Snippets of my life...Enjoy!!

I recently went to Rexburg to throw my BFF Chelsea a spectacular Bridal Shower. We had fruit and chocolate fondu, dove shaped sugar cookies, and lip-smacking Pina Colada Punch. We also went to this mexican restaurant that had been converted from a bus. It was stationed in the middle of this field and they only spoke spanish. "Do i really have to say pollo instead of chicken?" I feel so foolish because i know they're just laughing at my pronunciation. 

When Jody and Anglea came to Utah, I babysat the little ones while they went to the Alpine Slides. This adorable little girl is who i GOT to spend the day with. She is the sweetest, cutest fire cracker ever!! We sat for an hour while she read me the same book over and over again. She kept laughing, starting out fake, then once i started giggling, we just laughed so hard! I love her. 

Birthday Party!!! Boo ya kasha!

katy  and i threw a welcome to provo/birthday party for me last night. we raked and spruced up her sister kendra's back yard on tuesday-it turned out looking majestic with the twinkle lights we added. then yesterday, we made delicious dips and cookies for more appeal. i was amazed at how many people actually came. cousin jonathan surprised me, for i did not know that he was in utah, and had sparklers(that i convinced him to give me) it made the night more festive. katy came out with 4 candles for me to blow out that were stuck in salt water taffies. i soon found out they were trick candles(this brought me back to my eighth or ninth b-day when i also had trick candles and i was traumatized because i didn't think that my wish would come true) we ended the evening with going to "the hospital"(no this is not the name of a joint, we went to the actual hospital) for MILKSHAKES. they're open 24/7 and have the most delectable delicacies. all in all, it was wonderful!

What up Utah???

I'm now officially a resident of Provo, Utah!!! Its been a blast so far (besides the searching for a job part...) Mother dearest drove up with me and did her magic with getting me settled in. She's the bomb-diggity. Katy is so fun to live with and my friend Michelle might move in soon as well. Last Saturday, Katy, Lauren(who is her friend from boston and the sweetest girl you'll ever meet), and I went on a hike/walk up Rock Canyon. It rained and stormed all last week so the creek was flowing like mad. The day we went hiking was absolutely gorgeous. Rainy, overcast, humid, sunny....perfect!!! I'm so excited for all the fun things i'm going to discover here. For those of you that are coming up in the next few weeks, don't forget to come see my awesome new pad and visit. I love you all. Enjoy the pictures :)

Time to catch up!!

Can i just express how much i love and miss these girls!!! It amazes me how grown up and mature they are now. They make me feel so loved and young. These are all from different occasions within the past year. We all went to Disneyland to see Audrey perform, and Melissa shocked me by wanting to ride front row on California Screamin' with me. Then, there was the time i took them all out to lunch and then introduced them to the glories of Goodwill. The picture of all of us in my room was my last night before i came to Utah. There was no else i'd rather spend my time with than my darling nieces. 

Christmas Eve

Just a couple of my favorite pictures from our Christmas Eve afternoon with the family. Mom and Aaron during the sibling gift exchange.

Grandma Petersen and Grandma Nichols after the program.

Meagan - the child that will NOT leave a bow in her hair, but loves sheep ears.

Halloween Ambers style

As you can see, Meags and I had a dashing time coming up with our costumes. At first we were just going to be tropical plants, but hoisting HUGE plants on our backs proved to be dificult(even with moms expertise). So we then resorted to being ivy. But since we did our make-up and hair all fancy, we apparently looked like wood nymphs, which is incredibly more intriguing. Leggings: $5, King size pillowcases: $7, Ivy: Free(because of course, mom just happened to have BAGS of plants stored away for occasions such as this. And i wonder why she keeps things like silk plants that are in scraps???) Basically the cheapest costume that resulted in the most original costume of all!! You may wonder why we are dancing in some of these photos--simple. Wood Nymphs enjoy frolicking, but its kind of tricky catching the magical essense in still frames. Climbing the tree and laying in the grass were mother dearests ideas, which ended up turning out the best shots. I hope you all had a wonderful halloween. Enjoy! I love you all :)

William's Birthday Party

We made the cake the night before and the boys (especially Burke, as you can see) really enjoyed it when I gave them a beater to lick. Burke just had this mischevous grin after he did this to William.

Will's friends Mads (pronounced mess), Olivia (Mads and Olivia are cousins). and Isabella. Isabella is actually the daughter of Don's cousin's wife's brother, so we have a family connection in Copenhagen--who wouldv'e thought? William loves all of his friends, and gets especially hyper with Isabella. Maybe because she also speaks English, I don't know. We think William thinks all the Danes around him are speaking in jibberish. When he runs and plays with his Danish friends and they speak to him in Danish, he'll occasionally yell something back in total nonsense syllables. It's hilarious.

We're calling it a Desi Sandwhich.

ITS A BOY! The little guy finally decided to reveal himself. Tallon is over the moon- "Its NOT a girl baby, the Doctor said so, its a BOY baby...IT IS!!!" I think he thinks we're going to change our minds.

PEACE!!

(PS Sorry to be such a blog hog)

Happy Mother's Day!

To our FANTASTIC Mom, and all of you WONDERFUL sisters who are also fantastic mom's. We love you and are thinking of you today!

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Beautiful Garden

Everyone calls yards gardens here. So here is our "garden". I guess President Engbjerg, who owns this house, had just finished landscaping this lawn when he was called to be a mission president. And everyone says it is probably a little hard on him to not be here to see it now. From what we hear, he was a perfectionist and would be down on his hands and knees to make sure things were perfectly level, and just so. We are definitely enjoying the fruit of his labors. He's even raised the back lawn up by 18-24 inches so that the ground would be drier. It does make an amazing difference. We were in the back yard of a neighbor and friend in the ward that live two doors down, and their backyard was kind of muddy, where ours is really pretty dry. It makes it nice for our boys to be able to go out and play. We just hope we can keep his gardens in decent shape for the Engbjergs while they are gone.