Chelsea and Blake's Wedding

My cousin Chelsea got married on January 2nd in the Boise temple. Besides the bitter cold and wind, it was a wonderful day.

In this shot of us girls, the wind was totally causing us grief with our dresses, so we decided to take a Marilyn pose.
Dad showed up at the reception in style, wearing the wedding colors.

Grandma Bernard

Yesterday my grandma, Kerma Dean Bernard passed away. She has had a long struggle with alot of pain and anguish. We were grateful for her peaceful passing yesterday morning. I have alot of good memories with my grandma Bernard. More recently I was laughing because I was remembering the time when she was at the care center and she tried to set me up with one of the nurses there. Anyone who knows my grandma knows that she is a very stubborn and determined woman. So when I say she "tried" to set me up, I mean she arranged for him to come with my whole family to church one Easter Sunday. And I had never met him! I was pretty horrified, but I couldn't tell Grandma that because she was so excited and so sure that I could marry this kid. Lucky for me (not so lucky for him) he ended up having a family member pass away that weekend and wasn't able to come to church with us. Whew! Grandma taught me a lot of things as well. She taught me how to properly set the table, and every time I do it I think about how Grandma taught me how to put the knives on the right with the spoon(with the blade facing outward), and the fork on the left. I also remember when I was younger, one time I had a paper that I had written in school and I was showing it to her. She was appalled at my sloppy handwriting and told me that I should really work on my cursive and whenever I write anything it should always be neat and nice. I remember that my feelings were a little hurt at the time, but I also remembered from that day on, anytime I wrote anything, I was sure to make it look nice and neat. Grandma also taught me that the disposal "will not chop your hands off!" One time I was in the kitchen with my cousin Brooke and grandma slicing strawberries and putting the tops in the disposal. I didn't want to stick my finger in the drain to push anything down because I thought it would chop it off. So I grabbed a spoon and was pushing it down that way. Grandma saw and asked what I was doing. I told her and she said "Put that spoon down, just push the strawberry down in there. It will not chop your hands off!" That was a good lesson learned. :) Grandma's house reminded me of jellybeans, marbles, and Atari, it was always fun to drive up the big hill (on Callister) to go and visit Grandma and Grandpa Bernard. I will miss my grandma but I am so happy that she is with my grandpa again! I love you grams!!

Merry Christmas!

Can't Forget This!

I kept meaning to blog about the awesome birthday present I got back in November. Tickets to Disney on Ice! It was so much fun! This is a picture of the Incredibles.
This is a scene from Mulan. They actually had a fight with the Huns with snow falling and the avalanche and everything. It was sweet.
This shark from Finding Nemo was huge! There are two people in there. Bruce was our favorite character of the night.

Thanks to my wonderful husband who ALWAYS gets me the best gifts!

Christmas Party!

Last Friday Johnny and I hosted a Christmas party with all our friends. It was so much fun to see everybody. This is pretty much the whole gang. We're all holding up our white elephant gifts.
Michael and Kim.
Santa even came! It was so hilarious, we had my dad dress up as Santa and just show up. Everyone was cracking up, it was pretty funny.
David and Melissa sneaking treats.
Riley getting some cuddle time in with Ruby.
After alot of people left (and Natalie and Ryan finally got there), it was pretty late and we started getting a little crazy. Everyone was showing off their best moves. Here's Johnny showing how strong he really is, he can hold all his weight! I guess when you think about how much he weighs, its not as impressive, good job though! Natalie with the ever-famous head-stand. Classic. Perry and Val and their amazing airplane extravaganza! This one really doesn't show the amazingness of my trick, looks like I'm just laying on the floor. But really I am doing what we now call the "rocking worm". Ryan was a little tired to do any tricks, but I had to put a picture in of him and Natalie. He always makes weird faces if he knows you're taking a picture of him, so Johnny caught him unaware. Christmas is in just over a week and we hope that all of our friends and family have an enjoyable holiday, we know we will!

Thanksgiving

These are somewhat out of order. This is grandma acting out the word crazy. It was hysterical. We played Thanksgiving charades with the whole Spjute clan.


This year my family went to Johnny's parents house for Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun. The dinner was delicious and afterwards we played a bunch of games. Good times!
Johnny's mom slaving away in the kitchen.
We put up our tree almost 2 weeks before Thanksgiving (much to Johnny's dismay). I can still be thankful with a beautiful tree in our living room!

p.s.

My cousin Greg made the decision to stay on his mission for the last 3 months. What a courageous sacrifice! I know he, and his family, will be tremendously blessed for the decision he made.

Also, I have been slacking big time on the blog as of late. I will try to get pictures up soon of the funs things we've been doing. Hint: Disney on Ice & Thanksgiving.