I'm super excited for Christmas!!! i'm gonna make gingerbread houses tonight!!!! ahh so excited! I'm also excited to start an internship with the Utah Flash (NBA d-league), i'm over the Ball Kids who are the water boys, the moppers, and the ball fetchers. It should be really good for a resume and experience and plus it will be so fun!! Bryan Russell will be there Monday's game, and perhaps perhaps Michael Jordan...no one seems to know for sure! Anyway i'm excited to be standing on the sidelines and to learn new things and meet new people! Love and miss my far away family!

Kohl and i basically pulled an all nighter last night :) and i had a blast!!! we both happened to be wearing our light blue Nike outfits...he looks much better in his but i'm cool with that! he flexed for one and i taught him to do a game face. See!!

I finally got to hold Kohl!!!! or baby budda as devin calls him. I don't look that thrilled but i really was!!! i was finally able to go over because i've been working on this dreadful paper which i've been in the library all week for! as soon as i turned it in today i ran over to see Kohl which was a great incentive! i love him!!! he's adorable and he has awesome ears...yes i have an ear obsession. So glad he and Bri are healthy and home safe

Hey so I'm dating someone....and since not everyone is around these parts here's a photo! His name is David and we went to General Conference (which he's never been to at the Conference Center) so here are a few pictures! We actually got in trouble for taking pictures inside the Center...it's a new rule apparently but i felt bad! It was cold and rainy but i love to get to wear jackets and sweaters so i didn't mind too much. :)

I forgot to put up pictures from the family reunion this summer! there were a lot of crazy faces made and so many more i didn't put up! Kade makes such wonderful faces and every time he says "oh mylanta" or "Cole...can i have some gum?" it melts my heart, and Brooke i would never so no to anything she wants :) I love my family so much and can't imagine it will get much better but everytime a new little one comes it does.

Here are some pictures from the Chicago trip, i had a really hard time leaving :) but i had a wonderful time there. i love and worry about all nieces and nephews so much and i can't help it. i can't think of happier times than the times then carrying Ryder on my shoulder or falling asleep with Ellery!!! Ryder loved for me to play "Princess" with him...don't know that i've ever been called that before but it was fun as well as "Pirates" and i had the pirate name of "shomushnocum-something"

Here are some photos from when i went to Cali, LA area! we went to Six Flags (my first time), beach, Dodgers game, and temple grounds. I went with Hilary, Steph, and Mallory all from high school. We don't see each other much but we had a great time! Oh and Aimee was great and did corn rows!!!

Earlier this month i got to go to the Palmyra, NY and it was awesome!!! I met Em and her mom up there and we went to Hill Cumorah Pagaent which Chuck's family is part of set up every year-Chuck is Em's boy back from his mission to Fiji :) - then we got to go to the Sacred Grove a couple of times and Joseph Smith house and farm and then we went to Niagra Falls. We also went downtown Palmyra which is an interesting place with all the protestors, but we saw where the Book of Mormon was first published and learned a lot there! It was all so much fun! the Sacred Grove was my favorite and i can't wait for the family to go out there and experience that! Oh and i also took Em shooting with us, she's never touched them before (probably won't again) and she out shot us all on the first round....i was a close 2nd :) but i love that picture of mom shooting! she was so funny and would spend a whole minute aiming before she got the shot off.

Last weekend Dev, Bri and i went up to Boise to visit Nate and Jo and the kids!....but my camera died after only a few pictures! but i got two so we are in good shape here. I can't believe how well Kade and Brook took Dev's teasing but they just loved it! Dev taught Kade how to give Bri wet willies (surprise surprise) so that kept him entertained. I made sure Kade remembered OH MY LANTA! and taught him "you have beautiful eyes" from Ice Age he does the lisp and everything! So funny! Jo and i were signed up to run in a trail race but because the weather it was cancelled, so we went to the mall instead which i believe the fact that we were willing to get up early and go burnt enough calories to count for a workout :) We had a wonderful time, again ate a ton, and really just had fun with the little guys!

Hold on to your britches!!! i made a post :) Mom and i went up to rexburg and visited Aimee Lou! it was so much fun! I really miss her down here, but she seems to be having so much fun up there....so i can't be too sad! Her roommates were her same crazy so never a dull moment up there. She bought us tickets to go to a William Joseph Piano concert. It was really cool! He has a cool story and he's a member doing pretty well for himself....it even made me consider taking piano lessons again and the rest of the time we just hung out, watched old Cary Grant movies and of course ate!!