So much to be grateful for

I have been doing a lot of thinking over the last month or so about how extremely blessed I am and how much my Heavenly Father loves me and my family. I was thinking back over the last year and how much the Lord has had a hand in our lives. Last December our lives were turned upside down. It was one of the hardest things that the two of us has gone through in our marriage. It was also one of the best things for us. We grew together as a couple and we had to turn to each other and to the Lord for help. My love for Chris and my savior grew so much. As much as Chris and I wanted to go to Houston, I am starting to see and understand why we are still in Provo. We have truly been blessed.The last year has made me realize how very grateful I am for is the gospel in my life. I honestly do not know where I would be with out it. My grandma just passed away and I was reminded how awesome it is that we can be together again with our loved ones. I love knowing that Chris is stuck with me FOREVER and that families are forever. How stinking cool is that?I have been learning a lot about the Lords time table, his will, faith, and patience. Things that I have had to work on. Luckily the Lord is loving and patient with me. I am grateful for the priesthood in my home. What a great blessing it is to have a husband that is worthy of it. I am grateful for a Savior that loves me no matter what I do. He never leaves me and is always there for me.A few years ago when we were down in Houston we went to a Rockets game. At that time the teams motto was," Live it. Every day. Every game." and they were showing it every where. Since then I have thought about this a lot. I have thought about it in the gospel sense though and have tried to do just that. Live it (the gospel) every day. I am so much happier when I do.I guess I am just blabbing on, but I have been thinking about a lot lately. I really do have so much to be grateful for and will forever be in debt to my Heavenly Father and Savior.

This is a picture of my great grandma Bleak & me at my wedding. She lived to be 98 years old. What a life she had lived. She had 3 kids, 20 grand children, 70 great grand children, & 19 great great grand children. She will for sure be missed.

Christmas in Pioche

I am a little late on the whole blogging thing lately. I forgot our charger for the lap top in Pioche, which makes it a little hard to use the computer with when its pretty much dead. Our neighbors were nice enough to let us use their charger today and so I get to blog now.

We went to Pioche for Christmas and had such a good time. All of my family was there, which made for a full house. It was so fun to spend time with everyone, especially all of my nieces and my new little nephew. Over half of the family got sick so that wasn't much fun, but we were able to still have a good time. Here are some pictures from our Christmas this year.

Here is our Christmas tree. I wanted to put it up pretty much after Halloween, but knew that I couldn't. So I patiently waited until after Thanksgiving and loved every minute of having it up.

This was my parents Christmas tree on Christmas eve. My parents have decided that they need to add onto the house, or we could just buy less stuff. Santa for sure made it to Pioche though.

Bailey got a lot of dress up stuff as you can see. She did made up her daddy. I had my share of dress up sessions also. She made me look so sexy that Chris had a hard time resisting me. Too bad I didn't get a picture of it.

Here she is in one of her outfits.

My adorable nieces and nephew. This is the best I could get. For some reason they didn't want to work with me.

Baby Daxton

Sophie

Kloe

Bailey

Vinnie decided to come out and try and tackle Kyle and Chris. He quickly learned two things. First thing is that Chris really is a ninja. Second is that Bailey won't let ya mess with her daddy without freaking out. It was pretty funny though.

Kyle and Bailey made a fort and were throwing snowballs at us.

Here is Chris in his sexy snow suit probably from the 80's. My dad probably wore this when I was little. It did the job though.

Uncle Chris and Bailey. These two are buddies.

Kyle and his family

Vinnie and his family

This picture says it all. By the time all was said and done this is how I'm pretty sure everyone felt... TIRED and ready for a nap.

I forgot to take pictures of Chris and I with our gifts and what not. We even had a few surprises, which usually doesn't happen to often.

We had such a great Christmas this year. This is my favorite time of year for many reasons. I love being able to reflect on the Savior and his life. I love being able to spend time with loved ones. And I just love the spirit of Christmas. What a great time of year.

A proud aunt once again

I know that I have said this time and time again, but I just love being an aunt. Probably because I have the cutest nieces ever and now I have the cutest nephew ever. My brother Kyle and his wife Eva had their little guy on Thurs night. I am so excited that little Daxton Paul Donohue joined our family. He is a little out numbered right now, but I am sure he will be well taken care of. We love you Daxton and can't wait to meet you. I hope to get some pics of him soon to show him off.

smorgasbord of events

This last month has been super busy and so much fun. We celebrated our 4th anniversary, which was awesome. I am so lucky to married to the most amazing husband ever. Oh how I love him and look forward to the years to come. I went to the Twilight premier with the gals. We went to Houston for Thanksgiving and had such a great time down there. It was so much fun to be with the family and enjoy the nice warm weather down there. While we were there we went to the Renaissance Festival, the Galleria, and to Old Town Spring. It was really cool cause I hadn't done any of these things. We also went to my favorite Thai restaurant "Thai Shiam". I sure do love that place. We also ate some dang good food. Chris' mom sure can cook. We were able to hang out with our good friends that Bassetts and Chris played in the Ward Turkey Bowl. I think thats pretty much our Smorgasbord of events.

My brother Kyle & sis-in-law are having a baby boy in Dec. Eva had a baby shower so I whipped out baby quilt for them. I did this in less than 12 hours, which is pretty quick. I ran out of time, so I didn't get to do a couple of things that I had wanted to. I think that it turned out pretty cute though. I had seen this quilt & thought I can make that, so I did.

Chris bought me some roses for our anniversary. They were so pretty.

Us girls waiting for Twilight to start.

