You know when you're in K town when...

You step outside your vehicle in a neighborhood to find this...

And you walk into a house and find these awesome people...






And you can look out your front window and see these...


And you find a cute mom named Holly...

Who lets you have awesome car races like these...



With eager on-looking kids like these...




We arrived in K-town Saturday morning, had lunch, raced cars, played with iPods, Skyped with mom and dad, ate pretzels, had a fastest car contest, ate dinner, played the wii, hung out, played games, enjoyed snacks, slept, ate breakfast, read books, and then came home! It was a fun little trip up to see the E fam in K town! We love you guys!

Happy New Year 2011!

Happy New Year! And what a happy one it will be! I always enjoy starting out a new year - with new goals, new visions, new direction! Woot!
We had an awesome time celebrating the new year - my brother and sister-in-law, Cameron and Kandis, were at Kandis' parents' house in Logandale, Nevada visiting for the holidays, so we decided to head down there to visit them! It was a lot of fun! We left on Thursday morning and arrived down in Logandale around 5pm. It was nice to get to know Dan and Mitzi (Kandis' parents) a little more. We had a delicious soup dinner made by Mitzi (clam chowder and taco soup) and then spent some time visiting with the fam. I decided to head to bed because I worked the night before and was soooo tired!
Jesse, Cortney, and I stayed in their sweet camp trailer. Mitzi set it up very nicely and even decorated it with Christmas decorations (complete with awesome Christmas treats!).
We slept in the next day and had a wonderful brunch. We then got ready for the day, watched Back to the Future (we worked on the trilogy throughout our stay), and then headed to Mesquite to do some bowling! It's a Bender tradition to go bowling on New Year's Eve. We decided that we really like that tradition! It was a blast - we bowled at the Virgin River Casino. Awesome....








After bowling, we headed back to the Benders to enjoy a fantastic dinner of prime rib (prepared by Lenn) and baked potatoes. Prime rib just happens to be my most favorite food in the whole world, so naturally, it was an AWESOME dinner!


The Taylor boyz...

After dinner we swam in the pool! They had left the cover on all day and it was up to 97 degrees! It was like a giant hot tub! It was perfectly warm - it was about 30 degrees outside, so it was a super nice swim! It was steamy steamy steamy!




After the pool tines, we watched "Despicable Me" and counted down to the New Year. Then in the morning, we headed home. We stopped in Mesquite for a breakfast buffet (yummy yummy!) and then In-n-Out for dinner (double yummy yummy!).
It was a short, but sweet little vacation/road trip!
Happy New Year, everyone!

Christmas 2010

Christmas 2010 was a great one! I didn't have to work Christmas eve or Christmas, so it was even better! It was nice to be able to relax and spend time with family without worrying about having to go to work!
On Christmas eve, we started out the festivities with a delicious dinner at the Taylor's. Grandma and Grandpa were able to join us! We were so excited!

After dinner, we did the traditional Taylor family talent show. Mary and Jesse played the piano and Grandpa recited some funny poems. Then it was pajama and gift time! The jammies we get are always awesome! It's also a tradition to open the sibling gifts to each other the night before Christmas.
Lenn got these beauties from us.....



Mary decided to try them out too...
And Cortney...
Grandma and Grandpa also opened their gifts, too. Grandpa got a sweet model plane to put in his office.

It's a certain type of plane which was flown in the war - he told us about it for about a half hour. It was sweet! It was so nice to have them with us on Christmas eve! After that, we listened to the Christmas story from the bible and headed to bed.
Christmas morning we slept in 'til 7! Yes, until 7 people! We opened gifts - I got a sweet bike trainer, the seasons of the Cosby show (holy cow - it's an awesome one!),
and some other sweet stuff. We also got some sweet book shelves (thanks, Lenn and Mary). They look awesome.
For breakfast, we had the traditional wannabe egg mcmuffins/biscuits. Mmmmmm..... then we just relaxed the day away until it was time to go to Grandma's for dinner. Amber joined up with us at Grandma and Grandpa's. Then we headed home and watched Amber's new Michael Jackson music video DVD.
It was definitely a great Christmas! It was nice to relax and spend time with the hubs and fam, and to celebrate what Christmas is all about.

The Real Meaning of Christmas

Here's a cute little video narrated by a little girl about the real meaning of Christmas...Hope you like it! Merry Christmas everyone! (this link works now, I promise!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURToRRq7gM&feature=player_embedded

Ogden Lights

On Thursday night, we headed to Historic 25th street in Ogden to check out the lights! We went with the C fam and the E fam. It's so much fun to see the reaction of little kids at Christmastime! The kids loved the lights and the little decorated boxes with different themed creatures and animated characters.

The girls!

My hubs and I









The little kiddos!




The sillies!

Afterwards, we ate donuts and drank hot chocolate (yummy yum yum!). It was a lot of fun to hang out with the fam!