha ha!!!

Brandon is quite the master on the bike....

It took some convincing to get Brandon off the bike. He was having the time of his life popping those wheelies.... Lets pretend I took the picture late when he was coming down and not right when he got up :)

Kenzie's First Haircut
I was lucky enough to give my niece, Kenzie, her first haircut!! She was so cute when I was cutting her hair. Look at this face....

Taylor Andrews Hair Show And finally.... my first hair show!!! Above are all the model's in our group. We did the hair, costume and make up for each model. Inspired by the artist Georgio O'Keeffe. Below is the model that I worked on....

Doesn't she look amazing????

View of her outfit....

I was so happy that all of our ideas came together!!! Our model, Emily, looked great! She was a great sport and wore her hair like that for 14 hours for us!! She did mention that she had a slight headache.

Charelle, Me, Emily and Ally

Here is the group of us that put Emily together!