Saturday, January 29, 2011

My Birthday!!

Wow! I can't believe I'm 21! Thank you to everyone who made my birthday so fun and special! Here are some pics of my day...

Dan and I both love Hoops and Yoyo and he sent me the cutest, funniest birthday card! I'm soo glad he'll be home for my next birthday and we can celebrate together!

The AMAZING birthday package from Dan and his parents!! I LOVED it!! Thank you sooo much!!

Look at the cute stickers :)

My fam sent me adorable cards and yummy Trader Joe treats since there aren't any out here and an Olive Garden gift card! That will be so fun to use soon! Linnea also sent me a really cute shirt from Hollister! Thank you everyone!

Red Robin!! Soo good!!

Lol classic :) Thank you Kersti for everything you did to make my birthday special!

My delicious guacamole bacon burger! Gotta love their amazing fries with lots of yummy campfire sauce :)

I had a fantastic birthday and have a feeling this is going to be an awesome, exciting year!!!

Friday, January 28, 2011

More cute Dan vids!!

Wow, look at all that flooding! "Dan out!" haha he's soo cute and funny!!


Ice skating with Elder Brown on New Years Day 2010


Haha this vid is soo classic and makes me laugh soo much :)


Dan's 20th birthday! I can't believe I'll be 21 tomorrow!


Hope you enjoyed!! I'll try to post a few each week so everyone can see more of Dan's mission :)

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Dan's Christmas Vids!

I just got Dan's memory card yesterday and he wanted me to post his videos so everyone could see! Enjoy!

Making Gingerbread houses at Steve and Ineka's for FHE!


Decorating the Reno House Christmas tree!! We sang Baby it's Cold Outside our 1st Christmas together and I thought this was soo cute!!


Dan almost deleted this cuz he though it was so random, but I think it's hilarious and yes, I am SOO blessed!! Dan's adorable in every way!! "Merry Christmas" lol


Christmas Morning!


And celebrating the New Year with sparkling cider!! :)

Sunday, January 16, 2011

More Vids of Dan!!

I wanted to upload some more of the videos Dan has sent me! Isn't he the cutest?!

Dan singing Be Still My Soul, one of his favorite hymns


Celebrating New Years 2010 with Elder Brown, such a cute and silly vid! I'm so glad he'll be home and we'll all get to celebrate 2012 with him!!


Lol helping Elder Blakemore get a speaker down while moving out of their apartment, and leaving him hanging a little :)


Dan would always say on Pday that they had "TIME" and he loves this vid because it captures the classicness of the day!

Friday, January 14, 2011

Happy 19th Birthday Kersti!!


Happy Birthday to my sweet sister! I love you! XOXOXO

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Dan's Videos!!!

Yes! I finally figured out how to upload videos on the blog, so I wanted to post a few so everyone could see a little more of what Dan's been up to :) I'll keep posting every time he sends me his memory card!

It seems soo long ago that Dan celebrated his 1st month of his mission! He and Elder Martin burned a candle and pamphlets they found.


Lol I thought this was soo funny! He did eventually make it over the wall though!


Making Ghosts in the Graveyard on Halloween with Elder Mathis. You can also see the super cute banner his mom made for him with his nieces and nephews!


The Christmas Zone Conference party!

Friday, January 7, 2011

Last Mission Christmas!!

Yay! I finally got this posted! I'm back out at school now and it's finally the weekend so I can catch up on everything I've been meaning to do! Enjoy :)

