Oh December...

I just have to say that I miss December SO MUCH already! It is so much fun to be able to leave life in Cedar and head up to Roy for a few weeks! Drew and I had so much fun over the last few weeks and now we're back to life, ready to take down all my Christmas decorations.
Life in Roy was spent playing A LOT of cards and games! We also went to the lights at Temple Square, we went to a performance by the Utah Symphony, ate WAY too much food, went snowboarding for the first time in two years (since junior high for Drew), went to the temple, , went to the cute lil' Bee's cafe in Roy with mine and Drew's parents, went bowling and to Ligori's for Whitney's birthday, got some pictures taken by the wonderful Kelli Willard (KelliWillardphotography.blogspot.com), made lots of Christmas candy, played in the snow with Bella, did LOTS of shopping, watched 24 into the wee hours of morning, Bertagnolli family Christmas party (always a hoot!), tested out my new sewing machine (which was a lot of fun, I'm a little nervous to use it without my mom standing by, but excited to try new things), and not to mention all of the Christmas festivities! Sometimes it's a little stressful dividing the time between whose parents' house we will be spending time at but I've come to the realization that it will never be exact and you're never going to make everyone happy. We had a nice Christmas Eve dinner with my family and played the present game, opening some awesome yoga pants (does this mean I have to take up Yoga? I think not! ha!), did a little Christmas mischief, and headed over to ma and pa Willards to watch a movie and hit the hay. The tradition in Drew's family is that they get to go get their stockings in the middle of the night so Drew headed up at 3:30 a.m. and got his then we went back to sleep. We opened all our presents there and then headed over to my Grandpa's house to visit with my extended family. Then finally at about 3:00 we went to my mom's house to do our Christmas there. We opened my stocking at about 6:00 so our Christmas day lasted a very long time, lots of fun!
I'm so grateful for FAMILY! My family is incredible and I love spending time with everyone. i hate that it can't be more often but it's also fun to be able to stay for a while. I hope you all had a great Christmas! And HAPPY NEW YEAR! Bring it on SUU, here goes my last semester!

Long Hair Please!!

Ok, so I have decided (and I'm not changing my mind) that I'm growing my hair back out! I like my short hair and all but there are only like 2 things I can do with it-straighten it and flip it out-so I'm throwing in the towel and growing my hair out. It might be a process but I can't wait to be able to pull my hair back into a ponytail again. I would love to be able to just pull it up on my way to work at 6:00 a.m. So, nobody try to talk me out of it :) And I can't wait to curl it and braid it and do more than 2 things to it. My goal is for it to look like Miss Reese's. (I can hope right??)

I also would like to say that I am SO EXCITED that Drew is currently on the road for his last game of the season! No more practices every day, I can have my husband back! Don't get me wrong, I love that football is getting Drew through school and also helping out with our rent but I am BURNT OUT!! I love game days but that's about it these days. I truely have a love/hate relationship with football, but after Sunday I will be a happy camper. That is until January when Spring training starts back up again. I guess I could call this a bit of a venting post because I sure am complaining a lot, but I just can't wait til Monday!

Christmas??

Ok, so I have a predicament...I own 3 Fall time decorations and I'm a little antsy to get my Christmas stuff out because I have a lot of Christmas stuff. I always made fun of the people that would decorate so soon but I want to! I don't know how much time Drew and I will even be spending at our house because we'll hopefully be going home for the majority of the holidays so I want to see them up for a good chunk of time :) Anyways, I wanna know what you think, when can I start decorating!?

San Luis Obispo Trip!

Me and Brea at the sad, sad football game. We lost 23-24. Missed a field goal with 7 seconds left in the game. It was so sad, we felt so bad for those boys.
It was an awesome vacation and we had a lot of fun, the only thing that would have been better would have been spending some time with our husbands. Those coaches basically keep them under lock and key on game weekends. I would have loved to at least spend a few hours with him at the beach or something, but ya win some and ya lose some.
Loving the beach! It wasn't that warm but we still had a lot of fun jumping and playing with the star fishes! Brea is holding onto her little baby bump :) It's another boy by the way!

We went to a castle in San Luis Obispo called 'Hurst Castle.' It's a big tourist attraction in California and to tell you the truth, the only real impressive things were the pools. This indoor one above was tiled everywhere and the whole pool was 12 feet deep. The ladders on the sides are made out of granite and go all the way to the bottom of the pool. And if you look on the right side of the picture towards the middle there's a cool platform thing. Too bad these awesome pools never get used!

