Christmas Cheer!!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Rylee was a blast and is really getting the hang of the whole thing! This year was the year that she really got to know who Santa Claus was. She knew that he can "see you when your sleeping, he knows when your awake, he knows when you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake". also that she "better watch out, better not cry, better not pout"! Anytime I looked at something at the store and then put it back on the shelf she would say " you want that? You better ask Santa!" She learned a ton of Christmas songs and would walk around all day long singing them. She couldn't go to sleep at night until I sang at least two of them! I love love love it! We had so many fun Christmas party's to go to and Rylee had her first School Christmas Program!! I think that I was more excited for it then her! Her Pre School Class sang Jingle Bells with the Kindergarten. She saw Santa several times. She was finally brave enough to sit on his lap all by her self at the mall on Christmas Eve! She sat just long enough for a sweet picture. We spent Christmas Eve at my parents and then woke up the next morning to find that Santa had come to visit us. Rylee left Chocolate, a tangerine and a Pepsi for Santa (Daddy told her that Santa preferred Pepsi!) and Carrots for the Reindeer! They were all eaten and nibbled on. I do not think that any of us were disappointed by what we received from Santa and from everyone else!!!! We made a haul (to say the least!!) I am so thankful for all the love that I feel from my family! I always know that what ever gift is given to them they will love it and treasure it! The greatest gift is my family. I couldn't have asked for a better family. To our family that was not with us this holiday season, We love you and missed you very much. We love the feeling of togetherness and love. We hope that your holiday season was as Merry as Ours! We love you (family and Friends)!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!





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Vegas Baby!!

So Dustin decided that we needed a little get away so he planned a trip for just him and I to Las Vegas!! It started out just being a quick little get a way (Wed - Fri) but quickly changed to a full week!! He figured 'why not!?' I love when Dustin plans a trip for us, he is so organized and always has everything planned out! We are never left wondering what we want to do or where we want to go. The highlights of what we did are as follows... We went to see Phantom of the Opera!!! Dustin told me to not get my hopes up because the seats where not very good, well he was a liar (in a good way) He had gotten me 5th row, center seats! I could see the sweat on the actors brows! The other really big thing that we did and the whole reason that we planned the trip is we got to go see Gary Allan live at the House of Blues. We got to the concert about an hour before it started and it was a good thing because on top of already having a butt load of people there, I forgot my ID (I never go to bars so I forgot that I needed it!) So we had to drive down the whole strip back to the hotel to get it. The concert was scheduled to start at 8:00 p.m. and we didn't get back there until 8:30. Well we thought that we had missed several song but happily Gary Allan was late getting on stage and we didn't miss anything. It was an amazing concert. He sang every song that I hoped he would and some brand new ones that we had never heared!! Some of the other fun things that we did were we went to Madam Tussuad's Wax Museum and took a ton of awesome pictures. We also went to the car show at the Imperial Palace, Ethel M's chocolate Factory and store/The cactus garden and last but not least, Dustin took me to dinner at "The Top of the World" restaurant in the Stratosphere. It was so amazing, the food was so so good and the view was amazing. All in All it was an awesome get a way with the wonderful and caring man I love!! (Get ready for a bunch of pictures)



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Christmas Party!

We had Dustin's Company Christmas Party at Mountain River Ranch. It was a blast. We rode on horse drawn wagons (there was no snow or we would have been on sleighs) out to a building in the meadow and had dinner. It was an awesome Prime Rib dinner. They had really good entertainment also. There were these three boys (two of them where brothers) that played the guitar on fiddle. The boy playing the fiddle was awesome. He is only 16 years old. They played "the devil went down to Georgia" which is a pretty hard song and he was amazing! They had all the kids come up and sing a couple of songs too. Rylee really didn't know what to make of it, but she got into it when they had them sing "Once there was a Snowman".

Turkey Bowling!

Every Thanksgiving we go bowling with Dustin's family! We always look forward to seeing everyone and having fun bowling! This is the first year that Rylee got to bowl. It is one of her favorite things to do and it was really fun to be able to bowl with her cousins!

Thanksgiving

We got to spend Thanksgiving at Jack & Alison's (Dustin's brother & sister-in-law) New house! We had a blast. The weekend was filled with food, family, fun & more FOOD!! We spent a lot of time pouring over Black Friday ad's and trying to get our game plan down! I think that we all got everything that we wanted and didn't even have to fight anybody for it!

