First Day of Winter Semester

Here is a new picture of Shawn on his first day of Winter Semester-always so handsome

Christmas in Oregon

Shawn and I got to fly home to spend 10 wonderfully filled days in Oregon for Christmas. We stayed pretty busy while in Oregon but also found some to to hang out and relax as well.

Here is how we spent our Christmas break:

~We flew in to Portland on Monday morning after a very bumpy plane ride. We got Pietros Pizza for lunch (my favorite)
~We had a few racquetball tournaments (my first time playing since my knee surgery)
~Did some shopping with Brock, and then with my mom-its always great to shop in Oregon since you dont have to pay any sales tax!
~Got to spend 2 days with Blake and Savannah before they headed out to Idaho for their Christmas with the Browns.
-Got together at the church with all the cousins, aunts, and uncles to play basketball, eat pizza, and make gingerbread houses.
~Spent time with Jared Paul
-Christmas Eve was spent at the Youds for the cousin gift exchange and talent show, as well as the reading of the Nativity story by grandpa Nelson.
-Opened PJs for the girls and NIKE basketball shorts for the boys on Christmas Eve.
~Jared came into the room on Christmas morning as Happy :) as can be-he loves Christmas.
~We all opened our presents one at a time from the youngest to the oldest starting with Kyle.
~ Shawn got very spoiled this year for Christmas: he got an I-Pod Touch, North Face Jacket, new set of Scriptures, football, Ogio backpack, Ski tickets, RC helicopter, $75 worth of gift cards to places to eat (including his favorite: Carls Jr) and $100 worth of I-tunes cards, some clothes, and tools.
~Christmas morning was spent with all the aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandma and grandpa Nelson coming to our home for breakfast and to play with everyones new toys.
~We visited Grandma, Grandpa, and Jade the day after Christmas.
~Bowling and Sweet Tomatoes with family the day after Christmas.
~Got lots of Oregon snow on Monday and Tuesday.
~Shawn, Brock, Kyle, Brighton, and Brax spent 3 days at the cabin for a "man's weekend" that included skiing on Mt Hood.
~I got very very sick with the flu for 3 days and spent them lying in my parents bed (my favorite place to be when I am sick).
~Sewed some baby blankets and quilts with my mom.
~Did some after Christmas shopping.
~Got together with the siblings and we all cleaned out and organized the storage room for my dad.
~Played some fun family games-including our favorite: Domino's.
~Had a fun evening eating homemade soup and playing "Would You Rather" at grandma and Granada Nelsons house with the Older cousins.
~had lots and lots of football on the TV during Bowl week and even participated in the annual Bowl Pick tournament-Shawn is actually winning that right now.
~Did our laundry, packed up and said good-bye.
~loved every moment in Oregon with our family and cant wait for our next visit back.

Christmas Pictures....in no particular order
Shawn helping Austin with his gingerbread house Jared with his Oregon Ducks Snuggie-its great to keep his arms warm

Grandpa, Grandma, Amy, Jared, Brock, Kyle, Shawn and I

Dad, Jared, and Amy on Christmas morning

Shawn with his new North Face jacket and his I-Pod Touch

Shawn and I Christmas morning

Kyle with his new game, Ticket to Ride-a favorite of ours.

Shawn on Christmas morning with some of his Christmas loot

Dad, Me, Shawn, and Kyle on Christmas morning

Jared opening presents on Christmas morning-he loved opening presents and would get so excited about each new one he opened Brock, Kyle, and Dad with Brocks new gun. Both Brock and Kyle got guns this year

Kyle and Jared

Dad showing us his new calendar with pictures of Jared

Mom showing off a new shirt she opened

And the Christmas Tree this year-one of my favorites because it was over 25 feet tall.

Thanks mom and dad for another wonderful Christmas in Oregon!

Weekend in Evanston

Shawn and I drove up to Evanston for a few days before our Christmas break. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures but we did have a good time.
We met all of Shawn's family there except his older brother, Ben and his family in Texas (and we missed them) and Shawn's little brother, Joseph, who is on his mission in Tennessee. We had a good time all together. We love playing with all of our cute little nieces and nephews. It is always so fun to get together with everyone...and it is nice that it only takes 1 1/2 hours to get up to Evanston too.

Finally...some snow!

We did not get any snow this year until Dec. 6th-crazy! We woke up Sunday morning and there was alittle snow on the ground...now it has not stopped since then.
Shawn is so excited. He loves snow, Brock and Shawn have been going crazy having to wait this long to go skiing.
The snow is here and we are excited-but it will be April soon enough and we will be anxiously waiting for all of the snow to melt away and for Spring to appear.

Our nephew is stronger than your nephew

This past Saturday Shawn and I drove up to Ogden area to go and watch our oldest nephew wrestle. I was shocked when we got to the high school for the tournament-I was expecting a little mat with a few little boys wrestling. It turns out wrestling is a pretty big deal in Northern Utah. There were 2 gyms full of hundreds of little boys ages 5-9 wrestling.
This is Corbins second year wrestling and he is amazing! It was fun to watch him. He has only lost 1 match in the last 2 years. He won all 3 matches that we saw him wrestle- he sure had one proud uncle!

Shawn and Hadley watching Corbin wrestle. Hadley will start wrestling next year.


Corbin on the mat waiting for his opponent to come back onto the mat to announce the winner. The little boy he was wrestling lost and ran off crying...so Corbin just stood there waiting for him to come back so they could raise his hand in the air signifying he won.

Corbin pinning his opponent

Proud Uncle Shawn with Corbin and his first place metal.

When I asked Corbin how he got so good at wrestling he said, "its because I am a Platt"

Shawn let me know that this was just going to be a glimpse into what our future is going to be like when we have little boys....now I wishing for all girls!

Thank you Corbin for letting us come and watch you wrestle-we had alot of fun, uncle Shawn says he is going to make sure you teach our little boys to wrestle as good as you someday!

The Blind Side

Shawn and I went on a date to the movies last night and we went to see, The Blind Side. What an amazing and inspiring movie. I recommend everyone go and see it!!! We both loved it!

Here are a few more things that we have been up to...
I bought some more material and am going to make another blanket-this time it is going to be a striped blanket. And I bought some flannel to make some flannel blankets and burp cloths.

I have also gotten all of my Christmas cards done-now all I need to do is buy the cute Christmas stamps at the post office and wait until December to send them all out.

-I have also found 2 Christmas music stations and I have been defiantly enjoying my Christmas music when I am driving

-In & Out just opened here in Provo and I am excited for a cheese burger with grilled onions and a chocolate shake....we are just waiting for the lines to go down a bit first

-I have found my Christmas dress all picked out and ordered-just waiting for that to arrive

-looking forward to a Platt Thanksgiving this year and will be heading up to Evanston soon

-and jealous that I am taking Brock to the airport today so he can spend a week in Oregon with the Family