To please send me your e-mail if you haven't already. I am still missing some e-mails and I really just don't want to cut you off like that!!! just kidding, but no, I really want to make sure I get all your e-mails. Will be making the blog private as soon as I possibly can. Thanks, friends and I hope the holiday was wonderful for you too!
I don't like that I have to be worried about what I post....BUT... there are a lot of weirdos out there. so I've decided to make this a private blog. I love seeing what old friends are up to and keep posted on everyone's lives so leave your e-mail address please so we can still be friends! If you don't want to leave your e-mail on the blog, send it to my e-mail.....emileeLC16@yahoo.com.
Thanks, or if we want to speak China English....'Sank you, sank you'....................haha
all for you, Jenna & Alli.
Don't we look beautiful? I happen to think so. Being as this year my family won't be able to make Christmas Eve at my Grandparents and Chris and I will be in England we decided to carry on our tradition of Christmas Bingo on Thanksgiving night instead! We've been playing this game for as long as I can remember. The best part is every time you get bingo you get to pick a present out of the middle ....who wouldn't want to play right? Once all the gifts are gone you can steal them from anyone else....even better? yes. And if you thought that was it you are wrong.........there is always a poopy diaper! So choose wisely! They are just random gifts, treats, etc.....ironically enough my Grandma decided to put a pregnancy test in one of the like 30 gifts......and with my whole ONE gift....guess gets that? I think you get the idea. It was like Deja Vu. Dang. I just realized I should've gotten a picture of that. Anywho, this year we all got Santa hats to make this beautiful family portrait. I personally think it should be a Christmas card, but whatev! I find the bottom picture hilarious. A big PLUS size bra in one of the gifts....who would have thought it serves an excellent purpose as a hat for 2?
We leave to England on Friday for the next 2 weeks. We will be spending Christmas with Chris's family/extended family and new years eve in London. Chris's parents have a home less than an hour outside of London in a place called Kent where Chris basically grew up. Although, I will be having a blast because I love his family, I will definitely miss and be thinking of mine...first year without them! Isn't this the best time of year? Hope everyone has a wonderful, safe, and great holiday spending time with ones they love! Wishin everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Every year when I was younger, my mom and grandma would check my sister and I out of school to go to the Festival of Trees for a day. I always loved looking at the trees, reading the stories, eating the delicious treats, and the whole purpose of the Festival. Well, I haven't been since I was probably in jr. high since I moved to Cali soon after so I went with my Grandma this year. A- I LOVE my grandma, she is the very best, most energetic, spunky, fun lady you'll ever meet. don't believe me? Ask my husband! She plays ping pong like a champ!
B-I wish my mom and sister could have been there : ( and C- the spirit of the festival is every bit as great as I remember as a kid. I even ended up going back the next day with my mother/sister in-law. But of course you can't leave without a buttery, fatty, and sugary scone! Ah, what do I care, I am going to get fatter right now anyways! I love the festival of trees!
Even though, I haven't always been very faithful about keeping a journal my Dad has totally inspired me to. He has kept a journal for 30+ years and although, he thinks no one has read any of his entries, I have, many times as a teenager, and it is such a blessing and has touched me to be able to read the sweet words he has written about our family, memories he has treasured in his life, his testimony, etc. It brought tears to my eyes every stinkin' time. This has helped me realize the importance of keeping record so that our children, grandchildren, and every following generation, etc can read of our life's experiences. President Kimball says..."And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted” If your like me, one of the main reasons I procrastinated was because of having to hand write so much! So, like my dad I have been keeping a journal on the computer, and saving it to an external drive. He prints off his journals in increments of 3 years and places them in a labeled binder. I love my parents very much and decided that this was something I wanted to carry on for my children. I hope that my children will appreciate my journal in years to come and if nothing else, know that I have a testimony of our Savior, and love them! I think this is is a great idea and encourage all who do not keep a journal to do so! It's a great way to remind yourself of all your many blessings. Thanks, Dad!
Hope everyone had a wonderful, safe Thanksgiving Holiday!
I also totally meant to congratulate my older brother, Austin, and Megan for getting engaged a few weeks ago. They are getting married Jan. 23 in the Bountiful temple. Couldn't have picked a better girl for Austin myself. We love Meg and are way excited for her to be part of the crazy fam! I just hope she knows what she is getting herself into!
On a side note.... I thought this old picture of Austin was suiting since it is game day! .....GO COUGARS!
