Dad's Surprise Birthday Party!

Today i have to head back to Rexburg for work. Yuck! i have enjoyed having the time off with my family. Not only did we have fun at Christmas but we had a surprise party for my Dad's birthday. We all went to the golden coral my dad's favorite place to eat. He thought that we were just going with just us but waiting at the restaurant was my dad's brothers and sisters and the rest of his grandkids. We sang happy birthday to him of course and then all of us kids got up and spoke about memories that we had of Dad growing up. Then we watched a slide show that my sister Marcia made that went through my dad's life. It was really fun. I am glad that we could do that for my dad.

Christmas Day!!

Yeah i know i am posting this a little late. Christmas was a lot of fun. We did our traditional opening of the presents we all got a lump of coal as you can see from the picture. Leann and I got a money tree with one hundred dollars on it. :) I only wish that it would actually grow some more money!!!:) Our Christmas morning it was just me, my sister Leann and her boyfriend Chriss, my brother Alan, my mom and my grandma. Later we had another opening of the presents with ALL my sisters, brother-in-laws, aunt and uncle, and my cousins. It was a lot fun. I wish that i had pictures of that but i didn't take any. my bad!!! Christmas was a lot of fun. It was really nice to see all my family. i wish they could all stay a little longer!!!!!! I love my family!!!

So the wind died down a little so i went outside to take a picture of the snow. We were lucky that the snow plow came. You might not be able to tell but the plow made almost a tunnel down our road and the snow is taller than me!!!!

These pictures don't give the wind and snow justice. I could of got a better picture but it was too windy and cold to go outside and get a better picture! You can literally see the snow blowing when you look at it yourself!

So i left yesterday after work to drive home to Pocatello for Christmas. I got off at 4 and i pulled out of Rexburg at 4:30. It was a good thing that I got off of work so early. The drive to Pocatello wasn't bad. The roads were completely dry. As compared to last Christmas Eve when i got my car stuck 5 times just between walmart and my apt. and my friend Scott had to drive me home for Christmas! I got to Pocatello around 6. What was good was that like an hour or two later we started getting winds up to 60 mph! I am not even stretching the truth they were really that bad. Snow started drifting like crazy. Last night we had to dig out our cars and move them so that they didn't get burried in the snow. Pocatello is notorious for getting wind. Especially where i live. If its blowing in downtown Pocatello it will be blowing much more up at my house. I was really glad that i got into town before the wind started blowing. I would of been blown clear off the freeway!! Today christmas day they actually closed a lot of the road in Pocatello. These are the roads just inside Rexburg i don't know about the freeways. They are probably closed too!!! It's ok because i am in my nice warm home with my family for Chrismas day!!!

My friend cody had a big cutout of Will Ferrell and it ended up in my apartment. so my roommate heather decided to put it into my room. when i got home from work i opened my door and sure enough he was there and of course it scared me. i thought it was pretty funny. i left it in there and finally i was like heather i need to move this because every time i walk into my room it startles me. then heather decided to put it in my bed. i could not stop laughing!! i was laughing so hard that i fell on the floor and couldn't breath!!! then i of course got in bed and took pictures!!!

These are some of the pictures that we took in the gardens the sunday before thanksgiving break!!!! we had a lot of fun and took lots more pictures than these!

The sunday before thanksgiving break it was such a nice day that we decided to go to the gardens and take

i came home from work yesterday and my roomies had planned a surprise party for me. i have the best roomies and friends ever!!!!!!!!!

My roomies invited all my friends and people from the ward. when i first came in i saw that my apartment was decorated and that there was a cake but only my roommates and my friends that are usually over here were sitting on the couch they said happy birthday but they didn't get up or anything. i wasn't sure but i thought that things were a little weird. Sure enough a couple seconds later all these people came running out from the back. then jason told me to go over to the pantry because he said that his present was in there. i knew that something else was up. so i walk over there and all the guys were packed into the pantry. they all came running out almost running over me picking me up and giving me hugs. it was an awesome night. it made my day. i have the best friends ever.

I like this picture! Yep this is me on the ceiling!

So we had a halloween party with the ward. It was a costume roller skating party. we had lots of fun dressing up. here we are in all of our halloween costumes. ya i don't really know what i am. i just wanted to wear my blue wig again. i went to walmart of course and bought some blue eye lashes and some "sexy" blue tights. Then i went to DI and bought the amazing pants that you see me wearing. Everybody kept asking me if i was a smurf so i guess that is what i am.

I thought that i would start my blog off with an "AMAZING" picture of me with my blue eye shadow and bright red lipstick. We were really bored one night and my roommate nichole had on her i don't know -pajamas? anyways it looked like eighties. So we had the brillant idea to dress up. We had a little eighties dance party me and my roommates.