This pool was AWESOME! Both sides had huge Greek decks that were just calling my name. How luxurious...too bad nobody has used these pools for years! I sent this picture to my family and told them this was our hotel pool. Ha, I can wish right??
Yuki (Brea's sister-in-law), Brea, and me had to take advantage of the decor :)
Riding on the airplane. Our plane from LA to San Luis Obispo was TINY! It was a 30 seater with propellers on the sides. Yikes and it was SO LOUD! But a fun experience, we got to walk out on the runway and walk up the stairs that fold out of the plane. Kinda like you see in the movies. I wanted to run out to the plane yelling, "Hold that plane! Hold that plane!" Ha ha I'm a Dumb and Dumber fanatic! So fun.
We forgot about the time change from Cedar City to Las Vegas so we sat at the airport for a while. I put in a dollar, won a dollar, then lost it back. Not a great first gambling experience.

Away Game...

Drew had a game at Utah State about a month ago (yes, I am slow, I know) and it was more like a home game for us considering we had the most family there than there will ever be at a game here in Cedar. It was tons of fun having all that family to be with and I actually headed up to Roy a few days early to hang out with my family. I even surprised my mom, it was great :) The top picture is me and my siblings...we just happened to be sitting in "order of arrival." The game was really frustrating, the coach was playing a defense that wasn't working and Drew wasn't in so he was a little sad after the game cuz he didn't even get to show all of the family his skills. Ha ha. Anyways, yes that's a few posts in a row about football but let's face it, football is my life from August til April-excluding December.

Frustrating...

Well I've tried to upload pictures two different times but my internet keeps disconnecting before they upload so I'm giving up for the night. (Guess that's what I get for stealing internet). Ha ha. Happy Fall!!

SUU Wins! Good game Drewby!

Drew did SO GOOD at his game last night! I'm not one to brag but I feel like I've got some bragging rights today..ha ha! I seriously am so proud of him! SUU played Dixie State for the first time in 60-some odd years and we won 36 to 7! The whole team played really well, especially the defense! Drew got an awesome interception. He jumped up to block the throw and hit the ball with his finger tip and while he was falling he caught the ball and held on to it for the interception...SO cool!
He plays a bit of special teams (kick off) and did really well there too. I think he got 2 tackles on kick off if I remember right. He's number 44 by the way.

Ready...Break!

Drew and his brother, Nick (they look a lot alike!). It sucked that their game was on a Thursday because not a whole lot of our family could get away in the middle of the week. But I had Nick and his dad there to help me cheer Drew on!
The ones where the red looks orange are from Tim's camera, kinda makes the pic look funny.
A little piece of the article in the newspaper this morning: "Thompson [Dixie's QB] completed 16-of-27 passes for 146 yards but was intercepted once, on an athletic tip-and-catch play by SUU linebacker Drew Willard". Short and sweet but awesome, seriously I'm so proud of Drew, he's come a long ways and I'm so excited to see what the rest of the season has to offer! Go T-Birds!

No Pictures...

Ok, so I have so much to post about but no pictures yet so one of these days I'll get around to it. New car, new house, new job, school, football, crafts, I don't know if I can handle it all! But eventually I will post some more :)

1st Anniversary!

This past year has seriously FLOWN by, it's been the best roller coaster I've ever been on! I love being married to Drew and I'm so glad I can be on this journey with him!
For our anniversary we went to Las Vegas, Drew's brother hooked us up with two free nights at the Palazzo in a serious luxury sweet! One night we went a show called the "V" or the Variety show at Planet Hollywood, I would recommend it to anyone, it was way cool! We took my first taxi drive there (which wasn't that exciting) and walked back to our hotel after. We stopped at the Bellagio to watch the water show and ate at Margaritaville too. We think our server was mad at us for just ordering water to drink. Ha ha but who cares right!?


The living room of our hotel room which had a big old tv and I loved the shades, it was completely dark so we could sleep in til like 11:00 and we weren't blinded by the sun!
Another piece of the room with ANOTHER tv that Drew's facing. And I forgot to take a picture of the bathroom but it also had a tv in it. Who does that!? It was a fun little vacation and now we're back in Cedar City, just moved into our new place, and Drew is off to football camp staying in the dorms for 2 and a half weeks and I'm sleeping alone til my friends get here on Friday!