BYU vs USF

 

As I mentioned before, Noah was so sweet to get us some great seats so we could help cheer him on. We were so excited because not only were we going to see Noah play, but we were there for his very first starting position!! His name, his picture, and our hometown (BARTLESVILLE, OK!!) lit up over the big screen at the Energy Solutions Center where the Utah Jazz play! It was so awesome!!

 

Randy taught seminary for 3 years and Noah was one of his students. They have stayed friends ever since. Noah even let Randy cut his hair one time... now that takes some trust!! We went to all the games when Noah played in high school and have always enjoyed watching him play. I think for Randy it brought him back to the days he played basketball for Bartlesville (he was really good) and he could relive those days again through Noah.

 

We met up with Noah after the game. He played AWESOME! We were so proud of him. He played most of the game until they sat the starters. Yes... BYU beat USF!! Side note: Randy bought this awesome BYU pullover that he is wearing in the picture. I didn't find anything so I just wore what I had been wearing all day. As we were going to our seats I leaned over to Russ Madsen and said jokingly, "I hope San Francisco isn't green!" He started laughing and said, "Actually, they are!" Just my luck! I'm down in the BYU family section wearing USF colors! Luckily when they took off their green warm-ups they were wearing yellow!

 

I love this picture of Noah and his fiance, Kendall. She actually made this to say "Hartsock" and I thought it was adorable. Kendall is so sweet, Noah really found himself a great girl. We also met her sister, Ashton, which was fun since we have an Ashton. They are both super sweet girls and we enjoyed getting to know them better too!

Hanging out in Utah

 

Randy and I lost a dear, dear friend right after Thanksgiving- Brian Buttars. We hurried up to Utah to be with his sweet family and stayed with our friend, Russ Madsen. We spent most of our time with the Buttars, but we did find some time to go up to Park City and see one of Russ' stores, Wolf Summit Golf. It's an awesome store! Those of you into golf or hockey should check it out! Here is Randy and Russ standing outside of the store.

 

Randy also placed a call to Noah Hartsock, who is playing basketball for BYU, to let him know we would be in town while BYU was playing San Francisco. Noah got us some great seats, and we cheered super loud for him! Russ is very appreciative to Randy for taking him to the game in this picture! Just kidding! Those two boys are crazy when they get together!

 

After the game (which was at the Energy Solutions Center in SLC) we headed over to Temple Square to see the lights. Now that is something that you should always take time to see if you are in SLC during the Christmas season!

 

It was so cold, but there were people everywhere enjoying the beauty of the season and the spirit of Christmas on Temple Square.

Christmas Party cont'd

 

The Christmas party also included face painting. Most of the kids came away with something Christmas, but not Austin. He saw the skeleton bones and had to have it! Ashton also got her face painted with a pink tree like Addie.

 

The kids got to fish for a snack. I think Ashton got gold fish, her favorite snack. Austin got cookies and I think Avery got Teddy Bears and Addie got fruit snacks or something like that!

 

And they had a craft station to make an ornament for the tree. They really enjoyed doing that too.

 

And to top off the night... we received a Christmas concert from Aaron Neville. It was funny that he was our entertainment this year because Randy is always trying to imitate his voice! We had a great time and the kids totally crashed when we got home.

COP Christmas Party

 

ConocoPhillips had their Christmas Party again at the Bartlesville Community Center. We had such a great time... and there were so many activities for the kids to do. Our first thing was to grab a picture with Santa! We got there before the line got long luckily!

 

Here are the kids letting Santa know what they want for Christmas. Avery and Austin want motor bikes and Addie wants a bicycle.

 

They also had BoBo the clown there making balloon creations. Austin had him make a sword and the girls wanted poodles.

 

Ashton loves her green poodle... can you tell?

Girls Weekend!

So, my friends and I are the "crazy moms" that like the Twilight series. There, I admitted it!! But more importantly, Amanda came up with a great idea last year to make this a really memorably "movie night" by heading down to Dallas for the weekend. And the tradition has stuck. Once again, for the premiere of New Moon, we headed down to Dallas for a girls weekend. Here I am with Natalie Springer and Amanda Vaclaw in the lobby of our hotel.



Our first night Lauren got us reservations at Maggiano's for dinner. Yummy!! Here I am with Emilie Vaclaw, Natalie Springer, and Lauren Murray. We ate like this all weekend! Dallas has some great restaurants... and yes, we got dessert at every place we ate! Movies, shopping, and eating... what more can I say!



We got our midnight showing tickets at an awesome IMAX theatre. This theatre was very smart and decided to show Twilight to those who had purchased tickets to New Moon. So of course we bought tickets for that also so we could have good seats for New Moon. It was a great night and great weekend! Sadly my camera was out of batteries so I don't have any more pics, but I have some great memories! I grabbed this pic from Lauren's facebook! This is us at the theatre: MaryAnn Egan, Lori Ahlert, Mary Eve, Chelsea Eve,(next row) Robbie Vaclaw, Stacy Lard, Jacque Bulliegh, Natalie Springer, me, Lauren Murray, and Amy Christiansen.