Chi O Pledge Class Party!

My Sorority pledge class Christmas party was today! And it was fantastic as ever!

Love these girls! Merry Christmas!

Festival of Trees

I LOVE December!! I love all of te festivities that come with it! We kicked off the season with a special trip to The Festival of Trees!

Alex, me and Cait standing by Chuck's tree!

Chuck's tree! It was beautiful! Alex's sister (Chuck's mom) designed and decorated it! It was a beautiful butterfly theme!

Chuck's super cute picture!

Drew and me by Chuck's tree!

Then the obvious picture of Cait and Drew by the tree! Ha! It is so fun to go to the festival, so nice to see all the charity and money raised for Primary Children's Hospital. It's fun seeing all the people you know too!

This is Levi Snarr's tree that was beautifully done as well! The Snarr's are some of my favorite people and it was nice and sad to see this lovely tree for Levi!

A picture of Levi who passed away from cancer. The festival is so amazing because it takes peoples heartache and turns it into a way to help others! It was a great night!

And I almost forgot about the gingerbread houses! This picture is of a giant gingerbread train!

And this was the house from the movie 'Up'. It was super cute and colorful! I love the little detail they put into it! So creative!

Back to Third Grade

We finished work early on Saturday night (11pm!) and didn't want to waste the night!

How would you spend your free night? Well we went straight back to 3rd grade and made friendship bracelets!

Yep Drewpy got one too! Best night ever!

Olympic Party!!

What do you do at an Olympic Party... Well the obvious answer is you dress up as athletes! So we pulled out the old 'team uniform' and went to celebrate!

Go Team Hogan!!

Just a little family photo op! Look how much the boys are enjoying it!

Why We Love Ogden Pt. 2

So many reasons why Ogden is our new favorite place. You would think that spending so much time up here would make us hate it. We are always on the look out for little adventures and activities. On our way to find the local Home Depot... I never thought I would spend so much time in one of these stores! We happened on a darling little Farr's Ice Cream shop! The ice cream was not that expensive and the atmosphere was adorable and rustic as you can see from above picture!

We do these little adventures to help keep my attention... I can only sand, paint, caulk and use a miter saw for so long before I start to get antsy! And when that happens I start following Andrew around and drive him nuts. So no work gets done! Anyway, on this little outing we decided to go to the nearest park (Ogden is abundant in beautiful parks!) We decided we would enjoy our ice cream there! (I promise after this house is finished I will start doing my hair and make-up, there just doesn't seem to be much point when you leave the house caked in dust and paint)

To our ultimate pleasure we happened upon another fun activity Ogden has to offer. It was "Movie Night at the Park" So fun, people come with chairs, blankets, food and frisbees. Before the movie starts they have karaoke! I begged Andrew to sign up, but the sign up was full. So we went back to work on the house. You better believe we will be on stage next time! We got there just in time to hear a lovely version of "Sweet Child of Mine" how lucky are we?!!

I just think this picture is darling of my cute husband Drew!

As mentioned above, I sometimes need a little break from construction. Lucky for me I have a dear friend/sorority sister who is a local Ogdenonian... Yes I made up that word myself... But I feel it will catch on quickly! I call up Chewbs (not sure where that nickname started but it fits her more than her name Chelsea) and make her take me to the local hot spots. This one such adventure we went to the taco vendors on main street. I asked Chewbs if I was going to contract hepatitis... She assured me they are abundant in both B and C. How can you pass that up? Well it was a Wednesday and you know what that means.... TWO TACOS FOR A DOLLAR!! haha! Seriously they were the most amazing tacos we have ever had!! So excited it's Wednesday today because Chewbs and I have a standing date night every Wednesday from now on!!