Holiday Weight Gain

Ah, the holidays....fun, family, and treats, treats, treats. We've gotten so many, plus the candy from stockings, Tanner has suggested we start just walking around with little bags of it and give it to anyone who will take it. I tell him, no, we don't need to give all of it away, we can control ourselves and then if I have a chocolate craving later, I can have a few pieces. But then, 23 Hershey's kisses, 4 Reese's Christmas trees, and a few peppermint patties later: he's right, I give up.

I have no will power against their chocolatey goodness and because of that, my arteries and my tighter fitting clothes are suffering the dire consequences. Oh school, I dread and welcome you at the same time, at least I won't be able to get bored around the house and eat. Thankfully this semester my clinicals are at night, so I have time to work out Thursday and Friday mornings, and please pray for me to have the drive to go. Christie, I'm counting on you to help me get my booty (which is possible growing this very moment) to the gym. Next year I'm going to ask Santa to put Slim Fast in my stocking.

Our Christmas

Our awkward family pose :)

Tanner trying to look intellectual

Our freakin' sweet pajamies!

Gosh he's cute!

Christmas was great this year, we got spoiled! Thanks to our parents, we love them and owe them so much. I know there are a lot of pictures of Tanner opening presents, but he's just so cute, he's like a little kid he gets so excited! We can't wait for some real little kids to watch open presents! :)

Christmas Joys!

The Fullmers have had another great Christmas! Christmas Eve we rushed to the Fullmer family party and ate lots of food and had a great time. They have a program on a little stage in the basement, and it always begins with reading Luke 2 and at the same time the little kids are all dressed up in costumes from the nativity, it's so cute with the blankets on their heads, especially Tate's that was leopard print. :) I was so nervous because Tanner's grandma asked me to read Luke 2 for the program, but Tanner informed me I didn't shame him and I did ok. Then the grandkids have a little talent show, singing, dancing, playing the tuba, etc. The funnest part was "The 12 Days of Christmas," something his family made up themselves where they sing the song and have special moves to go with it. The Lords'a'leaping verse almost turned into a mosh pit!

After we ran to my family's and played games and ate even more food, I'm pretty sure I've gained back my five pounds just over the break. Christmas day I worked, but we ran and saw all three families after, it kept us nice and busy. We had a wonderful Christmas, that night after the running around was over I had some time to sit and think about the Savior and I thought about how I would feel if I had been there at his birth to come and worship him. Christmas is a wonderful opportunity for us to serve others and our families in remembrance of his service and sacrifice to us. It made me that much more thankful for my family and increased my love for the Savior. I hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas!

These are a few pictures, one of the snow in West Jordan, we were only planning on staying Thursday night, but it snowed 15-21" Friday, so we had to stay another night! This is Friday night, Tanner was actually brave enough to hold and even feed Noelle (he's scared of holding babies cause he thinks he'll hurt em). Aren't they precious? Sweet uncle Tanner, he'll be the cutest daddy!

Too fun not to post

Dropping Aly off at the MTC, I'm so glad I got to go, we were all bawling of course, but I'm so happy she's there and know she'll be an amazing missionary. She's serving in the Spain Madrid mission and is already in the Madrid MTC and doing great! Those are Tanner's parents (not hard to tell, he looks just like his dad), Aly, Taylor, and Lindsey (Noelle's mama!).

Hermana Fullmer!

All the Fullmer gals

I love Ashley's face in this one :)

Bonjour!

We looked like really, really white Muslims!

So I know Halloween was two months ago, but it took me awhile to get these pictures uploaded to my computer and I love them, so I wanted to post them. This was the witches night at Gardner Village. It was me, Aly, Ashley, and Laura (Ashley's sister). We (Aly and I) weren't as cool as them with their costumes, but still had a great time!

So stinkin' cute!!

I just have to show ya'll how adorable our little niece Noelle is, she is now at home and doing great, this is her the week she left the hospital, then here she is now, she's getting so chubby, I love it!! (Sorry Linz, I stole these off your blog, but only to show everyone how gorgeous she is!! :) )

I love that lil' double chin, love it!!!!

Home Crap Home....

Thank goodness the health department doesn't make house calls
Because this is what they would have found:

I know some of you are saying, that doesn't look so bad, but we have been living like this for months. There are a couple days it might be clean in between, but pretty soon it's right back to this. If we had children, they would be taken away. If the kitchen picture was a scratch'n'sniff, it would smell like barf and rotting vegetables, it is disgusting. We couldn't even walk into our room without stepping all over our clothes. But now thanks to the semester being over, our house is now livable for a sweet two weeks. *Sigh.*

Freedom!!!!

