Movies

One thing I love about the holidays is usually a lot of good movies come out!  I feel like Dan and I have seen quite a few movies in the last month and here are a few I recommend...

Tangled

We saw this Christmas Eve with part of my family and everyone really liked it!  It was cute and another great Disney fairytale.  I didn't love the music, but I did like the story.  Even the men liked it.  We also brought 2 of my nephews who are 5 and 7.  My 7 year old nephew told me he loved it!  I think he also loved the large amounts of popcorn he ate.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Dan and I saw this the weekend it came out.  We enjoyed the past 2 movies and were excited for this one too.  It definitely did not disappoint!  If you liked the last 2 Narnia movies, then you should definitely see this one too.  Even if you haven't seen the other movies, I still think this is a good one.  The only thing I didn't like was the gross snake/creature at the end.

Megamind 

This movie was the biggest surprise to me.  We went to see it at the cheap-o theater near our house.  I ended up loving it!  I thought it was funny and had a good story.  I even want to take my siblings to see it this weekend when they come visit me :).  It was that good!

We also saw Harry Potter, which I liked, but thought it was kind of intense.  So I am not recommending it because if you don't like Harry Potter you won't get it and probably won't like it either :).  But if you do like Harry Potter, then see it too!  The last movie on my list that I still want to see is Gulliver's Travels.  Oh and after seeing so many previews I am looking forward to Kung Fu Panda 2 (which comes out in May).

Amazing

This picture is so amazing to me. The Provo Tabernacle had a fire last week and here is one of the few things not burned... (if it is hard to see, Christ is the only part of the picture not burned).

It was sad to hear the news of the tabernacle. I had many stake conferences held in that building. Hopefully they will rebuild it. Anyway, just thought I'd share this photo, pretty amazing!

the Orange Peel

One fun thing about moving to a new place is checking out new stores, restaurants, sites, etc. in the area. And today I think I may have found my new favorite place in St. George. It is called the Orange Peel!

It is a smoothie shop and it is delicious! I was on my way to Dan's work today and I saw it on the side of the road. So I decided to check it out. I ended up getting a watermelon, orange juice, strawberry, peach smoothie and it was soooo good! I got Dan a pina colada, strawberry, banana smoothie, but I still need to see how he liked it. Anyway, I have a feeling I may make a few more trips to the Orange Peel in the future. And if you come visit me, we can go together :)

And in other news, my sister Noelle doesn't have a blog, so I will blog about this for her. Her husband Jared started working at Dan's old company a few months ago. Just about the time Dan quit. Anyway, if you will recall last Christmas, Dan and I went to his work party and won about $2000 in cash. Well this year Noelle and Jared went to the huge Christmas work party and guess what they won? A trip to London and Dublin!!! How crazy is that? I told Dan he should have waited until after the Christmas party to quit... haha... oh well. Congrats Noelle & Jared! Enjoy your trip! I hope you send me a postcard!

Good weekend.

Here are a few pics from our fun weekend... Of course we celebrated Dan's birthday, but we also decided to check out some of the sights of St. George.

Dan opening his presents. I got him movies, games and a new phone.



After presents we went to Red Lobster for dinner. Yummy! Dan got steak & shrimp and I got steak & lobster. Delicious!



After dinner we went to the outdoor ice skating rink. It was fun but we quickly found out it is a popular place for Jr. High kids to hang out. We may have been the oldest people there! We still had fun though and Dan was by far the best skater on the ice. He tried to teach me, but I was bad and scared and it was too crowded to practice much.



We then came home and ate cake! I made Dan a giant cupcake! It was filled with chocolate pudding and topped with whipped cream and chocolate chips. Dan LOVES pudding and whipped cream.

Saturday Afternoon we went and saw the new Chronicles of Narnia. It was awesome! We really liked it.



Saturday night we went to Tuacahn for Christmas in the Canyon. They had lots of pretty lights!

 

More lights!

The live Nativity. The camel was my favorite part (even though it is not in this picture).

There was also a train ride. You can't really tell we are on a train, but we are!

It was a good weekend. The end!

Happy Birthday!

To my most amazing, sweet, hot husband!!!  I love you, Dan!  I am so happy you were born :)

I know Dan doesn't read our blog... haha... but still, it's his birthday and i love birthdays and i love him, so i had to give him a shout out!

For his birthday I am making a huge chocolate cupcake (i got the mold over thanksgiving), filled with chocolate pudding, topped with whipped cream and chocolate chips... as requested by Dan.

We are also going to dinner (not sure where, but it probably involves steak) and to the outdoor ice skating rink.  Some of you may not know, but Dan used to play hockey quite a bit, so he's good at ice skating!  I thought it would be a great activity for his birthday :). Then we'll come back home and he can open the rest of his presents (I gave him a few this morning during his special birthday breakfast). 

Pictures will most definitely be posted once all of this takes place.

Moved!

Well, we made it! We are all moved in here in St. George. Luckily the move went very well. Our kitchen table got scratched, but other than that nothing too drastic happened. Thanks to all of our family and friends who helped us. Especially my parents, we definitely would not have been able to do it without them! I was so worried we wouldn't have help here in St. George, but our prayers were answered and some men from our new ward came and helped out. That is one fabulous thing about the church, it makes it easier to find help in any part of the world :).

Our new apartment is still kind of a mess, but we are getting close to having it all organized. I will probably post some pics once it's all done. I even put up our Christmas decorations tonight. I could not wait any longer!

We attended our new ward today and it has quite the variety of ages, which is nice. Our old ward was very young families and couples. This ward actually has a young womens and young mens. I am excited to be in a ward with a lot of different people. Everyone was super nice too. We had lots of people welcome us to the ward and introduce themselves. We even had some neighbors bring over cookies tonight :). I've never been in such a welcoming ward. So we are excited about that too!

This week on my agenda I plan on organizing the apartment more, buying things for the apartment that we need (hooray for living 5 minutes from Target... I used to live 25 minutes away!), and possibly getting around to Christmas shopping as well.

Friday is Dan's birthday and we have big plans. We are going to dinner and then to the outdoor ice skating rink here. Should be lots of fun!

Another great thing is the weather forecast said it's going to be sunny and in the 50's and 60's all week!

So far St. George is going great! I will for sure keep my blog updated since we won't see friends and family as much anymore. I miss everyone and I miss our condo too, but I am excited about our new adventure here!