Christmas in Utah

I just love Christmas time! Love it.  We had lots of fun with family and friends this year.  At the beginning of December we went to my work Christmas party which was held at the Arizona Grand hotel.  A fancy hotel with fancy clothes.   I was struggling over what to wear until the day of the party when I found this wonderful skinny black dress that fit the bill perfectly.  The party was sooo fun.  They had a fantastic dinner with a chocolate bar for dessert and dancing.  I even got Andrew to dance one slow dance with me(A small miracle).  It was a blast. We only got this one picture and it was as we were leaving.  My new year's resolution is to take more pictures because I suck at it.

We left the nice 80 degree weather for a white Christmas in Utah....or a brown Christmas since it seemed there was no snow in Utah.  Anyway, we had fun.   It just so happened that our old basement apartment in Nate's house was empty so we got to stay with our old neighbors.  I was like old times, sniff, sniff.

We of course had cookie day which is always fun and delicious followed by an all you can eat trip with the family to Ginza to all you can eat sushi. Yum!(sorry Andrew)

Missy Moo made the aprons this year and she rocked them!

 This is us laughing at Cassi's really loud nose breathing as we were posing for pictures. 

We are showing off our awesome new aprons!

 We had a little lunch from Jimmy John's but I am really not sure what Cassi is up to. Maybe she is focusing on not breathing so loud.

 Um.  Ohhh ohhh I got it. Shell is a duck, and Cassi is a angry duck. 

They were just plumb tuckered out after making all those cookies. But we sure had fun making them!

Andrew and I have a little tradition of hiking up Millcreek canyon on Christmas eve morning.  Sometimes we need snowshoes but this year, we just needed tennis shoes due to the serious lack of snow.  We were hiking in dirt much of the time.  Weird. We took Austin and Michelle with us and here is the picture of them.  Now maybe Michelle will send me the one of me and Andrew she took on her camera. Hint hint.

 We spend the rest of Christmas doing yummy Christmas eve dinner at Cassi's and Christmas day at Grandma Kofford's.  We did not get any pictures of these things. Maybe my dad did and he will send them to me. I had so much fun with friends and family, I sure do miss them.  Andrew was a good husband and stalked my pinterest account to buy my Christmas presents.  I got this great Fossil watch with rose gold and some wonderful boots from Nordstrom.  I also got some bowls, which I love, from west elm.