Fun pics =)

Just a few days after Christmas one night, Dad was putting Caiden to bed, which is really cute because he always reads at least two books and then sing songs that Caiden requests which some of them always consist of "twinkle twinkle little star" and "I am a child of God" because dad started singing those two from the beginning. Caiden now loves everyone to make up songs about anything and everything. He say things like, "sing door please," "sing light please," "sing white star please" and so on. It's so cute! And he has such good manners, he always says please and thank you. He's adorable. Anyway, that night he wanted to put a tent he got for Christmas over dad and him while he was being put to bed. Here are some pics. We thought it was hilarious!

As you can see only half of dad's body fits in it and Caiden is all the way inside. He wanted to sleep the whole night like that. It was so funny

Here's a good look inside haha

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Santa Clause came! He left us a note, some nuts, brownies, book (for Caiden), sardines (for Dad... yuck), and some gum. His elves, Robert, Roberta, Brittany, Bart, and Holly left us a letter also. They said sorry for not coming at all during the month before Christmas; some of Santa's elves usually come and leave us letters and some kind of treats but this year I guess they couldn't find the new house or something ;-) They've been coming since Brooke and Camie were babies, so hopefully next year they'll do better!

We always set up our little Christmas village. I remember helping mom set it up in our old old house in Bakersfield when I was young... memories =)
Presents.... Time to wake up!
Lyndsey went into Caiden's room to wake him up while Courtney and I were in the bathroom getting a little bit ready to be in front of the camera ha

Picture of everyone after opening presents from Santa and each other. Lots of fun! Grammy came over Christmas morning and we had Grandma, Grandpa, Becky, and Robert come over for Christmas dinner. I wish I had pics of that =( Oh and we're all wearing beanies that Grammy knitted for us, they're so cute we love them!

Us kids in front of the tree =)

Mom dreading the mess that was left ha. No worries we all pitched in and cleaned up afterward and then had DELICIOUS omlets for breakfast that my dad made. Yum

A silly family pic in front of the tree. It was funny, my dad had to run over over to that spot after pressing the timer on the camera... it was quite squishy but it looks cute I think =) Poor Caiden looks like he's getting crushed by us, but don't worry he's perfectly fine haha

Merry Christmas love the Alveys!!!

Happy 14th B Day Courtney!!

I missed Courtney's birthday because I was once again in Provo studying for finals but here are some cute pics of her birthday on December 16, 2008 =)

Make a wish!

Here's Courtney's yummy cake! I sure wish I was there to have some!
Caiden =)

Just grandpa.... ;-)

Grandma!

The Birthday girl and Grammy!

Yobert, as Caiden calls him haha, is of course hiding from the camera... or sleeping, I can't quite tell haha

Mom!

Yobert once again hiding from the camera haha

Presents!!!

Hmmm ya think dad was ready for this pic? ha

Studdley Caiden =)

Snowy December

Here are some cute pics of Lyndsey, Courtney, and Caiden playing in the snow in Layton while I was in Provo studying for finals =-/

Saying goodbye and snowed in

Saying Goodbye!

I didn't meet too many people in my classes but I did meet a few. I had Kevin in 3 of my classes (well 2 after I dropped statistics) and we always sat together. I had a lot of fun with him

Here's Jeni and me. This is Human Development, probably my all time favorite class out of the semester. Professor Nelson was amazing... such a good class, although not easy at all lol. My other favorite class was Parenting and Child Guidance. Our teacher was working on his PHD and was so laxt. That was a way fun class. I always sat by a group of girls, they're were so sweet and fun. I really loved all my classes so much and my professors were so amazing. It was definitely a bitter sweet being done with that semester

This was our last pic we got all together before everyone started leaving. It was sad to say bye to everyone. I had so much fun with my roommates in that apartment

This is our quote wall. Whenever someone said something funny we'd write it down and stick it up there. My quotes were "I love chinese babies!" "Um, I ate out of it..." "Wait, Don't sit down yet!" and "Eeew are those weaties?" It was fun to look at the quote wall because we'd just start laughing when we read someone's quote ha

Bye bye to my favorite room =(

Snowed in

So I was going to drive home right after I was done with my finals but it was so stormy so it wouldn't have been a very good idea to drive home that night. So I just went home and watched a movie with 2 of my roommates and chilled for the night. It was so nice not to worry about any homework, essays, or tests... just total relaxation

This is our apartment complex the next morning after the storm... it really snowed a lot, but I thought it was pretty. That week was probably the second time it had actually snowed... I thought that was crazy that the snow didn't stick until December. It was a very slow arriving winter, not to mention a very nice and warm autumn... I loved it but was happy for snow finally

So this was the last of Raintree Apartments. I really had a lot of great memories there. I loved my ward, I loved teaching Gospel Principles class (that was definitely a new and at first a scary experience for me because I had never had a calling like that, but I ended up absolutely loving it. I grew so much from it and if know one learned or profited from my lessons I sure did. I definitely count that calling as a blessing), I loved my roommates, I loved my classes, and I was even sad to not be riding the extremely over crowed bus everyday (you have no idea how crowded it would get, oh man I wish I got a pic of how many people would fit inside those small buses haha). I really had a great semester and I was actually a little sad to pack up my car. Oh and I wish I had gotten a pic of my car because is was packed soooooo full haha. I couldn't see out of any of the back windows which isn't very safe but I made it home to Layton safely =) Although I was a little sad to say bye to everything in Provo for a while I was so excited to relax and have a vacation. It was already December 20 and Christmas was just around the corner, time flies so fast!