We have friends!

So contrary to popular belief, and against what you have observed, we do have friends. lol. So today has been a very fun day. We had some friends over. The Champions. Daniel and Janelle Champion. They got married very shortly after we did and recently made a very wise decision to move closer to us. We decided we couldnt eat a roast alone, and had them over to eat some roast, and play some games, and hang out. We played a little wiii and played some scene it enjoyed some very nice company. Big will also joined us for a while.

We also taught nursery today and it was amazing. I was thoroughly impressed with children 3 and under's knowledge of the prophet. I showed a picture of joseph smith and they all yelled prophet and when we taught them that the prophet teaches us things and we listen to them they loved it. It was an amazing experience.

Now i must tell you about one of the boys in our nursery. His name is Tanner. He is a blonde hair, blue eyed, tan soon to be stud. He is learning to talk and is between 1 and 2. But eveytime his mom leaves him he cries. Just for a few minutes, but he cries. Yet everytime he cries someone just has to pick him up and hes ok. The one thing that we learned makes him stop crying is when we take him to the picture of jesus on the wall and say Jesus. He then stops crying, reaches out his hand and touches jesus's face and repeats jesus. It always helps him and it always comforts him. It is very impressive to me the things which children learn and are taught by their parents. It is also a reat testament to me that any time we are in need or are looking for comfort we just have to let him into our hearts and he will. If we ask he is there. Tanner has been a great example just as all of this children are.

Now we have had a massive snow explosion recently so here are some pictures of it.

Merrrry Christmas..

Merry Christmas to all!
So we have had a fun holiday. After working a long day on Christmas eve, we came home to a dinner of a lemon rotisserie chicken, and stuffing. We then opened a few presents which revealed a Lovesac (memory foam beanbag) for Sara and a pair of EMU boots (similar to uggs). Shawn revealed a back massager and a cozy robe. After dinner we headed in for an early night. Christmas morning Brian and his companion came over and we made them a country breakfast and gave them both a fleece blanket and a stocking of goodies. We then opened the rest of the presents we had and Sara found two seasons of 24, princess bride, and a cozy pair of sweats. Shawn found a wrigley field sign, Nerf dart gun set and Very Sexy by Victoria secret cologne. We got a few other presents like a 12 piece dishes set from Mama and papa young. The Hayes clan and Dunlaps generously gave us a lil extra spending cash, and we had a delivery of country ham a few days ago from the smiths which made for a great christmas morning breakfast. Shawn also got a hot chocolate maker from Nate.
On the afternoon of christmas day we headed to ashley's cousins house and had a amazing dinner and a hilarious gift exchange. Nate ended up with a hat he could wear in San Fran, While ashley ended up with a dress from goodwill that makes you wanna shield your eyes. Shawn got elf boxers with butt glue, and sara got a survival kit for the holidays inclusive with a flask and earplugs, along with excuses to leave family functions. Here are some outfits of the awesome gifts people got.

SNOW

We got a little bit of snow..

Losing games

We have recovered from working in the mall for black friday and now are getting super excited for christmas! Things over the past week have been busy as always. We have been working, doing a little bit of christmas shopping, and enjoying fairly decent weather. Old Man Winter has come by for a visit today with a few inches of snow coming down.

We had a really fun thanksgiving day at Ashley's parents house playing wii and eating a ton of great food! The joys of thanksgiving! Later on in the weekend we went up to Ogden to have dinner at one of Shawns friends. We all had a great meal and wonderful dessert made by sara that went over well with everyone. We played Apples to Apples to finish the evening and unfortunatly we got our butts kicked, haha. Its ok though.

Not much excitement happened throughout the week aside from lots of working and shawn having fun in school. Luckily school ends this week coming so that will be a nice break. Our first Christmas Tree is up and might I say absolutly beautiful! We will throw some pictures up soon. We were able to go over to Nathan and Ashley's last night and have a fun game night with them. We played Sonic & Mario Olypics and also Mario Party on the Wii and it was a back and forth game and in the end Nate and Ashley came out on top. It was definatly fun though. We will have to win the next game night soon to get rid of our losing streak. Aside from that not too much else is going on. We are excited to go back east in about 3-4 weeks.

Pictures..

Here are some pictures from the top of the
conference center and with Daniel and Shellie.

Here is Daniel in front of a waterfall that goes from the
roof to the floor and you can see it out all the windows
within the conference center.

Here is a random picture but i made some country
style fried chicken for brian and his companion.
They loved it i may say and im very proud of this fried chicken.