Laurie + Girlfriends = Fun Fun Fun

Tonight we had bunco!! I know I always say how I love my bunco group, but I don't care, I'm saying it again. I love my bunco ladies! For those of you who don't know what bunco is - it's just an excuse to eat too much food, laugh and catch up with girlfriends. There are dice involved too, but after playing bunco for more than five years I apparently still haven't learned the game. I never win anything! Tonight it was Nicky's turn to host and she made FABULOUS food and even more FABULOUS prizes! She actually made those frames for the winners. Can you even stand the talent? I hope the girls don't mind marshmallow snowmen as prizes when I host - that's about as crafty as I get.

Above: Brittany, Deidre, Kelly, Nicky, Heather, Tierney and Julie

Above Losers: Laurie & Natalie

Why do I always look like crap in pictures? Do I need to start wearing more makeup? I have a zillion pictures but I'm going to give everyone else exclusivity on pictures of themselves and not post all of them.

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On Tuesday night I got together with some girlfriends from high school and we had such a great time. We've seen each other through a lot and we're still going strong. (Although I still live in fear of seeing them all pull up in front of my house in a minivan....) I didn't get a good picture of all of us together - but here are a few cute ones.

Above: Laurie & Brittany

See what I mean? Look how pretty Britt looks and I look like I just woke up. I need help.

Above: Colleen & Ashton

Above: Kelly & Julie

Sorry Kel, Julie deleted all the other pictures of the two of you! What a dork!

Guilty day

I have had some serious writer's block lately. My life has been blissfully boring now that potty training is a thing of the past. Luke informed me the other day that we don't need to buy diapers ever again. Wahoo!
Today my niece Jessica borrowed the boys to take to her high school for her child development class. Luke and Adam left at 11:30, Cameron got on the bus at 12:00 and Eric was out of town. Yup you read that right. I had the whole house to myself for four hours! Four hours! Alone time in my house in unheard of. So I went to lunch at Food for Thought in Draper with my mom! (Thanks Mom!) And then I came home and took a long winters nap. I was hoping to wake up sometime in mid May, but sadly it's still January.
I can see Cameron running up the street from the bus stop as I'm typing. I'm all rejuvenated and ready to see her. Especially because I have a babysitter coming at 6:30 so that I can go play bunco with my girlfriends....he he he! What a day!

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Wimmer ramblings.....

Eric: "Adam, you have the face of an angel."
Adam: "Do angels kill horses?"
Eric: "No."
Adam: "Then what do they kill?"
Eric: "Nothing. Angels don't kill anything. Angels are in heaven."
Adam: "Like Jesus?"
Eric: "Yup."
Adam: "Jesus is dead and we're going to see Him again. He's going to bring Lola with him."

(Lola is the dead hamster.)

Let's go for a spin

Last night I wen to a spinning class for my first time. Paige has been raving about it for a few weeks now, so I thought I needed to go see what all the excitement was about. Remember that I ran a marathon less than a month ago? I figured that after that, riding a stationery bike for an hour couldn't be that big a deal. After ten minutes I couldn't keep up with the class and was doing about half of what everyone else was doing. After half an hour I was contemplating what would have to happen in order for me to leave the class without looking like a wuss. I couldn't think of anything so I rode it out. I'm still convinced that the whole room is full of masochists but they love it so much that there must be something to it. So I've decided to go twice a week for three weeks to see if I can love it too. (Hey Allison, tell Abby thanks for kicking my butt!)

Call me Scrooge (my husband does), but I love getting back to normal life after the holidays. Don't get me wrong, I love almost every aspect of Christmastime. The parties, the school programs, Santa Clause, the food, the open Christianity that seems to be nearly taboo the rest of the year. I love it all, but I also love the first weeks of January. Getting the kids back to school, going back to the gym (with the other 5 million people there), taking down the tree (on December 27th) and recommitting myself to all the previous year's resolutions. Or goals. Whatever. Is there anyone out there who is still working on these 'resolutions' by February?

Neighborhood New Year Shindig

Last night Eric and I hosted the annual neighborhood New Year's Eve shindig. 29 people! It was a good time for every single person except Luke. He was fed up with it all at 7:30 and went to bed only to get up for the midnight festivities.

Poor kid

Luke and Eric at midnight

Jenna and Raul Parra - you can't see Andrew because he was asleep.

We originally said that our party was 6:00 - 10:00 because we all wear out too quickly with all the kids. But we were still going strong at midnight. We played Phase 10 dice. Here's Erika, Elle and Kayley trying to add up our scores. It's sad that we need a calculator to do it.

We also played Scrabble. It was the non-college grads (Jenna and me) against the college grads (Katrina, Kayley and Erika). And Jenna and I KILLED them!! They'll tell you a story about how two minds work better than one or some crap like that, but Jenna and I know we're just smarter.

We looked at our marathon photos. They are positively hideous, which is why you won't see them on my blog. But here's Jenna looking them up and Julie probably being glad that she wasn't in the pictures.


We decided that someone has to sit there and look pretty while everyone else is calculating and computing so here's Katrina doing just that.

And Erika being cheesy!

And Julie and Kayley

We played Apples to Apples and laughed our guts out. At midnight Erika got a little crazy.... look at Jeremy cheering on his wife in the background! What a riot!

Disclaimer: It was Martinelli's sparkling cider. No drinking at Mormon parties.

I probably talk too much about all my friends but I can't help it - I just love them to pieces!! We are together almost constantly and spend most of our time laughing and eating. There's nothing better in the world. Thanks ladies for the fun times! Happy New Year!!

Jenna, Kayley, Erika, me and Julie

Hallelujah! I got two cameras for Christmas!!! My mom gave me a fabulous Elph and Eric gave me an awesome video camera that doesn't even require tapes!! So here's all my photos I've been collecting. Granted, I'm no Mindy Johnson or Heather White or Martha Griffiths when it comes to photography - but still, these are good pics compared to my last camera.

Adam on Christmas morning

Luke on Christmas morning

Cameron on Christmas morning

In case you haven't noticed a trend, we are big believers in character jammies. I try really hard to steer them clear of character clothes, but jammies are fair game. Gotta love that my five year-old daughter is wearing Zac Effron to bed.

I got some really fun pictures of the boys brushing their teeth to get ready for bed. (And yes, the paint is the color of toothpaste and I LOVE it.)