Home Sweet Home!

Home sweet home! It is so good to be home, Shawn and I flew in on Friday night and we will be here until Wednesday. I love coming home to Oregon and to all my family that I love so much!!!

CHRISTMAS IN WYOMING!

Shawn and I left Saturday morning (after we opened our presents to eachother) and headed up to Evanston, Wyoming to celebrate Christmas with his dad and family. We had a great time ( but I still missed my family and Christmas in Oregon alot). We had a great Platt Christmas! Brandon and Mandi and their two boys came to visit on Saturday, then Amanda, Ben and Vincient came for the day Sunday to play. And of course we got the play with Necha, Josh, Tessa, Maggie, Joseph, and Eugene the whole stay!
On Christmas morning we got to go through our stockings, and open some camping clothes from Necha and Josh, open some goodies from Garrett and Cynthia, and open a huge double sleeping bag from Eugene. We said we needed some camping stuff for the upcoming camping trips the family is planning on going on!
We got to play in the snow, visit with lots of Shawn's high school buddies, play lots of fun family games together, eat yummy food, and just spend lots of quality time together talking and relaxing!!! We love our trips to Evanston, and we really love spending time with Eugene and Joseph and the rest of the Platt family!
HOORAY FOR NEW YEARS IN OREGON!!!!!!!

More Christmas Pictures

Here is Joseph playing his new Guitar he got from Santa Clause, Joseph is always playing his guitar when we are there visiting, he loves it. He was very ecited for his new guitar!
Here is Shawn with our cute little matching nieces (the only two there are with 7 little nephews) they are wearing their new Christmas jammies, they definatly look like sisters!
Grandpa Eugene with Vincent on Sunday. Amanda, Ben and Vince came for the day to play with us all. Vince loves to show off his teeth and close his eyes for all his pictures. He is so cute!
Here is a picture of Shawn's older sister, Necha, with baby Maggie. We had lots of fun hanging with Josh and Necha and their cute little girls during the whole break, it is so nice that they live so close to Eugene and Joseph so we get to see them all the time!!!

Opening presents alittle early

Shawn and I decided to open our gifts to eachother alittle early this year. We opened them on Saturday morning (as you can tell we had just woken up) before we headed up to Evanston for Christmas with the Platts!!! Shawn bought me some new perfume, a new coat, a pan, and some scrapbook stuff. I could tell that he had put alot of thought into each of the gifts that he had picked out for me. Then I surprised Shawn with a big new truck tool box that fits in the back of his truck (he has been wanting one for a very long time) I also got him a new white shirst for church, a cute new coat, some tools, and a gift card to Carl's Jr (his favorite). We had a fun time opening presents to eachother, and look forward to opening more presents in Wyoming from Shawn's dad and then again in Oregon with my parents when we fly out for New Years! We love Christmas!

Christmas lights and a night with the family!

Shawn and I got to spend Tuesday evening in Salt Lake with my family, we had alot of fun together! We got to see a huge gingerbread house in the Grand America hotel where my parents were staying then we got to all have dinner together and then Shawn and I finalized our Salt Lake trip by seeing the amazing lights at Temple Square.

And here is a picture of two of my favorite boys, Shawn and Jared Paul. Jared had his surgery yesterday, I got to stay at the hospital with him for the day, which was fun and alittle sad too. We were told he was going to have a 1 hour surgery with a 1 hour recovery time and then he could go home that evening. Well, that turned into a 3 1/2 hour surgery with almost a 2 hour recovery time and an over night stay in the hospital and a loss of way to much blood which required two blood tranfusions...nothing easy is ever going to go Jareds way (but we have realized that already).............good thing he is so tough!!!

Its wrestling time!

Well my husband has informed me that my life has now permanantley changed for the better...and that is becasue I have went to my first of many many wrestling tournaments. Shawn and I went up to Bountiful, Utah to watch his younger brother, Joseph, wrestle in a huge tournament with 21 other high schools. Joseph did well with his record (as of now) being 11-2. The tournament was crazy, six mats were set up with wrestling going on everywhere. Eugene (Shawn's dad) and Shawn were both so patient as they answered all my questions and explained all the moves and how many points you make, and all that good stuff. I know nothing about wrestling...I could probably tell you somthing about all other spoprts, but not wrestling. Well, my husband has also let me know that I will soon love wrestling and become the profesional wrestling watching mother! He is planning on having our boys start wrestling at 5! So, I better start getting use to it now!
Here is a picture of Eugene and his boys, Joseph "the wrestler" and Shawn my amazing husband who wishes that he could be wrestling right now. Wow, you should have seen him when he walked into the gym, he got so excited! He said he felt like he was going to be the one warming up and wrestling, he even got butterflies in his stomach when Jospeh would wrestle...just like he use to when it was him!
And here is a picture of Jared Paul. I just wanted to include a picture of him so everyone can say an extra prayer for him, becasue he has to go into surgery (again) on Wednesday.

its been a while!

I know it has been forever since I have blogged, but our lives got a little crazy for a moment and now things have gone back to normal. So, I am now at a new job! I work for Dr Whiting who has a pediatric office in American Fork. I get to work with lots and lots of little kids (which is what I love) and I get to use alot of Spanish too. The doctor served his mission in Argentina so he speaks spanish, therefor, he gets lots of spanish patients. I am now learning lots of new medical terms in spanish that I never used before on my mission, it is great to keep up the spanish (especially now since I have 3 spanish ladies on my visiting teaching route too).
Shawn has been working alot helping, James, build his big beautiful house and he is getting ready for another semester to come to an end. wednesday is the last day of classes and then finals start on Monday.
I am excited for my parents to fly in on Saturday and stay for a week, it will be great to see them before Christmas, since we will be in Wyoming for Christmas too.
But I have amazing news!!! Shawn and I get to fly home to Oregon for New Years and I am soooooo excited.
Well, now that I am working again, and sit at a computer for a majority of the day I will be able to do alot more blogging and I will be posting some pictures soon too.
Happy Holidays!