GIRL!!!!! Don't have much time to write, but just wanted to share with all my blogger buddies!! Bring on the fluff, and frill, cuteness, and girlyness...I'm ready!!! love to all...xoxo
I am so proud of myself.....3 posts within ONE week! That has got to be a record or something!!! For me, anyway. I've got the momentum!! It's way early Saturday morning, Chris and I are going to Vegas tonight (SweeT!), but I can't sleep and I was going through some old pictures on my lap top and thought it would be fun to post some pics of my favorite memories over the past few years.....As you can guess, Chris is not in any of them, it's mostly some of my best friends and family.....(Sorry, Chris)....who am I kidding he never looks at this blog anyways! Well, enjoy!
White Trash!!! My personal favorite costume....Halloween was like a 5-day event......I think that should cover me dressing up for the next 5 years.....
Oct. 2006
My little China buddy Courtney at Alli's wedding! 5 db reunites!...Love when that happens!!!
March 2007
DANCING the night away with mi madre and little brother at Steph & Colb's wedding... my mom gets really into dancing, she is half the fun!!!!
Aug 2007
Chris & I strongly felt a weekend trip to San Diego to visit my parents was in order! Can I just say I never wanted to come back??? I had mixed feelings stepping on the plane in 80 degree weather and one and a half hours later stepping off the plane in the freezer! I LOVE SD and would live there in a heartbeat. Even when I lived there in high school I didn't realize how perfect and amazing it is. I can see why my parents have a hard time moving back! We had such a wonderful weekend with them.... shopping, walking the boardwalks along the beach, old town, introducing my mother to the wonderful world of blogging....and of course the best food in the world....nothing like mama's cooking!! We miss them already and can't wait to see them in Utah for thanksgiving!!! Jet blue has some great deals flying there, and I suggest you check it out!!! Here are a few pictures from the trip.....
Not the best, but what can ya do? It was hilarious, my dog felt that Chris was moving in on his territory or something, as Chris took over 'his' chair all weekend, but he sure liked Chris when he had food!!!
Wanted to thank to all who sacrificed time and money to fight for Prop 8!! And happy first snowfall!!! : )
Okay, I know I am the world's worst blogger, but in my defense, we have been so busy and I just don't even know where to start! I will be making an 'official' legitimate post soon, whenever I can figure out where to begin. To sum up, life is good, we have our ultrasound here in a couple weeks. Anyone that knows Chris and I thinks it's definitely a boy.....I have to say I have my reasons to believe....Anyways, Jenna tagged me and we all know how serious Jenna is about her Tags!!! I love you Jenna and Alli and your cute little angels!! : )
1. Where did you meet your husband? At Pinnacle Security! I didn't know his name so I just called him 'English Boy'......or if you are the girls I worked with I called him my boyfriend.
2. How long did you date before you got married? HAHAHA! We'd known each other for like 8 months when we were married. But after we became serious, it was pretty darn quick.
3. How long have you been married? About 7 months now.
4. What does he do that surprises you? Well, if its last night...I come home and I have a new Ipod Touch.....he is so sweet to think of me.
5. What is your favorite feature of his? His eyes
6. What is your favorite quality of his? So many to choose from....his personality, his testimony, he is confident and no situation is ever uncomfortable for him, you could put him in a room with 50 people he has nothing in common with and he would make friends with every single one, he is unbelievably ambitious....the list goes on and on!
7. Does he have a nickname for you? Embo, and also a plethera of songs that he creates daily...and they are hilarious!
8. What is his favorite food? Anything with MEAT! But what man doesn't like meat?
9. What is his favorite sport? ha! Football, Saturdays are designated as UF football days...
10. When and where did you first kiss? On a mountain in Cedar Hills, on the first date....right after I finished telling him how much I disliked it when guys attempted to kiss you on the first date......he catches on real quick....
11. What is your favorite thing to do as a couple? Vacation!
12. Do you have children? One on the way....
13. Does he have any hidden talents? He can freestyle rap.....and he's a white boy!
14. How old is he? 22
15. Who said I love you first? He definitely did, he is the cutest....
16. What is his favorite music? RAP! Clean rap... I'm pretty sure that is an oxymoron
17. What do you admire most about him? His ability to admit when he is wrong, and apologize, I tend to be a bit more stubborn...
18. What is his favorite color? Doesn't have one.
19. Will he read this? NO, he's not much of a blogger!
20. Who do you tag? I tag Brynne Rose, Megan Wade, Amanda Johnson, and Katie Savage!!
As promised, here are some pictures from a few weeks ago. Our lovely little Katie Revels is getting married in a couple of weeks and at her bridal shower we found it ONLY appropriate to predict the gender of her future children....! Most people know about this little quirk, but I still think it is fun...I don't care if I'm not 12 anymore!!! I'm telling you it's accurate, It worked for my mother-in-law every time....I'm a believer!! Chels, Kristen, Katie, Linds, and I had such a fun time and we have decided to have 'Female's Friday' every so often so if anyone wants to join in baking cakes, starting catering businesses, weekend trips to St. George, please don't hesitate to join!
