Cabo cabo cabo

There were several excuses for this....

we needed a babymoon...

it is our last trip before we become strapped...

it was inlieu of Presidents Club for Nate (it falls right when baby's due)...

It was our Christmas...

and

WE'RE SPOILED

I think the last, which isn't an excuse, is the most proper reason

BUT

Dreams Los Cabos was AMAZING!!!

Pretty much four days of laying on one of those lawn chairs being waited on hand and foot :)

The beach; very beautiful but a little treacherous for swimming

We golfed too!!

well Nate golfed... I rode

This was one of his best shots for our round
It went fromt here...

to here!
AND he made the put!
We had a wonderful time on our little vaca.

It was relaxing, beautiful, 3 hours away from home, and took the Christmas spirit right out of us.

Luckily, said spirit returned shortly after on our 12 hour drive through frigid weather to make it to Utah for Christmas :)

A little taste of Christmas

I am currently driving across Nevada on my way home for Christmas and I know if I don't post this now it just won't happen this year.

So... here is from a few weeks back

The Nutcracker

From the looks of me and my current profession you would never know that as a little girl I was a ballerina and thought I would be Clara / the Sugar Plum Fairy one day (even though I was designated to all the "core" rolls when Brooke and I played).

It all comes from Robyn's devotion to Utah Regional Ballet and Brooke and I following in suit as little minions. But from as long as I can remember the Nutcracker has been a Christmas tradition EVERY year. The tradition when we were little entailed Nutcracker sweats and several viewings of the performance to see out older sister. And for two years I was lucky enough to be a 'mademoiselle' (and still remember the choreography)

Anyway... it is just Christmas to me and I was dying last year to attend the birth place and orginal Nutcracker but it didn't happen. This year bet you bottom dollar....

We met up with some friends and watched the fabulous performance at War Memorial Opera House. The founder of SF ballet and orginal choreogrpaher of the American version, William Christensen, also founded Ballet West and brought the Nutcracker to Utah. I actually remember him attending one of my own performances as a mademoiselle :)

Anyway, it was fabulous. A real production and though similar to what I grew up with, different in a good way. For instance, it is set in turn-of-the-century SF!

Nate even enjoyed it (they kept it strictly to 2 hours) It put us in the Christmas spirit AND I bought my first nutcracker :)

Out First Competition!!

Our First competition this year was on the 12/5 in SF

I can't tell you how nervous and excited I was for my girls

It was my first judgement as a coach and I was really anxious to see what the judges had to say about our performance.

Overall the day was a success and my teams did really well and made me proud :)

It was one of those days where I kept thinking in my mind "wow, I can't believe we're really here" The owners (not pictured) started this gym from scratch and we started these teams from scratch with over half of them never having cheered in their lives.

It was such an accomplishment for Valley Cheer and Dance to be at that competition and to be competitive!

Way to go US!

If you wanna see their performance watch the videos below :)

YouTube - Valley Cheer and Dance - JAMZ Slam City Cheer Competition

See.....

See.... I told you it was amazing.

Just wait and see the finished product!

*sigh*

I really can't wait for little mans arrival

And it's just around the corner!

I am ALMOST to two week visit with Dr O!

well... stay tuned for a 24 week ripe photo...

Turkey Trip

Now I must post because it is very important....

but my life is seemingly the same over and over again. Really not a bad thing at all... but a little boring to document.

This same image occurred 2 years ago only with 2 extra drinks (jays and jules)

Thanksgiving at the Clark's

relaxing, small, and delicious

We stayed in bed till 11 watching the Macy's parade and football

Emerged for JUMBO shrimp around 12

Finished preparations and feasted at 2:30

Napped after feasting

and closed the evening with a visit to Cliff and the Jazz game

Nate carved Mr. Turkey for us using the technique they were teaching on the parade channel

He was really proud :)

And our dinner was fabulous. Coleen pulls off the whole feast and makes it look like she's doing nothing more than pouring cereal.

Oh, did I mention it was only a party of four this year?

I guess when Nate was in high school his prayers would go as follows "bless this two parent one kid family" so for this Thanksgiving we gave thanks and blessed our "two parent two and half kid family" :)

And Nate's dreams come true

Boo ya for a win!

AND

these lovely ladies were able to get together :)

(L-R Jobi, Cassie, Jodi, Me, Morgan E., Mandy, Courtney, Whitney, Amanda, Becca, Tory)

Do you remember them?

I almost didn't.

My cheer friends! I haven't seen any of them in almost two years. Thanks to Mandy we all got together.

It was so funny because the first 20 min were a little awkward playing catch up then after that it was like it has always been and made me think "I really like all these girls" and then quickly think "Obviously... there WAS a reason we were all friends 3 years ago"

My friendship with all these girls marks such a fun time in my life and I will always think of all of them in that light.

Anyway... smooches to all of them and I hope to be better about keeping in touch this time.

Lastly, I did indeed make it down to my parents but I ALWAYS fail to take pictures. Life is in fast forward whenever I am at my parents and that is my excuse this time. BUT stay tuned because amazing Nannie has committed to make baby B's bedding and we got some SERIOUSLY amazing fabric for the project.

AND of course we were in poo town for the horrible Utah performance but ALAS, do I not have 100 different pictures of us at BYU-Utah games? Next year baby B will join the rivalry though and we'll DEFINITELY photograph that for him.

Hopefully Max Hall won't hate him too....