"The Good Times Are Killing Me"

This past weekend there were a few Christmas parties going on. Saturday started off with some shopping with John and Jess for a few hours. Then we got in the hot tub with our BFF's and chilled before going to the first holiday party.First, was the 2nd Annual Dirty Santa White Elephant Party at Cody and Kaysi's house. Many great presents for those lucky ones :P There were three little babies at the party, but Chad's little Vanessa was the cutest!I can't show what happened once the little midget blow-up doll was inflated.. It was no good, but here is John blowing up Mimi the midget

Then we had a brunch at my momma's. We enjoyed some delicious food, played some games, and exchanged some gifts. We played the White Elephant Game where you draw numbers and then choose from a pile of presents. In this game, you may steal the presents from someone with a lower number than you. This year it got a little rowdy and there was a bit of wrestling over some of the presents as pictured below. My family is so cute! We took pictures of all the couples!

It was fun to spend some time with my cute little niece and nephew!Sunday night we went to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Ugarte. They took all of their grandkids (plus John and I) to the Olive Garden.

Lots o' Love

My Chrismakwanzukkah Wish List!!!

Things I have wanted for awhile now.. and things I will soon have...
Cross my fingers!!! I realize that some of these will have to wait...If you can not tell what these things are, I have provided a list:

• Trip to the Oregon Coast (any beach would be great right now!)
• Snowboard
• German Shepard Puppy
• Subaru Outback 2.5XT Limited Wagon
  
• Djembe
• Didgeridoo

Okay, so I was really bored at my long ass meeting, so I made me a little pic of things I want..
Thanks Hooch... and yes, I will borrow you the money to buy them for me!
Okay, really, I am going to buy these for myself...

Thank"full"ness...

My Thanksgiving break was a blast. It started with some food on at the Porcupine Grill with Jess, Wimmer, Trish, Hooch, and I...
Then we (minus Wimmer) went up to Park City to watch Matisyahu at Harry O's... We first checked into our hotel, then we got some drinks at O'Shucks before the show.. It was a blast!
Then we waited in line for like 5 minutes for the show..What a great lineup for the show...
Show started with my boyfriend.. Trevor Hall... I had not heard of him before the show, but man oh man.. he is adorable!!! Hooch bought me one of his cds.. He is so so so cute :P
His percussionist is bad ass too! He worked his ass off at the show

Trevor played barefoot until he came out later in the show to play with Matis..
Matis always has random colored shoes at his shows.. Last time was red.. now its green!
Then we were entertained by K'naan.. another great performance
The vocals guy had cute little dazzling eyes
Matisyahu is so cute. He always just jams. Best part of the show: We were front stage.. Sometimes during the show, we were just inches from Matis... and a few feet away from Trevor Hall!
Thanksgiving was at my Gram's and Gramp's house.. They are the best. I couldn't even begin to describe these people.. They are amazing, self-less, accepting, loving people... more than I could have ever asked for :PWe ate a lot of food and chilled for the rest of the dayOf course you can't have Thanksgiving Break without Black Friday..
Hooch and I visited some places, but not until 11 or so..
We didn't do the crazy "Early Bird" sales.. It was a good weekend..
Definitely nice to have some time off of work with Luvi!