Sorry!!!

So sorry I haven't blogged in a while. This month has been so busy. I will try to update what is happening in our lives. Tony is still in New Scouts(that is the 11 year olds). He is enjoying it, especially since Trevor is now in there. They went on an overnight campout last night. It is called The Klondike Derby. I hope they all stayed warm enough in their tents and sleeping bags. It makes me cold just thinking about it. And we all know how much I hate to be cold. Since the guys were all gone on their campout, Shantel and Jayden came over and had pizza and watched movies with Aleena and I. It was so much fun!
Aleena is recuperating from a visit to the emergency room on Thursday. She has been having some pain in her abdomen for a few days and on Thursday as she was getting ready for work The pain all of a sudden hit her really hard. She was home alone and called me on my cell phone crying and was in so much pain she couldn't move. I was in Orem with Shantel and Jayden meeting with Jaydens Dr and Tony was in Mapleton. I felt so bad we weren't there with her. Thank goodness Trevor walked in the door from school and got her some medicine and a hot pad. It didn't help much though. Tony and Shantel ended up taking her to the ER when they got home. They did a CT scan and found that she had an ovarian cyst that had ruptured. She also had other cysts on both ovaries. They gave her some really strong pain medication. She was so glad to have the pain under control. She has been very weak and tired and can't wait to be back to normal.
Trevor is playing basketball again this year. He is such a good player! Tony calls him a miniature Charles Barkley. Of course, Tony is his coach. He really enjoys coaching the kids. They have a great team this year. Robert didn't want to play on a city league, but he is playing with the Young Men and is enjoying that.
This has been a very busy month with my new calling. We are visiting the Ward Conferences in our stake. We have 12 wards. One is the hospital branch and one is the singles ward, we don't have to visit them. Some weeks I have gone to my own ward and another wards meetings. Some weeks we even have two ward coferences to attend on the same day. Wow! that is alot of meetings. The first one we went to Bo Holland was the member of the bishopric conducting. His family lived next to ours when we were growing up. It was fun to see him. A couple of weeks ago we had a Baptism Preview for the kids in our stake that get baptized this year and their parents. This was our first event as a new presidency. It was great! We had a huge turnout. By the time I got home it was 9:30pm and my feet were killing me. I am not used to wearing heels all day like that. Trevor was so kind and gave me a foot rub. I just love serving in the Primary! I am grateful to have a husband and a family that is so supportive.
Last Saturday we had our ward breakfast(it was postponed in December because of a funeral). It was so much fun. Tony and I were part of the program. Some of us from the Primary did a snowman mix where we danced around a snowman to songs like thriller, Dei-o, a rap song, a cowboy song, batman, sounds of silence and a mexican hat dance. It started and ended with our friend Mike sitting on the edge of the stage, licking a big lollipop and singing "Once there was a snowman". Tony did lip sync to some of the songs. It was hilarious!
As many of you already know Tony is a HERO!!!haha. He doesn't really like to think so, but we are very proud of him for keeping the lady from going back into her burning house. He definately was in the right place at the right time. Everywhere he goes people tell him they saw him on the news or in the newspaper. He is our HERO!!!

New Years Eve

Christmas

We hope you had a very Merry Christmas! Our day started out with the kids opening their gifts from Santa. Then everyone came over for omelets. It is our tradition to have omelets for breakfast on Christmas morning. Then we opened our presents to each other. For the past several years we have invited my parents to our house on Christmas morning. We all really enjoy their company and hope they will continue this tradition with us. Later in the afternoon we went to Tony's mom and dads and to Shantel's apartment. She had it decorated so cute. She won a 25.00 gift certificate to Walmart for having the best decorated patio in her apartment complex. On our way to Shantel's we passed a homeless guy walking in the dark and in the cold rain. It looked like he had all of his belongings in a big backpack on his back and in plastic grocery bags that he was carrying. He had to have been soaking wet. We felt bad for anyone to have to spend his Christmas like this and decided we should offer him a ride to somewhere warm and out of the cold. So Tony turned the car around and asked him if we could give him a ride. He declined and said he was going to the Harts Truck Stop across the street. As we drove away we were very thankful for the warm car we were in. And the warm house we were going home to. The next day we went to Tyson and Amandas and Grandma and Grandpa Nash's. It was fun to see what they all got for Christmas. For a couple of weeks before Christmas we have been reading Christmas stories. It really helped us get in the right spirit for Christmas and to remember what it is really about. I love the holidays and wish they would last a little longer. I love spending them with my family that I love so much. We hope you all had a nice Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

Christmas Eve

We had a fun time on Christmas Eve. First we had a yummy ham dinner with cheesy potatoes, a relish tray, rolls, and Amandas yummy fruit salad. Shantel made the best chocolate cream dessert. Then we played bingo and won some fun prizes. We all wore funny or ugly Christmas sweaters and voted on which one was the best. Tyson and Aleena tied. She let Tyson have the prize since it was candy and she can't eat sugar or yeast. They were all very creative and I think this will be a new tradition. All the kids got to open one present. Which, of course, was pajama pants. After the party everyone wanted to watch some old home videos. They are pretty entertaining.
We really missed Tiffany and her family. They weren't able to come down for Christmas this year.

The Elf Dance

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We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. This year we invited my mom and dad, my Grandma C., my sister Debbie and her husband Dennis and Shantel and Jayden. Tyson and Amanda came later and ate pie with us. We had lots of yummy food and pie. This year we cooked a turkey in the oven(it was done an hour and a half early) and Tony smoked a turkey, that got done an hour and a half after we ate. We didn't eat very much of the smoked turkey because everyone was so full by the time it was done. We had alot of turkey left over. Which was great, I love leftover turkey. After we ate we visited and played games. I love this time of year, it makes me stop and think of all the things I am thankful for.

The Festival of Trees

Last Tuesday night our family went to the Festival of Trees. It was so fun to see Tiffany and her family. Her boys are getting so big. The last time we saw them was before Halloween and I think they have both grown an inch or two since then. Jayden and Jerick were so excited to see each other. We all miss them so much and wish they didn't live so far away. Tony got bored about halfway through and so we practically ran through the rest. I love seeing my kids and grandkids and spending time doing things like this with them.