Oh Christmas Tree

My Christmas Tree for this year. I wanted to get a whole new set of ornaments and do my tree silver, blue, and black but I couldn't justify it when I had perfectly good ornaments already. The Angel on the tree is an Angel Barbie Emily gave me last year. I am a Barbie collector and I am still a little girl about it. I can't stand to see the Barbies left in the boxes. I want to take them out soooooo bad. I've been getting better at leaving them in the boxes, but I wanted an angel on my tree and this gave me an excuse to take one of my Barbies out to play with. It felt like Christmas morning opening her up. I could be happy with no presents this year, because opening that little angel gave me so much fulfillment.

Thanksgiving FUN

The Jolley boys in their Shelley jerseys getting ready to play some awesome Mario Cart. They look so handsome. Bryce's favorite part of thanksgiving was spending time with his brothers. His little brother Dallin, the other red head, just got home from his mission in New Jersey this August. Bryce and I hadn't seen him since he'd been home. I actually only just met Dallin before he left, so it was nice to get to know him. Bryce got to reconnect with him and give him all sorts of advice about BYU-I, girls, finances, and life. He is probably the best big brother anyone could ever have. (I guess we'll have to ask Dallin if that is true, or if I am just being a little biased) Steve, the one without red hair, had a new baby girl early this fall and we hadn't been able to see her yet either. So it was a Grand Jolley Reunion. It was the best Thanksgiving. The food was fantastic and the company even better. Thank you Ivan and Lori. Oh, and Kailey.


Whitney stayed with the Jolley family over Thanksgiving. Here we made a quick stop at Holly and Shon's house to visit. Zachy was telling Tyler, the photographer, how to run the camera. "Push the button on the top!" I wish I wouldn't have deleted the pictures Zacky took. Tyler managed to get us very centered and our heads weren't cut off. Lets just say that Zacky took less time to look before he took.


Holly took this picture. We were on our way to see the movie Enchanted. We got the boys excited about it by telling them that there was a queen that turned into a dragon in it. They were asking the whole time when it was going to happen. Unfortunately for Zacky, the transformation didn't happen until the end of the movie. Tyler was more patient in the waiting. The movie was very cute and entertaining. I would recommend it to anyone. Bubber, Whitney, loved it the most I think.

NEW HIGH SCORE!?

I just scored 78,000 in Tetris! Oh how wonderful my fingers were moving along those keys. Oh how beautiful those numbers on the screen as they got larger and larger. My heart raced faster and faster as the levels of the game progressed and the pieces came down like a downpour. AND, OH the triumph when in the end I saw that score and I got to scream it to my handsome husband.

BUT

"By the way Natali, I got 79,000."

Yup, 100% gaurantee.

P.S. My Dad's face is there to show the extreme dismay I could not show you about learning my hard work wasn't actually my triumph. Dad displays the emotion so well.

I've added a little sidebar to keep you all posted as to whom has the high score as of late.

Happy Thanksgiving From #16

I know that the 1 is covered, but Bryce and I live @ 4222 Grand Ave. #16. Now I know you all wanted to know that so badly, so I told you. You are welcome. p.s. this is my 1st attempt at wreath making.

Why I Love Thanksgiving

This is why I can't wait for thanksgiving. Five pies for about 10 people. I know for a fact that there was a triple chocolate pumpkin cheesecake in the fridge, along with a coconut cream pie. I really, honestly, gained about 10 pounds over the last holidays. I am still struggling to get those pounds off, but now that I see how wonderful these look, how could I ever have thought of taking it easy this year. BRING ON THE POUNDS!


Here is the remainder of our feast from last year. Mom looks a little surprised, Whitney looks adorable, and Dad looks threatening. HOWEVER, the food looks like Thanksgiving.

CELEBRASIAN summer 2007

At Des Moines Fantastic CelebrAsian. Emphasis to be put on the Asian. It was complete with Asian food, clothing, dancers, art, and my favorite, asian RAP!

Family Picture February 2007

I DID IT!

Well, well, I decided to join your ranks all you bloggerific bloggers. My sister Emily's blog is my favorite thing in the whole world. I frequent her site about two - three times a day. I can't let her go and have all the fun. I don't have as cute of children as Emily though, I actually have no children, but I was feeling left out and HERE I AM!

Bryce and I are living in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryce is a student at DMU (Des Moines University) He is studying Podiatric Medicine, or podiatry. Yes, he is going to be a foot doctor. We have been here for about one and a half years now and we love it. The mid-west is quite the place. The people are friendly, the weather is nice, and its not too big. I have my doubts when moving out here from Rexburg, Idaho that it would be too much of a city for this small town girl. At first I almost thought that it was too big, but I am slowly getting used to the amount of people and I am trying to get used to the drivers.

One little confession I have to make is that the most exciting part of my life lately is that I love to play tetris on-line. I will play for hours and I can't stop. We had tetris on our computer as a kid and I remember loving it, but I have relived this love lately. Byrce and I go back and forth trying to beat eachothers high score.










I am legendary for being very unlucky and horribly poor at games. Allllll games. Board games, card games, video games, computer games, you name it and I will have lost that game at least 10 times. Bryce always jokes that everyone loves playing games with me because they are almost 100% guaranteed to win. I am extremely competitive as well, and I HATE losing. But, I am slowly getting used to it. However, when I began playing tetris I had the long standing high score for quite a while. I was, of course, very proud of myself and I admit that I loved to gloat about it when the opportunity arose.

I am the second counselor in my young womens presidency and I was at an activity Wednesday night that required a lot of set up and clean up. I ended up being at the church from 5:30 until 9:30 that night. I get home exhausted and I was ready to play my nightly tetris to wind down. I come home and my husband is on the computer, and announces to me that he has beat my high score.

"By how much," was my timid reply.

"I got 76,000," he says smugly.

My high score had been a measly 36,000. My eyes become wide and pools of liquid began to pool threateningly at the bottom lash lines. I looked up to the ceiling to try and force the tears back into my eyeballs. I composed myself and then my competitive nature took the reigns. I plopped down on the couch, took the computer from Bryce and started playing. I would love to say that I came out victorious that evening, but going back to the 100% guarantee that I will lose, I lost. The closest I got was 53,000, and I still haven't even got that again since.

P.S. The link to my favorite tetris online games is : http://www.freetetris.org/