Christmas is so over in my book so here are some pics of whatev see ya in 2009 peeps

Not to say that the holidays were lame; they weren't at all. Serious peeps I had loads of fun with friends and fam but I'm just ready to have it be over with.

Oh Christmas Time

So Christmas has now come and gone and I'm glad it happened but glad to me moving on. So I'll post some pics later and give you a re-cap but for now I just want to say I think the best gift I received this holiday season is the conference addition of the Ensign. That sounds lame but I know it's not. I haven't put it down the last few days I'm on the second time through; dissecting each and every talk. I am so grateful for all the blessings I have in my life. I just want to have what I have and love it and enjoy it! I am grateful that although some of the things I’ve tried to apply the last lil while into my life I should've had already I am glad to be recognizing it and just moving forward. I saw one of the most amazing movies last night. The story of Benjamin Button! I would suggest to anyone that they must see it!! I won't go into too much detail but the movie just moves you and makes you think about so much.

What would you do?

So the last little while I have not been feelin the whole Christmas spirit. Now for those who know me they know that I LOVE Christmas and I love everything about it. But for me I just haven't been feelin it as of late. Well I even told some select few this night that I was quitting Christmas that for me I was done with it. No more - moving on. But alas I was humbled with an experience tonight that helped me regain my position on Christmas. And then I came across this poem in a letter to our Family...love it! So although my being done with Christmas lasted only a short while I know that it's never too late to remember the true meaning of Christmas!

IF CHRIST CAME INTO YOUR HOME ONE DAY
TO SHARE YOUR CHRISTMAS DAY
WHAT CONDITION WOULD HE FIND YOU IN
AS HE WALKED INSIDE TO STAY?
WOULD HE FIND YOU READING SCRIPTURES;
THE TALE OF HIS HOLY BIRTH?
WOULD HE SEE YOU SINGING CAROLS,
OF PEACE TO MEN ON EARTH?
WOULD YOUR CHILDREN KNOW OF ANGELS
AND WISE MEN FROM THE EAST?
OR WOULD THEIR MINDS BE ON THE TURKEY
FIXED FOR THE CHRISTMAS FEAST?
WILL THE CHILDREN KNOW ABOUT HIS LIFE;
BORN IN A MANGER FULL OF STRAW?
OR WOULD THEY ONLY BE THERE PLAYING
WITH GIFTS FROM SANTA CLAUSE?
WOULD HIS PICTURE BE UPON THE WALL
TO HELP REMIND YOU HOW TO BE?
OR WILL IT BE, CONCEALED THAT DAY,
BEHIND THE CHRISTMAS TREE?
WILL HE FIND THE NEEDY CARED FOR,
WOULD HE FEEL YOUR CHARITY OF LOVE?
OR WILL HE SENSE, THAT WHAT YOU HAVE,
IS NEVER QUITE ENOUGH?
IF JESUS WAS TO SPEND WITH YOU
THE DAY, WE CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH,
WILL YOU REMEMBER CHRIST, IS CHRISTMAS,
NOT JUST ONE MORE HOLIDAY ON EARTH?

~DELOS BOND~

BECAUSE

Holy cheese on rice peeps I found my flash drive the other week that is full of crazy photos from over the last year or so...I couldn't resist posting a few; all which have a story behind them. I love pics! I am such a photosnob-get over it!

So all I can say is oops...I may or may not have dropped CodyChristopher.

add a comment or not

So I haven't ever had the ability for one to comment if they so desire. Partly because I don't really care if people want to or not because blogging to me is still something I don't understand. either way I have had some people mention it so I figured out how to enable it again and now there you go.

A plethora of babies

By the way there's a new baby that we just added to the mix...Jamie and Roch along with the kids welcomed Madisyn Sage on Wed Morning!!! yay for babies. And I didn't do this earlier but kerstin and Brent and Tildy welcomed Taber last month as well! Man I love babies! They always smell so lovable!!

Pretty-ugly sweaters

Okay okay so I know ugly sweaters are a must when in attendance at an ugly sweater party but I couldn't resist buying this one. It was too garsh darn cute to pass up...so I guess you could say I had one of the cutest ugliest sweaters on the block. Woot woot! Well anyways thanks to Tawna for insisting on a photo with me for which not it would not be possible to see what mine looked like. Honestly I loved Tawna's though it was pricelessly too good for words!

Shout it out!

