another year come and gone

What a day! another birthday come and gone and lets face it, at a certain age a girl just stops telling her age! i had a great day! spence woke me up real early at 6ish which isn't early but we had stayed up til 1230 wathcin the "OC"season one i'm completely addicted (thanks michael for letting us barrow it) he turned on the lights and was so excited to give me my present but i couldn't see anything cause my eyes were still getting adjusted to the sudden light! little did i know he had created a little scavanger hunt for my present. it was hard too! but it was so thoughtful! spence went to school and later we went out for some good ol mexicano! and took all theses crazy pictures. spence is so funny!

After dinner we went to our v-ball tourney...(undefeated so far) we played a good game, some of the guys on the other team had pretty bad sportsmanship..it must be hard to lose. :) i was excited because we also saw one of our favorite little people in AZ (logan and my new bff annie and jj and cole too). anyways it was a great bday to end the night right my baba took me out for some good old dairy queen blizzard and ate with a wonderful scenic view! and another great present my mom, grandma and spence's mom are all coming in town tonight for another celebration of my birth!...no spence has his white coat ceremony this weekend!

Thanks everyone for calling and singing to me! i loved every minute of it! my dad sent cute ecards that always make you cry and laugh, even my bro from NYC took the time to call and sing happy b-day! jo thanks for making me ask the 3famous birthday questions it has been a good year, and it will even be a better one next year.

-needless to say it was a great b-day here in AZ.

I totally forgot to get a picture of "welcome to AZ" but we drove through NM on our drive home and since i made spence stop to take the pic i figured i better post it.

Spence added it up he drove 24 of the 30 hrs totally drive time...i'm not much of a driver but i am sure a great entertainer...we had some crazy fun games on all of our drives....(i kicked spences butt in all of em.)

We were both kinda ready to come home, spence didn't want to have to start up with school again and i didn't want to miss all the fun stuff that happens on a daily basis in utah. But we made it home. first thing we did was pick up kai...she has been at another kitties house (who happens to be a boy and weights about 20lbs more than her) for 13days! i was excited to see her and hoped she hadn't been too naughty while we were gone. We walked into jamie and james' house and i called for kai and she came running! literally she sprinted from the other room. we paid her room and board fee $20bucks aout a dollar a day what a deal. thanks jamie! and then headed home, hoping our lonely house would still be there and it was! so we decided to unpack and get ready for christmas!

I know me have a christmas tree?? yep, spence has so much christmas spirit it has rubbed off on me! so we put up our cute little tree, drank some hot cocoa, and said good-bye to vacation cause monday morning 8am sharp is another 10wk quarter of med school!

so thats our update, for now! we had a wonderful thanksgiving break and i have to admit i cried a little yesterday to spence cause i know i'm gonna miss everyone more than ever!

alamosa TOO! what happens in alamosa stays there

Don't worry no animals were harmed during this filming. We drove to Colorado for thanksgiving and had a great time in alamosa. justin has grown a foot, he is as tall as me which means it won't be long tell he is taller than spence. Alamosa is such a quiet place, i love all the geese that fly by its really pretty, cold but pretty.

Just the men and their toys!

baby taylor if she goes missing i might have taken her home with me...sorry jo she is just too cute!

gage the rock chrisman! he can do half nelsons and much more...becareful cause hes got the moves!

dancing with the twins! mama mia!

just some more fun pics we took while visiting. i needed to take more pictures but its hard to take a break from all the fun!

where we've been the past 2wks!!

Yeah school was out for spencer for a whopping 2wks so we took complete advantage and spent every day together all day, some would call that 24/7!! first on the list-o-fun was to finally make it to the mesa arizona temple, it was beautiful and a really unique temple, of course afterwards we went to del taco and ate like kings. then we packed our bags and headed of to my favorite place in the world UTAH! we wanted to surprise everyone so we left monday after work at 3pm and drove all night and finally got there...10hr and 1 almost squeezed our way out of it ticket later at my moms house at 1am and she was up waiting for us! love that place it is always so homey, i miss it!

we then went to have breakfast with the chrismans at 630am (they get up real early) jo was in the shower so we didn't really get to surprise her but gage and reese were floored! then we headed off to see the kemps. and little did we know it amanda was in the shower...at least my bffs are really clean they shower every day:)

spencer was able to spend time with some of his favorite little people, the twins! mary-gail was a little nervous at first with spencer (they haven't seen him since august) it broke my heart but then she warmed right up after a couple good squeezes from her favorite uncle.

We had a great time in UTAH! running with my running partners jo and dad and even spence was awesome (i haven't run since the marathon because of my leg) drinking egg nog tell my cholestrol level doubled. working with dad, twilight with the girls, drinking some more egg nog, playing cards with the nielsons, wrestling with a pro wrestling gage micheal chrisman brown black, going to church with my mom, watchin the office with kristy and brett, sleeping at grandmas, being with spence all day every day, seeing all the grandkids double in size (well some of em doubled ...chrismans) watching mary-gail and becca eat their birthday cakes, laying on my moms extra soft bed with her, watching kongfu panda, and the list goes on.

I didn't really think i was home sick til we actually got to provo, i really missed everyone! we had an awesome time utah. i feel made we didn't have a lot of time to spend with everyone, and that i didn't take more picture! next time for sure.