Christmas Trip Home

It was so fun to go back to Utah and visit family!  It's also nice to get a break from the city and live a suburban life for a bit.  Here are a few pictures from my phone, and the majority are ones I stole from facebook.  We also spent time with Scott's family, but I don't have any pictures.  I'll be sure to take more pictures next time instead of relying on the pictures of others...

We finally got to meet our niece Jovie!  Of course, we made sure to get a lot of Jovie time.  She was still just a few weeks old when we met her, so it was fun to see a baby so new.

Keller was so fun this trip.  He is so cute and likes to give everyone "loves." 
He also refers to himself in the 3rd person which is very funny. 

Canon looking cool in his new bulldog football sweats.

Taesya is very girly, and totally into princesses/tinkerbell

On Christmas Eve, Scott went with my dad, brothers, and his dad to see Tron.  I chilled with my mom and sis and skipped out on the guy movie.  That afternoon/evening we got together with Scott's family which was fun.  We had good food and played a few fun games.  We slept at my parents that night and opened gifts with them Christmas morning.  We went back to Scott's house for a few hours to open gifts with everyone there.  It was nice to see everyone on Christmas and Christmas Eve.

So for some reason, me and my sister Courtney started singing the "Baby Bottle Pop" commercial song at Thanksgiving.  It got stuck in our heads or something  Scott heard us and asked what a baby bottle pop was.  We explained it, but he had never had one before.  When we were out there for Christmas, we went to the store with my mom, and Court picked one out to give to Scott.  Here's a picture of him it.

While we were in Utah we were able to celebrate my sister Courtney's 16th birthday with her. She got her license which was exciting. We also went bowling for her birthday which Scott and I have never done together. He always said that he was bad and didn't want to go. He ended up doing really well! I ended up doing terrible because I haven't bowled in the last 3 years.  Here are some pictures: 

After bowling, we made homemade pizza, and had strawberry shortcake.  Strawberry shortcake is my birthday dessert of choice but since we moved away I've been having it in New York so Courtney decided she wanted it for hers.  I did not complain---it was so good! 

The birthday girl making her pizza

Everyone making pizzas

My dad making his and my mom's.

My mom getting the strawberry shortcake ready.

Happy 16th Birthday little sis!  (I know that she looks older than me)

When our family gets a box of miscellaneous chocolates our family likes to play what we call, "Chocolate Roulette."  For the game each person has to choose a chocolate and you have to eat it.  We call it roulette because it is a gamble.  There are typically a few very nasty chocolates in the box.  We all went to make our choice and I saw one and said, "I get this one because it looks like a Snickers."  I thought it was a safe pick.  That was until I took a bite.... it had little bits of cherries, and it was the nastiest chocolate I have ever eaten.  See the picture of my reaction below.  If you have never played this game I recommend it, it's hilarious.  Scott lucked out and got all good chocolate.  My brother Cameron did get one that looked worse than mine.  Inside it looked like a fruitcake with various candied bits of fruit and cream.

We packed up our gifts along with our clothes etc. and were worried it wouldn't all fit in our suitcases.  We managed to fit everything and I told Scott it was a Christmas miracle!  On the flight home they asked for volunteers to take a different flight for vouchers.  Of course, we volunteered as we could use some free flights, and went to the gate where our new flight was.  They called us back and told us we could take our original flight and keep the vouchers!  It was our lucky day, getting paid to take our original flight!

It was a very fun trip, and I can't wait to go out again!