Christmas time in Utah!

Merry Christmas everyone! I absolutely love this time of year. It really makes you look at all of your blessings you have in life, and when it comes down to it most all the joys in life boil down to wonderful family and friends.

I think Christmas morning is still just as exciting as when I was ten!

I am looking a little scary that early in the morning...but Nate is such a SWEETHEART and surprised me with a beautiful ring with a diamond in it. Jeff was had me help investigate what kind of jewelry Brandi would like and I was not expecting to get one too.

We were able to have a bunch of game nights (and yes, we are all still competitive and fight during games...although I think we are getting a little better, no one threw the game board across the room :)) Nate and I were the lucky ducks and won a bunch of money.

We tease my dad and call him the "Grinch"...we know he puts on a front and loves the holidays.

We were able to spend time with nieces and nephews. We gave little Carston that lion for his Birthday and the kids were wearing it like a cape.

Dylan LOVES Uncle Nate. Nate is really good with kids, and I am so grateful for that. Brandi says that babies are like dogs and they smell fear. Nate is so calm that they can sense it...hmmm that must explain why babies cry every time I hold them. Yikes! I better learn some new ways!

Cutest little gentlemen in the world!!!!!!!!!!!! We miss Dylan already!

UGLY Sweater Party!

Okay, how nasty do we look? If you look closely you'll notice my nice orthopedic walking boot. I decided to wear that outfit to school the next day and those that new my personality well enough just laughed and said I looked hideous...while others just started me up and down and said nothing...some people couldn't help themselves and gave me a compliment (even though I could tell they thought I was disgusting) because they didn't know what else to say. I just let them believe I was proud of that outfit and I truly wasn't mocking other school teachers who actually where stuff like that!

Yes, my friends are mean and picked me up to put me in that huge bag!

I had to work so hard to win that huge penguin in the White Elephant game. The couple behind me in the pic really wanted it give it to their little girl who loves penguins and I am a brat because I didn't care and stole it! We shouldn't let our secret out of the bag, but here goes...Nate and I just brought one gift together so we were just going to choose one gift. Well I drew our number and it was like 3 (really bad for the game) so I ran over to Nate to tell him to draw one too so we could see which of the 2 numbers were best. He picked 19 and there where only 21 players! I snuck my number back into the bowl...He he he...I hope that doesn't qualify me for the naughty list...although we could use some charcoal for our next camping trip! :)

Early Sager Christmas

Sager's new Puppy!

Well, we are headed up to Utah on Saturday to spend Christmas with my family so we celebrated Christmas early with Nate's fam. Kathy, Nate's mom, is creative and is always planning something fun to do. We designed a gingerbread house. Kathy wanted it to look nice because she puts it on display so I am sure Lizzy (Adam's girlfriend) and I were giving her a heart attack because we were adding some crazy stuff to the house!

We probably ate more candy than we decorated with!

Nate's family got an early Christmas present! His name is Skyzer...So cute! Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't want one, it's cute to look at but I'd never want to take it home :)

And yes, I am on crutches again. I tripped playing in my indoor soccer game and tore some ligaments. I was rolling around on the turf when it happened like I had been shot or something. So embarrassing! Now I am in a walking boot. I was in a boot in all of Jeff's wedding pictures, and now I can be in a boot in all the Christmas pictures, oh joy! :)

Turkey Heads!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We had a nice day at Nate's parents. I had made a comment to Kathy, my mother in law, about where my Thanksgiving hat was because last year she made everyone Pilgrim and Indian hats. Well also last year Nate's nieces and nephews were there. Being the creative lady she is, she hurried and made me a drumstick hat! In the mean time the stuffing burned because she was upstairs making my hat...I thought it was worth it.

Every year we run in the 10K Mesa Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. It is so much fun! They have this guy dress up in this actual turkey costume...I'm talking feathers...big old head...the whole works! I don't know how he runs in that thing. He runs pretty darn fast too and the goal is to beat the turkey. Of course Nate has beaten him every year and I haven't, so my goal was to do whatever it took to beat that darn turkey (I was considering tripping him if necessary) My it looks like luck was on my side this year because the turkey was slower than he's ever been and I barley beat him!

PS...take notice of the matching running pants...I wonder who's idea that was??? And I can't get that picture on the top to move down! Oopsy!

Mark's Visit to AZ

We had such a great time when Mark came to visit us in Arizona. We have this ladder ball game that we are obsessed with so we had a big tournament night.

I took Mark around the ASU campus...

Nate and Mark had to buy matching shoes.

Our little tennis tournament turned into a photo shoot....So I probably shouldn't put this on here but we thought we were so funny. Mark definitely brings out the crazy side in everyone. We put the camera on the bench and used the timer and took tons of stupid pictures of ourselves. This was actually one of the more appropriate ones, Yikes!

Of course we had to take Mark out to the lake. All we caught were a bunch of baby fish though.

We miss having Mark down here!

Weezer concert at the AZ State Fair!

Our friend Jeff actually got to play on stage at the Weezer concert at the Arizona State Fair. He won a contest on You-Tube to play up on stage so it was really fun to go see them. Gotta love the Fair! Awesome food and scary rides... nothing

better!

Halloween!

We had a great Halloween. I love dressing up so this is a perfect holiday for me. We had a fun party with friends the weekend before and Nate and I were tables. On Halloween we went over to Nate's family and we had a great time! My mother in law really goes all out for holidays...it got a little crazy and the candles caught fire on the spider web when we were all out side. Luckily there wasn't too much damage but the kitchen fire was pretty big!