Christmas in California

After getting off of the Cruise ship, we drove about an hour to where all of my family was staying for Christmas. We had a wonderful Christmas day and enjoyed spending it with family. We also enjoyed talking to our Dietz family on the phone.



The day after Christmas, we all took a walk to Trussels beach. Ammon took some fun pictures of the family.


These pictures came from the whole time we spent with the family.


Ammon and I went to Laguna beach together on Monday, December 27. Ammon took some beautiful pictures there! We understand why Laguna Beach is everyone's favorite!


On Tuesday morning, my parents and Kimberly left to drive back home. Ryan, Elise, Ammon and I spent the day hanging out together. It was a lot of fun! First we went to the SanCapistrano Mission, out to lunch and to an Antiques shop.


That night we went to the San Clemente Pier for more sunset pictures.

Christmas Cruise/Honeymoon

Ammon and I were very blessed this Christmas season. It all started on our belated Honeymoon cruise. We went on a Mexican Rivera cruise out of Los Angeles, California. It was a week long cruise that had us leaving the afternoon of Saturday, December 18th and arriving back in LA on Saturday, December 25th. It worked out perfectly for us, because Elise is pregnant with twins and couldn't travel for Christmas, so my whole family traveled to California for Christmas. When we got off the cruise Christmas morning, we drove an hour to where all of my family was. We have many pictures from our vacations this Christmas season. We hope you enjoy them all!



Our first port of call was on Monday, December 20th in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.


Our second port of call, on Tuesday, December 21st, was in Mazatlan, Mexico.


Our third, and last, port of call was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.


While in Puerto Vallarta, I had the AMAZING opportunity to go parasailing!


The last night of our cruise happened to also be our three month anniversary, so we decided to get dressed up for dinner and take some nicer pictures that night.

The Lights at Temple Square

To celebrate this Christmas season we went to Temple Square with our good friends the Clouses (not the Clauses). We started out the evening with a pot luck dinner at our house, then drove up to Salt Lake City. It was a chilly evening, but we stayed warm walking!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Pictures of our first Christmas Tree and all the snow we got last night!

Thanksgiving in Arizona

We drove with my parents to Sodona, Arizona where my aunt and uncle live for a big family reunion on my mom's side of the family. We were supposed to leave Wednesday morning, but the weather reports were calling for a huge storm Tuesday night. On Tuesday night, after talking to my parents on the phone, we made a quick decision to load up and leave before the storm hit. It was a good thing too! As we listened to the radio on our way out of town, we were just minutes ahead of the storm. We had pretty good weather out of Utah, and after Utah the weather was perfect. We ended up sleeping at my aunts house, arriving around 3am (the rest of the nights we stayed at a nearby hotel with all the rest of the out of town family). We had a fun and relaxing time on the trip!

Christmas List

I have had many people asking me for my Christmas wish list and I really have been thinking hard! The thing is, I feel very blessed and that I have everything that I want in life! A loving husband, nice house (not apartment like Ammon says ;) wonderful family and friends....what more could I need or want?

But I was able to some up with a small list. If I think of anything more, I'll add it on!

Movies:
The Christmas List (It has Mimi Rogers and Rob Stewart)
Miracle on 34th Street
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (preferably the new one, but the animated one is good too :)
White Christmas
Toy Story
Peter Pan

Gift Cards:
NETFLIX!!!
TGI Fridays
Sizzler

Things:
Pie Server

Books:
Great Illustrated Classics (http://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/great-illustrated-classics-s/45.htm)

Ammon and Allison:
*Tickets (2) to Vocal Point at the Covey Performing Arts Center in March (https://secure.coveycenter.org/webtix/showdates.php?s_id=376) Tickets are selling kinda fast, so don't wait too long for this one :)
*Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey
*Total Money Makeover WORKBOOK
(we have gotten into Dave Ramsey books lately, they're very good!)

Love,
Allison

Ammon Birthday Week

Alli was amazing this past week, instead of the customary birthday, she threw for me a birthweek. It all started on Thursday when she gave me my first present and we went to dinner with my Grandma and sister and two cousins. My first present was a movie collection of three Christmas comedies, Elf, Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story. I love all three movies and have since watched them all. On Friday she organized a dinner with three of my best friends from high school and so we talked and talked and talked. By the time we left Alli was laughing so hard she could barely breath, she said she hadn't laughed that hard since watching John Pinette with Melissa and Kendall in IL. On Saturday we went Christmas decoration shopping and decorated the apartment, we will attach pictures of the decorated apartment once we finish the decorating after Thanksgiving Break. Alli wont let me buy a Christmas tree until after we get back from Arizona. That night we went up to the cabin and enjoyed getting away for a bit. While up at the cabin we lit a fire and watched a movie. In the morning we took a little walk up some trails that are around the cabin and then went home. That night Alli's parents came over to the apartment and we ate a wonderful steak dinner and I opened the rest of my presents. By far it has been the best birthday I have yet had, now I am looking forward to next year!