Are we cousins?

Although these were taken 10 years apart, they're still frighteningly similar.

Our poor children. 

I'll be checking our family history immediately.

RIP grandma

Rest in peace grandma. Even though we weren't very close, it's nice to know you're in a better place. The last few years of your life were a life that no one would wish for. We just wish we knew if you died in a purple outfit - since your famous quote on Christmas last year when you got a bunch of purple  clothes: "Well, I guess we know what I'm gonna die in!"

LaRue Boyce Green

"Our Mother"

07/18/1929 - 12/25/2012

Elizabeth LaRue Boyce Green left this earth to rejoin her Father in Heaven on Christmas morning, her earthly husband Leonard Zane Green, and her son Stanley Ross, her parents Ivor and Eva Boyce, her siblings Avard, Lauana, Jean, and Harold. She leaves behind her heartbroken children, Steven L. (Pat) Green, J. Boyce 

(Laurie) Green, Carla Jean (Wayne) Smith, Eva DeAnn (Doug) Swensen, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She loved her family most, her gardens and yard next and the ending of a good book. She never forgot her dear friends from “Butlerville” and Jordan High. She raised her children in a loving home with hot cooked meals, clean clothes, discipline, and a strong work ethic. We will miss her so much.

We wish to thank the staff at the Wentworth, Curo Hospice and especially Jennine Washington, her hospice nurse, for the kindness, and loving care she gave our mom.

Graveside services will be held at 1:00pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at Larkin Sunset Gardens, 1950 East 10600 South in Sandy.  A visitation will be held on Friday evening from 6-8 pm and on Saturday from 11:30am to 12:30pm prior to the services. Online condolences welcomed at www.larkincares.com.

Christmas party with the kiddos

Once upon a time these kids were so little. Now they're SO BIG! 

I can't imagine my life without them. 

Celebrating in Style

Nick has a cool job - well internship that is pretty much turning into a job.

He even had TWO Christmas parties this year!

The best part? They were really NICE Christmas parties.

Dinner #1. Glen Wilde golf course in park city. Salmon and steaks, lots of alcohol, and yummy desserts. I even had to wear a cocktail dress - pretty sure I didn't even know what that was - thanks to a good friend for letting me borrow hers! Too bad you can't see how cute it is in the picture. 

Dinner #2. Spencer's Steakhouse downtown. Salmon and steaks. Amazing. 

I'm happy to have a husband that works for a company that treats their employees really well because I sometimes get to get in on the perks!

Safety First!

Nick is the pickiest eater EVER.

This makes food storage accumulation quite difficult... as if it's not difficult already.

Plus, we have NO ROOM to add more stuff to our already cozy, but perfect for us basement apartment. 

So, a big thanks to Groupon for this $39, perfect-sized 72 hour food kit for TWO people that doesn't expire for 25 more years. 

Bonus: It doesn't have any ingredients that would cause Nick to hurl - because I am 100% certain that in a life or death situation Nick would rather die than eat some cheesy cream of broccoli whatever...

Success.

That one time we were famous...

For about a week. 

Here's how it went down. A former ward-mate/neighbor works for the Deseret news. She called me and let me know I'd be expecting a call. The reporter called me, asked a few questions about waiting to get married until we were a little more financially stable, and that was that. 

My ward-mate/neighbor calls me up a few days later suggesting I send the reporter a picture of us or she'd find one on facebook - of me at the beach or something.

I complied. I figured it would be a story in the back corner of the family life section that no one would read.

A couple weeks later, I received texts and calls saying that Nick and I were on the FRONT PAGE of the Sunday paper - THE SUNDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING!!!

So, now we're celebrities. 

I think the title is kind of funny and although the little blurb in the story about us is pretty accurate, Nick and I did not wait until we were rich to marry - we just waited until we could actually afford to live on our own without starving to death. We married when Nick was 25 and I was 24 - not old age by any standards outside of Utah. 

It's an interesting article though - worth a read!

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865567435/Life-delayed-Couples-putting-off-marriage-due-to-economy-changing-views.html

And that's how we were famous for a week!