The holidays 2011

It has been a busy few months and I am a little behind in posting so here is a review of November and December:
November: We celebrated Thanksgiving at my parents house and afterwards headed out for our tradition of Black Friday madness at Walmart. This year we sat in line (for my dad) starting at 5 pm for a tv which wasnt on sale until 12:00. While I waited in line, Jeff set out to sneak all of the items we wanted into a cart. We were quite successful this year.

Also in November we raked plenty of leaves from our backyard trees (approx 12 large garbage bags) and enjoyed the nice weather.

December:

December was also a busy busy month filled with family parties, work parties, trip to see temple square lights, and of course Christmas and shannon's 16th birthday.

Shannon chose to have her 16th b-day dinner at Blue Fish, a Japanese sushi restaurant.

Christmas eve was spent at the Bath's where we had a nice dinner, played games, and read the traditional new christmas book.

Christmas morning was quite busy since Christmas was on Sunday this year. We began at Dave and Cher's for breakfast and then went to my parent's ward and then opened gifts at their home and ended the evening at Grandma Evans dinner.

All of the Stockings at Mom's house

The cats were enjoying some Christmas snuggling too!

We also opened stockings at our house this year.

The Year 2011 in Review:

2011 was a big year for both Jeff and I.

-We both graduated this May (Jeff with his AAS and I with my DPT)

-We bought our first home in July in South Jordan and are loving being home owners

-I started working my first job as a PT at St. Josephs Villa working with elderly and doing home health.

-We attended lots of concerts this year and most of them were FREE!

-We bought our first 4-wheeler.

We have also faced many ups and downs emotionally this year and are very excited to see what 2012 brings to our family.!

Halloween and Dad's Birthday

This year for Halloween, we hosted a little family party at our house with my family and the grandparents. We had our traditional chili, breadsticks, pumpkin shaped pizza, and pumpkin cookies and pumkin pie.

Jeff dressed up as a cowboy and I was a witch.
The pictures of our pumpkins didn't turn out too well, but Jeff's was a wolf and mine a spider.

My dad had free tickets to the Real Soccer playoffs. The soccer games are so fun and people get so into them here in Utah...I never would have guessed it would be this popular.

Dad's Birthday was the 29th and he got his favorite "Chocolate Dunford Donut" Birthday Cake.

Anniversary weekend fun

Happy 4th Anniversary to Us!!!

On October 11th we celebrated being married for 4 years. Since our actual anniversary date was in the middle of the work week, we decided to have a weekend celebration. We started off going to dinner at PF Changs in SLC and woke up the next morning and went to the X-96 BASH concert. Sunday we continued the fun with 4-wheeling after church. (Our anniversary gift to eachother this year was a 4-wheeler). Tuesday night Jeff brought us dinner(a heart shaped pizza).
We spent Sunday afternoon enjoying a 4-wheeler ride with my family at our annual tradition at Tibble Fork. The changing leaves were beautiful and we even ran into some snow.

Jeff on our new 4-wheeler/anniversary gift to each other.

Concerts galore...and more to come!

For Labor day this year, we went with my family to Park City for a picnic and made a detour to walk around the old Park City cemetary....it was creepy and like something you would see in a movie with huge headstones and most of them were from the pioneers era.

Ster and Amanda who have gotten into going "ghost-hunting" in cemetarys.

Also for Labor Day weekend, Jeff and I decided to take a drive up to Snowbird for Oktoberfest to have a brat and german chocolate cake.

Here are the tickets from all of the concerts we have gone to the past month...and the best part is....we have only had to pay for the Rascal Flatts concert....and we got free tickets to the Big A show in Oct.

We saw Blink 182 as part of their reunion tour this year. I was actually impressed they put on a great show.

Rancid opened up for Blink. I was more excited to see them than anyone!

For my birthday, Jeff got me Rascal Flatts concert tickets since I have always wanted to go. They were very entertaining and had a really neat stage set-up. Sara Evans opened for them.

Dew Tour in SLC

Last year we had so much fun at the Dew Tour that we decided we would go again, but we agreed that if we went we would pay for the upgraded seats to avoid standing in line all day. Much to our luck (well, Jeff's luck) we scored some free tickets to the Dew Tour and Blink 182 concert for free from X-96.

BMX:

Below is Bill Allred from the morning radio show on X-96 and where we scored free tickets!

While at the Dew Tour, we got to get autographs and meet some of the pro skaters I grew up watching everyday after school! Below is Bucky Lasek

Bucky and Bob Burnquist both killed it on the Vert ramp...pictures don't do this huge ramp justice.

Bob Burnquist

This pic is dark, but it's of Shaun White who is also a pro snowboarder.

Another on of Shawn White