Last Friday I came home from work to find this in our living room....





Adam and I have been looking forever, for a waffle iron, not just any waffle iron. We were looking for one that had tiny squares instead of the big ones. We both grew up with the little squares, so we wanted one for ourselves. Well afters searching and searching we could never find one, until....One day I looked at Shopko and there it was. I was so happy that Adam got it for me! That night Adam made me his special waffles, it's a recipe that Grandma P gave us, it has heavy cream in it. Hence why we don't make it a lot.

So so so good.

I love my flowers he got me too, I love getting flowers. I never have gotten flowers from a boy until I married Adam and he has gotten them for me a couple times now. My favorite flower is the daisy, they are so simple and ever so perfect. They were our wedding flowers too. Adam and I have even planted them in our front flower bed.

Since Valentines Day was on Sunday and it was my year to make breakfast for Adam for Valentines day. I decided that I would do it Saturday morning instead so we would have more time. I made him pink heart shaped french toast, eggs, and orange juice(just normal, not PINK).


I also got him his present early this year, I got him Scrubs season 6. Adam and I love watching Scrubs, they are so funny and we currently own seasons 1-6 and I'm waiting for our season 7 to get here in the mail.

SHE'S HERE!!!!! FINALLY

After nine months of waiting....Ella Jane is finally here! We are so happy for Jon and Alli. Ella was born on January 29, 2010 at 3:26 P.m. She was 19.5 inches longs and 7lbs 7oz.

She's coming

My sister in law Alli is in Labor!!!!! I'm so excited...Only a couple hours more and I will be an aunt one again.
More info to come later.

Flip flops to shoe...Warm sun to cold snow...

Yes in fact as you may have guessed it, Adam and I went down yet again to warm, sunny Arizona. We went down for his cousin, Janessa's wedding reception. She got married on 12/31/2009 in the San Diego Temple, Adam and I could not afford to go to both the wedding and the reception so we decided to go to Arizona. We left last Wednesday and drove through the night, after I got off work, we left at 8pm and got to Mesa, Arizona at 8am. It was a long drive, normally it does not take us that long to get there.....but we hit the snow storm in Beaver and ended up going 30-35mph on a 20 mile stretch through the Canyon. Then we both got really tired and could not stay up any longer, so we took a power nap of 40 mins. It's awesome what a power nap will do.
For those of you who have never eaten at Nelson's Frozen custard...You should go right now. They have one in Bountiful, Salt Lake City, and St. George...The best one though is in Mesa Arizona. I felt so guilty while down there I had one every day and on Saturday(our last day there) I had TWO! TWO...can you believe it...but to be fair one was a small and the other was a normal size.
The Reception was wonderful, Adam and I help set up for it and it took us 3 hours...Lets just say I should not have worn my high heel boots during that time...My feet were killing me after we got back at 10pm. One thing I loved about her wedding was her gift table. It was under a tree, and we hung all different kinds of bird cages in the tree. It looked awesome and I was not smart enough to take a picture of it. Darn me.
Ha Ha I almost forgot the best part of Arizona..besides being with family...the Fruit...I love the fruit we get while we're down there and we get to pick it of the trees ourselves(since Adam's family has the fruit trees in their back yards)...we got oranges, Lemons, and Grapefruit.

our yummy oranges

You may not be able to tell, but this lemon is BIG...it's about 5.5inches

Our lemons, and grapefruit

On our way home we stopped by the cliff Dwellers(at lease that's what they call it.) This lady back in the 20's car broke down and she loved the area so much that she later bought it and build her house around the rocks that had fallen.

Adam standing in front of the ladies house that she build around the rock

Back side of the house

Me sitting on a very cold rock...and behind me is the outhouse

Who wants ice cream?

Different rocks...the one in the middle looks like a nose to me.

Adam being Adam

I think he's hiding from the rock monsters

Yesterday was Adam's birthday...I can't believe he is 26 years old now.

It was really nice because I had the day off to get everything ready. I cleaned, cooked, and wrapped presents. Since Adam already got his big present at Christmas(His shotgun) He got a couple of small gifts...Scrubs season on DVD, awesome cuff links, Bedtime stories on DVD, oh and his favorite Dr. Pepper(but this time it was the new Dr. Pepper made with Real Sugar). His birthday dinner was small, but that's because we are going to Ruby River on Friday with his brothers and his sister. Last year you may remember the gun cake I made for him, well this year was not too exciting, I made him better than sex cake. Everyone loved it, which I'm happy about since it was my first time making it. I love Adam so much, and would do anything for him. I hope you had a wonderful birthday my Love.

TOday...

TOday is my wonderful sister in law's baby shower. She is having a baby girl sometime with in the next 4 weeks! I'm so excited...I have decided that it is really hard when buying things for family members....why you may ask...because I want to buy so much! There are way too many things that I could buy. I ended up making a Diaper cake, if you have not made one before there are very fun to do.

The front view

The headbands my mom made for me, and the bows I made.

