Tahnee & Tyler: Ready for holiday overload? Here we go!

once again, i am behind on blogging... i swear, if only i could get this down. for christmas, tyler and i did a lot of fun things, and were fortunate to be with both families during the holidays. first, we started off with "express christmas" (you'll understand if you watch "modern family") with tyler's family. we did sub 4 santa, went to tanner's basketball game, had christmas dinner, opened presents from each other, and relaxed. we were at tyler's mom's house for the weekend, and everybody but myself stayed for monday as well. i, unfortunately, had to be at school until wednesday, the 21st (boo!). we had a really enjoyable time, and got some really great gifts. the #1 most exciting thing we got from that weekend was our blender, the "vitamix." it is AWESOME. it's like the blenders you see at jamba juice (no joke). it can blend an ipad if you want it to. while we were there, we made a few things, and had a lot of fun with experimenting (as have i this past week). enjoy some pics from "express christmas"

i made a book for lisa and my mom about mine and tyler's adventures in the past year.

with our loot ("amazing," shirts, and dr.seuss books from tanner and allie; kindle from tyler (which i LOVE); and the blender from shawn and lisa (AWESOME)

on thursday, we headed for ca for 10 days. it was wonderful. the weather was exactly what we asked for (70s the whole time). while we were in ca, we did a LOT of fun things:

saw "white christmas" at the oc performing art center
shopped a lot
lunch with aunt robyn
christmas eve with the neilson's in temecula, which included a fabulous dinner and nativity scene with the younger cousins
christmas eve pjs
christmas eve- tiersha going to the ER for her foot (nothing was wrong, don't worry)
christmas day- G&G sheppard and robyn came over; church at 9 (dad spoke); back in pjs after church; opened presents until 2 ish (can you believe it??); skyped with Elder Neilson; tiersha & josh left for kentucky
quading in glamis- monday through wednesday we went 4-wheeling in glamis (this was quite the adventure with 9 of us in one trailer- 4 little kids and 5 adults = not a whole lot of sleeping)
hung out with nicole a couple of times, which included lunch at chipotle
saw "iris" at the kodak theater with my fam, aunt robyn, and g&g neilson, which was super fun b/c g&g neilson told us all about their childhood in la
breakfast at las brisas on new years eve- delicious! if you've never been, go! get there before 9:30 though b/c that's when it gets busy; afterward, we walked on the beach (laguna beach)
new years eve: take out from BJ's and watched 2 movies (well, i only stayed awake for the first one- "the help"); woke up at 12:02 and gave ty a kiss :)
new years day- flew home from ca; dinner with paul
monday before school started- relaxed; lunch with paul; outlets in park city; fish tacos at lisa and shawns (they had just gotten back from mexico, and had a LOT of fish)
tuesday the 3rd- dad's birthday and back to school