Friends!

Not only is Christmas the best time of the year for family but its the best time because everyone comes home! I love to visit everyone when they come home for the holidays!! :)
Lauren, CHrista & Me!

Allie & Kellen

Michael & Sarah

Stephanie, Me & Allie

Closer to 30!

HAPPY 26TH BIRTHDAY DUSTY!!!
Dustin is 26 years old today! He is closer to 30 than 20 now! Unfortunately, his birthday is the day after Christmas and he doesn't get all the attention that he deserves! Everyone is busy returning gifts, taking down their Christmas Tree & Lights and cleaning the house. But we try to make it special so we went out to Yoshinos for Teppan Yaki lunch! He loved it! Next year, we're going to celebrate a week or two early so everyone can get together a little more easily!
Love you Dusty!! Happy Birthday!!



Dusty opening up a gift
Grandma Billie & Ryan

Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas!!
Hope everyone had a great day with food, gifts, family and friends! We had a wonderful Christmas this year with eachother and our families! We did food & games with all the different family groups! I didn't take very many pictures but I got a few!! Love you all!
Brooke (with her new headband)

Brookes little dog, Roxy!

Brents BDay

Today my youngest brother is 14 years old!! Happy Birthday Bub!!
He was so cute...

..still cute, just bigger!!

Precious Angels

I love my Precious Angels, Addy & Emmy! I can barely stand it!!

Christmas Tree Lane

We drove down Christmas Tree Lane this year a few times! We went down the orginal Christmas Tree Lane on Van Ness, we went down Cherry Ln, Cindy Lane on Alluvial & Peach and the neighborhood by Maple & Behymer. I love to look at lights! the lights seem to get bigger and better every year!

Christmas Cards

I love love love Christmas cards! I love to make them, I love to send them, I love to receive them and I LOVE TO HANG THEM! I got enough this year to fill both sides of our refrigerator! Yay! Merry Christmas!

Ashlie's Bday!

Happy 21st Birthday Ashlie! We love you!

Brookelyn

Happy 21st Birthday Brookie Girl! We love you!

O Christmas Tree

We put up our Christmas Tree and our other Holiday Decorations tonight!

Master Bath

I painted the master bathroom the same color as the bedroom.
I know I don't have to or maybe I'm not supposed to but I like it!
And Dust filled a hole in the wall from the medicine cabinet/mirror. :)
From Beginning to the Finished Product!

Thanksgiving Day

We had a great THANKSGIVING and I hope everyone else did too! This years movie was "A Christmas Carol" with Jim Carey and it was great! It was a great day full of good food, friends and family! Just the beginning of a great holiday season!

My 22nd Birthday

So I turned 22 years old yesterday. yay!
I hate to say it but birthdays just aren't what they used to be! I still had a great day, its just not that exciting anymore when you're past the age of 21.
When you're
12: Young Women's/Mutual
14: Stake Dances/Mia Maids
16: Dating
18: Legal/ Buy Lotto Tickets?
21: Drinking? (Doesn't really count)
25: Rent a car?
Anyways, we went out to Dinner, saw New Moon, my parents gave me some money(I bought a watch and some clothes), Kim gave me a pair of jeans(Joe's), and Dusty gave me a cake!
Now, I bet your thinking, What a lame gift, but NO! I always tell Dustin that I don't really need a gift, just a card and dinner to let me know you are thinking of me. BUT, I also always tell Dustin about how much I love WEDDING CAKE!! I only go to receptions because of the wedding cake! I love the creamy butter cream frosting covered over a white cake with strawberry/raspberry filling. And if I'm lucky, the cake will be covered with FONDET! Pure Sugar!! (I sound super fat saying this)I'm not going to lie, I really do love wedding cake!
So Yes, I got my very own Wedding cake for my birthday! No, I didn't eat it all by myself, I shared it with my family!! So overall I had a great day!

Family Pictures

The Tanner side of the family took new family pictures this week. My brother is home now and my sister got married since the last family photo. My mom blows up one picture of the family every two years to place over her fireplace. Heres the fam!
Heres the picture from 2 years ago!

