To Dolly's House We Go

And Boy Did We Play 

I just love this boy.  We played and played and played yesterday until we wore Dolly out! 

Connor and I were chasing a ball around the kitchen yesterday when Connor found a feather.  As he went to pick it up I blew it and boy did that start something!  We blew that feather and chased it the entire time that Dolly was making dinner.  She even made homemade mashed potatoes!  But you know when your favorite little guy is giggling so much you cant resist just a little more!!! 

He sure is silly!  

I guess I should readjust my kissy face.  Not even Connor wanted to kiss me! : ) 

Connor is all boy!  Here he's showing me his muscles. We watched a little football later and if we ever changed the channel he would chant football over and over again until we would change it back!

I sure do love this little boy.

Cedar Girls and One Fun Christmas Celebration!

On Monday some of my favorite people in the whole world got together to celebrate Christmas.  All the girls you see are either roommates or building mates from my freshman year at SUU.  Clearly since 2004 we have added a few additions.  This is just a portion of our group of friends.  We are now spread across the country from Florida to Arizona to Logan to St. George.  I sure do love these people!

Yes my friends, that is a real alligator head sitting upon my head.  Thanks Jordan. 

 In our true form.  I promise Emma loves her husband, she just is being silly! : )

Tasha and I really do become, um how do you say it, downright goofy when we get together.   

Everyone had a significant other at the party, except me. 

But dont worry, I found the cinnamon santa bears and then I was as happy as a lark again!  : )

Elk Refuge

This past saturday Adam and I went on a sleigh ride up at the Elk Refuge.  Although it was RAINING, it still was a lot of fun.  Here we are in the visitors center.  I wonder if we can do a world wide training for how to center a picture.  This lady who took our picture was really nice, but she kinda missed some of the important background.

Here we are freezing, but then we just got to sit closer : )!!!  Can you see the elk in the background?  They were actually a lot closer, but just like a moody teenager my camera only started working after the elk started moving away to bed down for the night. 

My camera was working for this picture though.  I didnt have to zoom in or anything, they were that close! 

The sleighs were pretty big, so we sat across from these two little girls in matching pink and purple snow suits!  They were so cute.  One of them told us, very seriously I might add, that you have to be nice to the momma elk, but you can shoot the daddy elk!!!  They were so cute. 

Glass Candy

So my friend Kelci and I had some sugar and we had some food coloring and we had some time, so.... we made some glass candy.  Sadly, my cinnamon flavoring must've been a little old, because I used half the bottle and our glass candy tasted like what it was-- Sugar. : (  We still had fun though.  I like this Kelci girl a whole lot.  She's great.

We decided to put the coloring (not the flavoring) in after we poured the mix out.  So we got a pretty cool swirl effect. 

Odds and Ends

Its been a couple of weeks since I blogged so here are just a few odds and ends over the last few weeks.

Brooke and I made Pumpkin Rolls!!  They turned out delicious... good enough that I forgot to take pictures of them.   

Brooke also helped me decorate the Christmas tree.  Sadly enough I did not get a picture of the finished tree either and now my camera is being ridiculous. Sorry.

This weekend was our family christmas party and once again problems with the camera so I didnt get any pictures, but here is one with Connor boy.  He learned how to say my name this weekend!  Yesterday Dolly called and said that she was looking at her blog and Connor saw a picture of me and said, "Alycen" and then went and got the phone and said it again!  I feel so special! 

And then there was this!  Monday was my two year mark of being home from my mission.  So Adam, being the nicest boy in the whole world got me flowers and took me to dinner!  He is so sweet.  I forgot to take pictures on monday so here we are in our pajamas on tuesday.  We watched Home Alone and got more excited about Christmas.  Also, if you look closely Adam decided to cut his hair... into a mullet.  I feel kinda weird that I like it so much!  : ) tonight I'm gonna cut cat scratches on the sides!  : ) You're only young once right?!

A New Way to Stay on Top!!

This weekend Mr Adam took me snow shoeing for the first time!  It was so much fun.  We didn't go very far because we got distracted making a new best friend and snow angels, but I had a good time.  So if any of you were wondering what dear sweet Adam looks like, here he is

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HaHa.  Isnt he cute?   I kinda like that he's balding!!!!   No this is Guido!!  We hope he'll stay up all winter.  He's pretty packed! So hopefully he will. 

This is Adam and I and Guido.  I have almost no winter clothes so I had to borrow almost everything so I hope you like the hat!!!!! 

 

Once again no making fun of the clothes.  PS isnt Adam pretty cute?  I think so. =)

But then again he did white wash me...  Well sometimes he treats me like a lady.  Ok, most of the time.  He's still a boy though and couldnt resist such a skinny target as I! =)

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving this year was AWESOME!!!!  Our family doesn't always celebrate Thanksgiving together. Alright we never do, so Melissa offered her house for the crazy Fieldings to get together this year and it made all the difference.  We were still missing half the clan, but it was still wonderful to see everyone.  Thanks Melissa and Brian!

Here Melissa, Rochelle and I are pulling the Nathan! : ) 

Connor seems to have gotten his facial expressions confused.  When you say smile he closes his eyes tight.  Dolly says she has to wait until he opens them again to take the picture, but I couldnt resist it was too cute.  No wonder he does it though, with Dolly laughing so much!!! : ) 

I wanted to take a picture of Ella so I waited and waited and waited for her to take the sippy down.  Then I realized she wanted her picture taken while she was chugging!!!  She got so excited when the flash went off.  She is all girl and so cute about things when she gets excited!! 

