navi is 3!

happy birthday to my sweet little niece navi.

she is my most favorite little girl.love you lots!

happy 5 months to us!

we headed out this morning to california on our first plane ride together.

so excited to spend some time with my bro and his family!

english bowling

while i was in ut for thanksgiving, we had a family bowling session.
with a twist.

please tell me you remember this day.

me and sis still love talking with our english accents and calling each other by our english names, so we made up names for the fam...

sophie, fatha, mum, oliver, charlie, olivia

got our pizza factory fix. mmm breadtwists. mmm pesto.

did brandon's famous pink flamingo bowl, since he couldn't be there.

this is the "after you bowl, flip around and do the blue steel" pose.

we had some mad strikes going on.

ollie even got a taa-key!

mum's on a bowling league, and since i'm a fool at bowling, she always tries to teach me a thing or two. this time it worked! it's a thanksgiving miracle, i bowled a 100!

that whole saturday was spent talking with an english accent, and was absolutely fabulous.

if only you could here mum's accent...

me & liv spent the night in tears laughing so hard.

birthday babe

happy birthday to my favorite little niece ever.

the cutest 2 year old i know!

thanksgiving

finally, here are some pictures of my amazing thanksgiving
i was bummed because tanner wasn't coming home, and b+r+n {brandon, robyn, navi}
were going to robyn's brothers for dinner. so it was just going to be me, the parents, and the twins, but then more and more of our family joined and it turned
out to be one big party!
sorry for the picture overload!

the tables:








apparently thanksgiving is for reading...




and tickle/snowball fights


i gave my mom a little thanksgiving present.
how cute is this candle? its on sale at anthro, go get one!!


i think austin liked it even more than my mom...


me and lil sis had fun playing with cute little hallie


aw sisterly love.


we traced hallie with dominos


brooke + phil + kimball came to visit. hallie and kimball were so cute playing together!


johnny is the caving master.


my cousin heather made this cute turkey




my two favorite people


trisha-claus came to our house!


she gave navi and hallie such cute presents


trisha made these cute melting snowmen


mmm desserts


all the girl cousins


we played lots of fun games, and after all the cousins left my fam made hot cocoa, homemade popcorn and watched elf.
what a perfect thanksgiving!!

friday night fort

thanksgiving weekend is always so much fun because you spend so much time with family.
me and the twins were bored one night so we built a fort in our family room,
and slept in it.




we might even make this a weekly occurrence!
{note to self for next time: don't wash your face before you take pictures...}

full of thanks

first of all...

{photo by me}
i am so thankful for...

my life
my faith
friends {the tv show, haha yes i am serious}
amazing family + friends
family traditions
my sweet little niece
my awesome job
+ my fabulous clients
and everyone who reads my blog!

what are you thankful for?

free photoshoot to a someone in need

i posted this on my website, please spread the word i really want to help someone out!



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in-n-out goodness

today in-n-out opened in draper.


and boy was it crazy.
just take a look...


thankfully robyn's bro got there early








{i'm not a hamburger person... weird i know}




apparently its not "cool" to take pictures at in-n-out


but why would that stop me?
{that sign says capacity 75 guests}


everything was super delicious




later my mom, dad, aunt lisa, and my grandparents joined us


today is my grandpa's 88th birthday, and he wanted to come here.
what a little cutie!






we knew that the owner had been there all day, and my grandpa wanted to meet her. she had left when we asked if she was still there, but her assistant gave my grandparents these...


oh the twins...


what a fun afternoon it was.