Happy New Year

I have been so bad about updating!! We don't have internet at home right now so I can only update at my parents. Hopfully we will have internet by next week and I can get caught up on Christmas. :-)

I do have this cute picture of Tyson and Ben! Our good friends Matt and Kristi had a Christmas party to go to so Ty and I had the privaledge of babysitting for Ben. He is the best kid. When Kristi was pregnant with Ben Tyson gave her his favorite childhood book to give to Ben. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. Ben loved all the bright colors in the book. I don't think Ben likes it quite as much as Tyson does but I'm sure he'll grow into it. ha ha

Party Time!

Last Friday night we had a women's progressive dinner at church. It was a BLAST! The idea of driving house to house is brilliant! ha ha Some of the most hilarious things happen in the car on the way to the next location I would tell you about it....but what happens in the car stays in the car. Dana- Your (up until 1 in the morning made from scratch) cheesecake was to DIE for!!! Highlight of the night- We had an ornament exchange at the last house...Kristi brought the ornament that Matt won at our staff ornament exchange 2 years ago and it was the one I brought HAHAHA Dana and I laughed so hard we almost fell out of our chairs. Christmas time.....party's and friends....it doesn't get much better then this! Thank you ladies for a fabulous night!

Dana's FAMOUS cheesecake!!

RED HAIR

Friday night I had my dear old friend Adrienne cut and color my hair. Tyson sent me a picture via email a few weeks ago and said why don't you go RED. I really thought he was kidding...but he wasn't. So I thought why not. I wanted to do something different with my hair. It was getting to long and I wanted a change. So I had Dree cut about 4 inches put in some layers and dye it RED. I love it! I have gotten mostly positive feedback about it. A few people looked at me like what were you thinking...ha ha But Tyson loves it and since he has to look at me every day that is a good thing. :-)

My Random but REAL Christmas Tree :-)

Well we went with the real tree this year. Our apartment isn't that big so we got a short little tree. We will probably look at the end of the year for a fake one on sale...but we don't really have anywhere to store it so we shall see.

Saturday we went and picked it out...why is it that when your at the "tree place" they all look so perfect and round and then as soon as you get home there is always something wrong. Well, to start out we got home and were trying to put it in the stand but there were 2 bog knots that were keeping it from fitting in the stand. We do not have a saw so Tyson had to take a flat head screw driver and a hammer and chisel the knots off. It wasn't going well so finally he just started chopping it with the back of the hammer. At one point he says to me oh no it's bleeding on the carpet...it was like we were doing tree surgery. I was laughing so hard. (anyone have any ideas for getting sap out of the carpet?!?!) Finally success! The tree fit in the stand. :-) Once it was up we could see how odd this tree looked...I don't even know how to describe it...On the top left all these branches shoot out...and then the bottom right all the branches shoot out...in other words it is the weirdest shaped tree I have ever seen. HA HA I have to laugh because these things bother me. It doesn't look right. But I decided to go ahead and decorate...the tree decorations are pretty but the tree itself is not that great.

I decided rather than show a picture of the random shaped tree I would post some of my favorite ornaments.

This ornament was given to me my Tom and Gail I think I was like 10. It has was always been my favorite.

This one Tyson's grandfather made for him in 1982

Gotta love the picture of little Ty hee hee