Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Yep, that's right I'm 26 now!! We had a family party while Amy and Tony were in town and here is the recap!!!

Sydney and I blowing out my b-day candles!

Happy Birthday to me!!

Me and my love!!

Me and Dante- the only way he would let me hold him is to hold the candy bowl!
Dante cuddling with mom!

Karen and Jenni

Sydney waving good bye!!

Thanks to all of my family for such a wonderful birthday!!!

The Gottwald Christmas party

Ok so I know I am way behind, but I am trying to catch up. The Gottwald Christmas is always a big hit, here are some of my cute nieces and nephew!! Every year they have a candy jar and you have to guess how many are in there, and this year nick won it!!! We were very excited, but all that christmas candy has not been good for my girlish figure, but it sure was tasty!!

Elena showing her mad artwork skills!!

The next american idol!!

Grayson trying to show us that he is old enough to walk!

Candace and Gabby

What a cute couple!!

Happy Holidays!!! a little be-lated!!

Oh Christmas Tree!!!!

Our beautiful Christmas tree! We put it up the day after Thanksgiving, and lets just say-- it is already dead. Yep that's right, this thing is a fire hazard. The needles are crisp as a winter moring, but it still looks beautiful, and you wouldn't know it was dead unless you bumped into it (very poky)!

This is my Nick

This is what he pretty much does all day when he is at home, and am very grateful to have finals be over with!!!!! He wants to celebrate by going to barnes and noble and read comic books, and he will definitely deserve it!! Too bad he has to start back up in January though.

Happy Holidays!!!

Halloween Update

My pumpkin!!!!

Vicki and Jack

These were a few of my trick-or-treating visitors on halloween. What a cute little dragon Jack makes(not to be confused with a dinosaur--he is a dragon!!) So cute!

After trick-or-treating visitors came and went we went over to our friends Jeremy and Jen's party, It was awesome, they had rock band and delicious food!! Afterwards, we were able to go to Red Mango(my first time), which is quite tasty!!!!

Happy be-lated Halloween!!

Halloween Fun

Friday, we held our annual "Dinner in a pumpkin" party. It was loads of fun. But unfortunately I didn't even get a picture of the pumpkin-- dinner that is. We carved pumpkins, watched Van Helsing, and ate dinner with lots of good company.

This is the pumpkin Nick carved, I am waiting to carve mine closer to Halloween.

This WAS delicious!!!

Can you guess what we are? Smores!! Thanks for the idea Kimmy!!!

We had the Robots from Flight of the Chonchords show up!!

Some Scarecrows!!!

And some Sassy Pirates!!!

Last Game of the Season!!!

Team- H2O

So I have been playing on a women's soccer league in Salt Lake and this was our last game of the season. I have just been too shy to take pictures, I would even bring my camera to most games too, but never take any pictures. I declared to Nick that I needed pictures taken at my last game, because soccer has played a pretty big part of my weekends. Nick is so good to come to my games when he can! I love him for that!! Even in the 100 degree weather, or the rain, or the days when the sun is in your eyes the whole time!! I just Love him!

My biggest Fan.... all bundled up!!

This is our team members that played + 1 girl, so that made a total of 9 people, ya not fun to have only 9, but i think we did pretty well considering we lost a girl at half time and the other team had like 5 subs! We only lost by 2--- 3-1. Which is good considering our circumstances. Funny thing is we always have subs, oh well!!

Game over!!

Jen and Jeremy's Wedding!!!

So Jeremy and Jen were married on Sept. 20th for time and all eternity in the slc temple. It was a beautiful ceremony! We enjoyed all the wedding festivities!! Jeremy and Jen are very good friends of ours. Jeremy is one of Nick's best friends, and I knew him from the very first time we started dating and Jen is a sis-in-law to one of Nick's other best friend Derrick! Now Jeremy and Derrick are brothers! It was good to hang out with all of the gang again!!

The Cute Couple!!

Derrick, Nick, and Skylar!!

Natalie, Nick, Derrick, (Melinda is not pictured but was there), Jeremy, Jen, Chris and Lindsey

So I know the flash is in the mirror in the back ground, but the other picture we had taken was just not as good!