Lava Hot Springs!

Scott surprised me with my favorite Chocolate Milk. 

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We love going to Lava Hot Springs.

There are spots on the river that are boiling hot.

Meu lindo.

Winter 2013 in Rexburg.

My uncle chuck and my aunt Andrea came to Rexburg to visit us and my cousin Briana. They stayed with us and was a lot of fun. They taught us how to make home-made sushi.

Scott also made his roll:

I tried making one with crab and mango. My roll:

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Rexburg is COLD!!!!!

Small decorations for Valentine's day:

A heart garland!

BYU-I campus during the winter:

Scott comes to pick me up from work at 4pm and it's already dark!!

Icicles on my windshield.

I think the -11 was Celsius and -5 was Fahrenheit.

But we still have fun. Played tennis with Scott for the first time.

I loooove tennis!

He prefers basketball.

We also went sledding at the Sand Dunes. -28 Celcius.

Made Tin Foil dinners with our friends Jordan and Haylie Roper.

We also love to play Headbandz with our friends.

BYU-I Gym time!

Some of my design work.. Unfinished.

Finding some pretty things at the Benson building at BYUI Campus.

A video of one of the events at the MC Crossroads at BYU-Idaho.

Christmas Decorations!

Today I'll show some of my mother-in-law's Chrismtas decorations and also teach you how to decorate a Chrismtas tree. Make sure you watch the tutorial video.

Center-pieces: It's always fun to add glitz and glam during Christmas time. 

So use lots of crystals, glasses, use candles to give warmth and choose a color scheme.

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Now I'll teach you how to decorate a Christmas tree.

1) Make sure you "Fluffy"  the tree really well. You want it to make it fuller and prettier.

2) Make sure your tree is well lit and the tree light is distributed evenly. By stepping back and squinting your eye you will be able to find the "dark wholes" and adjust the branches so that they disappear.

3) Start with the bigger or most different ornaments. The ones you want to call attention to.

4) Start adding ornaments in a triangle shape. One on top and two on different sides, by doing that. You will create an invisible triangle but it will give symmetry and balance on your tree.

Finished tree:

What do you guys think?

 IMPORTANT: Even if your tree is against the wall. Decorate all sides evenly.

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Table settings:

Color Scheme: Red & Silver.

Gorgeous, isn't it?

Christmas + Scott's Birthday.

We are now back in Colorado for Christmas and in a few days, is Scott's birthday (December 28th)! I'll post every photo from our Christmas trip and break right here in this post. I also lost our digital camera, so the only photos I have are from my phone! I'm pretty bummed about that, I don't have photos of Chrismtas morning because they were all in our camera!

As you can see, it snowed on Christmas day!!

 Dylan is so cute!!!

 

 

Cecily visiting Gmoo. 

We all spend a lot of time in the rehabilitation center.

Gmoo we love you!

I got my favorite chocolate on my stockings!!!

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Pizza Madness for Scott's birthday celebration!!

Happy 24th Birthday baby!

I tried to be a cute wife and bake him a cake. haha

Yeah, that did not work so well...

The cake was so tall and heavy that it broke in the middle and everywhere.

Funfetti cake (Scott's favorite) with brigadeiro and baba de moca.

Scott spending some quality time with Gpoo. 

We actually played a funny game and he was so into it!

He also knew all the answers.

The beautiful jewelry I got for Christmas from my in-laws!

Silver + Turquoise = I loved it!!!! 

Best in-laws ever!

Wearing crowns at our nice dinner at Aunt Cheri's and Uncle John's house.

Cherie and I.

  Table settings. Pretty!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!!

 I tried this new nail polish and I was almost eating my fingers!
Loved it!

 We also went Rollerblading.

 

 

 The whole crew:

 

 Isabelle likes to perform in from of people.
She says "When I grow up, I want to be a Rock-star!!"

 

 

 We sang Scott a happy birthday with a nicer cake! haha

 

 Gpoo and Scott at the Rehabilitation Center in Colorado Springs.

 Gmoo, Dill Pickle, Gpoo and Scott.

 

 We love spending time with the fam.

 We also played a lot of games!!! This was Quelf.

 Headbandz:

 Ate some delicious appetizers. Thanks Alicia for teaching me, wonton tacos!

 The kids had fun:

 Pretty Decorations by my talented mother in-law.

 More Quelf:

 Some did not like it as much....

 But we all loved this game!

 Pretty girl.

 Date lunch at Momo's:

 

 Celebrating Kris Birthday at Olive Garden!!

 Someone was hungry!

 Dylan and Isabelle loved stickers.

 Scott playing with Rockwell.

 Rockwell was trying to call Nick.
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Driving back to Rexburg. I really didn't want to leave.

 

 

 We drove through Utah and ate at Sawadee 
Great Thai place, downtown SLC. Probably my favorite.

 There we sang Happy Birthday to Scott.. again! :)