GOLF

So, I am taking a golf class at UH and so I'm really excited about playing golf. Im really excited because now I can go with Zach to play. Last Saturday Zach and I decided to go hit 9 holes. It was alot of fun even though Im not very good. I do pretty good at school, but when I was playing with Zach I did terrible. The funny part is that on the first hole there in a pond just in front of the T-box (I call it the launch pad, but whatever). Well, I was really nervous because everyone was watching me and so I go to hit and my ball goes about 10 ft. and falls into the pond. So, I get another ball and it does the same thing. I ended up just driving in the golf cart to the hole and dropping my ball on the green so I could putt it in. I had to do that several times thoughout the game. But, Im learning and it was fun to just be with Zach. We have so much fun together and enjoy every second we have with each other. Im hoping one day though that I will get good enough to beat Zach. That will be the day!

Diesel Performance Shop

Many of you know, but for those of you that dont know, Zach just became a co-owner of a diesel performance shop. He LOVES it. He is able to work with his hands and that is what he loves to do. He still has his regular job. He is just getting into this and will not leave his other job for a while until the diesel company picks up. He is in the process of building a website for it and they are hoping that once the website is done, business will pick up. Here are a few pics of Zach working on his truck and of him standing next to his friends truck. On the truck they have 50" tires, a 47" lift and it stands at about 10 ft. high. This truck it HUGE!

Heart Cakes.....Yummy!!

For Valentine's Day I made these heart cakes for the other ladies that I work with in the Young Women's program. They turned out really cute. I saw a heart cut-out at Wal-Mart and wanted to make cakes with it and decorate them. So, I baked a cake and cut it into hearts and then frosted it. It was alot of fun. I would like to take a cake decorating class. However, I do not have the time right now.

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day, Zach got me a bouquet of red tulips. They were gorgeous. I didnt know much about tulips until he got them for me and I found out that they do not live for very long. The bouquet Zach got me for my birthday 2 weeks earlier were still alive when the tulips were dying. It was crazy! Anyways, so that evening me, Zach, Ryan, and Nat all went to eat at Texas Roadhouse. They had this thing where you could call in an hour before you arrive and they will have your table ready. I think you can even order an appetizer over the phone to be ready for you when you walk it. We didnt have to wait at all. It was nice. Then, we wanted to see a movie. Well, when we got to the movies the show we wanted to see was sold out. So, we just ended up going over Ryan and Nat's house and watching a movie over there and just hanging out. It was a nice night. The weather could have been better as well. It was raining throughout the day and that night it was drizzling. I did not take any pics of the evening though. I just thought I would tell yall what we did and that we had a nice evening with each other and with Ryan and Natalie.

MY BIRTHDAY!

So, Super Bowl Sunday was my birthday. Yup, that would be Feb. 1st. I celebrated all weekend though. It was nice. Mom said I was acting like Gma Gola because Gma Gola celebrates her b-day all month long. :) Anyways, Friday Zach took me to a resturant called the Melting Pot. So, as we walk up to our table and there is a dozen roses and a card waiting for me on the table. What a pleasant surprise. The resturant was very romantic, but somewhat casual. The whole experience takes about 2 hours. It is a 4 course meal and it is basically a fondue type of meal. The first part is a cheese fondue that you can dip multiple things into. Then a salad. Then, a broth that you choose and with that broth they give you a plate of raw meat(that you choose) and you skewer it and put it into the boiling broth and it cooks. Then, you choose a chocolate and they give you multiple things to dip into the chocolate. It was the best resturant I have ever been to in my whole life and to share that with Zach just topped it off. If you have not gone you need to. It is expensive, but the experience was so fun.
Then, on Sat. we had my nephew's baptism and then a 3 way birthday afterwards for me and 2 of my nephews. We ate and played games. It was fun.

Then, on Sunday I went over to my in-laws house and my mother-in-law made me an awesome dinner. So, overall I had a GREAT birthday.

