I know it was in very high demand so I thought I would finally get to it, aren't you glad ;)??
Since Christmas day fell on a Sunday this year our church had services like normal. Except the services weren't like normal services. Service was basically an hour 1/2 of pure awesomeness. We had the Grinch doing the thriller dance. What's more awesome then that? Not much friends.
After church we went home and got ready to go to my Aunt's house where we spend Christmas every year. And by every year, I mean every single year, like clock work. It's nice having a tradition that stays the same every year.
Last year my aunt started mixing things up and came up with games for us to play, last year we had to wrap presents with one hand. Hiliriousness is what the game should have been called because I don't remember what it was actually called.
This year there was a game having to do with memorizing, and guess who won??
Of course I did!!
I know, I was surprised as you probably were. Anything having to do with my memory usually isn't good.
And I won by a landslide.........well that's what I'm telling people anyways.
And I did manage to remember to pull my camera out towards the end of the night so here are some pictures for your precious eyes to enjoy :)
Mom & me
Morgan & Mom
Cousin Josh & Mom.
Mom and Dad.
Siblings and spouses.
Siblings
Cousins. Bet you would have never guessed I am the oldest out of this bunch huh? And besides my cousin Caleb I am pretty sure I am the shortest.
Girly Cousins. Brittany on the right is the next oldest cousin, but still taller then me :(
And that's all folks!
Hope your Christmas was just as fun and full of laughs as mine was!
-Jamie
Ps. A new years post will be coming soon. Don't wanna miss it, there might be pictures of my friends and I in sparkly headbands pretending to be Power Rangers.
Have I mentioned before what a procrastinator I am?
Well here's proof.
My Christmas posts starting a week after Christmas.
I think I am just trying to drag out the holiday season as long as possible.
Hoping you are all ok with that.
So here are some scenes from My Christmas eve:
Let me just explain that on my mom's side of the family we do a white elephant gift exchange.
Its usually pretty hilarious. Last year I may have brought a butt/face towel and soap and also butt floss for my gift. My cousin Stephanie was beyond thrilled when she opened that one.
I brought a more practical gift this year to make up for last years though, although people were still scared to pick my gift because of my jokster tendencies with past gifts.
Also: My cousin announced that him and his wife Maria are prego!!!
This will be the first Grand child out of my cousins and I.
My mom and Aunt lost their minds when they found out.
I wasn't prepared for it though and was only able to snap a couple shots of it.
It was very dramatic, they will never live it down, we are still making fun of them for it.
K, enough chit chat, lets get to the pictures!
My mom getting ready to lose her freakin' mind.
Somebody wants their two bottom teeth for Christmas.
My grandpa looking very confused by his gift of the "bop it"
I was soooo beyond excited about this gift, that is until my sister stole it from me.
It was obviously the coveted gift of the night.
I ended up with 25 gold coins, ahh my grandpa sure knows how to be creative ha ha.
Hailey showing us how to make the perfect face while shooting this awesome nerf gun.
Oh and did I mention we played Just Dance??? ....with my Grandma!
She sure knows how to stir those mashed potatoes!
Please notice my mom and Aunt playing comfortably from their chairs.
I'm not one to usually make a lot goals or resolutions each new year but I realized I feel like I am never accomplishing anything so I thought why not make some this year. I plan on keeping you updated throughout the year on how I am doing, which I think will also help me stick to these goals. So here they are :
Meet my husband. {What? Did I just say that?? Yup, sure did.}
Go another year without drinking soda.
Eat healthier. {A long shot.}
Ride my bike more then once the whole year.{you are free to think of me as the lamest person ever if I am not able to accomplish this}
Try and read 2 books a month. {At least one a month.}
Work out. {This was one of my goals last year, didn't make it to the gym once :/}
Try new restaurants.
Read my bible everyday. {not just try, but actually do it.}
Volunteer more.
Attempt at crafting things. {ha! another long shot but worth a try}
Pay off all of my debt.
Make time to learn more about photography, not just when I happen to have time.
Live more intentionally. {whatever that may happen to entail}
Be more daring with my wardrobe.
Get a Tattoo.
Make some big changes ;) {vague I know but already in progress}
So there you have it folks. Feel free to keep me accountable with all of these if you would like. Obviously some one is kind of out of my hands ;) but other then that I didn't put any on the list that were unreachable. I look forward to reading this post at the end of next year to see what all I accomplished.
