twas the night before Christmas

... also known as Christmas Eve. 

This year Christmas Eve was done a little differently than usual because there were only 4 Burnhams in Pocatello, and only 3 Farnsworths. So, we had the bright idea to combine our Christmas Eve's into one delightful evening. First, the Farnsworth's treated us to a scrumptious dinner filled with German delicacy's. They have a German Christmas Eve dinner every year because Taylor's grandma is from Germany and that's become a tradition for them. 

Then Taylor and I exchanged gifts in front of the family. He put together this basket full of Disney stuff. There were clues taped to them, and on the last item (which happened to be a fanny pack--I talk about fanny packs a lot and how great they are..) he taped a sign that said this: 

 He could NOT have done better. I've told him all about every trip I've ever taken to an amusement park. Ok, maybe exaggerated slightly, but not much. I LOVE rides and amusement parks. We are leaving on Saturday and going with his sister and brother in law, Rachel and Steven McKee. Can't think of better company or a better activity for New Years Eve :) I made Taylor a picture where I drew memories of our dating adventures and then on the mat I glued pictures of the actual events. And I got him a shirt he'd been wanting. Not as cool as Disneyland, but what is? 

Here is the opening process: 

What an awesome Christmas Eve. To top off the evening, we shared our talents with each other. We had lots of musical numbers, and lots of instruments. Taylor graced us with another trumpet performance which was almost as good as the first time, and we had lots of combinations of cello, drums, trumpet, and piano quartets, duets, and trios. And we finished off with some nice Christmas messages. I just thought everything was perfect, and then for Christmas Day we relaxed, opened presents, talked to Taylor's brother Dallin, who is serving a mission in Nevada, and went to Les Miserables. So thankful for my favorite fellow and his family, and for my wonderful family. 

And so thankful for a loving Heavenly Father and his Son, our Savior, who have made it possible for us to have eternal happiness with our families forever.  

And with that said,

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

festivities

I feel like I've been living in a dream lately! Everything has just been going so perfectly, I keep thinking, this can't be my life? My life doesn't go perfectly. I just about erased those last 3 sentences because I am probably going to jinx myself, but whatever. I am one happy lady. The festivities of the month have included ugly sweater parties, the eggnog challenge, my cello concert, the Mo-Tab Christmas concert, ward Christmas parties, and many other things. Here are a few pictures of all the pre-Christmas activities, cause I am going to do another post about Christmas Eve and Christmas day :)

 I can watch this video of Taylor trumpeting it up over and over and not get tired of it. Funny every time. He is attempting to play Good King Wencesslas, if it wasn't obvious enough. It's too bad he didn't stay with it since 6th grade band... he really could have had a future in it don't you think? Emily got tickets to the Motab Christmas concert and it was so amazing. We were on the 5TH ROW! And afterwards we saw President Eyring and Mitt and Ann Romney. Ummm it was exciting. Ok I'm gonna wrap up this post cause I am so excited to do the next one! Goodbye!

obsessed

Crazy how life just speeds up sometimes isn't it?

Sorry peeps, haven't been in the blogging mood lately. 

But today I reallyy am. I've spent the last day obsessing over these youtube videos. 

K, I'm sure we've mostly all heard of the piano guys, which consists of Jon Schmidt on the piano and Steven Sharp Nelson on the cello. I've kind of just been so so on them, until recently. Now that I've taken up the cello, these guys have become AWESOME to me. I just love the cello... it's beautiful and challenging and I just want to become good at it so bad. And of course, having played the piano since I was in first grade, I love and will always love that too. So without further ado, please give these a gander. 

This first one you will love for it's Christmas spirit... ah the ending is adorable.

This one is just plain awesome..

And this last one is the one that started it all. I've been obsessed with this song for a couple years now, but I didn't realize it was a piano guys song. I listen to it every Sunday, without fail. Sometimes I don't like watching the video even, just listening to them.

The others one I like are We Three Kings, Bring Him Home from Les Mis, and the Christina Perri cover of "A Thousand Years". Beautifulness. I am so grateful for music. And I'm SO excited to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert this weekend with my favorite human Taylor, and my other favorites, Emily and Alex.

And before I end this post, I must implore you ALL to vote for my mother's picture she submitted to the Idaho State Journal Christmas photo contest. It's a picture of my nieces and the top 3 submissions win prizes. We are currently borderline between 3rd and 4th place. Have some holiday love in your hearts and vote, it takes a few minutes to sign up but once you do it's super easy to vote. And if you're already signed up, make sure you vote every day til the end of this week!! I'm inserting the link but who knows if it'll work, if it doesn't then go to my facebook page and you'll find the link.  THANK YOU!!

 http://isj.upickem.net/engine/Details.aspx?p=V&c=74290&s=27535278&i=1