Steel Blue

I finally painted our Master Bedroom! I love it! We choose "Steel Blue" by Behr paint! I really wanted the blue because it matched so well with the new bed spread we got at JCPenny home store. I love changing up my room!! Yay!
This picture is from my cell phone because my camera isn't cooperating with me!!

But this one is from my camera!

And heres Dusty & Tiffany watchin tv

Pismo

This last weekend we went on vacation to Pismo!! We had such a great time! Probably one of the best times I have had there! We went with some of our friends. One of our friends, Tiffany, had never been to Pismo Beach so it was really exciting for her! We went to Splash Cafe, Moes BBQ, walked on the beach, walked out on the pier in the dark, saw bio-lumencents waves, rode 4-6 person Bike for an hour (Crazy hard), got a 7/11 slurpee (because we almost died riding that bike!!) sat in the Hot Tub/swam in the heated pool (in the hotel next door because our hotels was under construction, ate some Salt Water Taffy, saw the cutest dogs (I really wanted to get one), got a Manicure/Pedicure, went to the Outlets, had dinner at Spencers brothers house, & saw the Monarch butterflies! We packed a lot in on our 3 day trip!
Splash Cafe (We saw a ton of Fresno people there! That was fun!)

On the bikes

Dusty was trying to be in the picture since he was taking the picture...

Family Pictures

Just some family pictures! A few for fun!


We took some professional picutres for above the fireplace in my moms house but we haven't gotten them back yet!

Gratitude

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I can't help but think of my Dads talks. Before Thanksgiving dinner every year, my dad asks everyone around the table to share a few things we are grateful for. I know that sometimes it can be hard to share what you are grateful for but those people you are grateful for should be told. A few things that I am grateful for:
1. Husband who loves and supports me 2. A good Job 3. A healthy family
I hope that this year as we go thru November/Thanksgiving that we might be able to share with others our gratitude!

Halloween

Every year (for the past 4 years), Dusty and I have gone to my Uncle Jarrods house to participate in his haunted house. Dustin loves it! Mostly because he gets to scare little kids! I like to go because I get to see all the little kids we know and see how cute they are! So the girls pass out candy and the boys scare the little kids and sometimes big kids!
Heres a picture of the group right before we started letting people thru the haunted house. :)

And this is Dusty & my Dad!

Hope everyone had a great holiday!

Tahoe

We are brand new owners to a 2003 Chevy Tahoe!!! We have been looking around and on craigslist for a while and finally found a good one! It has all the features including OnStar, a Moon Roof & Leather seats! An older gentleman owned it and it looks brand new! Apparently, the backseats have never really been sat in! You can tell! It looks great!!! We love it!!


Before Dusty & I got married, he owned a 1999 Tahoe. I liked it but he sold it for his El Camino, which he sold for his Toyota truck! His old Tahoe was fun but I like the new body style of our new one!!

Now that I think about it, We have had A LOT of cars together!! Crazy!

Waffle Night

I started a new calling a few weeks ago teaching Sunday school to the 16-17 year olds in our ward! I love it!! They're such a great class! I had them over tonight for waffles and getting to know each other better! I can't believe how sweet these guys are!

The boys (Chris & Dylan) think they are too cool for pictures!!

CornField Maze

Dusty, Brooke, Shaun & I went to the cornfield maze last night! It was so much fun. We completed the maze in 7 minutes! Apparently we made all the right turns.
We went and looked at the animals and Dusty fed the mini horse. :)

Flower Beds

Dustin and I decided that our front yard flower beds could use some mulch to make them look better. So I send Dusty to Home Depot to buy a few bags. Meanwhile, I left to go to a Vinyl Lettering party and when I got back, I saw this....


Now, don't get me wrong, I was very happy that Dusty went and took care of the flower beds like we talked about, I was just a little suprised! Talk about Red!!! I guess I should have been more specific on the color. I just assumed we both knew what we were talking about!!! If you ask Dusty, he will say that the flower beds look fabulous! Crazy man!