Reunited and it feels so good!

My best friends from my late teenage years got together and had a girls weekend in Park City. I miss these girl so much. They have been through so much with me tears, happiness, hard times, laughter, and hyperness. We have been through a lot and although our friendship the past couple of years has been a little rocky I still love them to death. We have not all been all together since my wedding and when we met up we just picked up right where we left off. It was like we never missed a beat. It was truly so satisfying to be back with my 3 best friends. Thanks girls for the best weekend ever, I love you girls.

McKenna Mitchell, Kelli Whitney, Shana Davis, Shawn Reese
This was some good pizza look how cute they all are!

I love that we are still our wild and crazy selves.

We played the best game called Curses. They look so silly!

This was our romantic dinner next to the fireplace.

I can't wait until Shana's play next Monday and Sundance in January!

Gingerbread Making

Ann invited all of us over to have a gingerbread house making party. We had a lot of fun. Each family got to build there own house and decorate it anyway they wanted. Nick and Dan's house would not stay up so they had to hold it up for a long time while there kids decorated the house with lot's of "snow" and candy. Here is Dan and Ann trying to make the roof stay on. Jordan loved to put frosting all of the house which he called "snow" and Ryken like to eat the candy then put it back on the house.
Bros really concentrated on making sure is house was just perfect.

Here is Ryken Putting more "snow" on his house. The kids got so messy by the end, but they had a lot of fun making the houses.

Dan's + boys Nick's + Boys Mine and Jer's

Here are the finished products.

After we made the houses we watched Home Alone the boys have never seen it before and they were laughing their heads off.

Thanks Ann for a fun family home evening night! I enjoyed every minute of it and now I have a cute gingerbread house in my home.

30? Seriously?

Happy Birthday to Adam (Yesterday)! Sorry I didn't post one yesterday, but I was out shopping!

I can't believe that you are 30 years old that means that I am almost 23! scary! Adam, I wanted to take some time and tell you that you are so special to me and I'm so glad that you are my older brother. I love you to death and I think that you are one of the coolest people I know. Ever since we were little I've wanted to be exactly like you and well I think I've learned how to be like you. 1. Stand up for yourself, even if that means getting into a fight at Disneyland. 2. Act the way you want to if people can't accept you for who you are then they are not your friends any way. 3. Let yourself be seen and heard. I have learned so much from you. You showed me that it's okay to be crazy because people laugh at you and then they will think you are funny. I learned how to fake sick so I could go to Gammy's and drink Coke. You taught me how to care and help others, make the perfect Ice Cream scoop, play a lot of video games, and how to be the center of attention.

I love your fun personality and I just love being around you. I loved when you took me to events that you hated; front row tickets to the N'SYNC concert (I'm still mad the Justin waved at you and not me) and Utah Gymnastics season tickets that you got me for Christmas. I'm so happy that you came to every single one of my plays/musicals that I was in and even helped backstage at the Dinner theater's. I'm sure you can still do the whole play of Quilters (if anyone has not seen this please ask Adam to act out that play because it's just about the funniest thing ever!), I'm sure you still know every line in "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown", and I bet you still know the dance "Uncle Tom's Cabin" from the 2 years I was in "The King and I".

I have so many great memories of you and I. I wish I could write them all down, but that would just take way to long. They would include, wrestling with Dad, sports, Oregon, cruises, making forts, beating me up, and Christmas eve. I love how you would invent games when you were babysitting us, even if I did end up getting stitches in my head. You are so smart and talented and I can't believe that you just built and arcade thing from scratch! you are truly amazing and I look forward to more memories that we will share in the future.

Thanks for protecting me all of these years form Travis, Katie, Mom, boys, and anyone who I started a fight with that you had to step in and end. I also was glad to have my friends come over and meet you because everyone thought that you were the coolest and it made me cool. Coming home from school I loved to see your Yellow truck in the drive way because then I knew I had entertainment waiting for me. I'm glad I still get to see you all the time and that we can still have a lot of fun together.

I love you Adam and I hope that you had the best day ever! Happy Birthday!

Disneyland + Universal + blowout game + body surfing = A great family vacation

We went down to southern Cali to see the Utes play and it turned into a 6 day awesome vacation.

We went right to old town when we got off the plane to eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant

Of course we had to bring 3 laptops and they were always being used by someone.

Beach and the Utes game

We had a lot of fun body surfing and playing in the ocean.All of us in the water.

I love that he looks like this. What a funny Dad.

Adam, Jeremy, and Travis body surfing.



They Utah game was awesome! What a blowout. I watched Addison while the girls went to wicked. She is so precious and I love her!

Yeah! They do love me!

Universal Studios

My mom talked us into going to Universal and boy am I glad she did. I loved this place I was surrounded by awesome sets that are used in real movies. We missed Nat and Trav who stayed back with a sick baby and then Nat got sick too! Sad news. This is was walking the red carpet. We are really movie stars. My favorite ride was The Mummy it was awesome and I want to go back and ride it right now!

We went on the back lot tour and this is the street that desperate house wives is filmed on. We got to see some awesome sets like the set of The Grinch, desperate house wives, old western movies, and the biggest blue screen I have ever seen.

Of course Access Hollywood wanted to interview me and I couldn't turn them down.

Jurassic Park the ride was awesome. At this park we didn't have any lines either, we rode this ride and the new Simpson's ride, which by the way was awesome, twice and the Mummy ride like 5 times.

The air was smokey because of the fires, but what a great sunset. It was a great day and I loved every minute of it!

The Happiest place on earth!

