It's a good thing blogging more is not on my new year's resolution list... I finally updated our blog from the past 2 weeks. Here's the link:

www.joshandshantelle.blogspot.com

We hope everyone is doing well!

Just finished updating our past couple of weeks.

www.joshandshantelle.blogspot.com

Thanks to everyone for coming home for Christmas! We had a blast with everyone and feel very blessed to have such an awesome family. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas while you were here!

So, since I want to make sure we have a fun Saturday together, I have decided to plan Saturday December 26th. This day shall be known as Brewer Family Day of Fun!!!

I don't have all the details planned out so any input is welcome.

9am Meet ________ for breakfast. (if you would like to donate your home for this breakfast let me know)

Sean will be making his famous hashbrowns (anyone have a grittal we can use) and I will be making pancakes. Eggs may or may not be involved.

After breakfast we will be headed to _tba_____ for a wicked awesome game of broom hockey. This will be a BYOB (bring your own broom)and if you feel the need to decorate or reinforce your broom, there will be prizes for the following catagories:

prettiest broom
strongest broom
Most Creative Broom
....thats just a taste of what categories there will be. (remember broom designing is optional so don't stress if you don't have the time!)

Ok, after broom hockey we will eat lunch....not sure what or where, I'm working on it.

After lunch.....well, I haven't gotten that far either so if anyone has any ideas let me know.

Dinner I think it would be fun to go out to somewhere inexpensive.

So, thats not a whole lot of details but it is a work in progress, if anyone has ideas or requests let me know!

I just did a major catch up of our past two weeks. Here's the link:

www.joshandshantelle.blogspot.com

The new posts include the BYU game, our Christmas party, and our major headache of pipes freezing, bursting, and flooding our basement :( Not a fun week...

OK, so no one has rejected the idea I had about gifts,and no one has told me of any other ideas, so we are going to go for it.I drew everyones names for everyone, even the kids. So each kid will give to a cousin. I know that none of us are rolling in the dough, so keep it simple. The limit is $3.00 a kid or less. As far as a price range for adults, I think $10 to $15, what ever everyone is comfortable with. Ok, so here are the names.

Ryon has Sean
Jana has Josh
Justin has Celeste
Ali has Jana
Shantelle has Rachelle
Josh has Ali
Rachelle has Ryon
Sean has Nate
Celeste has Shantelle
Nate has Justin
Hannah has Paige
Carson has Brayden
Harry has Brooklyn
Simon has Sadie
Brayden has Harry
Brooklyn has Hannah
Paige has Simon
Sadie has Carson

There ya go, see you all soon.

Hey everybody! We are getting VERY excited to see everyone next month. I've been thinking of some things to do while everyone is here, so if anyone has any ideas leave a comment so we can plan a fun week.

I have done quite a few blogs this week to get up to date. Here's the link: www.joshandshantelle.blogspot.com

New posts include:

New Trees and Shrubs for our house
Gateway Discovery Museum w/Justin and Ali
Brayden's Birthday

Hey everyone, so the kids in the family need to decide what we are doing for presents this year. I think that since everyone will be in town we should mix it up. We always give to couples, so I think we should give individually this year. I already drew names and stuff, but I don't want to make it official if people have already bought gifts. So let me know what you all think. If I don't hear from anyone I will assume this plan is fine. If is is not ok, call me, 801-209-7510. thanks, ali

So Sean and I have been going over the dates we are going to be in Utah and trying to work out when we are going to be where and such. Here is what we have so far...

Leaving Texas Tuesday Dec 22 at 5pm Stop in Dublin TX to get Dublin Dr Pepper (honestly if you want a case of Dublin Dr Pepper with pure cane sugar, let me know) and stop in New Mexico for the night. Finish driving Wednesday.

Wednesday Dec 23 arrive in SLC late

Dec 24 - no idea yet :)

Dec 25 - Christmas morning at Mom and Dad's, Cindy's for Christmas brunch, stop by Grandma and Grandpa Brewers and then spend the rest of the day at Mom's and Dads.

Dec 26 - Saturday. If everyone would be able to, i think it would be fun to have a super saturday of Brewer family fun!! I know Mom has inventory but we could have stuff planned for all day so she can join us when she gets done, let me know who is in for this and we can start making plans.

Dec 27 - church with mom and dad. Spend day with family at mom and dad's or whereever...another family day.

Dec 28 - Still in SL, will be meeting up with Sean's Sister and Step-Bro who we won't be able to see in Cedar City.

Dec 29 - travel to Cedar city

Dec 30 - go skiing for our anniversary at Bryan Head(I've never been so this should be interesting)

Dec 31 - in cedar

Jan 1 - family party at Sean's Mom's house

Jan 2-3 travel back to Texas.

So thats what I have so far so let me know your thoughts! The only thing that is really set in stone is Sean's Mom is having her annual extended Christmas party on the 1st.

Well I finally am getting on to blog about our Halloween. The night before Halloween we carved pumpkins, Paige got her own and was loving it, I didn't think she would get that into it but she had a good time. She really is our little copy cat, so if we are doing it, she wants to join in.On Halloween we went to my parents and had a Halloween Breakfast Party. We all dressed up and played games. We even went Trick or Treating at like 11 am around their nieghborhood.It was fun, the rest of the day was pretty relaxing, we really did not do much and stayed home for trick or treaters for the night.
Other than Halloween things are going well. Unfortunatly I have benn pretty sick with this pregnancy and it has definatly slowed me down. (Hence not bloggin.)I am just counting the days until my first trimester is over, which is a week, and praying that I start to feel better. Justin is being awesome about it and taking such good care of me and Paige. She sure loves her Daddy, as do I. He really is the perfect man for me and I appreciate him soooooooo much.
We are getting excited about Christmas, and cant' wait to see everyone. Hope all is well out there, luv ya all.

We had a great Halloween weekend. We went to our ward's trunk-or-treat, mom and dad's Halloween carnival/trunk-or-treat, a random party downtown, and trick or treating at Josh's parent's neighborhood. My blog posts are pretty lengthy, so check them out here:

www.joshandshantelle.blogspot.com.

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween and I can't wait to see pictures of everyone!!!