Char the Sheep!

Christmas is about spending time with family!  Which I did.  It was especially wonderful to see Megan, Joe, and Charlotte!  Charlotte is adorable and growing up too fast!  She's bigger and less of a baby, well less of a toddler, every time I see her.  My camera wasn't out too much, but she seemed to be the only one I took pictures of!  Char and Uncle Kurt had a good time together :)

 
















We also went to a wedding!  I went to middle school and high school with Katie.  I don't know Phil, but according to her family and close friends, they're perfect for each other!  I can tell that's true in little I've seen them together.  Congratulations Katie and Phil!

Me and the beautiful bride!  I made this card at the last minute...the 'stencil' I used was actually cut off a card given to me and Kurt at our wedding- I decided the other day to finally get rid of all those wedding cards, but set a couple aside- glad I did!

Merry Christmas to me!

One of my dreams, that I hope to obtain one day, is to have a world map the size of a wall in my house.  First things first, I need a house.  This hasn't happened yet.  But!  My wonderful husband got me this for Christmas!  (Yes, we opened presents already)

We even mounted it on the wall and everything!  Here's a picture to show you some size perspective- it's 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 feet.  Approximately.



I also got these!  My first pair of All Stars.  As I told Kurt- now I can dress casual :) 

What a great start to Christmas present receiving :)  Don't worry, I know Christmas is about more than presents, they're a definite bonus though!

Whoa!

These amazing houses are located directly across the street from where I go to church.  We stopped by to see what the flashing sign was about and it's a light show spanning 3 houses (I could only get 2 in my camera) set to music.  Just tune your radio to 88.3.  It was pretty awesome!

Well, I guess that's it!  There are 2 more videos, but they won't load.  So you're stuck with the one where Kurt's making a ruckus with the candy cane wrapper and I shush him.  Enjoy :)  Merry Christmas!

The weekend before Christmas!

This year Kurt and I are spending Christmas with my side of the family.  So, we decided to have a little get together with Kurt's family this weekend!  Kurt made crepes and we did a white elephant gift exchange.  The invite said to "buy, make, or grab something from home".  Sofia opened the first gift....and it was cookbooks!  Poor thing.  Pretty much every other gift was kid friendly except for that one.  She was rather disappointed.  Luckily there was an extra gift that she got to open in the end :)  I was surprised when Ammon (he's 9) walked in, saw the food on the counter and exclaimed, "Is that brie?!  I love brie!"  I'm pretty sure I had no idea what brie was at 9 years old and being a picky eater I probably wouldn't have tried it.  I especially loved when the Han's arrived and William walked straight up to me and raised his arms for me to hold him :)  I love that little boy and a I'm glad to know he likes me too!  We had a great time!  Our apartment has never been so full.

I also went to our ward Christmas Party this weekend.  Oh. My. Goodness.  I had the most amazing pulled pork sandwich.  A woman in our ward used to own a BBQ restaurant and is one fantastic chef.  Here's the pulled pork recipe on her blog!

Merry Christmas!

I like our tree better this year.  We were a little short on ornaments last year, but not in 2011!  Thank you Costco :)  We've had the tree up for almost 2 weeks, the Christmas shopping is about done, I've even started wrapping...you could say I'm excited!  Happy Holidays!

It's a girl!

Megan and Joe are having another girl!  This lovely lady is going to have a little sister!  And I'm going to have another niece to oooohhh and aaaahhh over marbles with.

Megan's due May 1st. I guessed the baby will be born early on April 26th. Unfortunately, I also guessed the little gal would be a boy. Whoops!

This means I'll have 2 nieces and 2 nephews (on my side of the fam). How even. I can't wait!

AT&T

Kurt and I both got new phones today!  I wasn't planning on it, but we both had an upgrade available.  They're way better/fancier than our old phones, and the best part?  We're paying less per month than before!  I'm totally ok with it.  I got a Blackberry Curve- it's cute and so small!  Kurt got an HTC Titan.  It's a super fancy Windows phone.  We figured he needs a nice one since he'll be using it quite a bit for work.  His old Blackberry was falling apart (literally).  He was overdue for a new one!

Evil Edamame

Kurt and I ate at Blue C Sushi tonight.  It's really fun- they have the conveyor belt running around the whole restaurant and the plate color determines the price of the item.  Anyways, you may be thinking to yourself, "Um...Charity doesn't like seafood. I can't see her liking sushi" and you'd be right.  I get 3 things every time we go and none contain seafood: sesame noodles, tater tots (that's just what I call them, don't know the real name), and edamame.  Edamame is a slippery little fella.  I was holding one pod while talking and I must have squeezed it because the bean popped out and zoomed a foot across the table straight at my face!  The darn thing hit me in the eye!  In the eye!  I was shocked for a second then we both laughed hysterically.