Oh my goodness so Wil left town this week to go back home to Kansas...that's funny I already thought I was in Kansas I live so far out here. So anyways He is home for a few days and then off to Mexico. Boo way jealous. But he's bringing me back something that's bound to be cool. I guess I never realized how much I really spent with Wil until now. So either way it's still all good because Ash and I are together more. Yay for girl time! So just a nice blog to give a shout out to Wil (who doesn't even read my blog) . Loves!

Another sundown...

So let's talk about TWILIGHT!! Man can I tell you just how much I love this movie. I guess the amount of ticket stubs would tell you how crazy in love I am with it. Let's see is it 6 or 7 times; I can't remember I lost count at 5. So because of the infatuation I have with said movie I will show you some photos of my fave peeps!!

One fine metallic element: aka Copper Mtn.

So we made some lame o decision to get up at the butt crack of dawn...all the while knowing it would be worth it. We went to COPPER MOUNTAIN! Love love loved it! It was great to people watch and enjoy loads of hot chocolate! The weather was great and I hear there was great powder! Unfortunately I was unable to actually get the chance to carve it out today...seeing as I made the silly mistake of injuring myself last month. Oh well it was still beautiful out and great to be there! I love the winter time!

Taggadge?

So Cathy tagged me and guess what guys I don't even really know what that means! Ha but Here I made an attempt and this is how it came out. Enjoy my peeps!

Five Shows I love to Watch:

Gilmore Girls

Full House

Man vs Wild

Robot Chicken (a new fave)

House

Five Favorite Restaurants:

RED ROBIN

Chik fil a

Noodles

Medditerainian

Sushi

Five Things That Happened Yesterday:

Played in the SNOW at MIDNIGHT- does that classify as part of the day?

I ordered my Christmas cards-way lame but funny!

Helped Wil shop for new wardrobe-he has pretty much no clothes since coming home.

Helped Wil babysit his nieces and nephew...absolutly love these kids!

Wathed the Dark Knight!
Five Things I Love About Winter:

Dressing up for the weather

SNOW!!

Christmas music

Christmas movies

Window shopping on main street in the snow!

Five Things On My Wish List:

Living closer to my siblings

silly stuff like socks, nail polish, having family here!

Going to the zoolights/parade of lights!

Five Things I Look Forward To:

Dancing on New years!

Christmas movies

playing in the snow at night!

Christmas lights

sending my christmas cards!

Five People I Tag:

Ashlee

Tawna

Rhissa

hmm I don't know who else to tag...I don't really do this whole tagging thing...what is it even??

Lights-or lack there of, flat vocals and doggy doors

So dear dear Rachel oh how I love you! So Rachel has a boyfriend and I have yet to meet Him at family dinner yet because of my lame-o schedule. So we planned a double date. Now although I particularly am not a huge fan of these things I did it because 1 I was dying to meet Cody and 2 I love Rach! So After confirming with Rach that we are going through with this my only dilemma is finding a date. So after very little thought about who I would go with I think duh the only boy that would keep me afloat if this goes a lil awkward would be Wil! Now don't judge just because I prepare for the worst to happen. Either way our original plan was to go see the parade of lights and we changed plans which wasn't an awful thing but I do oh so much love christmas lights. So after we opted out on that we did dinner at an undisclosed location where pretty much the funniest line of the night was~okay again don't judge we're sittin at the bar placin our order and kind of boring but true Wil and I order the same thing but I just get the smaller version and his comes with cole-slaw. And as the bartender is placing the order she asks if there is anything else we would like and Wil says well actually is there anything I can sub for the coleslaw and she looks at Him with a blank kind of look and says "more fries I guess" so of course we agree. Because who eats coleslaw?! Honestly that was partly why I chose to downsize my meal. Ha ha so after she walks away Wil says I hate coleslaw I thought about just ordering it and not eating it. I know right? ANyways I guess you had to be there because it was a funny converstaion and I haven't embellished this one at all so you really have to use your imagination with it. Then of course the night continues but hey it's not as glam as you'd think. We finished up dinner and decided to make a short stop at the last few minutes of the Creche Exhibit. Now they changed it up a bit this year which is fine but I was a lil dissapointed. There wasn't a lot but still fun to look at what they had. I love nativities! Then they had a lil theatrical program going on so we stepped in to see it and man it was not what I expected. All in all it was fun to watch the lil bit that we did...the acting was in the nicest way I felt it butchered the story of the Christchild. The music was random and the voices flat...but oddly enough it didn't really matter because the spirit of christmas was there! I felt the spirit testify to me of the truth of what they were telling us. Their hearts were in it! We didn't stay long and since I didn't get to go to the parade of lights I told Rach to stop in a neighborhood and Wil and I grabbed some random shots of us with some fun decorated trees. I think that was the highlight of the night. Ah but so I thought because Wil and I were thinking hmm what should we do. We left Cody and Rachel to themselves and we headed out to paint what was left of out evenin. So where do we go? Wil's house. And those who don't know Wil lives with his bro Jim and His fam. So upon arrival we discover that we're locked out. SO much for our stay in and watch a movie idea because we couldn't get anyone to wake up to answer the door and eventually the night ends after we are too tuckered out to stay up. Long story short Wil went through a doggy door and we had wasted so much time getting in that we tried to stay awake and failed miserably. So much for that yeesh. But really it was a great 'date' with Wil!