There's my nerdy, I'm so excited this is almost over face!

Ashley lecturing Christie about something

Ashley, Lindy, and Selina

This is our clinical group at Davis Hospital (except we're missing Angie), we had so much fun together. That's our instructor Rick, who had a good 'ole time making fun of me, but he's still awesome. For our last day, we went out to Rumbi's together, yum!

Well, the semester ended Thursday, I passed my first semester of nursing school, it's finally over!! One down, three to go. Tanner's finals ended yesterday, thankfully his was in the morning before the huge snowstorm closed down the campus, what a relief! We are so excited to have some time together, last night we snuggled on the couch and watched a movie without having to worry about studying, it was divine. I'm so happy!!!! I thought this picture described my feelings pretty well, though I'm pretty sure Ashley is going to send me some hate mail about it, I think she looks adorable! This was after our last day at clinical, she was so excited, she had to stick her head out the window, man she's hilarious! Though I complain about nursing school, we do have plenty of good times too, as you can see.

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..

Christmas is almost here and we can hardly wait! Really though we love the feeling of building up to Christmas, going to see the lights, the family parties, it's great. I love Christmas day cause everyone finally gets to open all the presents you've gotten them, but then in the afternoon it's kinda over and a little sad. So we've been endeavoring to enjoy this festive season despite the evil forces working upon us not to (*cough* nursing school and Tanner's math professor). Tanner just got the urge to buy a turkey last Saturday cause it's his favorite and all, and you know what he did? He woke up at 4 am Sunday morning and cooked that turkey! It wasn't quite thawed, but by 3pm it was done and after carving it up and some just-in-case nuking it in the microwave, we had 3 large tupperwares filled to the brim...mmmm.....turkey..(drool here). We also got our tree that day, now it feels like Christmas is really coming! We both are advocates of the real Christmas tree, not to bag on the fakees, but it just feels so Christmasey when you walk in the house and it smells like the tree and I love going to pick it out, it's so much fun. And Tanner refers to the year his mom got a fake tree as "the year she started ruining Christmas," so obviously we had to go with a real one, though I must say, I think it was a little harsh of him to say. I'm so excited for all the parties and reading Luke 2 together, seeing all his cousins acting out the nativity at his grandparents, Christmas really is so magical!

Aly is doing well and in the Spain MTC. I miss her lots already, but I'm so excited for her out there. And some more great news, our niece Noelle was released from the hospital a couple of weeks ago and is now doing well at home with her parents! We got to hold her for the first time last Sunday, I almost cried seeing Tanner hold her close for so long (Tanner is usually uncomfortable holding babies, so it was so sweet) and smile at her like that. When I held her, I already knew she was part of the family and we all love her to death! She's so tiny still, but so cute! I'll post those pics when I get them. I need to catch up, but finals are next week, so I'm a little slow. And though it's been said, many times, many waaaays, Merry Christmas....to you...in case you can't tell, we've been listening to a lot of Christmas music.

The best ab workout

Today I had clinical up at Davis Hospital, it is not fun waking up at 5 am to get there by 6:30. But thankfully, I have made some amazing friends up at school, particularly, Christie, Rachel, and Ashley. I've made a lot of great new friends up there, I don't mean to leave anyone out, it's just me and these gals in particular just clicked. We all have a lot in common and have so much fun together! I have been having severe lack of motivation syndrome with these last couple weeks of school (2 weeks left today!!), but having them there makes it so much easier to go. I know I probably sound like I'm in high school saying I like school because of my friends, but they just make it that much better and today we all laughed so hard on the way home from school. The kind of laughing that makes you cry, have to pee a little bit, and your abs hurt at the end, but you feel so good after. I am so grateful for them and having someone to relate to and listen to all the events of my life, and I love hearing all of their stories. I would go absolutely crazy without them because my life pretty much is school and sometimes work, and since I practically never see my amazing, hot, sweet hubs, every day would be torture. I am so thankful Heavenly Father answered my prayers and helped me get into nursing school, and blessed me with more wonderful friends, you guys really are a blessing in my life. Ok, now I'm getting a little too sappy, even for me, so I'll stop, but thanks for the laughing with/at/around me, it makes the day so much better, I loves you guys!