Valentine's Day Weekend

This years Valentine's Day was low key, just like us. My parents got into town on friday, while dad goes to work during the week mom will be hanging out at the house with us. Their visit is for two weeks, and we just got started. Yesterday morning I worked at my new job, Title Boxing Club which I love! Mom, Lauren, and Zach came in and took a class with two awesome instructors and got the crap beat out of them. When we got home, Zach gave me a dozen roses, and I made him another pillow this year. He was going to make me a surprise dinner, but we are on a strict "diet" that we can not cheat on for anything. So we will postpone the dinner part for a few more weeks. But we did go out to the movies and saw American Sniper, which was so good! We also went to see Hector play two  soccer games, his team won both! We had a nice little stay in the rest of the evening.

Peace out Five Guys

Four years of my time and energy and skills working at Five Guys to make a living. I started in Rancho March of 2011 when they had their grand opening. Soon after I transferred to Norco to help open another store as a shift lead. Not long after I went back to the Rancho store and stayed there for a bit longer. Zach joined the crew when we started dating, he was so cute in his uniform, always having his hat on with a little side slant. We got engaged and three months later we were married and done with Five Guys. Until....I moved to Utah and worked at two different locations for two years. I was blessed with working for the best boss ever, and I have met such great people, and not so great people. Even during the time in American Fork Lauren joined the crew for about a month...very short lived but it was so much fun to work together! Overall, quitting has been such a great relief and a way for me to move forward in my life. It was a long time coming for me to end the job at Five Guys, but to say it's finally over feels so so so good!! I love my new job at Title Boxing, and I still love working at the Boys and Girls Club. My photography is still happening and I look forward to spending more time on that as well.

I will miss these great great people!! So many fun times!

Five Guys took over a lot of my time, many hours flipping burgers and shaking fries...and I won't miss that for a second!!

When I let my family know of the news that I put in my two weeks, Lauren and Hector brought home these two cookies and some sparkling cider to celebrate! They have been the best support group through it all...

Life is looking good. 

New Year's Eve!!!

NEW YEARS EVE PARTY! We celebrate bringing in the new year along with our two year proposal anniversary! This year on New Years Eve Hector and Lauren invited friends over for dinner and games. We played Cards Against Humanity and Hector made us enchiladas. It was a fun night, our living room was filled up with many people and we all watched the countdown at midnight. We also lit off some fireworks in the front yard...that was pretty cool. Cheers to a NEW YEAR!

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First kiss of 2015!

Our little face painte

For Savannah's birthday my mother-in-law got her a face painting kit. Since then she has painted her parents faces over and over again. Yesterday when we were over for dinner and milkshakes to ring in the new year, Savvy asked to paint our faces. Who can say no to Savvy? Seriously, we would do anything for. So to end the evening she bedazzled our faces with her new talent! We love our little goofball!

And once again the best uncle award goes to...

Christmas with the family

It has been a week of celebration. After moms birthday party we hunkered down at Grandma and Grandpa's and decorated for Christmas! There is no place I'd rather be on Christmas Eve then my Grandparents home. It just feels right there. Helping them get ready was a great time spent with the whole family. Putting together all the traditional Danish decor, some very old and antiques, and some new that Grandma made this year. It was just fantastic! Also, seeing Paisley and Grayson so excited about decorating made it even more special this year! It was definitely warm, and didn't feel like December, as usual in California, but it was a great day!

While Hector and Lauren did the lights we prepared some food and more indoor decorating. Of course running inside and outside with the little ones getting to explore at grandma and grandpas house. Which I have to add, as kids their home never got old to be at. There was always something to do, whether it be playing with the hundreds of collected McDonald's toys, making art, playing a game, rolling in mud, or climbing on the apricot tree in the front yard. So with Pais and Grayson we absolutely had to climb up that tree, which when I was a kid seemed so much bigger! 

Lauren and Hector working hard on the Christmas lights...

At one point both Paisley and Grayson got to go up on the roof with Lauren, and they were loving it! Look at these smiles....

So many good times at this home! Then we got to decorating one of the most special parts that I love about Christmas Eve, the Christmas tree! My grandparents are both Danish, born and raised there, and we have always had a Danish Christmas...very very traditional every year! I love it. 

My Grandma made almost all of these decorations, as a child she remembers having these same kinds of decorations on her Christmas tree in Denmark. I'm always impressed with her little crafts.

Another tradition is making these hearts and filling them up with candy for the children in the family.

Some decorations were bottom heavy ;) (kiddos)

 Everyone was helping..

This is an ornament that my Grandma has had since she was just a kid, she has had it all these years and every year he makes it on the tree..even with only one eye left.

This year Paisley got to put the star up on the tree, man was she excited!! 

And of course the crazy elves. I'm not sure what they are called exactly, but we always put them all around the house! Hector, my Dad, and Zach went a little crazy this year and made it pretty hilarious..

And that was the end of our lovely family filled afternoon! Next to come is Christmas Eve!!!