Longboarding turkey style in the ER

So let's see here-it's been a while because well I was a lil 'under the weather' you could say. But not really. You see the Crowfeeters had a turkey day eve celebration and you can't enjoy the eve holidays any less than the actually holidays themselves. At least for me anyways I love the day before festivities. So of course what do I do? Take advantage of some awesome weather! I conquered a massive path behind B's house today and we lost track of time so much so that we were late feeding Elders which in turn made us early for arrival at the church to help set up. No idea how that works but hey it happens. But the night was a hit we threw down some great grub enjoyed a holiday skit with some great commentary throughout the night. I think the best line of the night was when in line getting food. Just before eating Wil and I were in the kitchen looking at these jiggly round pathetic excuses of being cranberries when we thought well we can't just serve it like this. Hmm lightbulb lets mash it in a bowl. So in line nearin the end we are entertained by a one Jason Prusse who wants cranberries. He steps right in between me and Wil and says and I quote "oohh cranberries" his eyes taking in the several options presented before Him and then no joke he gets a spark in his eyes as he comes across the 'mashed' ones "awesome and someone even brought legit ones! They're the best!" and starts shoveling a good three heaping spoonfuls onto his plate and walks away like a lil boy that just got a bike for christmas. Wil and I were bustin up! Love it people! So then of course after the shin dig and deciding that we were def not going to see Twilight with everyone else we think on it and say hey let's go longboarding. Genious idea right? So we go and pick up not just Wil's board but his bro Jim as well. And we hit the road. So you enjoyin the play by play because it only gets better. So we're all enjoying the fresh pavement the smooth ride and the crisp november air. Nobody ate it at all we had a blast and by the end of the night Jim was limping and Wil got up to 28 mph at one point. So we get back to Jim and Ang's and oops Wil let's the cat out of the bag and mentions Jim got on the board. Def not our fight to fight ha ha so not funny but it totally was. Ang was not happy. So than onto later that night and me hopping on one foot and crawling into my house in the wee hours of the morning; regretting coming home in the first place. I awake the next morning with the dark cloud over my day of telling my parents I'm going to the ER. Well actually let me tell you how it went down. I crawl up the stairs and hop over to somewhere; not my first choice of a seat but long story short I couldn't walk. I had a swollen foot. My mum looks at me and says "hmm well I guess you better just stay off it for the day." Now I had to explain to her that that wasn't an option. I was in SO much pain but neither parent had interest in doing anything about it because they were oppossed to my whole longboarding thing as it was to begin with. So here I am waiting for my sister who was dragged out of bed at like 7 am to take me to the ER where I got to have my own room and watch the Turkey parade where all I remember is Buzz Lightyear.While I sat there and had to explain what longboarding even is and had lame xrays and ice packs and lame stuff. I had to explain that a week earlier I had taken a fall on some bad ice and already hobled around; I didn't need this. Especially after I had just been through this a week before. Well yay for casts right because that's what they wanted to do but I talked them down to a walking boot. So imagine the response I got from Ang that night when I show up at the Craig's and she can't do anything but shake her head. Oh well I'm not letting this small set back put me out for the season. So I had a boot now I dont and I have a lame brace that doesn't even help so I don't wear it and it's snowing outside now so I'm happy because of that and I get to go to the parade of lights tonight I have a fun Christmas party every weekend for the next three weeks so I'm trying to stay excited for that and of course this means Christmas music 22/5 because I got to throw in some other stuff as well into the mix. I LOVE SNOW! Doin it Gilmore style is my is my fave...bundled up walking around with lights and snow~it's the best!