Did you make any similar goals or resolutions??
Share them with me, I would love to hear what changes you are making for the new year!
I have obviously been totally lagging in the blogging department this past week, but I am hoping these silly pictures will help you to forgive me :):):)
I have so many things to blog about so over the next week or so I will be posting about my trip to meet lil Miss Kaley and all of my Christmas activities.
Stay tuned for more silly pictures of my family and I ;)
If you don't watch Parks and Recreation then watch this video before reading the rest of this post so you will understand what I am referring to :)
Ok, now that we are all on the same page I will let you in on what went down this weekend.
Breanna called me on Friday night and said she had a long day at work and wanted to treat herself, so we decided it was "Treat yo' self!" weekend.
And I made an uber fail and didn't really take many pictures of it :/
So you will just have to use your imagination, something we don't do enough of these days i think.
For dinner we decided to treat ourselves to a steak at Tahoe Joe's, Breanna even tacked on the trademark Treat yo self tag line to the end of her order, I would really like to know what the waitress thought of that.
On Saturday we headed downtown to meet Breanna's co-worker for lunch at a very authentic Mexican restaurant. I thought I ordered enchiladas, but It didn't look anything like enchiladas I've ever seen, I was told it was because "it was so authentic"
I did get a picture of the guy playing music to us while we ate though so you guys don't have to imagine that ;)
I loved his little traveling amp lol.
At one point he came and stood right next to our table and strummed away at his guitar, but I was just glad he didn't sing.
Then later in the afternoon we ended up going shopping at forever 21 and was finally able to get a little bit of Christmas shopping done.
I also treated myself to some nail polish while i was at too :)
We finished off the night with dinner at one of our favorite Italian restaurants and shut the place down.
Yep we were those people that sat at our table for an obnoxious amount of time after we had already paid the bill :/
Even though I didn't purchase any massages or fine leather goods I would consider "Treat yo' self" weekend a success.
I ate out 3 times!
Yeah, it was a success :)
Anyone else have a hard day, week or month??
Go "Treat yo' self"
-Jamie
Ps. As you are reading this I am heading to the coast for a few days to finally meet my friends new baby girl! So excited!! So it will be quiet around here for a few days, but don't worry to much I will be back soon with lots of uber cute pictures :)
Just in time for the weekend I am finally showing you all the pictures from last weekend.
Say hello to the biggest procrastinator ever :)
btw...there are a lot of pictures.
You can just scroll through them really fast and pretend you looked at all of them, just don't tell me ;)
we skyped our friend that is studying abroad in Italy while we made our way to our destination.
The Beautiful wedding venue for my friend Hula.
We were posing as the groomsmen, I like all of our different interpretations of how guys stand lol.
The soon to be Mr. and Mrs.Kindberg
some major fist pump action obvi.
the entourage
The ever present sorority squat :)
the single ladies gotta stick together ;)
The couples:)
Engaged, Dating, Married and Expecting :)
The boys had to have a photo shoot too ;)
the famous gum alley
After visiting the wedding venue we headed downtown and had lunch and coffee at the coolest coffee shop ever.
We also had to stop by Gum alley and take some pictures, its really disgusting but so cool at the same time. I almost forgot where we were and leaned up against the wall, oopsies, thank God I caught myself, no telling how many germies are living in that alley.
For dinner we went and checked out the restaurant that they are gonna be having the rehearsal dinner at, it was sooo pretty and fancy, we were so under dressed it wasn't even funny. We had to be really careful not to get to loud because we tend to be the loud obnoxious group of people everywhere we go, we just cant help it.
At the end of the night we stopped by another coffee shop before heading home and met the sweetest old lady who was in her nineties. She was giving Hula and Brandon marriage advice because her and her husband had been married for 64 years. Its so nice to meet couples who have been married for so many years, its so rare these days.
Her daughter that was with her thanked us for spending time and talking with her and that she really enjoyed it, how cute huh?
Then as she was leaving she turned back around and asked what we were gonna do after we left the coffee shop because she wanted to invite all of us to come visit with her at her house.
We were sorry to tell her we had to head back home because we lived 3 hours away.
She was the sweetest lady ever. I am glad we got to meet her :)
Overall this day was so much fun, wish we could do it every weekend :)
