Brotherly Love

Ohhh good times. The pictures say it all. All I know is I was laughing REALLY hard while all this was going on. Gotta love slapping fights with brothers. Pretty darn entertaining!

One of my favorites...Love Emily napping while all this is going on!

Grandma Walton's Funeral

This was a really tough day for our whole family. One of the many WONDERFUL things our grandparents gave us, was a very close extended family. All growing up we had Sunday dinners at Grandma and Grandpa Walton's house with all of our cousins. Great Grandma and Grandpa Dahlin would come sometimes, too. It has been an amazing thing to be so close.

Growing up, I thought that was completely normal. I thought that everyone had their cousins live within 8 miles of them. I love that funerals, though such sad days, bring families back together. I also love that facebook and blogs help me keep up with my cousins' lives. I'm so grateful to have such a wonderful family. Here are a few pictures of the day:

Our family, sans spouses

Two of my beautiful cousins--Jessica and Courtney--and me

Our aunts and uncles, sans Uncle Chuck (He is currently a mission president in Portugal.)

All of the cousins!

The girls!

The boys! (Man, there really are a LOT more Walton boys than girls!)

Heart Attacking With The Young Women

For those of you who don't know, I now have the incredible opportunity to be in the Young Women's presidency. I am the 2nd counselor, so I am over the Beehives. Also, Sam is the 2nd counselor in the Young Men's presidency! So its been a lot of fun lately! We both absolutely love working with the youth. I couldn't imagine better callings for us right now.

This year, we decided to heart attack our incoming Beehives. So much fun! LOVE these girls!





(Hehe and the hearts are courtesy of my new vinyl cutter!! SOOO EASY!)

Christmas Morning!

(I know I know crazy late...but I'm almost caught up!!)

Santa came!!

Our stockings were hung by the dvds with care

With hopes that a vinyl cutter soon will be here! (yay for my new silhouette)

Sam and his beautiful new golf clubs!!

Merry Christmas To All And To All A Good Night!

Our Christmas Eve Dinner

Sam and I finally used our china for the first time! I can't remember everything we ate, but I do remember that we foolishly decided to have steak on our china... hehe I had us cut it on separate plates before. I reminded myself of Monica from Friends when they use their china for Thanksgiving dinner.

"In fact I think that everyone should cut their food like this." (Monica holds a turkey leg up in the air over the plate trying to cut meat off with a knife) "Now see, this way you protect the plate... and lets face it, you have fun!" hehe. Isn't it beautiful though??


Thank you to all of you who gave us our beautiful fancy dinnerware!! hehe.

Christmas Eve Eve Celebration

We have a little bit of a different tradition in the Walton family since siblings have gotten married. We always have a Christmas Eve Eve celebration, so we never have to fight for Christmas Eve. There have been talent shows, Nativities, Romanian brothers gymnastics, etc... but this Nativity was problem the most extensive costume-wise! We usually like to have the Nativity be just the grandkids, but this year the only family with kids was Chris and Jamie's. So Brian and Kate played Mary and Joseph, and Sean of course played baby Jesus. (Pretty big for a "newborn!") Jeremy, Mike, and Jason played the wise guys. Sam and I played the part of shepherds, Krista and Maria were angels, Stephanie was in charge of our wonderful costumes, and Jamie directed! Lots of giggles throughout this experience, but Brian and Kate took it so seriously!!

Jeremy with his myrrh

Sam and Brian with their weird wigs.

Maria and Krista!

Oh my goodness. Sean is so stinking cute!!

The sister in laws that were there that night (missing Emily and Melissa) and mom

Such a fun night! I love my family!!!

Christmas Decorating

One of my most favorite things in the world to do is decorate for Christmas! Sigh... I love the smell of Christmas trees, I love vintage and new ornaments, I love buying decorations, and I love making new decorations! Sigh...

Sam already fulfilling his role of daddy by putting a star on our tree. This is a new tradition for me as our family Christmas tree never had a tree topper! We used to buy trees so tall that we would end up cutting off the top (which I got to use for my play house Christmas tree) so that we could hang the tree from the ceiling.

Love going shopping with my mom to buy new decorations! All of these are courtesy of her!! Thank you mom! I am absolutely in love with our new nativity! She knows our style well! Gorgeous!

Us with our tree during our family progressive "lights on" dinner. We go to each others' houses to have a treat and see their cute decorations! A new favorite tradition!

....and yes I know Christmas passed awhile ago, but I am trying to catch up! And hey only 10 more months right??

Traditional Cable Car Ride

One of my favorite things to do around Christmas time is to go up to San Francisco and carol on the cable cars with my family. We didn't get to go last year, so it was definitely fun to ride the cable cars together with Sam!

Anniversary in Half Moon Bay

Sam and I got to celebrate our anniversary (Thanksgiving weekend) up at Half Moon Bay! We stayed at this incredible hotel, The Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay. It was the first hotel I have been to that seriously deserved its incredible ratings. On arrival they had amazing banana bread and apple cider for us. The SOFTEST robes and towels I have ever felt, etc etc! Plus it was my first time ordering room service. It was so great to spend the day there in Half Moon Bay, it is such a gorgeous place!

SOO beautiful! That's our hotel in the background!

Mmm Sees and Jewelry...yes my husband knows me well! haha

Thought it was so funny to see a Book of Mormon in a non-Utah hotel!

We danced in this gazebo to our song...sigh. I love my husband.

The cake place we used for our wedding (Sweet Passions Bakery) gave us a free cake top for our one year anniversary, so we didn't have to freeze it! Delicious banana cake!

What an incredible first year of marriage. Here is to a great second year!

Christmas Tree Hunting

The traditional family christmas tree race!


My Mom with Brian and Kate


Our beautiful Christmas tree!

Yes, he is just that strong!

Turkey Bowl

The traditional Walton Family Turkey Bowl was held again this year. It was Sam's first time participating, since it was 2 days before our wedding last year!