Stephanie: 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Another week

Temple Square Trip

I made Cinna-burst bread! It wasn't as great as my moms becasue as my roommate puts it "our apartment is cursed and so bread won't rise." I thought it still tasted good and everyone seemed to enjoy it for the car ride down.

Annie's mom was nice enough to allow us into her home and make us dinner, it was scrumchis! We had a delectible soup and home made bread! Yummy!

We did eventually make it to Salt Lake and it was great.

My adorable roommate who did my hair just like hers. She is amazing at hair if you couldn't tell.

Part of our group. We eventually started singing carols for a little while it was fun.

Me and my Lisa

The roommates. We only made up half the group.

Kedric loving the statues. We ended up doing the trust fall off of the ledge and also had a snowball fight. . . the lights were so pretty! and just being with friends made it a fabulous time, it was so fun to spend time together.

The temple is gorgeous!

We stopped at Annie's parents on the way home and had brownies and peppermint fudge ice cream, it was really good. We also were entertained with some piano as well as dancing. Christmas time is so great and I love spending time with such great people.

Love these people

Head of the Herd! We had to do hands on shoulders for most of the game becasue a couple of people got out way fast and everyone else was basically at the begining.

Annie Ferrin is adorable and there is David in the background!

Partying it up!

We went to get ready for bed and we got a little crazy!

Nice Smalls

Christmas time!!! We are setting up our real tree, yeah!!! I love the smell of real trees!!! SO yummy.

A little expidition

FHE party! White Elephant gifting after a short lesson.

Smash got a great gift

Annie was way embarrassed with her gift, a nice bra! Ha ha so funny!!! She was so so embarassed.

David got a plunger and buttcream

David trying to teach Kedric to dance.

My cute girls! They are so adorable!

This is life

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

He is here, he is here!!!

Me holding Jake Hicken, my newest nephew! He is adorable. Congratulations Daniel and Sharon, he is so adorable!!!

Little Jacob Hicken born on November 30 at 11:10 pm
He weighed 8 lbs 3 oz
He is 21 inches long
And of course he is adorable...he is a Hicken after all!

Ah!!! I can't believe that I am not closer so I can help take care of him...or basically just hold that adorable little boy. He is the sweetest little thing. I could just hold him and look at that little face forever! But I have a feeling he is going to be hard to get a hold of with two grandmas and grandpas, two great-grandmas, a couple of aunts, some great aunts and other family members in town. Not to mention he wont be around that long since they are going to take him away to California. :(

Filling in the gap

The following is some of what has happened since the last time I blogged.

We got snow!!! We made a snow man! Kind of dirty...

Hard at work! SO cold without gloves.

Best Buddies Isn't our man so cute?

We are pretty tight!

Ashley gave him a hug... I guess they weren't so tight. :(

Warming up with a nice cup of Hot Chocolate. Lisa makes the BEST HOT CHOCOLATE IN THE WORLD!!!

Jon Schmidt Concert

These are my parents for the night since mine weren't able to make it up.

Third Sunday Dinner!

This turned out to be our Thanksgiving dinner actually. :D

Adorable

Love my sister...its good!

Little Carissa playing us a song. Look how tiny she is! She had to really stretch those little fingers to get all the notes. But soon she will be a pro! She is doing so great!

Looking at pictures and telling stories, how fun!

That is my family...well part of it.

My parents, how cute!

The kids at their own table!

They are just so fun! I can't wait to have more around that table!

Singing songs and learning about the life of Christ as we decorate a Christmas tree.

Landon putting on the star with the help of his daddy.

The cloth that they wrapped Jesus in

Kids are great!

We are so silly

Thanksgiving break!!!

Beautiful sunset but I couldn't get them not to be blurry!

It was great to see family.

Before heading up to the cabin my parents, Amy and I went and saw Tangled. It is such a cute show, loved it!

Landon Loved the cabin, so much fun.

When you have eight or so inches of snow you can't resist the urge to go tubing down the tubing hill.

Riding the wave runner down the hill

Brian riding the wave runner with style.

Amy trying the hill head first!

Isn't she so cute.

Carissa riding the wave runner. It was a favorite.

Brian trying to ride the tiny tube and falling off, it was really funny.

But he did finally succeed

Amy attempting to tame the wave runner.

Unfortunately she was unsuccessful.

She loved eating the snow, but we couldn't convince her to move and eat it where people hadn't walked.

Brian and Jenny trying to go down together.

It was a great success although the bank caused a little tipping.

Mom and Dad going down together

They made it on

And down safely! With smiles on their faces.

Brian trying to run and jump on the tube and failing, kind of funny!

Carissa excited about her snow angel.

She had to make two! It was funny becasue the snow was so heavy that she couldn't move it so we had to grab her arms and move them and then do it for her feet. Once the snow was cleared then she could move back and forth. It was funny also because she is so light that she didn't make much an indent, we kind of had to push her into the snow. Good times.

Back to college

Sunday naps... ha

Nice Sunday walk

In the deep snow!!! We found many interesting pieces of things.

We had a blast, it was so slick out!

Like I said, not to menting we were on a down hill slope!

We decided to try to get a picture of all of us jumping.... didn't really work

So we put my camera on mult-shot mode and got some interesting pictures.

It is really hard to jump up and down and not laugh as the camera takes ten shots in a row. Not to mention we are in boots and it is slick and there are people all around, so funny.