.:It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas:.

While the hubby is away... the mouse played!

Well, I decorated I mean :)

First up, our stockings hung up with care!

If you look really hard you can see our one and only

tiny Nativity set. I need to get a bigger one for sure.

Jake's mom always has fun candy jars for every holiday 

so I totally stole her idea and did our very own Christmas candy table :)

 The Christmas card holder/wreath. 

I am ready, so send them my way :)

PS: presents accepted as well! LOL! JK

My sis-in-law Angie did these cute paper balls 

for one of her girls B-Day parties earlier this year.

Yep, stole another idea... Christmas version

 Gave into the OWL craze hitting everything you see this year.

Just one ornament, that is all.

If I had a little girl right now, her room would definatley

be all the cute owl stuff out right now!

Oh Christmas tree! Oh Christmas tree!

 Made this wreath.

Step 1: Buy plain wreath 

Step 2: Wire tie favorite ornaments

Ta-Da!

 Ho-Ho-Hope you have a

 great Ho-Ho-Holiday!

.:Recent Recreational Activities:.

This summer/fall was filled with some fun recreational activities:

 

Spending time with the pups on the lawn.

 

Hiking up Skyline Trail in N. Ogden. 

This is overlooking Ogden Valley (Eden/Huntsville) 

where Jake grew up and his mom still lives.

Notice I am wearing my stupid glasses... :(

I had an ulcer on my right cornea so I could not wear 

my contacts for a few weeks. It sucked hiking in my glasses!

 

Teryn and Craig joined us on this particular outing :)

Below are several pics from a Burton family outing:

Target shooting up in Huntsville.

We have 6 nieces and 1 nephew (+1 nephew due Jan)

on Jake's side of the family :)

None on my side yet.

 

Jessica and little Evie

 

Kelli and Mason

Kennedi did some shooting too, 

but I must have missed getting a pic of her...

 

Kelli and Tayler

 

Zach and Macie

 

We took the dogs. Elle wasn't thrilled about it...

 

Mason, Kennedi, Kiyah, & Tayler

 

Macie. She is our little firecracker, that is for sure!

 

Adam and Tayler trying out the 22 pistol

More Hiking:

Jake had 3 hunts to get in shape for, so we did a lot of hiking.

These are taken up above S. Ogden on Bonneville Shoreline Trail.

Jake, Me, his mom Colleen, Maximus, Elle, & Bentley.

 

Ya... Umm... that's me. 

What else can I say? :)

 

Elle ALWAYS thinks she is a lap dog, even on rest stops while hiking

The hiking paid off.  

Jake was successful on 2 out of the 3 hunts he had tags for.

Especially since he only got to go on 2 of the 3!

I will post about his rifle "mishap" later :)

.:We're BACK!!!:.

Yep! We are back to the blogging world. 

Did you miss us?

2011 has been quite the year, looking forward to a fresh new 2012.

We unfortunatley have had more downs than ups...

but here is some of the "awesome" ups 

our little Burton bunch has been up to.

P.S. I know I cancelled my old blog, and I don't know how to restart it...sorry.

Ogden 1/2 Marathon: May 2011

 "Awesomely" Exhausted!

Jake after his eye surgery after having rifle blow up in his face. BUT he got these "awesome" shades to take home

I graduated college. I shot my last text book with an "awesome" semi-auto rifle.

Went hiking a lot with Jake, our pups, and his mom this summer. "Awesome" family time!

We're back!!! Hope you can handle us again :)