OuR tRiP tO uTaH...

For Christmas, Zach and I went to Utah and Idaho to visit family. We love it up there. The mountains are so beautiful. We had alot of fun spending time with friends and family. Below is a pic of the gingerbread house Sarah and Carolyn made. It took them 3 days to make. This has to be the best gingerbread house I've ever seen.

On our way to Idaho!

After we went sledding with the kids in the mountain, there was a frozen steam.

Beautiful Idaho sunset! We had just gotten done sledding in the mountains and this was the view when we were leaving. SO NEAT!

Carolyn with the tube and Lu Lu at the top about to go down the hill.

That's me posing in the snow after sledding in Idaho. The flat tub under me was the kids until Zach popped it with his boot. :)

That's all the pics for Idaho. One thing that Zach got to do but didnt get any pics of was FLY FISHING. Ed and Zach went fly fishing and zach fell in love with the sport. They didnt catch anything but he had fun anyways. Oh yeah and Ed fell in the freezing cold water. HAHA!

So, back to UTAH! On Christmas day, Zach and I went with Uncle Brady, Aunt Shawna and the kids to a place in Ogden where they have these little houses and in each house in a different theme. For example, the fire station did a house with a dalmation. The train station did the Union Station. It was really neat and there were alot of little display houses. It was also really cold that day so we walked pretty fast through the park.

Nutcracker theme! Mom collects nutcrackers so I thought she would like this one.

Snowboarding theme!

Ski Shop theme!

Train station theme

Morgan, Me, Zach, Katee, Clint and Tanner

Fire station theme!

Penguin theme!

Golf theme!

Mexican theme! Those lights on the tree are chili peppers.

Hansel and Grettle theme! See him in the cage! The witch lady is to the left and the outside of the house has candy on it.

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.

Katee and I were trying to make a snowman, but it just wasnt working. The snow was not sticking together. Bummer!!!


Icicles from roof to ground. This just blow my mind. They have to be over 12 ft. icicles. :0

I thought this was so neat. I have never seen icicles(spelling?) from the bottom of a car. It just doesnt get that cold in Texas.
Zach and Morgan at the ski resort. They became skiing partners.

Zach and I on Wolf Mountain, a ski resort. On this day I was not able to go skiing or snowboarding because we thought the rental place rented out snow clothes. Well, we get there and they tell us we have to go back down the mountain to rent them. So, I said that is ok I will just take pictures and stay in the lodge. However, we did go back on New Years day and I was able to ski and Zach got to go snowboarding again. He had a BLAST! I liked it as well until I couldnt feel my toes. I went down the mountain twice. The first time I did not fall and the second time we went down a steeper slope and I fell twice. That did it for me. I went back to the kiddie hill as seen behind us. You can see that it is not very steep at all. We both had alot of fun though.

Zach and I in front of a tree along the road of displays in Ogden.

We went to Ogden to see a bunch of Christmas displays and the whole park was lit but christmas lights. Also, I was born in Ogden so that was neat to go there. After the park we went to the movies and when we came out, there was a small blizzard. It was cool and scary because I have never been in a blizzard.

This view is from the back porch of our aunt and uncle's house in Utah! BEAUTIFUL!

SALT LAKE TEMPLE!!! Zach and I went through a session and it was sooo beautiful in there. The architecture(spelling?) was amazing and it was a live session. Im gald we got to go through. It was a good ending to our trip.

SNOW...

The church and all the houses had snow on the roof tops

The front of the church! I had YW that night.

On December 10, 2008 south Tx recieved snow. We have not had snow in about 4 yrs. It was really neat. It had been drizzling all day and around 6:00p it started snowing. Mom and dad have a huge oak tree in their front yard so there was not enough snow in the yard to make a snowman. Many of our friends were able to make little snowmen. Zach and I will be going to northwestern states in less than a week to visit family and there is pleny of snow there so I wasnt too bummed that I couldnt make a snowman. I LOVE SNOW!