INTO THE MIXING BOWL: January 2010

christmas in kansas city.

FYI...this post is mostly going to involve pictures (probably of my darling nephews). christmas was a lot of fun...working the actual day wasn't bad at all and was actually kind of fun getting to spend it with 5 different patients and their families and then getting home at 1am on the 26th to spend it with my family. it snowed an unbelievable amount for kansas city, so we definitely had a white christmas...and a lot of staying inside. besides celebrating christmas, i did do a little shopping, went to the plaza to see the lights, played with my nephews and sophie, saw invictus and sherlock holmes (both of which i would recommend), baked and cooked...a lot (by choice), celebrated my birthday, and saw some old friends.

eli and taters christmas eve (sorry mard, i stole some pictures)

eli christmas morning...a little confused by the 2nd christmas morning since we celebrated twice so this picture is from the first.

tate in the stocking i made for cj a few years back. i had a picture of eli like this so i had to have one of taters, too.

sophie in her cupcake sweater from shelly. you can tell she loves it.

this is too precious. eli sat the little cookie monster and big bird in their chairs and then pulled up his little chair to sit next to them and watch 'toons as he calls them.

tate in his christmas pj's...i'm not sure why i can't get it to turn.

the soccer set i got eli for christmas....good thing it is warm in dallas almost all year.

tate trying to sit up.

eli loves to help...i mean help do ANYTHING. including chores and building fires. i love this child.

"it hurts to be this handsome"cj and eli building a snowman (or noman as eli says) the face was added a few minutes later.

a little cabin fever.

this post is also well overdue. the night before shel and i left for vegas, my roommates and i had another party....our cabin fever party. we love decorating for Christmas so this made it even more fun. we had a fifth roommate that joined us for the party named gordon,and sadly went into retirement today, may he rest in peace from all the wild nights he had at uac 215. pictures of gordon are in a previous post....oh and let me say he kept me company over christmas break while my roommates were home and i was here working. anyway, the party was a lot of fun and we had a great turn out.

and yet another trip...

after thanksgiving shelly and i decided to take one last trip for the year 2009 (total trips of 2009: 11... 4 trips to kansas city, 3 to vegas, 1 to dallas, 1 to st. louis, 1 to sun valley, and 1 trip to cali). we went december 5-7(ish) and stayed at the Platinum hotel and spa. we loved it there and both would recommend it to anyone who wanted to go to vegas and not stay directly on the strip or to not stay in a casino. we were supposed to come back to utah on the 7th but due to all the snow that happened to start in the canyon just south of st. george, we ended up staying an extra night at the hard rock hotel and left early the next morning. we also really like the hard rock hotel...another recommendation to stay off the strip if you are interested. we finally went to madame tussaud's wax museum (pictures to follow...no....not of the pool, it was way to cold [sadly]). we also went shopping, went to america's got talent, ate panera, and stayed up way too late enjoying our hotel room that was bigger than shel's apartment (if not both of ours).