We're still alive....barely

To answer many of your questions. I feel like I have fallen off the planet! Life has been nutso since we got home. I'll be doing a catch-up post in hopefully another two weeks or so. Once we got home we got the plague, really the whole house was super, super sick for two weeks and then we got an offer on our house and are preparing to move this week. Yikes I just can't keep up with it all. I promise there will be more to come soon.

Miss blogging!

Andrea :)

Christmas in Utah!

We had such a wonderful Christmas visiting our family and friends in Utah. There were just to many fun pictures to share so I decided to make a collage. Travis and Megan came to pick us up from the airport and we ended up there a lot longer then we had expected. For the third time Southwest Airlines lost Kinsley's carseat so we spent an extra hour trying to track it down. They gave us a loaner until they could find ours, what a mess! By that time we were totally starved so we headed over to Wingers. I was very pleased as this is one of my favorite restaurants. My food was great, and so was Shawn's and Travis's. I say Shawn and Travis because I was so hungry I ate my meal and whatever Shawn and Trav didn't eat--what a pig! After dinner we went downtown to temple square and saw the lights. Kinsley pointed almost everywhere shouting "twinkle lights".

The remainder of our time we spent visiting family and friends. The Sunday after I arrived I went to the "Girls Annual Christmas Party". My girlsfriends and I have gotten together every Christmas since high school. It has been so great to gather together to hear and share stories. I luv ya ladies!

I set a goal for the trip to practice my new found love of photography. I just can't seem to get enough. I had my first photo shoot with a family in Lehi. It was a very last minute thing and I said I'd do it without pay, but I got paid anyway :) It was a big family group shot. It turned out okay but I'm learning it's hard to get creative with really big groups. Anyway it was an experience. The rest of my photo shoots were just for fun. I'll be posting the images from those shortly. I would totally appreciate any feedback.

I also celebrated my 25th birthday while we were there. I can't believe I'm 25! I feel old and yet young, anyway.... On Saturday evening Shawn's family threw a party for me. Marie made my fav, strawberry shortcake! On Sunday we went over to my moms who had invited my brother and sister and their families without my knowing. It was a fun surprise to have everyone over. After my moms place I went over to my Dads who had also put together a little party. Lets just say I was feeling really special. It's the first time in my life I've had three B-day parties in one year, wow! Kinsley loved it too, she was all about the cake. When Marie started making the shortcake Kinsley was the first to declair her desire for some. I told her that as soon as we sang the birthday song to mommy she could have a piece. No sooner did I finish the sentence and she was singing Happy Birthday. On Sunday evening we attend the Lundell family reunion where it was annouced that it was my birthday. Everyone started singing Happy Birthday and as soon as the song was over Kinsley shouted "I want cake!" She doesn't miss a beat! The best part of all my birthday festivites was Shawn's surprise. He got us tickets to the Desert Star Playhouse. It's a dinner theatre in Murray and it was a blast. We saw "How the Ging-Grintch Saved Christmas". Of course it was a parody and truly hilarious. It was so nice to go out on a date without the kiddos and spend some quality time together. Kuddos to Shawn! I totally loved it! Speaking of kuddos for Shawn he got another big A+ when it came to Christmas. My awesome hubby surprised me with a beautiful necklace. It was really a special Christmas.

Kinsley and Grant really enjoyed the festivites too. Their favorite toy was a basket of mini fake food like bananas, apples, hot dogs, etc. The best part is that it only cost me $1.00. I love their age group during Christmas time. You can spend partically nothing and they'd never even know it. Honestly, they each got a few small things and it turned out to be exciting for them.

That's all I can seem to remember of our great trip home. Happy New Year!

to see more pics from our trip visit http://picasaweb.google.com/thesorensenfam/TripToUtahChristmas07

Happy Holidays

We got together with the Baughs, Swensens, and Watkins the night before we left for Utah to do some Christmas caroling. Shelly, being the scraper that she is, arranged darling little song books for each of us to hold. I should have taken a picture of them! We sang Away in a Manger, Silent Night, The First Noel and more. We also sang We Wish You a Merry Christmas with homemade chimes from the Baughs. I must admit I'm not so good at the chimes. I kept missing my note. It was really embarssing because honestly how hard is it to hit a pipe with a spoon, oh well! Those we visited seemed to really enjoy our caroling. It was fun to revive an old holiday tradition.