Scarves

Over the last few years I have gotten some really cute scarves but due to my lack of fashion ability and frustration at how to tie them I never wear them. Instead I see other people wearing cute scarves and decide to take out the box with my scarves in it only to get frustrated as I try to figure out how to wear them, eventually putting the box back in my closet. Well this last time I decided to try to wear a scarf again I searched the internet to find a good website about tying scarves and found one: http://www.scarves.net/how-to-tie-a-scarf/! So if you are like me and would like to know many different ways to tie the scarves you own then look at the great videos.

The Holidays

We love the Holidays! We especially love all the time we can spend with family and always feel blessed that we are so close to both sides of our family. After having family withdrawals over the last week it has been fun to blog and look at the pictures. I'll start from the beginning...

On Christmas Eve we spent most of our time with my family. Melissa and her family came up and Jeff and my parents were there as well. After eating dinner we went to see the windows at the Grand America hotel, which is where our first picture is from. We then went to see Christmas Street. We went back to my parents house to sing carols and read Christmas stories. After spending time with my family we made a trip to the Yates' house to open our Christmas Jammies. Christmas Eve has such a special spirit!

Barrett and I slept at our own house this year so we could open up presents together on Christmas. Just a couple pictures of our bigger presents.

We bought a new bedspread recently and I wanted colorful pillows to put on it since it is only gray and white. Well, Barrett made me this awesome pillow. I was way impressed!

After opening presents we went to my parents house to eat a yummy breakfast!

We were then able to spend the rest of Christmas Day with Barrett's family. We love being able to spend all the time we can with them! Barrett's parents gave him a new printer and me a sewing machine! So if anyone wants to start some sewing projects with me, I am in... They also got a ping pong table for Christmas so we had some intense games on Christmas as well.

Brittney and her family arrived from Las Vegas the day after Christmas, so we did presents with my family on the 26th.

My cute parents!

We spent New Year's Eve at my parents house with my siblings and parents. New Year's Eve with my family can be summed up in one word: games. We have tons of fun playing games together and spend most of the time laughing hysterically. We have played this drawing/writing game (now known as telestrations in the game world) for a long time. Between our crazy sentences, my immediate family's lack of drawing ability, and interpretation of bad drawings it turns out to be hilarious. We dubbed Barrett the best artist in the family and this funny drawing came from a warped sentence he was deciphering. Oh if only we had videos to show...

When midnight came we went outside to blow our horns and watch fireworks for maybe 5 minutes and then we all went to sleep exhausted.

Well, another Christmas and year has come and gone. But we always look forward to what lies ahead. Welcome 2011.