Christmas 2009

Here we are on Christmas Morning. Don't you just love Christmas morning? We had Christopher sleep over so we could all open the gifts Corey's family sent to us together.

To Chris from Conner...a Dave Matthews shirt from the concert we went to in Las Vegas.

Ooooooo how great is this? A guitar shirt from Grandma Kunz. Conner was so excited.

And a toy from Grandma and Grandpa Kunz. A helicopter that rescues passengers. Very cool.

Christopher was trying to torture my life by giving Conner drum sticks. To this day I have to hide them in random places throughout the house because he always finds them and bangs away till I get a headache. But, at the same time, how can you blame a wonderful uncle for getting the boy what he knew he would love...Christopher is the best uncle EVER.

Then we headed over to my parents house. Here are Tommy and Juleen opening Conner's gift to them...dart guns. Yum.

I can't recall exactly why...but for some odd reason my dad got this hat from my mom. hmmm, weird.
Now that is sexy. Deed sexy.
Yankees hat from Tommy to the boy...

You can see below yesterday's "incident." Corey and Christopher took Conner sledding yesterday morning (Christmas Eve) and Conner fell and got all cut up. Ironically enough last Christmas Conner got his lip and face cut up as well, on Christmas morning!

BUT this is a significant picture because this was the main event, his main gift...can anyone guess what it is?

P. S. - Conner's 2008 Christmas face smack

Here we are! Total delight!

Drum roll please...his very own electric guitar. He has been asking for one for Christmas for the past six months! Most days we would hear, "Can I have a John Mayer guitar?"

Who really knows how long this crazy guitar phase will last. But I love seeing him passionate about something, especially something like music rather than nitendo or something. So we choose to support this guitar obsession!

After opening gifts at my moms we went to Grandma and Grandpa Monson's house for Christmas evening. We had a wonderful dinner and the opened a few gifts. After that we went to look at the lights on Temple Square.

Happy.
Best Friends.

Christmas Eve 2009

Here we are at the end of January and I am just now posting Christmas pictures. Better late than never right?

These are pictures of Christmas Eve.
Now that we have a more accommodating house we decided to have the family over for Christmas Eve at our home this year. We had a lot of fun, we had pizza and root bear floats (a favorite in my family) and then my dad read a Christmas story like he does every year, and then played a game, and then we headed down stairs to watch the movie "UP" by the fire.
It was so fun to have the whole family together to help us celebrate our first Christmas at our new house.

I love this picture. This is my boy!
I love when I catch him doing stuff like this
it makes me so happy.

It makes me even happier when I am able to catch it on camera.

Watching the movie by the fire.

Even after all this time it feels like just yesterday we were spending our first Christmas together...

Here is a little boy excited to wake up in the morning for CHRISTMAS!

I was excited to post this picture for Corey's mom SYLVIA. When we were first married she sent us pillow cases for each Holiday and I found them when I was looking thru some things from our move. I was excited to put the pillow case on Conner's pillow for Christmas time.

Family Pictures 2009

My friend Kim (kimorlandini.blogspot.com) took these beautiful pictures of our little family right before Christmas this year. It might surprise you to know Conner was in the WORST mood that day. Not even kidding. He wouldn't smile for anything, and posing? Yea right. This would illustrate what an excellent photographer my friend is. Anyways we are really happy we finally got some taken because sadly we haven't had any professional pictures taken since our wedding! But now we have these beautiful ones to remember this stage of our lives with and we LOVE them. Now we just need to find some frames and decorate the house with them!

favorite things 2009

I haven't even posted my Christmas pictures yet, but since it is New Years today I wanted to do a post which I have done in the past about my favorite things of the year (yes, just call me Oprah). Enjoy!

#1. Bare Minerals. Kay so I didn't want to do it, but one day I just had to bite the bullet and bought the stuff. I was having a season of break outs and totally freaked out, and had heard that this make up was your best bet for breakouts. And guess what, it totally is. When I switch back and go for a liquid foundation I always get at least a couple zits.

#2 Memory foam pillow top mattress. Oh. My. Word. I have slept better every night since we got it. It is all I wanted for Christmas from my parents. GET ONE.
#3. Best song of the year. "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus

#4. So my flat iron broke. Total devastation seeing as I spent a grundle on it. But...after a TON of research, I'm talking weeks, I decided on splurging and getting the GHD. It was very pricey, I'm not even going to mention it because its really not appropriate to spend that much money on a hair product. But it was one of the best purchases ever. It heats up fully in ten seconds, and when I say ten seconds I mean TEN SECONDS. No joke. And it flattens like a dream. It is worth the price.

#5. So I am a total devourer of renting TV series from Blockbuster because I can watch them while I clean the kitchen and I can go right through them instead of waiting a whole week to see the next one. Well out of all the ones I have seen I have decided that the best one is LOST. I am totally 100% addicted. Luckily my brother has all seasons so I don't have to spend all the dough renting them. Its a total shock because I initially hated the idea of the show, it sounded so boring to me and it has hardly any romance in it (I have to have love scenes in my shows people!) but man alive is this show to die for or what. I am on season 3 right now so don't you dare ruin anything for me if you have already seen all the seasons.


#6. Best Mascara, Lancome Hypnose. Now lemme' tell ya, I am a makeup conesure, and I have tried many mascaras in my day. Even the big famous one right now called Dior Show by Dior, and I keep coming back to my Lancome Hypnose. Its the best. BEST.

#7. Best reality show, "So you think you can Dance", and "Community."



#8. Shampoo Cup for kids. Conner HATES me pouring water over his head to get the shampoo out. But really, there is no other way, and I saw these shampoo cups at the stores in the past but totally thought they were a waste of money but I finally tried it out. LOVES IT! Get one!



#9. My picks for best books I read this year. (NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER)
-Notes Left Behind
-Love walked in
-Belong to me (SEQUEL TO LOVE WALKED IN)
-The Forgotten garden
-Jane Eyre

#5. Best Movies I have seen this year (unfortunately I haven't seen a couple of the incredible ones that came out recently which I most likely would include in here...I'll add them once I See them, that is if they make the list!)

-"New Moon" (ya you might either fully agree or fully disagree but I loves me my Twilight and I'm not ashamed to admit it. And on a side note I adore Jacob and Edward equally...sigh.)

-The Proposal (laughed my butt off, partially because I was with my funny friend but still it was hilarious.)

- And I think this came out in the end of 2008, but "Slum Dog Millionaire."

-And this may have come out at the end of 2008 as well, but "Gran Torino." This was a Clint Eastwood film and I pretty much think Clint Eastwood is the best actor in the world, and I have to say this movie was magnificent and is on my top ten movies of all time. It is rated R unfortunately. Sorry to disappoint anyone who thought better than that but whatevs. (NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER)

-"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

-"Julia and Julia"

Well that's it for now folks. If I think of more I will add it to this post. Here's hoping 2010 is even better than 2009.