I'm Back

I didn't realize it has been this long since I posted.

Well, the holidays are here again. I love this time of year! I got my tree up before Thanksgiving. I got a new tree this year, after 10 years of the other tree (that I had of it) it was time to get rid of it. Mom had it before in her classroom, so it's done its duty. I also got new ornaments. I kept looking at the tree after I had it up for a while, it just looked like something was missing. I realized that it needed icicles. I dug thru my cedar chest and found the pack of icicles that mom got for me a few years ago that are exactly the kind we had growing up. I just put a few around the tree. It made my tree so perfect.

I have really enjoyed doing a lot of christmas crafts this year. I did 3 just this past week.



I tried the scrapbook paper on the "L", and it was so easy and turned out really good!


This one is my favorite!

Last year it seemed like I didn't really get to enjoy Christmas at my new apartment because I was moving in the month of December. This year, I have taken full advantage of it.

I hope I will be better at posting. I just want to tell my family Happy Holidays! Thank you for everything you have done for me this past year. I love you all!

Great month!

I had a great month of July! Got to spend quality time with all my nieces and nephews. Nancy and Dallas invited me to be with them the 4th of July, well the 3rd of July. We went to the Murray Parade. That afternoon I went down to their house and played with Tyler. We had so much fun. Tyler laughed and had so much fun watching me and Nancy bump the volleyball to each other. He laughed so hard that he fell over. That night, me, Nancy, Dallas and Dallas' parents watched the fireworks being shot off from Thanksgiving Pointe. It wasn't the best view from their front lawn, but it was alright.


The next weekend, I went down to Mom and Dads and spent the weekend with Max and Morgan. We had so much fun. We went fishing at Potter's Pond and went swimming down at the pool. Morgan was a good sport about fishing, Max pretty much just sat in the chair and wanted food. :) We were lucky and caught 6 fish! Barrett and Chantel picked up the kids at Murray Park. We had a nice lunch with all the cousins (little kids) together. Grandma and Grandpa took all the kids to the slide and enjoyed having all the kids together.


July 20, I went to Park City for our Sales Convention at work. We were able to meet our Account Executives (AE) for our area that we work with. The area I work with is the Capital area, so my AE's are all from Philadelphia, Washington DC, New Jersey... It was good to finally meet them. We did a team building event at The Canyons Resort where we had to find "flags". Then we had a nice dinner and got to spend time up there before we had to head back.

This is my Capital team with our Vice President Todd Ogaard and one of our AE's Jonathan Katchmore

The weekend of the 24th, I went down to Orangeville. I had the 23rd off, so I took off that morning and headed on down. Got down to OV and went swimming with the kids. Tyler is such a hoot in the pool. That night they had the childrens parade and the famous LAMB FRY!! The morning of the 24th, dynamite started bright and early by Danny. Tammy headed off to the 5K run. We went to the parade and then to the events at the park. After spending time at the park, we went up to the mountains but Nancy and Dallas already went up to Potter's fishing. We all headed up. We caught 10 fish in 2 hours! Lexi is a good caster, she's going to be Grandpa's fishing buddy! After we were done fishing, we had our tin foil dinner at the camp site, roasted a few marshmellows then went home. It was a good 24th of July.



It was a great July! I am an Orangeville girl at heart! It will always be home!

Holiday Weekend

I had a great holiday weekend! It started out Wednesday after work! Lexi stayed the night at my house because she had to be at BYU Lavell Edwards Stadium at 8:45 to start practicing for Stadium of Fire. She got to my house pretty late, so we went right to bed. I froze TONS of bottled water that night so we had lots of water while we were out in the sun. Thursday morning we drove down to Provo. We met Jaley and the dance group outside the gates and the little girls went in and started dancing. They had such a long practice and they did so good! It was such a hot day! I made sure Lexi drank TONS of water because I did not want her to get dehyrated. At 11:30 or so we had lunch break and we came up to my work to get my paycheck and to get out of the sun. Everyone at Myriad LOVED Lexi! Lexi loved to tell everyone that she gets to dance at Stadium of Fire. She said that everyone at Aunt Nicky's work is so nice! :) At 3:15 we were back at the Stadium... I felt so bad... There were 1300 girls and they were dancing in the hot sun! But they had people spraying they down with water and once again, I made sure Lexi kept her water close by. Jaley and Jasha were good about having grapes down there to pop in the girls mouths whenever they had a quick break. At 6, we went on our dinner break. Me and Lex ran down to the Provo Towne Centre Mall and ate at Subway. I had to get her into her costume and get back to the stadium by 7:45. Then we did a run-through of the whole program. I am go glad that Tammy and Josh let me be part of it. I am so proud of Lexi! She did so good! She made sure to tell me everytime she saw me "Nicky, I am drinking LOTS of water!!!" because she knew I was going to ask! :) We got to see the Blue Man Group practice (but Thursday night, they weren't Blue!) Practice that night ran long and we didn't get back to my house until 11:30. Josh was already there to pick Lexi up.

Friday, Kayden stayed with me. He is so funny! I took him to Wal-mart so I could grab some much needed stuff (soap and bread). I thought I would pick up some little fireworks and do those that night. I knew he didn't like the big fireworks but I thought the little ones he might be ok with. That night, we went over to my friend Aimee's (EC connection) and did fireworks at her house. Her dad set off a smoke bomb/grenade, that didn't go too well with Kayden. So the rest of the time, he was in the house watching Transformers and he was perfectly fine seeing the fireworks out the window. But Kayden LOVED the little pop things that you throw on the ground, I actually had to tell him to stop throwing them at peoples feet! :) He did SOO good Friday night! I got him his meds and did the pump all by myself, I was pretty impressed! :)

Tammy came and picked him up Saturday morning and I was child-free! I loved having them here, but I am not used to being a mother! :) When Tammy was getting Kayden in the car, Kayden asked Tammy "Mom, do you have a smoke?" Tammy looked at me and I told her "I don't know what he's talkin about! I don't smoke!" But we soon realized he meant a SMOKE BOMB!! A funny thing Lexi said was we were driving to BYU and they had blocked roads off to get to the parking lot and we had to detour and I FINALLY found my way and I said "Lexi, see, who needs a man!" and she looks at me and said "YOU!!" I was in shock that this little girl said that! I said "what do you mean!" she said "I want a new uncle!" I just love my nieces and nephews so much!

I hope everyone had a safe 4th of July! My weekend was busy with the kids, but if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have done anything! Thanks again Lexi for letting me be part of your show with you on Thursday, it really meant a lot!