It's a BOY!

My sister Whitney is having a baby boy and I couldn't be more excited! 

She is due March 1st, but she will most likely be early--like any day now.

We were all worried that we were too late to throw the baby shower

 but we were lucky enough to squeeze it in.

Me and my mother planned the whole event, and I must say that it turned out great.

I have never seen so many people at a baby shower. 

The cute little set up

Cupcakes from Dippidee -- I am addicted to that store now.

These red velvet cupcakes were divine!

Berry Lemonade Jones Bottles with her prego pic on them.

These were a hit!

The women from my mother's side.

I love you all!

I can't wait for little baby Rowan to pop out of the womb! ha ha 

I'm sure i'll be posting up some baby pictures very soon.

I'm going to be an AUNT!

Auntie Ariel :)

2009 Wrap Up

To be quite honest, I would never consider myself a fan of New Years.

Let me rephrase that...

I do not like New Years Eve.

But, I do love the concept of a New Years Resolution,

even though I have never done one before in my life.

I have attempted but failed after 15 seconds of writing it down each year.

I have decided to do one this year...

With many new ideas that popped into my head,

Why not give it a shot?

Now, I am not going to bore you with all of my brilliant ideas.

Just know that I have plans.

I have goals.

And I WILL achieve them :)

For this blog post I am just going to highlight what 2009 was all about.

--2009--

Two Thousand and Nine was like every other year.

Nothing great or exciting really happened.

Just mainly consisted of 3 jobs, college, fun but boring dates with boys that had no potential. (haha..)

But they did make for great friends!

How awful am I?

But seriously, it's the truth!

My Prince Charming is out there somewhere.. I just need to find him.

• Dating-- story for another time. No boyfriend-- I think that pretty much sums it up.
• One of my best friends got married and I was lucky enough to be one of her bridesmaids.
• I made a trip down to Florida with my wonderful family. 
• I was able to go to Lake Powell 4 times during the summer--- I couldn't have asked for a better summer.  I was able to get better at wake boarding and now I can't wait for this summer to start so I can show off my mad skills ;)
• My brother Austin was able to go to Ukraine and teach english. It was sad having my twin away for a few months. But a lot of wonderful things happened for my brother and I am so grateful for it.
• I did another semester at UVU. I took an Interior design class that I absolutely loved. 
• Got wind from my parents that we are going to Greece in May. I am counting down the days. 
• Found myself at a loss of friends because they all have serious boyfriends or are married... which is fine! It gave me a chance to realize what I want. And I am happy for them! 
• The holidays were great. It really is the best time of year!

I'm not really sad to leave 2009 behind me..

I have an inkling that 2010 is going to be something great.

December 5, 1959

December 5, 1959
Jack and Barbara Yalden were married 


December 5, 2009 
they celebrated their
50th Anniversary

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Invitation that I made for the event..

The Open House was at the Magleby's Restaurant in Provo.

Me and My cousin Joslyn with her husband Matt put together a video for them and it turned out great!

It was such a fun night and so neat to see my grandparents make it to 50 years.

They have such a wonderful marriage and I look up to them so much.

You can't help but just love them!

Jack and Barbara Yalden

METEOR

I'm sure that everyone by now has heard about the meteor last night and some have seen it.

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Last night at approximately 12:10 am (somewhere around there) I was driving home from work down a street in my neighborhood, when all of the sudden the sky lit up so bright it looked like it was midday. I looked up out the window of my car with my eyes open wide and my mouth to the floor saw this huge fireball falling from the sky. It was enormous! All I could say was, "Oh my gosh! oh my gosh! oh my gosh!"
I honestly thought I was going to die. I thought that it was going to hit the ground and my whole neighborhood was going to explode. But then it just disappeared.
Now obviously it wasn't that close to me, it was miles and miles away since all of Utah saw it and some people from Las Vegas and California saw it too. But, I'm pretty sure if you were where I was at that very second, you would have thought the same thing too!

Dear Zooey Deschanel...

You are beautiful.

You dress amazing.

You sing wonderfully.

You are a good actress.

You are classy.

You are smart.

You are the vintage queen.

You've got mad style!

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YOU ARE MY FAVORITE

1 pumpkin 2 pumpkins

I have been a horrible blogger lately! I haven't posted anything up in almost a month.

This may be a little late but oh well!

Over the week of Halloween me, Micah and Landon went to Brandalyn and Gordon's house to have a wonderful dinner of Bread bowls with soup and some yummy pumpkin cookies. But the main reason/ event for the night was to do our yearly pumpkin carving. It is something that we look forward to every year and we all really enjoy it! It was a bummer not having Austin there with us but he is off having a fun adventure in Ukraine. They have just welcomed a new little girl into their family and her name is Anastyn. She is the cutest little thing ever.

Thank you Brandalyn and Gordon for always having us over!

We love you!

All of our pumpkins lit up!

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Kylie Johnson, who is one of my best friends came into town the weekend of halloween. We got together the night before and decided to carve pumpkins. So I hit two this year! A little lame that it was the same design but the witch was too fun.

She did Snow White and her friend Alex did the Skeleton.

We had a great time!

October Birthdays

This Month is always a crazy one, not just with Halloween parties and such. The majority of my family and relatives have their birthdays in October.

My cousin Chantel's is on the 9th

My little brother Landon's is the 15th

My Mothers is the 16th

My fathers is the 18th

You think that's crazy enough?

I'm not done yet...

My mom's dad's birthday is the 20th

My mom's mom's is the 22nd.

So... I lied. Maybe It's not the majority of my family but, It's still a lot!...and I know that I'm missing more. I love this month though, Fall is my favorite time of year.

HAPPY FALL EVERYONE!