Temple Square - New Year's Day

Cousin Corey and his wife Liz (My dad's side) showed us their cool house downtown that they are fixing up and then we spent the afternoon and evening with them. After dinner we went back to their place and played a bunch of games. Fun times.
Eating dinner at "The Pie" at the University of Utah. It was probably the first time in my life that Omar had ever mentioned that something was "salty". The pizza is huge there. Of course we never took a picture. This is a picture of my Crazy Cousins who live in SLC who took us around for New Year's day.
For some reason they kept the lights up for 1 extra day! How lucky!
We are very dark in this picture - but the lights around us look cool
Us in front of the Nativity
SLC Temple Spires
Again...
In the Tabernacle - we listened to the pin drop!

New Year's Eve

Went to dinner at Outback before going to the New Year's Party.
Little did we know that we had VIP passes, which included food
My sister-in-law, Megan, was practically molested. Omar & Eddie stayed upstairs in the VIP section while we went down to the floor to dance and wait for David Archelleta (from American Idol) to come and sing. We both tried to get up on this upper level to dance and have fun. There was not room for both of us. Megan snuck up on it and then about 5 guys climbed up after her and surrounded her and would not let her get out. You can tell in this picture - she is wearing the gold sweater.

Taking a picture of ourselves crammed in with everyone
David Archelleta



Happy New Year!!!

Special Utah Visits

We went and saw my friend since I was probably 11 years old, Nikki North. She lives in Utah now with her husband and adorable tiny baby Amelia. We talked a long time, toured her first home and then went to Cafe Rio. How I love Cafe Rio and pray they will make one in Florida. We also saw Nikki on our way to the airport to go back home. We went to a pizza restaraunt called "The Pie" at a new location near our Seugro's home.
I met with one of my old good mission companions and her new husband. We went to dinner to, where? Cafe Rio!!!
We spent the evening at my aunt Pam's house in Provo (Dad's side). We had a good time catching up with everyone, eating yummy food and playing a new card game. We were able to also see Trent and Jenn who were to get married that following Sunday night.

Park City & Snow Tubing

Megan, Omar & I snow tubing
Me and Pookie
Aren't we cute
Megan and I






Eddie & Megan

Park City, Utah

Monday the 29th - We went to Park City, the Park City Outlets and went snow tubing. Omar had never been before to either.

Christmas Belated

Jayden trying to open his Christmas gift
Nephew Jayden with his new Christmas gift from us
Omar opening his gift
Omar loves Victoria - don't worry it was really a church outfit (not from Victoria)
Grace (Omar's mom) with her gift from Eddie & Megan
My gift from Eddie & Megan - it is the newest thing for straightening haird - and "InStyler"

Omar's other brother, wife and baby came in town on Saturday the 27th from Arizona and stayed until January 5. Our little nephew, Jayden, is now 14 months and is finally filling out a little bit - he was a fatty at our wedding. I am not so sure if I want kids these days - our little nephew had some crazy crying lungs the whole trip. That night we also opened gifts.

Sunday the 28th - we went to church - a very unfriendly ward - I was surprised. Omar then played video games with his brother.

Our First White Christmas Juntos

2 stories high
making the 3rd layer
the finished product
Omar and Aaron
Us!!!
Omar holding up a huge thing of snow
Tons of snow
Omar and I starting our snowman
Can you tell that I made a snow angel???
omar and his brother, Aaron, chilling on Christmas morning by the tree.

We spent 4 days in Orlando with my family before flying out to Utah on Christmas Eve. We spent 2 weeks in Utah. We stayed with Omar's parents - mi suegros. They live in a newer type area called Herriman where one of the new temples is being built. It is about half way between Salt Lake City and Provo. Our first few days were spent doing a lot of shopping. Christmas Eve we had Christmas dinner - Christmas Eve is when most Spanish cultures celebrate Christmas. We were exhausted, but there was a lot of food and it was nice. There was tons of snow everywhere and by the afternoon of Christmas it finally stopped snowing. Omar and I made a huge snowman - his brother Aaron decided to help at the end. That was both Omar's and Aaron's first snow man ever. This was for sure the largest and coolest snowman I have ever made.

Where has time gone?!?! Our crazy life

I can hardly believe it has been like 3 weeks since my last post. I had been doing so good. My heart is always thinking "this would make a good blog post", but I have yet anything to show for it.

This past week has been crazy busy. Today I ran to church for Sacrament and ended up conducting the music (the normal sister wasn't there), I stuck around long enough for the whole meeting before having to run off to work for a few hours. Omar is now at work for a few hours - he at least was able to stay for all of church (Yes, I am sure you are thinking "Sinners!!!" I guess it is good we are sinning together...just kidding - you gotta do what you gotta do - not much agency involved in this one).

Yesterday, Omar left in the wee hours of the morning to go to the Young Men's Mini Mission. He got home just in time for me to run off the baby shower I helped organize for one of the sisters I visit teach. We then went and put an application in for a new apartment - we went and looked at a bunch of other apartments. As much as we would like to buy right now, we would much rather have absolutely no debt and have a good down payment saved up - so we are moving to a cheaper larger apartment - YEAH for 2 bedrooms & 2 Baths!!! Then we went down to the Young Men's President's house for a mini mission fireside. What a crazy weekend!

Last weekend was of course the Thanksgiving holiday and we spent most of it in Orlando with my mom and family. We did get to go and see Omar's family a little too. We visited my dad as well. We went home to have some people staying with us. It was actually 2 boys that I babysat while growing up - they are now 18 & 19 years old - very weird. They were in Jacksonville for some concerts.

Basically between church and work - life keeps us so busy. I forgot what it was like to have so many meetings! I will be grateful for the Holiday break coming up - for my job it is from the 19 of this month until January 5!!! But it isn't a complete break for me as I still have to call matches and see how they are doing and reply to my emails and phone calls. I guess it is as good of a break as I will get from work. I will leave after we have our Youth Christmas Celebration on the 19th to Orlando to spend with my mom and then fly out on the 24th for Utah. Busy, busy, busy.

Overall, I am grateful that I have a job...we are truly blessed. I talk to so many people each day that do not have half of what I have and that does not even count the Gospel in my life.

I hope we can remember between all the hustle and bustle of gift buying and family time - that this season is really about Christ. This is a cool musica video that got sent to me about that - check it out:
http://www.joytoeveryone.com/
I also just saw this really cool video too:
http://deseretbook.com/reflections/