Alfalfa

A few weeks ago Benjamin and I went to a ward dance. The theme was famous couples in history. Benjamin and I have always been awful at coming up with costumes. We usually don’t dress up or find something at the very last minutes that ends up being kind of lame. This party was no exception. We had lots of ideas but we kept finding one persons costume, but not the other. For example,we found a Princess Lea costume for me, but couldn’t find a Han solo costume for him. We were almost Joseph and Emma Smith, but I couldn’t get my hair to do the ringlet thing. So we settled on Alfalfa and Darla, which was kind of pathetic because my hair would not curl that day and Benjamin had just barely cut his hair, making it to short to stick up. We made it stick up a little bit, but you can’t see it in these pictures. He looks kind of scary, but you should see him try to sing like Alfalfa.

Don’t I Have the Cutest Nieces?

 

…I think I do. I just have to brag about the cute litte girls that have been born to my sister’s in-law in the last couple of months.

 

Introducing Kalina Johnette Romney. My former room mate and now my sister in-law Kylie, just gave birth to little Kalina. And let me tell you, she is a doll!

 

Just a few months before, Lila and Ruby were born. These cousins will be such good friends.

RUBY ROSE ROMNEY

LILA LOUSIA LAWRENCE

Christmas Eve 2009

Amy Jo, Amberlee, and Autumn at the Lawrence’s

 

Momma Kaye and Lila

Autumn hiding out under the Lawrence’s tree.

My Grandma had so many fun appetizers and desserts at her house for Christmas eve.

My brother Riley came home from the Army for Christmas. He gave this sword to the whole family to hang in my grandparent’s house. It is the kind of sword that our anscestors would have used and Riley had it special made. It has the handle with symbols of our name: Andreasen. There is also a family crest embroidered with gold that hangs from the sword. My grandpa was so excited. It was a neat present for the whole family.

My side of the family has a family tradition: Every year on Christmas Eve everyone eats a little cup of pudding. One cup has an almond hidden inside it. Whoever gets the almond is dubbed the king or queen of Christmas. On Christmas day they get special treatment and don’t have to do the dishes or clean up wrapping paper or cook and so on.

Benjamin’s reaction when he found the almond in his pudding.

After appetizers at the Lawrence’s and treats at my grandparent’s we had a fancy dinner at the Romney’s. It was such a fun night. Thanks everyone!!!

Condo 2009

Every year before Christmas my parents rent a suite at a condo just out side of Driggs. It is a lot of fun every year. My brother Riley got to come home for Christmas from his army base in North Carolina.

My little brother and sister are being silly with the sparkling cider.

Emily and Benjamin playing the game cube.

Benjamin took Emily and Joseph on a hike through the woods around the condo.

O Christmas Tree

This is our little "Charlie Brown" tree. We don't have room for a normal tree, so we took the top off of our fake tree and set it up on our end table. It works.

Spaz!!!

We had so much fun playing SPAZ at Thanksgiving Time. This movie is of Kylie and her sister Codi battling it out for the win. Don't they look like Spaz's?

Pioneer Song Pictures!

I had so much fun playing the part of Sonya in the BYU-I production of Pioneer Song. This is a picture of four of us being silly and acting like our characters. Can you tell that my character is sick and abused? Poor Sonya. Every night while everyone got their stage make up on and their hair done up all pretty, I got to make bags under my eyes and mess up my hair.

This is me and little Sam. He was made such a cute little dead pioneer child.

Isn't the set beautiful? The mountains in the back grew as the pioneers got closer to Oregon.