New Job...

Kevin put in his two weeks notice at The Leverich Group on Novemeber 18th. He has now taken a position with PricewaterhouseCoopers. His first day was December 5th. For the first day he flew to Atlanta, Georgia for training. He came home Wednesday night. There office is downtown in the Chase building that is right next to the Galavan Center. That is where he went on Thursday and Friday. Than he had to fly out on Sunday afternoon to go to Atlanta Georgia for a week of training. While he was there he went to dinner with his sister Leslie and her girls. He also met up with Albert Mosley and went to the Atlanta temple and did a session. Than they went to dinner. On the way home they turned down this road and got a flat tire. They got out and found a set of keys stuck in Albert's tire. They didn't have a spare and so Albert had a friend come get him and Kevin called a cab. The cab took some time to get there so Kevin hung out by the car until it came. There was this homeless man who walked over and asked Kevin if he could sit down. Kevin said "In the Car?" He said No. Just right here. I thought that was so funny. Kind of scary too.
His training went well and he got home late Friday night. We were so glad to have him back home.
While he was in training all day. He would send pictures of people sitting by him and have me guess what country or state they were from. They had a very diverse group in the training.

Kevin's first assignment for PwC is auditing Nuskin in Provo. He has been enjoying working there and getting to know his new co-workers too.

Decorating for Christmas 2011...

We decorated the house for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. It was so fun to have the kids help us. Cole was WAY into putting the ornaments on the tree. The ornaments were all very close together. But I refrained from moving them after I tried to move one and Cole was like: Mom what are you doing. Than I realized that it wasn't very nice to move it and so I kept them just the way they were. And our tree never looked so good.

Pictures from our Hotel Get away...

Downtown Hotel Getaway...

Since I am the Queen of coping ideas. I know sad but true. I copied the tradition of my sweet sis in law and her family. Where they get a hotel one night in December and stay the night and go look at lights and play.
Well Kevin was going to be starting a new job and was going out of town. So I thought it would be fun if we took a little get away downtown. We had some rewards money to spend at certain places so we chose through travelocity and booked the Marriott city center hotel. It actually was right next to his new work building. I didn't even know that at the time of booking it. We didn't tell Cole or Dailey we were going anywhere. We just loaded the car and headed straight to the hotel. We checked in early and the kids loved running around the room. We looked out the window at his new work building and than our room overlooked the galavan center where there ice rink was. We watched as people slid around on the ice. We even had a few laughs as people fell. Than we headed down to the pool. We were the only ones there. Since it was 3:00 in the afternoon. We swam and hung out in the hot tub. Than we went back and got ready to go out to see the lights.
We rode trax a block away and walked maybe 10 minutes and than the kids were done and wanted to go back. We saw Pier 49 on our way back and stopped in and grabbed a pizza and headed to our room. We watched tv, ate pizza, and treats and had a fun time.
The next morning Kevin headed off to Smith's to get us some breakfast since the hotel didn't have a free breakfast for us. (how rude)
Than we headed back to the pool and swam some more. The kids had a blast and we just enjoyed spending time with each other.
I think this is such a fun little thing to do and would not mind if we added it to our traditions. But we will see come next year!

Church Kids...

Thanksgiving...

We had a great Thanksgiving! We did our traditional eat at Litza's pizza the night before. Than on Thanksgiving morning I went out running with my good sis Rach. Than came home and hung out with the family and got Kevin and Cole set to go play football with our ward. (a tradition they do every year) Kevin had to take donuts and drinks since he is in the Elders Quorum presidency. The girls and I stayed home and I cooked a turkey breast. I think it doesn't feel like thanksgiving unless you are in the kitchen cooking something yummy.
So The day before I had made a apple pie. My first ever pie. I felt very domestic.
 My assignments for dinner this year was the pineapple slush and two fruit salads for the Bush family dinner. My Mother and I were also in charge of the plate favor. However my Mom pretty much created that one on her own. IT turned out so cute!
Than I made chocolate chip cookies to take for dessert at the Dearden family! We also got to open our traditional present from Grandma and Grandpa of opening a christmas story they buy each year. We LOVE  the collection of books we are getting.

We had a nice time visiting with family. I am so blessed to have such great families!

Later that night we went home and put the kids to bed and I went out shopping! The stores opened at 10 this year. Crazy. We stayed out till 3 and I got to bed about 4 in the morning. It was crazy but eventful and fun too.

Cougar Football...

We went to the last home game of the season for the cougars. It was the night before Cole's birthday. So we headed there straight from Trafalga. It was another late game. My sweet Mom took my girls home for us so they didn't have to be out in the cold.
We had a great time hanging out with family and watching that game. We also got to eat some great food.
After the game we went and hung out to watch the players come off the field.

Cole was standing their with his cousins. His little cousin kept telling all the players it was Cole's birthday.  They would say Happy Birthday and slap his hand. One player named Fangupo picked him up and said Happy Birthday! He told him to go on a mission! And than he told Cole to give him a big hug. so Cole did and he said "your strong, your going to be a line man one day" ha ha. oh man a lineman. Oh no! He was a very big guy. It was so fun Cole was beaming.

Than his cousin told another person coming out that it was her cousin's birthday. We weren't sure if he was a trainer or a coach but he said "well you need a hat. He took his hat off his head and put it right on Cole. It was a pretty fun night.