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).

shopping...sorry it was an early morning

the kitchen

the bedroom...sorry about the mess

the view at night from the balcony.

tim mcgraw and me...of course it is real.

mr. president :)

the loves of my life

just two more days til i get to see taters and eli. i changed my ticket so i will actually get to KC on christmas night about 1140pm.

tate isn't going to leave my side. seriously, he is the best date ever.

i just adore those boys.

my list for santa.

this year it is my turn to work christmas. since my roommates and majority of my friends are gone for the week, and in order to have people have time with their families that live here, i'm working 7 of 8 days from the 18-25. i'm going home the 26-1st and i can't wait. a few things i'm looking forward to...

1. a REAL christmas tree (sorry paige, andrea, and jen...i love ours but we're lacking the smell. here are a few pictures of our current apartment set up...including gordon).

2. "christmas eve" dinner...this year it will be on the 27th but we will pretend.

3. mom's cinnamon rolls...which i might or might not end up making.

4. my babies and soph...and of course the rest of my family.

this is an outfit i bought for eli, and he is so gladly sharing it with taters.

5. the plaza lights...(and of course shopping).

6. not wearing scrubs for a whole week after wearing them for the previous week straight.

7. baking and cooking.

8. really...it will be nice to take a trip home.

so to everyone...Merry Christmas

thanks.

this year i had thanksgiving off from work so i went home for almost a week. i was the first one to arrive home and so my mom and i did plenty of shopping, cooking, and of course, as previously stated in the post below, went and saw new moon. jamie, robert, and their little bun in the oven* came in wednesday night from St. Louis and christopher, mard, eli, and taters came in thanksgiving morning. oh i love my boys (and everyone else, too..but being auntie is the best). we had our classic thanksgiving of cooking and playing games. i decided taters was my date because he would never leave my side. i swear he was the cutest date i ever had. we also went to the arboretum and botanical gardens and walked around the Christmas light display that they put on. saturday, as tradition always goes, we went and picked out our Christmas tree. the trip home was great but short.

*a little NEWS FLASH. as previously promised....I'M GOING TO HAVE A NIECE! (and a healthy one which is the most important thing). i couldn't be happier or more excited.

Sophie was the first one to greet me...no, her fur is not pink in real life but for some reason the picture looks that way.

happy tate.

i only have a few pictures of eli because he doesn't really hold still long enough to take one. here are two from hunting for candy at the Christmas Tree farm.

this is by far one of my new favorite pictures of my boys. they are just too cute.happy thanksgiving!

so eager...

i wrote this post over a week ago at work and for some reason it would not post so it is a little late.

alright, so i have to admit, and in a shameless manner, that my plans for this past friday night were made for me weeks slash possibly months ago. new moon (the twlight saga for those who have been living under a rock) opened november 20th. my roommates and i bought tickets weeks ago. we also made fantastic shirts...and yes, there is photographic evidence of this. to make this twilight weekend even more unforgetable, i now own the cheesy Twilight because we couldn't find a copy to rent anywhere on thursday night to have a new moon kick-off and to refresh our memories of what happened (unless you were paige an re-read the book. thanks paige, it was a blessing to know what was accurate in the movie).

and to make this even better...i've already seen it a second time with my mom. only this time i wasn't as ridiculous as the teenage girls sitting in front of us taking pictures of jacob during the movie on their camera phones. no joke.

a few thoughts.

i love the weekend. even though i have plenty of time off during the weekdays, i still love fridays and saturdays. but...these weekends (meaning the ones i work) kill me. i'm sitting at work, day 3/4 in a row. don't get me wrong, i planned my schedule this way so i can have long weekends the other two weeks of the schedule and i love my job... but sometimes it is painful to be at the hospital for over 50 hours in four days. it just makes me totally exhausted.
here are some things that are happening that are on my mind. the nordstrom half yearly is going on. sadly, (although i did find some good deals and a some cute things) i just went shopping so i'm not even thinking of gracing the doorway of that store with my presence. secondly, we just found out our christmas bonus is coming a month early. hello next pay period..please come quickly. another thing is i'm jealous because my parents are in dallas for tate's blessing....only 16 days until i get to go back to kansas for thanksgiving AND see my babies/boys. fingers crossed i do not get sick this year. in honor of little tater tot, here are two of my new favorite pictures of him.

halloween and other happenings.

so our apartment decided to have a theme for our costumes this year. drum roll please. yes, we decided to be super heroines. poor paige had some issues deciding between catwoman and superwoman, and to save her the embarrassment of the photo i have of her, i will not post evidence of the superwoman costume. andrea was elasti-girl/mrs. incredible and i was batgirl.
i was also a cat for work but do not have any pictures.

our activities started on thursday night and continued all the way until the early morning hours of sunday. we went to a few parties, a chili dinner, a haunted house (which we decided to frequent twice), and two scary movies (haunting in connecticut and mothman prophecies). don't worry...friday night i slept with my light on. no, i'm not kidding you.

also, i almost forgot to mention our scary story telling party we had the weekend before. we had quite a turn out, and tried to end the night out with a slumber party and scary movie. too bad my roommates bailed and fell asleep during the scary movie.