The end of 2011 in pictures:
With November coming to an end--so did two other things: ASU football and Nick's nasty mustache. I certainly won't miss one of those-I bet you can guess which one ;)
Seriously--the first cold night in AZ in the last year. It was in the 40's but as Nick likes to point out, I'm never dressed appropriately for the weather. So we left a little early to beat everyone to the light rail--only for ASU to lose at the very end of the game. Here I'm looking cold and irritated that they lost and I can't feel my toes.
For this freezing game they play University of Arizona. And the guy that made this sign behind us had us certainly laughing!
Our good friends the Badger's always come to AZ the week before Arizona. It is always so great seeing them. The girls shopped until we dropped and ate lots of good yummy food for energy to keep hitting up the sales :) Here Michelle and I are at Stax--such great food--must go if you are in Scottsdale.
Also this month a friend of mine taught me her secret family recipe of making bread (okay, it's not a secret this lady has made a ton of money in Utah supposedly). Well since every ingredient in bread can pretty much kill Nick these days, I had every excuse to try it out when Michelle was in town. One hour--start to finish--we got these perfect tasty mini loaves of bread!
Suddenly out of nowhere December happened! Here is it's happenings in photos:
I had a visit from a good friend from the high school days, Lindsay. She lives in San Francisco now (moving on up from good ole' Lodi), and thankfully we are both past the awkward ages of 13. She was only in town for two days, so I was honored that I got her for a whole 24 hours! So great catching up, laughing, crying, and talking about how we can't believe that we are grown-ups. How does that happen!
Yes, more time with the Badger's! We were talking with them about a month prior about how we want to go up to Denver to visit them, see their new house, and TJ and Nick wanted to go snowboarding. So we randomly looked up flights and found them for under $100 round trip. So off to Denver we went the 8-10th. It was so great to see their beautiful house, eat at our favorite spots, and even the boys had some snow to play in. Michelle's parents also came in town because they are always trying to keep up with us young folk--but we love it!
Michelle and I
TJ, John, and Nick
And what is a trip to Denver without a drive up to Boulder to see all the freaks (excuse me, I mean people) sending Washington, DC a message. My personal favorite is the sign that reads, "You can't evict an idea." Yep, pretty sure most of the country has :)
Nick conquering Copper Mountain
Back from Colorado followed a week's worth of work and Nick's finals. Yay! Only one more semester to go! The next weekend was my work Christmas Party. There were 34 of us I think when you count everyone's date. And lucky for me, I had the best looking date there! Our bosses were very generous as always and we had a great evening. Always love when gifts are Tiffany and Co.
I get to work with this good looking group of people everyday!
And I sure do love the other two full-time hygienists at the office-Kristina and Lindsey
And to get in the Christmas spirit-we hosted our annual white elephant party. Being busy being the host I totally slacked on photos, but I at least got this one with some girlfriends before the end of the night. Nick made up his own awesome game that combined Jeopardy, Name that Tune, and the Singing Bee (all in a brilliant excel spreadsheet on the big screen)--seriously I can't remember the last time I was laughing so hard. It is a game that will now have to be tradition! Nothing like seeing people trying rap, humm, and remember what artist is singing!
After everyone left and I had changed into my pajamas Nick says to me, "Jen, we didn't take one single picture of us tonight in our Christmas outfits in front of the tree." I almost considered putting back on my clothes, and then I said, "Oh well, there's always next year!" I'm just lucky to have a husband that likes to take pictures!
So here is our late at night, our only attempt at a picture-Styer Christmas Photo!
Merry Christmas!