12/26/10- “Merry Christmas yesterday! Gosh, I can't wait to write all about it! I woke up very early and called my Brita and my incredible family! That made me happier than words can describe!!! :) Only 1 more phone call before home! I opened my extremely special boxes and I'm gonna write about what I got! Here we go: A new Scripture case (it's such a cool one! I love it! My Scriptures are now safely inside and fit perfectly :), a new 2011 calendar (I was totally hoping for one!! :), Ticket to Ride (So fun! I'll write about that later), a new digital picture frame (yes!! I was hoping for this too!!! It's an awesome one! I set it up and it works and looks so great! Thank you! Great choice!), 2 new missionary books (they look like really good ones! I look forward to reading them more!), a Christmas “Little People” set (perfect and so cute for our collection! So thoughtful!!), a Christmas present tie (love it! I wore it to Christmas dinner! Festive!), 4 new soundtracks (Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans, a Christmas Carol and Last Airbender! I love new music scores since I can't see them! I was lookin forward to those! Thank you! Getting CDs on Christmas is classic to me :), Sweaters from Gap for under my suits (!! I've actually wanted those lately so it's perfect that I got some cozy ones! Thank you!) , a waffle shirt from AE/ new Hollister button up flannel hoodie (I love these! I wore them for Christmas during the day! Great job at picking those out! :), a red flannel hoodie jacket from Hollister (So festive and I love it! I tried it on right away! :) Thank you!!), a new quote picture framed for use on my desk (it's so pretty!! It's a beautiful ocean sunset picture that is so me!! It's on my desk right now in front of me so I'm always lookin at the water! Such a nice surprise and good idea! :), an audio book “Teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith” (perfect! Rice and I will love that! He just recently asked me if I had any audio books/talks and I didn't but now I do! We like those! Rice is really excited too! Thank you!), some missionary books for reference (already had these but I'll look forward to giving them as a gift to someone else! Thank you so much for the thought though!), some Christmas oreos (also I found later some hidden goodies in there! Thank you! I found a NV Mission keychain and some “future missionary” stickers for kids! Thank you! So cool!!), print offs of lots of amazing stuff waiting for me at home ( SW stuff, DVDs, and Toy Story!!! Oh man! I was sooooo excited to see all those things!!! Thank you!!!! I've looked through them a whole bunch of times because it's so exciting! :) and then gifts from my siblings! I got SW pancake molds and a Darth Vader spatula from Meg and James (such a classic idea! I can picture my son someday having a SW birthday party and making him a SW pancake breakfast in the morning! Hmmm! These will be fun to use sometime!), a SW Christmas Yoda figure from Rob and Laurie (so classic too! I actually don't have this one! It's from years ago but I never ended up getting it! Thank you!! :), SW character cards from Katie and Chad (These are awesome! I had a lot of fun looking through them! Lol I just noticed all my sibling gifts were something SW! They rock and know me so well!) and homemade treats from Jenny and Darin (Sooo tasty! Thank you!! So festive too! Classic :)! I absolutely loved all their Christmas cards too!! Genius this year! They're all hanging on my bulletin board! I think that's all for my incredible package from mom, dad and my family!! I can't thank you enough! After that I opened my awesome, very special package from my sweet darling Brita!! I got: the “Inception” soundtrack (I had wanted that so perfect!! Thank you!! I've listened to almost all the soundtracks I got already and they're all great!), a very nice shirt from Hollister (!! Hmmm! I love it! Thank you! Great choice! :), chocolate chex (I had some this morning! As delicious as always! Thank you!), new socks from Gap (I wore them last night! So cozy! Thank you! They looks so cute!), Peppermint body wash (soo good! I used it this morning! So festive and yummy! Another great choice!), new vanilla car fresheners ( also so yummy smelling! One is hanging in the car right now making it smell delicious! Perfect timing too because ours was out! :), Christmas notepad paper (Perfect! I'm gonna write my thank you notes on it! Thanks babe! :), Nutella (so yummy! Good idea Brita... you know I love that!), a Christmas Cookie candle (you know I love that one too! It's such a classic one! I'll light it when I get home!), new hand cream (thanks!! I'll look forward to trying it out! Thank you so much for caring for me babe!), Vanilla Bean Noel foaming hand soap (awesome!! It's downstairs on my sink now and smells sooo good! Perfect timing! I was almost out of my other soap! Great idea honey!), a Starbucks gift card (note from Brita- I was sooo happy to find out that there is one just right around the corner from them :) Now Dan can get a hot chocolate or something yummy!) and a perfect Christmas card! Hmmm! That's it! :) How could I even dream up a more perfect family and girlfriend!? I couldn't. Thank you everyone!! After I opened, I got ready and we went to Steve and Ineka's. They gave us stockings full of candy which was nice of them. They also gave me a pen that says “Taylor” on it which is awesome! We visited Gina and Suzanne and the kids and they gave us a present too! A S'mores kit! That was super nice and thoughtful! :) We spent some time there and then went to Stephanie's because she just got back home. We hung out there and came home for lunch. I continued to look through all my fun things and had an absolute blast having time to appreciate it all. At 1pm, we went to a member's to Skype. I talked on the phone with my fam and Brita while Rice did that. Sooo amazing!! :) Oh man... I forgot something in my stash! The hot air balloon tin mobile! Thank you! I still can't believe that tradition lives on! I love it! Thank you!! :) Just like old times. We can back here at 3pm and chilled until 4:30. I opened/set up my frame and had fun with all my other things :) We got into whites (with my Christmas tie of course :) and went to dinner. It was pretty good! We ate with an older couple and they were quite nice... and long winded lol. We had turket, cranberry sauce, stuffing, green beans, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy and it was good stuff. I stuffed myself way too much as always! We had pumpkin pie for dessert and we were off. We came home, got right back into my new Pjs, organized my stuff, talked to mom and Katie more (which made me sooo happy) and played Ticket to Ride! We finally figured out how to play and I thought it was sooo fun! That will be fun to play with my fam someday :). After we were done with that it was 10:15 so I got ready and headed right to bed after only getting 2 hours of sleep. Well, that was my 2nd and last Christmas ever away from home and boy was it a great one thanks to my family and perfect girlfriend! I love you all!!!! That's all the scoop I got so... until next week, peace out! XOXOXOX"

Monday, January 3, 2011

Visiting the Guckerts!!

The Taylors invited me to go down with them this past week to New York to visit the Guckerts and help watch the kids while they got sealed in the Palmyra temple! I had such a fun time hanging out with everyone and I wanted to post some pics so Dan could see! We all missed him SOOO much! I'll be posting his Christmas journal entry soon too :)

LOL Jake, Jordan, Kent and Nathan

Jace was super excited for Unky's amazing pizza!! YUM!!

It was also Kent's Birthday so we had his party there! He had a Batman party and everyone played games :)

He got a Batman costume as one of his presents that he wore for the rest of the party (and the next days too!) and blew out the 5 candles on his Batman cake!

We also visited the Joseph Smith Center, which was cool because I'd never been there before. I love all the classic church history sites in New England.

I had fun keeping cute baby Luke happy and entertained while we were driving. Had to get a pic of him enjoying his 1st Christmas cookie lol!