Erika, Chris, & me in Old Town Spring. This was a really fun little area.

The boys at the Turkey Bowl. After playing Chris realized that he is getting old. He rolled his ankle pretty good. Then some kid & him hit heads pretty hard & it sliced Chris' ear open. My little porcelain doll.

Showing off his mad skills.

The fam after Thanksgiving dinner. We had such a great week with them.

Chris & Erika

Chris & I

The three of us

The actors & actresses at the Renaissance Festival.

The jousting. It was pretty cool to watch these guys.

I know this is a really attractive picture of me. But this is the first turkey leg that I have ever really eaten like this. It was massive & people were just walking around eating turkey legs.

So Chris didn't want me to put this pic up because it makes him sick. This was one of the actresses. Yes that is a He She. When I first saw IT, I was like that man has boobs. We kept seeing IT everywhere. So Erika & I decided to take a pic. I guess I was kind of staring trying to figure if they were real or not. She said, "Honey you haven't been drinking that much. They are real as ever." It was kind of funny. The whole festival was really cool though.

I know that this is kind of late, but Happy Thanksgiving! Let the Christmas season begin now. I can't wait & am so excited. I have already put of our Christmas decorations & been listening to Christmas music. I am loving it.

Mulletts Galore

We have been up to quite a bit these past few weeks. A couple of things that have been happening. ESPN's College Game Day come to BYU and Chris was able to go with a couple of friends. I wanted to go but had to work :( Too bad BYU got their butts kicked by TCU. As Chris put it, " TCU is bigger, faster, stronger, & blacker (more athletic)." Totally cracked me up. Don't think he is racist, because he's not. Anyways, he sure did have a lot of fun doing the whole Game Day thing.

Halloween was a lot of fun. Chris' boss at works likes to dress up and have everyone dress up. Chris knowing this for awhile had been thinking a lot about what he wanted to be. He had it narrowed down to two things... a white trash person or a BYU fan. He couldn't pull himself to be a BYU fan and opted for the white trash guy. It's kind of funny cause he is part asian. My opinion is he just looked so nasty and funny. Anyways, for work his boss and his wife decided for their work party they wanted to take everyone to the movie. We went and saw "Where the Wild Things Are." It was so nice of them and fun. We also had a little Halloween party with some people from our ward, so Chris was able to wear his costume again.

Chris' grandpa Yeates had his knee replaced this last week so we were able to go and spend time with him and some of his other family. It's always fun to see them and spend time with them.

Well thats pretty much whats been happening in around here with us. Here are some pictures to show what we have been up to.

Some of the crowd at College Game Day

ESPN College Game Day

The infamous mullett man aka white trash.

Chris & Kendall, oh so gross

Chris' work party. They wore their costumes to the movie.

Chris & his boss Paul. Two crazy guys.

Our cousin Joey. He is so cute

Our little Halloween party.

Thank goodness the mullett days are over in the Yeates home for awhile. Happy Halloween & most important, Happy Nevada Day!!!

PumPkiNs

This past weekend was pretty dang busy for me and I didn't get much sleep but it was a good one to say the least. Friday night some couples from our stairwell got together and painted our pumpkins for Halloween. It was a lot of fun and we had some cute ones this year. It feels like Halloween now.

Chris getting ready to spray paint his pumpkins.

He's trying to figure out how to stand it up so that the bottom can dry.

I used chalk paint this year for my black one. It was way cute and fun.

Chris with the finished project.

Me with the finished pumpkins.

Our cute little pumpkins outside our door.

This blanket was part of my super busy weekend. There was a family in our ward and their little baby passed away last week. So as a ward we made a blanket for them. It was really neat because we had every family in our ward cross stitch a heart onto a square to let them know how much we love them. I was able to teach a little bit about making quilts to some sisters, which was fun to be able to share some of my talents with others. I am a little bit bias, but I think that it turned out so dang cute. I hope that the family knows and could feel that they are loved and in our thoughts and prayers. Over the last week I have been able to think about the gospel and how grateful I am to have it in my life. With out the gospel, it sure would be hard to make it through life.

Catch up

Well, quite a bit has gone lately and I haven't blogged about any of it. We have been staying pretty busy with life, Chris more so than me. He is busy with work, school, and trying to make me happy (which isn't that hard). I have a few projects that I am working on for Christmas gifts, so that is keeping me pretty busy. Here are a few of the things that we have done.

Our stairwell has done a couple of things together, which has been fun. We went to Pioche for a weekend. My mom turned the big 50 and my high school was celebrating its 100 year reunion for homecoming. That was pretty fun. I guess thats pretty much all of the big stuff that has been happening. Here are the pictures of some of our happenings.

In our stairwell almost all of our birthdays were either in August or September so we had a dinner and then hit a pinata. It was quite entertaining.

Kendall giving it a go around.

Chris with one of the parts that fell off.

us just chillin

We have had construction going on for a year now around our apt. I'm about sick of it, but thats another story. Well they seemed to think that they could just park in our parking spot whenever and for as long as they wanted. We finally got sick of it and Chris made this note and put it on the tractor. It was pretty funny. We thought that they would get the hint and move it the next day. Nope, it was still there. I finally called good ole Wymount and talked the manager and they moved the tractor right away.

You think my tractor's SEXY!!!

Some of the people that came home for the homecoming game and 100 year celebration.

My mom and dad. Aren't they just the cutest thing ever.

The L that they light up every time we score a touchdown. Way to lynx!!!

Just a few of the things that we did over the last month.