My Favorite Christmas Treats

I wanted to do a Christmas post about my favorite foods to eat at Christmastime. I feel like during the holidays I just eat and eat and eat, but the food is just to dang good to resist. These are my faves...I hope I didn't forget any. I also wanted to do a tag some people for this post: Steph Thompson, Kate Messick, Lyndsi Morrow, and Angie Guymon.

SUGAR COOKIES

We just discovered how good the Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix is. I'm not one to like ANY mixes, but this does not disappoint. I made these cookies for my family Christmas partyvand I love how the big white sprinkles look like polka dots! hot chocolate

Life Saver Storybooks
We used to always get these in our stockings when I was younger and I will always love them. I especially love the tropical and berry packages.

fudge

There are so many different kinds: rocky road, walnut, peanut butter, and just plain chocolate.

Mint M&Ms

Candy Cane Toosie Pops

Peppermint Milkshakes

My dad used to make these during Christmastime because of all the extra candycanes laying around, and they are wonderful. Oranges and Tangelos

What are your faves?

GRADUATION

I had my graduation last Saturday and I'm so relieved to be done with college! I really appreciated my parents and Tyler's parents coming to support me. Elder Richard G. Scott came to speak at commencement which was pretty exciting. I really enjoyed the talk that the president of the school, President Kim B. Clark, gave. He went over three guidelines to live by: keeping the spirit to be with you, serving the Lord and others, and keeping wordly things out of your heart. I really believe that we can learn so much from just these three principles that can greatly impact our lives and help us to become better individuals.

It was a freezing cold day, but I had to get a picture by the BYU-I sign. I love my parents so much and they are always so sweet and supportive of me. It means a lot to me when they tell me how proud they are of me for graduating. I love you guys!

Love my little family.

hello arizona

Well it's been awhile and I'm sorry, but boy do I have a lot to say...

I don't think that I ever really announced that we are going to Midwestern University in ARIZONA for medical school. We're excited and anxious to get going with school. It's a very bittersweet thing to me. People ask me if I'm excited and I am very, but I'm also very sad to leave family. I'm definitely a homebody and Idaho is all I've ever known, but it will be a wonderful experience for our family. Tyler is such a hard worker and I know that he will be a great doctor someday. Hello Arizona. This is our Christmas card for this year. My mom took our pictures a couple weeks ago and it was FREEZING cold, but she did a great job. Thank you, mom!
Kate came up to see me the other night and to have me help her with her Christmas cards. It was really fun to see her and Krew. We tried to get our boys to sleep so that we could have a couple hours to work on scrapbooking, but the little stinkers knew what we were up to and didn't go to sleep like we planned. Well, I'll be generous and say they were pretty good and played together for awhile. :) Our little Christmas tree.

Olivia and I went to the David Archueleta concert last week and it was a rockin' good time. I may or may not have a little crush on him. He was super good in concert and I absolutely loved it. It was really fun to go with Olivia; I love that girl.

You rock.

Tyler's parents gave Jacoby this little basketball hoop last year and he has recently been very interested in it. This is all that he ever wants to do anymore and it's pretty fun to watch him. He's starting to do so many fun things lately and it's a lot of fun.