I wish you could see Mom's whole face, because isn't she beautiful?!!?  That color just makes her look so good! 

I love my dad so so so much.  I'm grateful for him and all he does for us.  Really my dad does everything for us.  He is still making sacrifices for his kids and none of us live at home.  I love him.  You're the best Dad! 

Now this little girl has me wrapped around her finger.  I still cant decide if its just me she really likes or if she treats everyone she kinda likes with so much love.  But it makes me feel so good. When I left Melissa's house yesterday Sarah just held on and looked so sad.  When I finally set her down she just moped off.  She does have a flair for the dramatic, but I love it.  

Yesterday Scott went to a mission buddies sealing so he was looking sharp.  ; ) Well, Melissa's girls do NOT understand boys, so when Scott started talking about how all the girls at the wedding were just gonna swoon over him Emily put him in his place.  Clearly Scott needed to defend him self.  So as he was talking Rochelle walked up the stairs to see Scott looking in the mirror and saying, "Who is that guy?" I think he may have been winking at himself!  Well Rochelle had a good 10 minute laugh over that.  So next time you see Scottie please ask, "Who's that guy?" : ) 

This is Andrew and Meagan's baby Jordan.  I've never seen such a solid kid before.  I guarantee he's gonna be 6'5 at least.  He's huge!  He's only 5 months old and over 18 pounds. So cute.  He just smiled the whole time!

SNOW ANGELS

Every year at the first snow fall I make a snow angel and dedicate it.  This year happened to be a really big snow angel.  Look at the size of that thing!!!!  Oh by thing I guess I mean me :) aren't I Enormous!! 

Happy Snow!!!! 

GOLD

My friend Nicole is having her Golden birthday this week, so we celebrated in style on Saturday night.  We decided if we were gonna go to a golden party we were gonna go all out.  So we first stopped at the DI to see what golden treasure we could find.  These were some amazing things that we out of price range. 

Clearly we could not afford something so amazing!

Sadly the nice DI boy who took the picture did not capture that I still had my mid-calf length wool socks on. :(

Poor Kelci is here in Logan for her very first winter.  She is from Arizona and I dont think it quite dawned on her that snow = slippery.  So when we went to pick her up she ate it pretty hard and here is the evidence.  It was awesome.  She's a good sport about it. 

We spray painted many things to prepare ourselve to go in GLAM.  Here is our shoes and my head band.  I actually fell in love with my gold shoes and have now worn them every chance I get. :) 

Kelci, Brooke and I 

They had some funny competitions.  Here we are seeing who has the cutest ears.  Guess who won!?!  Yes I have the cutest ears!!!!!  I may not be able to hear a thing, but they are at least asthetically pleasing! 

These four girls are my main girlfriends here in Logan.  If I am doing something, it is probably with them.  I like them alot.  We are all in the same program, so we're together a lot.  But it is great! 

SLC & UV

This weekend Kristen was in town on break from PA school is Arizona.  So I decided I would take a trip to SLC to see the girl!  I talked to a friend at UCMT the day before I was headed down to SLC and I decided I should stop by and visit them.  I cant believe how much I miss them. 

So here are just a few my favorite UCMT people. 

I had just got a massage so I look a little drugged. :)

This is Jake.  We shared an office the whole time I was at UCMT and he is such a good friend.  I miss him quite a bit.  He always helped me get through my stupid boy problems.  I miss that. 

And of course here are two of the cutest girls in my life.  Hanna and Kristen!!  We had a good time at dinner and then just being together for the rest of friday night.  Its so good to have such old friends. 



Celebrating Success!

 My roommate Sarah passed the GRE a couple of weeks ago and so here we are at Charly's getting some icecream to celebrate.  She was super nervous, but she did amazing.

I actually saw her right after she came out of the testing center and she just had this dazed look on her face.  So I stopped her and asked her how she did.  When she told me how well she did we actually jumped up and down in the middle of the street.  It was pretty funny.  We were at one of the busiest intersections on campus, but it was too exciting to not let the whole world know about it!!!!

This is Ashley.  She is not a roommate, but she is sure funny.  She's on the women's Rugby team, so I'm glad she's funny or I'm pretty sure she could kick my trash! :)

So introducing two of my three roomies.  To the left is Sarah, in the middle is Bethany.  Janey was at home.  She's quite the home body.  Sarah is vegetarian and Bethany is Vegan.  Its interesting.  They are super chill about it though.  Sarah is super liberal but funny.  And Bethany is such a hippie.  They are really great.  I am blessed with awesome roommates.     

Bollywood Party!!!

 My ward had a Bollywood Party last night and I'm not gonna lie, it was AWESOME!!!!!!!

The relief society presidency did a great job.  There were lights and all sorts of bright colors. 

This is Tamma, my relief society pres.  I like her so much.  We kinda have the same sense of humor and I think she's great. 

Here is Keezna and Kandi.  Two great girls.  Kandi was talking and just ended up looking like she was going for sexy.  I wish I looked half normal when I talk!! Keezna just graduated from flight school here at USU and promised to take me on a flight soon.  I am so excited!

 Here's Kandi again.  She's way funny. I like her bunches.

Here are the girls who came.  They're pretty crazy, but we had some fun! 

And last but not least, here we are attempting to learn a Bollywood dance.  Can anyone tell how little coordination I have?  Syncronized dancing + Alycen = awkward!