Jazz Games and Baby Shower

This week we were able to score some Jazz tickets from a man James and I work with (Thanks Patrick!) and asked Sunny and Josh to come with us. They dropped everything and found a babysitter in 20 minutes due to the lack of notice we gave them and we are so glad they did because it was a blast! I didn't have my camera but stole the below pictures from Sunny's blog - so nice, posted twice - Thanks Jean!
Sunny and Josh

These are the XXL shirts Sunny and I won. Well technically we didn't win them- the row next to us won cups, the row behind us won t-shirts, and we were feeling like the spotlight was in reach but never quite hitting us and it was depressing. It must have been showing because the man that was giving out the t shirts to the row behind us asked if we wanted the two extra he had and we jumped on it. We also had a chance to grace the stadium with our faces on the jumbo for a few seconds in our free t-shirts - all in all it was a fun night - sad outcome to the game, but fun.

And a week, maybe two weeks ago, was my sisters babyshower! It was so nice to take off for the weekend and enjoy some actual springtime weather down in the STG.

I don't know why I didn't have my camera out more - but below are the couple pictures I did grab.

We celebrated at a park in Washington where it was a little windy, but not too bad - above are a few of the family and friends that came out.

This is a cute car seat cover that my mom picked out for Sarah

This is the gift basket I put together for Sarah (I promised it looked cuter - this is after she already pulled the items out) She doesn't look 8 months pregnant at all!

And last but not least this picture is posted as a tribute to James. I've been wanting curtains for our living room for a while and we finally went and got them. James hung them up - or tried to - that night but we didn't have the right screws and our curtain rods were too short. So the next day he made trips to three different stores and came home and hung them up for me. Then they were a little too high so he took them down and did it all over again - thanks baby :)

Valentines and Then Some

James and I had a great Valentines Day - to start off the day we had a candle lit breakfast. We were going out to dinner at a restaurant that night, but also wanted to also eat at home in the candlelight all romantic like but because we wanted to sleep in on a Saturday and it's not dark at 9 AM...

we got creative and covered all the windows with blankets, sham wows, and couch cushions as you can see from the picture. The neighbors probably think we're nuts, but they were bound to find out eventually...

James then surprised me with the below outstanding display of natures beauty and a gift certificate to the spa club to get pampered... whoo! He even threw in my favorite drink and candy to top it off- what a sweetheart.

The day then proceeded pictureless, but so much fun. In a quick review, we were able to go out to lunch, catch a little matinee of "Taken", throw a couple of bowling balls, and then out to dinner at Bucca. It was a great day and I'm glad I had such a great valentine.

Last weekend Sunny, Josh, and Hailee came over and we made some homemade pizza. It was a first for all of us (I think Josh lied about this though, his dough throwing skills seem like they had been around the block before...). They turned out pretty good though! It was a lot of fun and I'm glad that they live so close now so we can get together more! (hint hint jean)

Preparing for the mess... James, Sunny, and Josh

James pulling his pizza out of the oven.

Sunny and I with our finished products.

We also went snowboarding the weekend before that! Been keeping busy and having fun!

vaygus

I've had my heart set on going to vegas for my 21st birthday for a while - just to pull my one slot machine and win the jackpot and never have to work again- so that is what we did last week (besides winning the jackpot and having to be back to work on Monday)

James, I, Cody, Sarah, Rylee, and my Mom all went down for the weekend. I know most people turning 21 and going to vegas wouldn't typically bring their mother, a pregnant sister, and a 2 year old, but I don't think I could have had more fun! We didn't talk my mom into going until we were getting ready to take off, and it turned out to be so much fun with her and I'm so glad she was able to make it and takes her handy overnight bag with her everywhere she goes! We went to a mentalist show, went out to dinner, walked the malls and the strip, had a great time with lots of laughs, and came out with everything paid for and an extra $200 thanks to video poker!

Here are a couple pics of the vacay.

This is me being utterly amazed by the mentalist. He had a girl flip through a phone book and pick a number then mixed up these numbers we were holding - and being the mentalist he was, the numbers matched exactly.... how does he do it...