On another note, I don't think I mention my wonderful and hunk of a man Chris nearly enough! I guess we just have way too much fun together that we never think to take pictures. Needless to say, he is absolutely the best husband a girl could ask for!!! Most people already know since word spreads like fire, but we are expecting our first little one in April. We are pretty darn excited. Chris needs a little buddy to follow him around and to teach his handyman things.....he's crossing his fingers for a little guy. Anyways, we are headed to Lake Powell tomorrow for the week, going to be one heck of a time, that's for sure...just praying I don't get too sick!
I just now decided while everyone updates their blogs every couple of weeks, our blog seriously suffers!! I swear we do lots of fun things and our lives are not completely boring! As a matter of fact, we have had one heck of a busy couple of weeks!!!! From Virginia Beach, where we were living for the summer to... Tampa, FL, where Chris's parents bought an awesome vacation home, and last but not least, back to "land of Zion"...Utah! We have moved into our place, bought a new car, back to work/school/BLAH, I'm just kidding, I love my work. We actually were lucky enough to spend a little weekend away over the Labor day holiday in beautiful Bear Lake! My aunt and uncle rented a pretty Swwweeet 6,000 sq. ft. cabin right on the lake! It was good to be up there with all the family, although my parents and sister were dearly missed : ). I am ashamed to say I took about one picture, I guess it was just THAT fun, I completely forgot to capture the moments! Can I just say I LOVE my family! I laughed so flippin' hard! I wish I could say it's good to be back, but I won't lie, I kept telling my husband I wouldn't mind at all if we got stranded up in this beautiful cabin in Bear Lake in a mega crazy storm for the entire week! That is like my mother in law's and my dream!!!!!!! It will happen to us someday, it will, guys. Anyways, I will definitely be taking more pictures soon.....so you don't have to read my boring blog! We are headed to Lake Powell in two weeks so maybe that'll be a good start....YAY! Hope everyone had a wonderful AND safe Holiday weekend!!!
In my opinion, this is the best time of year because it means one thing.....football season, baby! I was raised on BYU Football and I am so excited it's finally almost that time again! Go COUGARS!!
Found some old football pictures on my computer! Last year about this time actually, we told some of the guys from the team we were friends with our famous "Angelique used to be Amish" story, (that everyone who knows us has probably heard!!!) I can't tell you how many people we have told that to over the last 4 years, but it gets funnier every time....especially since we have Amish Angelique pictures to prove it! Anyways, they didn't take it so well when they found out we were kidding, months later....we owed them a big apology!!! Good Times!!
Since the Olympics are in Beijing right now and every time I watch them I get sad and miss China I thought I would put up a few of my memories from living there...over 2 years ago...time flies!
The cute kids I taught....
Flower, Brandi, Newman, Mary, Strawberry, Sunny and Sam....missing Rocky...I'm willing to bet he was climbing on my back at the time!
(Yes, those were really their English names that we used in the classroom!!)
"WO EYE KNEE!!"
The Great Wall of China....we ended up going back to Beijing a second time and sleeping in a sleeping bag in a tower on the Great Wall.....one of the coolest experiences EVER!
Courtney, Sofia, and I decided to have our own little 80's night out on the town............ But for some reason, I don't think the 80's in China were the same as the 80's in the U.S?????
Thought this one was funny....it totally looks like I am taking a picture of myself!.....I am NOT!
Went to the Colin Raye, Josh Gracin, and Joe Nichols concert with my parents, my brother and his girlfriend, and the girls.....it was a paaaartaaaay to say the least.....
It would be unlike me to post right away so since I am always like a month behind in posting things, here are my pictures of my trip to Utah, last month. My parents were in town the same week, I got to see and hang out with them, the rest of my relatives, and my friends! We had a great time in the 'Yellow People Eater' (Mel's beast of a truck) that Melizza just sold.... (don't ask me why, in my opinion it was a very classy and definitely a HOT commodity, but whateve). I love these girls though, they have been the best friends ever to me and we have some amazing memories! : ) SQ 07'
I was typing something on my husbands computer and came across these old mission pictures of his....my little Chris .... oh how cute.....Looks like he was working real hard ; ).....