I am so Thankful for all the many blessing in my life. I am extremely grateful for my Sweet and caring Husband who works so hard to make sure that all our needs our met. Dustin is my Knight in shining armor. He always put mine and Rylee's need before his own! I love you babe! I am so grateful for my sweet, funny and loving little girl! Not a day goes by that I am not surprised by all that she does. Rylee is so smart and so creative! I can't wait to hear what she will say next!! She is so caring and patient with her mommy! I love that she will just come up to me out of the blue and touch my face so softly and tell me that she loves me!! I am grateful for our church and the comfort it bring me. I am grateful for our ward and the love we fill from them. I truly feel like they are part of our family! There are so many other things that I am grateful for, I could go on all day. I just want my family to know how much I love them and that I would not be where I am with out them. They are all such great examples in my life!

Twilight!!!

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!!

I can not even think of any other word right now for how much I enjoyed Twilight the movie!! I was a lucky girl who has a super sweet husband that got us midnight release tickets to the movie! My sweet husband even read the book (and loved it by the way!) I was such a fun night. The only thing that was not so great is that we couldn't find two seats that were together in the seats that our on the upper section of the theater, so we had to sit on the third row from the screen. It wasn't so bad once it got started. I was just so happy to be there and be one of the first people in Idaho Falls to see Twilight. I will defiantly be going to see it again very soon! Here are a few pictures of our evening!

Here is Dustin & I in our Twilight shirts!! If you go to a midnight release you have to have shirts!

• This is the lines to get into the theater. You have to wait in line until they called your theater number and then they let you in. Our Theater number was called like right when we got then. I took this picture right as they were calling our number.

Here is Dustin looking up at the screen and then just a quick pic of us in our seats waiting for the movie to start!This is a view of the theater from where we sat. It seems that there are a lot of seats available but don't be deceived. Those are just seats people are saving for there friends. :(

Last but not least, here are our tickets and this is how we made it through the night!! Got to love the Red Bull!!

(Sorry if none of this makes sense. It is 4:00 a.m.)

Where does she come up with this?

This story is so funny that I just knew I had to blog about it!

So Sunday after church we come home and I am cleaning up some paper scraps from some handouts I made before Church. I had some larger scraps that I had printed on and cut wrong so I was throwing them away. Well, Rylee looks at the paper that I am throwing away and then up at me and says "Mom, you can't throw that away." So I asked "Why" so she replies " Some people could use those!!" I was laughing so hard. I have no clue where that came from. She must be so use to seeing me keep every scrap of paper that she thought that they could have been put to use!!

BYU Cougars!

Dustin & I had the opportunity to go to a BYU football game with his Grandma & Grandpa Mercer!! It was so awesome. It was the first College football game that I (Lindsey) have ever been to.Before this I had only been to High school football games(Go IF Tigers!!) BYU played UNLV and it was a very close game. Every time was scored they would answer back, but in the end we scored the most points (as my Dad would say)The end score was 42 BYU 35 UNLV if you were wondering. We were surprised at how much Dustin's grandparents got into the game. They were up cheering with the best of us after every score. It was really fun and we really enjoyed the time that we got to spend with Grandma & Grandpa Mercer and got to know them a little better!! GO COUGARS!!

Boo at the Zoo!!

We went to Boo at the Zoo yesterday!! It was a blast. For those of you who don't know Rylee is Alvin (from the Chipmunks) this year and she informed Dustin and I that we needed to be Simon & Theodore, so we happily obliged!! Dustin, Rylee and I all went and got to see all the animals at the zoo!! They had monkeys, lions & Rylee's favorite TIGERS!! She got a little candy and saw a bunch of people that she knew!We thought our costumes were pretty self explanatory, but I guess we were mistaken! We had so many people ask us "What do you spell?" I would just say Alvin, Simon & Theodore and the The light in there heads would go off! Rylee was so funny. She wouldn't call Dustin & I by Mommy & Daddy but by our character names!! If we were trailing behind we would hear " SIMON, THEODORE, come on" It was hilarious!! Rylee (or should I say Alvin) gets to wear her costume to a party tonight and then to school tomorrow and our ward party!! If she had her way she would wear it all day everyday!! Thanks Mom for all the time you put into our costumes!! They are awesome and we couldn't have done it without you!! By the way, I had no luck in finding Chipmunk ears and I ran out of time so I got creative and made them out of out hair!! Poor Dustin doesn't have enough hair for ears so he went without (I think he was okay with that!) We all got a Chipmunk nose painted on and we found Simon glasses for Dustin ( they are actually Harry Potter glasses but they were prefect!) We will always use them again!!I would of had more pictures but my camera stopped working :(.