I love Disneyland and this is where Jeremy and I spent out 1 Anniversary! We had so much fun and we just walked on to every ride I couldn't believe it. We did everything we wanted to do and rode every fun ride like 5 times. Sorry that Nat was sick in 2 years when we go back you better feel a lot better.
This is space mountain, Jeremy's favorite ride! We kept riding this ride, by the end it was just Jess, Jer, and I that survived all the rides.
Adam loves Cotton Candy and I thought it was gross that he ate that entire glob of grossness.
The river run was awesome and Mom got soaked.
This is my favorite ride! Tower of Terror. Mom and Dad dropped out after like the 3rd ride, but we all loved it so we kept riding it. We found out that if you keep your legs and arms up it's even more of a thrill.
We rode splash mountain 3 times in a row. We didn't have to get off the boat we just switched spots to see how wet we could get. I have never laughed so hard on a ride before in my life. We made huge waves that went all the way up and touched all the characters. We would make a big splash and it would get the front people wet then when the wave came back to our boat it would just drowned the people in the back. Thanks for all the laughs family I loved it!

Do my siblings love me?

I always tell my brothers that I love them, but they never say it back to me. This night I was determied to have them tell me that and then get a cute picture with them.

We know they love MyKelle. Yes, this is Adam playing Barbies with MyKelle.

I know my cute Sister Katie loves me she always says it back to me.

Adam looks like I'm tyring to kill him all I wanted was to have him pose with me.

Okay so they will pose with Katie and eachother, but they still don't want to take pictures with us.

I just wanted a cute picture with my brothers and this is how it turned out. Not only did I fight them for a picture, but when I told them I loved them I got a text message from them saying "I hate you". I'm sure my brothers love me, right?

Again! Free for a year!

At Jordan Landing a new chick-fil-a opened up so Jeremy and I decided to take the opportunity and get more chick-fil-a free for a year. We had to make sure we were the first 100 people in line. This time happened to be the day that the snow fell all day long. (The night before the TCU/Utah game).

This is Jeremy standing by all the tents. There were 100 people there by 6PM. Miranda and came with us again and we had a new member Jon who was really excited to join our group. I was number 16, Miranda was #26, Jeremy was like #43, Jon was around #49, and Sam was maybe in the 50's.

This night was about the coldest night ever! It got down in the 20's and it was snowing. I was out side waiting from 1PM to 6:30 AM in the cold. They did serve us Hot chocolate, chicken sandwiches, and chicken noodle soup.

We had to sleep wrapped up in coat's, sweatshirts, blankets, hats, scarfs, and socks. Miranda had like 7 layers on what a good sport to do this 7 months prego!

These hats made us warmer, but we couldn't get them on for long due to claustrophobia.

Thanks guys for keeping me warm all night! See you at chick-fil-a!

Halloween fun!

Ann's Halloween party was so fun. We made pizza's and had a great time. I dressed up as Hannah Montana, Katie dressed up as a vintage lady, and little Abby was Miley she had taken her wig off in the picture, but she was still super cute.

Jamie and Miranda always try to get me over my fears and they took me to the Haunted Forest. It was super scary and I loved every minute of it. We had a lot of laughs and I can't wait for next year when we get a lot of people to go down there. But Jon is not allowed to sneak off and scare me! We found some hot 12 year olds to protect us. We took a picture with them and I love the face of the kid in the middle he is so happy.

At work they had a lot of scary animals come and that we could go hold. I didn't get near the spiders to scary for me, but while I was in the room someone dropped the spider on the floor and I freak out. In this blurry picture I was holding the snake, but right when Mary went to take the picture is started going up my neck and we both started freaking out. I like threw they Snake off me I was so scared I ran off like crying because I was so freaked out.

*Hey look Chris you are even in this post* Jeremy and his friends love to play this Hockey game so here is a picture of them playing the game. Jer and Chris won the most games that night. Annalisa and I had to just sit there and watch. I was still a fun night though, I love hanging out with Jer's friends they are so funny.

These are my cute little girls that I have adopted as my little sisters. I took them to the High School Musical 3 opening day. We had a lot of fun and I love these girls to death!

Catch up on posts day. (Are you happy Chris?)

My friend Chris says he is getting bored of seeing "Katie's Day" So I guess I should do a lot of posts so that Chris has something to read at work on Monday. So here our a lot of posts about trips, another free for a year, and other fun pictures. Enjoy!

It's Katie's day!!!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful Sister!!!
I can't believe that you are going to be 26! That means we are getting older. I just wanted to thank you for being the best older Sister anyone could have. Growing up Yes, we fought like cat's and dog's, but inside I wanted to be you. You taught me everything I know, I followed in your footsteps and wanted to do everything you did. You always had fun friends that you wouldn't let me hang out with, Hot guys that you went out on dates with, and we annoyed the crap out of eachother. However, I still loved you and I always looked up to you. You were and still are my Idol. I wouldn't take back on single experince we had because now I appreciate you more than ever!

I love these pictures of us, looking through my scrapbooks I found so many funny pictures we really are crazy Gines girls.

I admire you so much! You have been there for me when ever I needed you. You took care of me in Elementary school infact I remember when you left me alone when you went to 7th grade a enemy came over and said, "Now that your sister is in Jr. High who are you going to have protect you?" I guess I went and got you when people were being mean. To this day you are my Hero. I don't know how you have put with with so many trials in your life, you are truly amazing. You have a beautiful family and I love them so much. You are a wonderful wife, your husband is truly lucky to have a wonderful Daughter of God such as your self to spend forever with. I'm glad that we are best friends and I love you so much! I know how much you love quotes so here are some that always remind me of you.
"If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child"

"I smile when I think that your my sister, I laugh when I think you can't do anything about it!"

"What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?"

"My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time."

I could go on! Love you Sis! Have the best day ever, you deserve it!