Things I got for her..Shoes, med giver thing, a nursing cover(it's the brown and polka dot thing).
Lotion, bum powder

The cute outfit I got for her

I'm so excited for Alli and Jon...Both Adam and I can't wait to met Little Alli.

Christmas TIME...Warning...Picture overload.

So Christmas was a blast! I just loved watching Adam open his presents...the best one was him opening his Gun( I got him a Remington 870 home defense shotgun), and then opening his bullet shaped cuff links.(if you didn't know Adam loves cuff links, he is always wearing them to church)




Since we had to be at his parents house at nine we woke up at 7:20 and opened our presents from each other, I am so grateful for Adam. He listened to what I wanted and got it for me. I got a ring to wear to work-because I don't wear my wedding ring to work, due to the fact that I once had a diamond come lose and had to get it tightened again-I really don't want to lose my diamonds. I got cooling racks, a wonder bra from Victoria secret-I love it-, pants, Scrubs season 1 on DVD, candy, and other stuff I can't remember at the moment.

He's getting so excited to open his presents

Yesterday was my Dixon Christmas Party, I love going and spending time with them. We had lots of fun, we went sledding with the cousins. Adam and I have not gone sledding with each other before, and it was a blast. We went to a ladies house that lives by my aunt in Bountiful, who decorates her house for Christmas and goes all out for it. It takes her 2.5 months to do it all. There is a Christmas village that she has and it takes her two weeks just to put that all together. The have so many Christmas trees that I have lost count. Every room has one in it, and even the bathrooms a decorated. Every time you walk into a room you get a different smell. This lady has been doing it for 30 years now. I just can't imagine doing that every year.

Every year during our Christmas party each family does something to add to our Christmas program, besides just having a nativity. This year Adam read a book that his Grandma would read to them every Christmas Eve. It's called, "The Cat on the Dovrefill". All the little kids enjoyed the story, my cousins mouthed a song while using the lips as the mouth, and their chin as the nose and head. It was pretty funny to watch them do it.

Adam making a pose before going down the hill

The boys racing(left to right: Roscoe, Adam, Jacob, Ricky)

Me taking a picture of me

Us sledding for the first time as a married couple

Adam reading the story

This is the quilt that my mom is making for my brother who is in the army, she is almost done with it, and then we can send it off to be quilted. Everyone in my family helped make the blocks for it. I did the two of them, one is the 3rd from the left and 4 down. The other one I did is the bottom right corner.

(Left to right: Savanna, Rebecca, and Jessica) Sing their hearts out

This is at the ladies Christmas house. She made a village in her window above the sink.

I only took pictures of two of the Christmas tree, this one has the village under it. That takes two weeks to build.

Other side of the village

Christmas tree at the top of the stairs

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.


Just a note to my Wonderful Aunt, Here is the recipe for the White Chili I made:
Ingredients:
1lb. Boneless, skinless chicken breasts. (cute into 1/2" cubes.
1 medium onion, chopped
1 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1 Tbsp. Veg. oil(or canola)
2 Cans(15 oz each) Great Northern Beans. Rinsed and drained
1 Can (14 oz) Chicken broth( I use bullion cubes and make two cups worth)
1 Can (4 oz) chopped green chilies
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. Oregano
1/8-1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper( I do 1/8)
1 C. Sour cream
1/2 C. Whipping cream
In large pan, saute chicken, onion and garlic powder in oil until chicken is no longer Pink. Add beans, broth, chilies, and other seasonings(besides the sour cream and whipping cream). Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 30 mins.Uncovered(I put my stove at low) After that add in Sour cream and Whipping cream.
For the batch that I made for the party I made 1 and a half batches of it. Hope you enjoy it.

Tis' the Season...

Tis' the Season to be Jolly and Joyous...
It really is the Season of joy and happiness. I love this time of year because it's when you start to make tons of goodies to give to neighbor and friends. Adam and I started last year by making bread for our neighbors(because we were poor newly weds, and we still are poor), and each of them love Adam's bread. So there was no way we were going to get out of NOT making the bread this year. Over the weekend our bananas looked about right and we make 6 lofts of banana nut bread. We also make 2 batches of home make caramels! I love making them, I got the recipe from my wonderful Grandma Dixon. It's one you do in the microwave, but it taste just as good as any other recipe you do on the stove with out the mess of it.
Another thing I love about this time of year is putting up the Christmas tree and wrapping presents...Yes I did say I love wrapping presents. I loved it before I got married and would wrap presents for my mom. Then I got married and Adam wanted to get REAL ribbon to put on the presents. I tell you what, it makes the presents look that much better. I love making the presents look pretty.

Don't get me wrong I know Christmas isn't about the gift and that. I know we need to remember the true meaning of Christmas. Next week in Nursery we get to teach the children about the true meaning of Christmas and tell them the story of the nativity. I can't wait, I just hope that they are in a good mood that day and are not running around driving me nuts.


Merry Christmas to you all!