Christmas Eve

So despite of all the snowing and blowing that occurred on Christmas Eve day, Chad and I braved the road to our way to Janae's house for Christmas Eve. It was slow moving and totally crazy, but by the time we left the Idaho Falls area it was better and we got to speed up a little bit.
We had a wonderful dinner of soups and rolls then got to e enjoy a few games of trivia about Christmas, and another trivia about candy. They were great. Chad and I's game was the Marbles with ice on the cookie sheet relay. It was quite humorous to watch Boyd and Janet get into that one, but then we had our traditional sing along of Christmas carols and the $1 gift exchange!! Something we look forward to every year.
Chad and I always try to get one funny present for the gift exchange and just hope that someone good gets it. So this year we got this hot pink hair on a headband that is supposed to be like extensions!! Chad and I were quite happy to see that Kayl was our lucky recipient.

Appetizer night

So Brek got into town on Saturday, but had insisted when I talked to him when we were in Utah that out family needed to do another appetizer night. Now that last time they did this, Chad and I were still in Pullman and I just happened to call to talk with Derek at the time when they were doing to this. So we missed out. But it was so good that every person that Brek talked to about plans at Christmas he had to mention the need to repeat appetizer night.



So Chad and I were able to get in on this. It was a fun meal with lots of different options. Mom and Dad Joos did jouses? ( I totally did that phonetically I really have no idea how you spell it). So basically a hamburger base with some shrimp and cabbage in a won ton wrapper and fried!! HMMM!!! I loved those growing up. Then Britt and Derek did the fire sticks with alfredo sauce, Amanda and Greg did the sticker fingers, and Chad and I did a Spinach and Artichoke dip. They all turned out wonderful and we all over ate. But no disappointments really!!



We had some fun with Kallen and Ellisi showing up their tricky eye brows(See the videos)and playing around like usual. We also watched the Transporter 1, thanks to Brek that let us borrow a few movies for the trip. We sure enjoyed the action packed show.

Over all what a great night but who wouldn't like all that great food. I'm sure it'll become a tradition when Brek comes home!!

The Girls' Yearly Christmas Trip with Chad and I

So on Saturday the 22nd we connected with Megan, Erica, and Shayla at the Grand Teton Mall for the yearly christmas shopping spree. We always have so much fun breaking into little groups so we can shop for various people. Then I always have a second opinion about what I get Chad. It really is a great deal!!

This year we even met up with Chris Christensen and Kade and MacKayla at Kohl's and definitely got some good deal with Chris' coupon she had. I know that Erica sure loved the help she received to pick out Dannielle's gift.

We then went to TGIF for dinner with the girls and if was wonderful food!! We mostly shared entrees so we had room for Cold Stone Ice cream afterward.