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! =)