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Trudy Thunderpaws Turk

Shout Out!!!

December is one of my favorite times of the year....

This December was especially sweet

Two of my favorite people in this whole wide world came home after serving full time missions.

Lucy E Brimhall served in the Czech Republic

and

Lauren C Coplan served in Independence, Missouri.

Words cannot express how proud I am of these girls.

They've touched my life in so many ways, I can only imagine what it would be like to learn about the gospel from them. 

I am honored to be friends with strong and willing daughters of our Heavenly Father!!

I have no doubt in my mind that I met these girls for a reason. They are the best. It just one of the many many indicators that our Heavenly Father knows and loves us!

I was so happy to reunite with my Gal Pals! 

I look like a turtle in this picture but that's okay.

Minus Kelsey, girl, you know I love you too and I'm sad we didn't get a Christmas photo together... BUT I'll see you in a month!

Birthday Celebration

We were all so happy to see my seester and her family on Christmas. It was so nice to feel whole with ALL of the family together.

Wyatt turned 5 so that meant that I got to bake with Caroline :)

Wyatt wanted a Mario themed party. Of course Caroline, the super mom that she is, came up with the idea to make Mario and Luigi out of fondant. How cute right? 

 Wyatt wanted sugar cookies instead of cupcakes. 

 Haha, I love it!

 Look at my pretty nieces (Minus Eden, and Ivy Kat)

 Finished product. I can't get over how cute these are. Unfortunately Luigi has a little plastic surgery scar on his face. It's fine.

 The birthday boy!

 *I forgot to post this in the last one*

SO FUNNY

Jolly ol' St. Nicholas.

Back to the birthday celebration...

aaaand a little dancing with grandma to work off all those cookies!

I guess I had a birthday too....

Cheers to 23! I had a great birthday, we just hung out and ran errands. Then ordered pizza. Simple and exactly what I wanted. I was still on the mend from that yucky flu everyone had, so I didn't feel like getting ready and going out quite yet. It's fine.

Anniversary and Christmas!

I can't believe that 2012 is over! It went by way too fast but I look forward to what 2013 brings! Reflecting on the year, all i can say is that we are SO blessed. 

We love December because we get to celebrate our anniversary and Christmas!

 Remember these things?

 HAHA

We celebrated our 2nd Anniversary on the 17th

 Myles surprised me, and took me to the most romantic dinner at Elements at Sanctuary Camelback Resort! It was so beautiful. We sat at a booth that overlooked Paradise Valley.

As for the food.... 

you can probably tell from the pictures that it was YUMMOLA.

Possibly THE best food we've had. More importantly, it's been the best 2 years of my life and I am so lucky the spend the rest of eternity with this fine young man.