Christmas & Secrets

First of all, I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!! Scott and I had fun bouncing around all week, but we're glad to get back to normal. We got tons of really cool presents, I was most excited for what the Grandmas would get Avery...it was fun having my baby's first Christmas! Scott also was his normal sweet self and got everything I said I wanted...the most important was my recliner that gets here in a couple of weeks...yes, I've had a baby for 3 months and no where to rock her, she's used to being bounced...but that will soon change!! So Christmas was really fun!

For anyone out there who knows me really well, you'll know that I HATE surprises (when I know about them)...and I have a really hard time keeping secrets from my Mom. Well I knew I wanted to get pictures taken of our new little family, and the thought of keeping that a secret from our parents and giving them the cute pics for Christmas seemed like an awesome plan...I had to bite my tongue a million times and Scott's Mom even saw a few, but we made it! And now I can hang mine up, I've had almost 2 months to decide where they are going!!

The New "Crafty" Me

I don't consider myself a "crafty" person at all! But ever since I've gotten married and had a home to decorate, I've started to get an itch for it. Well, my VERY crafty, make-it-yourself and have it look WAY cute mom-in-law learned how to make block letters with scrap book paper glued on, words...if that makes any sense. Scott's cousin Tiffany came over and we crafted all day! Laurie made the word JOY herself, and together we made LOVE and AVERY...they turned out better than I dreamed! We had to draw the letters ourselves, which of course we wanted to be cuter than cute so it took quite a while, anyway...here's the end results!

Too Much Information

1. Do you like bleu cheese? NO.

2. Have you ever smoked? No, I think smoking is disgusting, the smell of it sucks too...especially when I come home and my apartment smells like it because of our neighbors...I think we're going to tell them Avery is allergic to the smell so they'll stop because nothing else has worked and we hate it!!

3. Do you own a gun? No, but we're looking for one for safety.

4. What flavor Kool-Aid was your favorite? I like the blue packets...not exactly sure what the flavor is.

5. Do you get nervous about doctor appointments? Yes, especially when I was pregnant, I was always afraid something was going to be wrong.

6. What do you think of hot dogs? I've always hated hot dogs...might of liked them when I was younger, but I don't remember.

7. Favorite Christmas movie? The Santa Clause & It's a Wonderful Life, can't decide!

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? I love water at all times.

9. Can you do push-ups? I haven't done push-ups in such a long time, I think it would be a sad sight to see me try.

10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? My beautiful wedding ring!

11. Favorite hobby? I love to read.

12. Do you have ADD? I was actually tested for ADD when I was younger...the test was hard too!!!...and yes I have it.

13. What's one trait you hate about yourself? I don't like that I'm uncomfortable with my body...but I'm working on it!

14. Middle initial? A

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment? I need to finish laundry, but I'm putting it off because I hate folding, FRIENDS is hilarious and I can't wait until Christmas.

16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? Water, juice, Sprite.

17. Current worry? Money

18. Current hate right now? My upstairs neighbors. I'm SO done with living in an apartment...too bad we'll be living in one for the next few years.

19. Favorite place to be? I'm loving the shower. It's time I get all to myself.

20. How did you ring in the new year? I hung out at home with my hubby, happily married for 1 whole month!!

21. Where would you like to go? Europe, Australia, Hawaii, Greece, New York, Florida, California, Seattle, Figi, The Bahamas, a Cruise somewhere...

22. Name 3 people to tag? Katie, Brittney, Cassie

23. Do you own slippers? Yes, and I love them.

24. What shirt are you wearing? A black long sleeved tee.

25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? I'm too poor for satin sheets.

26. Can you whistle? Yes, but I'm not very good at it.

27. Favorite color? It depends...if its house decor I'm really digging deep red, for clothes, I love brown right now.

28. Would you be a pirate? For a day? Sure!

29. What songs do you sing in the shower? I never sing in the shower, I have a horrible voice.

30. Favorite girl's name? Avery

31. Favorite boy's name? ? I'm lucky we had a girl because I could never find a boys name that I liked.

32. What's in your pocket right now? I'm wearing gauchos so no pockets.

33. Last thing that made you laugh? My sweet baby giggling for the first time.

34. What vehicle do you drive? Pontiac Bonneville

35. Worst injury? Having my baby.

36. Do you love where you live? I did when we moved in...but then our obnoxious neighbors moved in and now it sucks.

37. How many TVs do you have in your house? 1

38. Who is your loudest friend? I don't have any loud friends.

39. Do you have any pets? Nope

40. Does someone have a crush on you? Well I'm married, soI hope so.

41. Your favorite book? Twilight.

42. Do you collect anything? Nope.

43. Favorite sports team? I really don't watch sports.

44. What song do you want played at your funeral? That's a weird question that I'm too young to think about!

So in Love.

I never thought I could love something so much. Then my little one came along...I'll never be the same.

One Year & One Baby Later!

We celebrated our one year anniversary on Monday, I told Scott that I wanted a romantic night, and he totally followed through! The night started with me taking Avery to Grandma Boyce' s, Scott wanted me out of the house, so I went shopping until he called me to come home. We really wanted to go to this Italian restaurant, but it was closed on Mondays, so we settled for Olive Garden, which was really yummy! Scott gave me a book called "The Simple Truth About Love", it's a book with funny pictures and sayings, so sweet! Our server saw me opening it, and found out that it was our anniversary, so when she brought us our desert, she had some people sing a song about celebrating..we were kind of embarrassed, but whatever.



Then we drove home and he had me close my eyes while he opened the door, and this is what I opened my eyes to!

There were candles and pink rose petals everywhere!

The song "When You Say Nothing at All" was playing, so we danced to it for awhile, it was the most romantic night of my life! I seriously have the best husband ever, I'm so lucky!

Scott and I met 7 years ago, I was 13, he was 16. My family had just moved to Kennewick, and we were in the same ward. We were going to Seattle for a temple trip and I happened to get into the same car that he was riding in. We hung out the whole time...until he found out how old I was...haha. Then we just stayed friends, he became best friends with my older brother, so he was always over, but with the age difference...neither of us really thought of anything but being friends. Then in the summer of 2007, I was at BYU-I and he was in Kansas City selling alarm systems, we started talking on the phone everyday and things just started happening. He got home in August and we were in engaged in September and then married on December 1st. This has been the biggest year of our lives! We've had a baby, moved twice, got jobs, lost jobs and are in school. I'm so lucky that I've had such an awesome husband, he is my best friend and the one person that knows me best! Here's some cute wedding photos of us one year ago!

Turkey Day!

This was our first Thanksgiving with our little one...we woke up to a screaming baby, who decided to scream all day! By the time we were ready to head over to dinner, we were SO done with little miss cranky pants. It's funny how I used to think her cry was cute...that was before she found her lungs! She calmed down for a few minutes, so we decided to snap some shots with her in her little Thanksgiving outfit, they turned out alright, we couldn't get her to smile...but at that point we were relieved to have some peace, so I'm not going to complain. Luckily when we pulled into Grandma's house Avery was happy, we figured she needed some fresh air and new faces! We ate yummy food and relaxed with the Boyce side, it was fun!

Sweet Avery

The Boyce men (minus Carter)


The Boyce women

We saw this cool truck on our way the mall. It was playing Christmas music too!

The Grandkids!

Then it was off to the Watson side, we get to spend holidays with both sides of our family, it's hard to split the time equally, but we try our best and feel blessed to have so much family around!