A time for thanks :)

This past weekend was Thanksgiving and my hubby, my brother and I drove down to Colorado to spend the weekend with my family :)
We hopped in the car at 630 in the morning on Wednesday and headed on our way. While driving down, we happened to get a flat tire after 2hrs on the road. Luckily! My wonderful husband and awesome brother knew what to do ;) cuz i have no idea. I sat in the warm car while they got out and changed the tire in the cold. :)

me looking at Jake from inside the car :)

The boys changing the tire

So Thursday morning (Thanksgiving day) I slept in while the boys went and played some football. I was having a wonderful morning hanging out with my sweet little niece Chloe and nephew Brody just eating breakfast when I got the strangest call. Jake's mom calls me and asks "is Highlands Ranch Urgent Care close to you?" first of all, I am SUPER confused...and I respond "um, I think so..." and Karen says "ok good, well I called and gave them all my information for Jake so he shouldn't need anything else." Me: "Jake? why'd you call for Jake?" Karen: "Jake broke his finger" Me: "WHAT?!" Jake walks in the door right as i said that. And I'm like "Jake! you broke your finger and didn't tell me?!" His response was "well, you just woke up when I called and I was going to tell you when I got back." haha. So we spent the morning in an urgent care center getting x-rays and a splint put on Jake's finger.

Jake is ok, he saw a Doctor here in Provo yesterday morning and he is getting surgery on it tomorrow morning to get a pin put in it.

Jake's poor finger

But I am pleased to say that the rest of our weekend was just peachy :) We (us girls) played games and the boys watched football all weekend long while eating leftover turkey.

Brody loves his uncle Jake :)

tired boy

It was fun to have all of my family together for a weekend. I am very Thankful for every one of them. I love you all :)

Weekend trip to Colorado

The Doctor I work for decided to go on a cruise the week of Halloween, so I decided to take a little trip to Colorado. :) I really hadn't planned on going because my car probably would have died on the way and I didn't want to take our truck because of the cost of gas and I thought of taking my brothers car, but I don't know how to drive a manual. haha. So my daddy decided to buy me a plane ticket :) I love him.
I left Saturday morning from the Provo airport and got back Tuesday night. We decided to not tell my mom and surprise her! My brother Bo picked me up along with my niece and nephew, while my dad took my mom shopping then over to Bo's house where we met them. They beat us there so me and Chloe snuck through the garage and hid in the closet. (Chloe's game with grandma is for grandma to find her whenever she comes over) So when she opened the closet door we yelled "SURPRISE!" and she screamed. haha. she was happy to see me :)
It was a very fun weekend with my family. We went shopping, hung out and played games, carved pumpkins and went trick or treating! I also helped out with my mom's trunk or treat for her ward, I was in charge of helping the little kids make cupcakes :)
Chloe was my best friend while I was there :) she wouldn't let me leave her side. I am her favorite whenever I come :) Can't wait to see that little girl when we go back for thanksgiving this weekend!

Brody getting into the pans

my bestie Chloe :)

Chloe with Grandma

Carving away at our pumpkins

I love Brody's costume :)

She really wanted me to take a picture of her by this witch. haha

He was getting upset because i wouldn't give him any more candy

Tired Chloe

Back to Reality

So lets see, I haven't posted since we've been back from Houston. I've been busy with being back at work full time and Jake has been busy with school and his coaching internship.

But about a month ago Jake and I drove down to San Clemente, CA to baptize one of his friends he taught on his mission. Took him 5 yrs of investigating but he finally committed to a date! He had a really good relationship with Jake while he was there so he asked Jake to baptize him :) So we hopped in our truck after I got done with work and headed down for the weekend! 
We stayed with a member down there that has a beautiful home! She lives all by herself in that enormous house so she loves having guests stay with her. And we were definitely happy to stay there too. :)
While we were down there we caught up with one of his other mission buddies, went to the beach, went to sea world and got to meet up with my sister for a bit :)
Sea World was AMAZING! Jake had never been before so we had to go! My favorite part was definitely feeding the Sea Lions, I love those guys :)
Here are some pictures from our trip!

On our way! the start of our 10hr drive.

My cute hubby ;)

At the pet show! I liked it, Jake thought it was ok...ha.

FREE WILLY!

Jake and Chris after the baptism :)

 

so this spider decided to make his web from the tree to the antenna on our truck.

sorry spider, but we had to leave. and you're creepy...

Feeding the Sea Lions!

This dolphin was just posing for me :) and we got to pet one too!