My amazing sport of a mom - not only did she show me that you can gamble $20 and still be a good person, she pointed me to all the winning machines. Don't worry mom, I won't announce it in stake conference like your other child did...

Taking the shuttle - that happens when you have a 6 1/2 month preggo and a woman who just had a knee replaced - it hurts me to admit though I was complaining more about all the walking at the end of the day then either one of them :)

my favorite little girl - she was cracking me up the whole timeand vegas wouldn't be complete without a trip to the cheesecake factory... or two trips...

Outside the cheesecake factory are the moving statues in cesar's mall - this is all Riley would do the entire time, unless she uncovered her mouth to scream out in fear.

Vegas Trip. Success.

Christmas?

Since I never really posted Christmas pics because I'm just not that good at putting stuff on here, and because those are the only other pictures I have.... below are pictures in no order at all of christmas thrown onto the end of a blog - enjoy! haha

Christmas Eve Dinner

Some pirates dice... Argh!

I love waking up early on Christmas morning and just sittiing before everyone else gets up.

Below is a pic of a present James and I made for my parents - I love how it turned out.

Looking haggard together on our very first christmas haha. Precious.

...you're supposed to update these??

So we're not the best... okay, horrible is really the only word for it... at updating this - but here is a quick review of our life lately-

Thanksgiving-

We spent Thanksgiving with James' family this year and it was a blast. We ate so much delicious food, pies, some frozen, cranberry, thing from heaven and then visited and shopped the black friday ads while digesting, followed by some smoking of James and Heather in Canasta. James' family is so much fun to be with and we are so glad so many people could make it. We forgot the camera though.. so pictures... :s

the girls of the fam

Day after Thanksgiving forth...

On the way home from James' parents house Thanksgiving night, we decided to swing by Walmart and scope out the field for shopping the next day. I don't know if this was a good idea or not, because after seeing all the people already in line for things, we borrowed some chairs from the camping department (until a walmart lady strongly disapproved of that) and set up for the next 6 hours. After that, we hit up a couple more stores and then decided it wasn't worth saving any more money to still be awake and came home and crashed for hours.


But it started off the Christmas season! Since then we've set up our tree, wrapped presents, hung our stockings, and watched Elf a few too many times for James. We've been having so much fun and have just about all our shopping done! I still need to pick up some stuff for James but I haven't figured out how to do that yet with the whole joint checking account thing... but I'm pretty set on him being surprised so I will find a way!




This is our christmas tree - it doesn't have any decorations but that's what makes it fit in with the rest of our house (unpacking and decorating has taken us a while). Please excuse the tape on the wall and carpet, we ordered couches over a month ago and they haven't gotten here yet so we taped off the floor so we could feel like we had something.... then we had to tape the tv on the wall to make sure the room flowed nicely.



and we FINALLY finished painting our room! Anyone who says painting is fun - whoa. It's taken us over a month, and the tape on ceiling is still up, but it's close enough that I am going to say it's done.


And the last exciting event in our life... For the last month on the way to work everyday James and I have guessed out how much the gas prices will have dropped since it started coming down from the $4, and whoever wins would get to pick where we went to lunch that day. When we started this it was:

"Wow, what if it gets down to like... I dunno... $1.50."

"No way, that'll never happen"

bam.

I promise we'll take more pictures during the Christmas holiday and slap a better post together next time!

The Wyatts

Here it is! The much anticipated James and Kim blog! Haha - not really, but it IS about time we got one, so here she is. James and I were married on June 7, 2008 and have been having so much fun! Below are some of our engagement, bridals, and the joyous occasion - I know they have the photographers logo on them, but still haven't got the cd, so bear with!








Cutting the cake got a little messy.

This is our wonderful line of (some of) the siblings... showing show skin - whoot whoot!




- if that isn't a good looking husband....BUT, We are currently, well I am currently living in Cedar Hills and working in Orem, and he's living and working out in Iowa. Before you think our brand new marriage is already having problems, he's only out there for a month working so we can buy the beautiful new house the bank just accepted our offer on!


She needs a little more grass and a little less September strand of Christmas lights, but we see potential and are so excited!! I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful, hard working husband, sure appreciate you James!

There is a glimpse into the life of James and Kim - more to come :)