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Want to be our guest?

After Christmas I decided to take on a project that's been LONG overdue in our house....re-do the spare bedroom! The people before us left these navy blue curtains and a terrible green paint color on the walls. The bunk-beds came from KSL in an effort to find a cheap sleeping situation for guests.

BEFORE

AFTER (Nighttime)

Ignore the extra long curtains...I still need to sew them so they don't touch the floor!

(Daytime)

It's amazing how fresh and new your house can feel after a fresh coat of paint. That was so much fun to do! I painted the room, and the bunk-beds without any of Spencer's help. Now who wants to be our guests? We need someone to sleep in these comfy beds!

99 Days......

Guess where I'm going in 99 days?

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Oahu, Hawaii

I'll visit the beach.....

& the Laie temple!

This is the beach house we'll be staying in

I can't wait!!! This will be my first time going to Hawaii. It's always been a dream destination since I was like 10. In middle school, me and my friend Aubrey made "Hawaii boxes" where we would put our change and extra money into to save up to go to Hawaii for our Senior trip.

Sounds exciting right? Well, I am disappointed to say that it never reached more than $5.00 in savings, but now my dream will come true! The tickets are booked and so is the beach house. I'm so grateful for my in-laws for allowing us to go on a family vacation with them.

Happy New Year

On New Year's Eve, Spencer and I went to my parents house and hung out. Baby Cooper Michael Lloyd was born on Friday December 30th. I don't have any pictures but he is absolutely perfect. Christine had a c-section and was released from the hospital on Monday. We are very glad he is here and healthy. I didn't get any pictures of us on New Year's Eve but here are some pictures from New Year's Day at Olicooka.

Me & my cousin Eboni


Olicooka is a tradition we have from my dad's side of the family. We all meet at my aunt's house and she makes us Oily-boilie's (deep fried scone balls). They are delicious! The tradition comes from our heritage and how sad it is that I can't remember why we celebrate it but I know I look forward to it every year!

Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas. Here is Sophie getting her present early on Christmas Eve.

She's so smart! She unwrapped her present by herself and out popped some toys!

Christmas Eve at Jeff & Michelle's

Spencer putting e-books on their computer for Kayla. Kayla got an Amazon Kindle for Christmas.

The little girls acting out the Nativity scene.

Spencer knows me so well. He thought he would be funny and spell my name wrong on my present. Does anyone else get a little offended when someone spells your name wrong? He makes me laugh.

Spencer got me an Amazon Kindle! I love it.

On Christmas day we went to my Mom's and she gave each of us a hand-made quilt by her! I was so excited when I opened this. We've been asking for a quilt from her for years it seems. She's so talented and has the cutest taste in fabric.

Merry Christmas!

Surprise iMac

Spencer has been wanting an iMac for so long. I convinced him to wait until after Christmas with no real good reasoning other than that they are expensive and I didn't feel like spending the money right now. (Secretly, I've been wanting one too so I can learn all of the Adobe programs) If we aren't getting one after Christmas then we probably won't get one for a LONG time, Spencer thought, because Terri's so stubborn. I invited him on a surprise date for Thursday, December 15th to celebrate his last final of the semester. I'd been telling him lately that I just wanted to get hot chocolate and drive around looking at people's lights for a date night so he figured that's what we were doing, or going to Temple Square. As we drove downtown, he was trying to be nice and say things like "I thought you already got your feel for the lights at Temple Square this year" because he REALLY didn't want to go. I smiled and said "maybe that's what we're doing, and maybe not"

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We arrived at The Gateway and wandered through a few stores. We stopped at Starbucks and rewarded ourselves each to a Frappuccino.

We then headed to the Mac store. As we approached the store, Spencer said "Oh, I'll show you the Mac I want!" and I turned to him and said something like "We're taking it home tonight."The smile on his face was priceless. The whole time we were in the store, he kept saying "I don't believe you" or "You're lying to me". How could this be real?! This picture doesn't describe it very well. He was embarrassed I was taking a picture because he didn't want to look like a tourist.

And there is the beauty that I am now typing on.

Best surprise date....EVER!

Christmas Decorations

I absolutely love this time of year. Spencer points out to me how much I love Christmas lights, and Christmas music all the time. Tonight he came home to me dancing and singing along to blaring Christmas music. I took these pictures minutes before he got home...sorry...no pictures of me dancing though!

This nativity set came straight from Grandma Frandsen's trip to Israel this year.

Went to Temple Square with my sisters-in-law last weekend but my camera died right when we got there. Fun Fact: Learned that the big dipper is on the temple because it points to the North Star and the North Star is always constant. Awesome.