A week or so in Review

Last Saturday, I went to the play A Christmas Carol with my aunt Stacey and her family at the Hale Center Theatre in Orem. It was really fun, we went to Olive Garden before, and then headed to the theater, it is such a cute place and is very small, so everybody can see everything really well. I thought the play was awesome, better than the new Christmas Carol movie that came out! Thanks Stacey for inviting me!

The next day we took a Jacobs/Jones/Bingham family Christmas picture and it turned out that there was a the perfect place to photoshop Branden into! Here is the before......

And here is the after.... still doesnt seem quite right, but we laughed so hard at it!!!

Here is Ryan, Ashlee, and baby Carter!

So cute!

Later on we went to Grandma and Granpa Carter's house for the traditional tree decorating.

Here is the finished product!

The family mingling

and my cousins baby Clara just hangin out

Here is my mom, me, and my Grandma Carter holding baby Carter.

Grandma Carter and baby Carter, so precious!

I also went to Keaton's Christmas band concert.
He was the best drum player there!

Oh, I decided I am NOT growing my hair out, so I butched it!

I love it!

And this Saturday was the Jones/Jacobs Family Christmas Party, we had some yummy baked potato soup and rolls...

Here is Keaton, me, and my mom

my mom, Dave, and Necana

Austen, and Keaton

and Ashlee, Ryan, and Carter.
Jeremy and Beau had to work, but came later and we all played doubles while carter slept under the Christmas tree!

It was a fun night!

Bingham Christmas Party

Last night we had the annual Bingham/Fowers Christmas party. We had some subway sandwiches and other good stuff to eat, and played doubles. This year the kids had their own doubles game, which they didn't understand how to play, but they enjoyed opening the presents! Here are the adults playing doubles...
and here I am trying to open the one present I got!
(which is one of the presents I brought....a tin full of Wint-O-Green mints!)

It was a fun night! (Thanks Chantel for the pics I stole!)

*Also today we went to the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional down at the conference center thanks to Sheri for getting the tickets and inviting me! It was really good and reminded me of the true meaning of Christmas, and I especially loved the Christmas music from the Tabernacle Choir! *

Festival of Trees

My mom, step dad, and I went to the festival of trees earlier this week to see my little brother Keaton play the drums in his school band, but because of INSANE traffic we missed him! There were so many people there, it took us a half an hour to turn into the parking lot and park! So, since we were already there, we stayed and looked at the trees, here are a few of my favorite ones!
I wish my tree looked like one of these!


The tree below was made for Gracie Hill, which was the little toddler that died this past month from being ran over by a truck, they are in my mom's ward... so sad.

Anyways, it was a fun night regardless of missing Keaton play,

and it definately got me in the mood for Christmas!

A Familiar Face

I got to talk to Branden on skype last night which I havn't been able to do for a long time. He just looks so good, and it makes me so happy to be able to see him, even though it is a little blurry! I miss him more than I could have ever imagined, at least there are only three months left! He is doing good, and is in good spirits, he stays very busy working something like 80 hours a week, doing 2 online classes, and working out in the gym. Yesterday he actually had the day off, so we were able to talk a lot on the phone, skype, and facebook! It's going to be hard to not have him here for the holidays, at least I have a lot of family around me! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and family!

Love You Brand!