Elyse- the girl was made for the camera

This is our niece Elyse Lola. She just turned one and is a doll. Blair and I watch her and her older sister Emmie sometimes. They are such cuties. I used to have Elyse every sunday with me because her mom, Kyndra (my sister-in-law), was the primary president and I would help out.

Elyse loves her uncle Blair. She snorts and giggles everytime she see's him.

Its actually really cute!
She was dead on with her smile every time. It was so funny, everytime she saw the orange light come on she squinted and smiled. She knew what the light meant, it was great!

Nursing School

What can I say about school....I love it, it's stressful, I love it, it's hard, did I mention I get anxious everytime I go to pathophysiology and pharmacology?!

Nursing school is great. I'm learing so much, and actually staying on top of things for the most part. I'm just trying to keep my head above water, which means I have to sometimes stay home while Blair is playing. Like today for instance, he is snowboarding and I've got 3 exams next week, so I'm at home on the couch with notes and books all around me. I'm loving my clinicals, they are really fun. I have had some great/crazy experiences already. My clinicals this semester are at a care center that is 40 minutes away at 6am. So I get up really early (something I haven't done since early morning seminary). Blair is sweet, he gets up shovels the drive way and starts my car for me right before I leave in the morning. He's being very supportive. He took a picture of me last week at 5am, so I'm sorry that my face is not the happiest, brightest thing in the world. Here you go Abs, enjoy!

New Years

So its taking me forever to put pictures on here and update! I'm just really busy I guess and I probably should be studying right now too, but I wanted everyone to see what we have been up to. We had a blast with a bunch of our friends for New Years. They all came over and we watched the Gonzaga game, and played the newlywed game along with a "new year's resolution" game that was pretty fun. we had a pretty nice spread too. I made crab ragoons, southwestern egg rolls, fondue with cream puffs and fruit, and had some friends bring cheese, chips, and crackers. We also made huckleberry cream soda that was way yummy. It was a good night! Here's some people enjoying the food. Kiersten and Kreg brought cougar cheese from WSU, and it was way yummy!

This was our youngest party-goer, Brooklyn. She is just over a year old and is our friend's, Bart and Gretchen's, daughter. She is hilarious.

This is Courtney, and she loved the cream puffs. She and Matt(her husband) grew up with Blair. Matt was Blair's roommate at school in Utah. Courtney and Matt moved back up to Spokane this year, so we are glad they are here.

Here's most of the gang, with Blair on the computer trying to get good newly wed game questions.

Christmas at the Challis House

Blair and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and hope you have a

wonderful new year! Here are some pictures we want to share with you!

Mom and I kickin butt at pool, mom rocked the house!

Brad and Hannah, who are now in Texas,

dang cowboys!

semi-annual shoot-off

Blair and I didnt bring our A-game

Grammy and the girls making a gingerbread house

Tavie ate the decorations off the house just as fast as they were put on

me and Naomi (nomi) playing with strawberrry shortcake,

who by the way smiles like strawberries.

Blair and I enjoying the kids! they were having so much

fun opening presents and throwing wrapping paper around.

we decided when we have kids we will just give them wrapping paper

and bows for christmas and us the real presents. they have more fun

with the paper than the toys!

Grandpa and Britton (look at those smiles!)

Sarah and Tavie getting warm by the fire

Tavie.... Huh?

poor nomi, so tired, but here's part of the Rowles family

Beautiful Tori, who by the way can spell/write both her

nickname and her full name

Nomi getting ready for the 10 degree weather!! she rode

the fourwheeler with me and spent the whole ride back facing/hugging me
because she was so cold!! she's just the cutest thing!

monkeys with a fudge covered face!

Lovin that squash

Eden sportin' her little mermaid pj's

Eden enjoying the glorious squash

The Jared Hanson Family

Britton Truckin' (Jared's and Becky's son)

Becky is pregnant with their second child and just looks beautiful!!!

The Roger's Visit

Excited and ready for the ice skaters

Glorious Cheerios

Tavie was very content sitting on Blair's lap

and sharing her Cheerios

I'm not sure that Blair minded it very much either

We took them to the Davenport Hotel to look at all the Christmas

trees and decorations, and here is Tavie sitting next to Mr. Davenport

Blair and Evan weren't completely into the Ice Skating, but then

there were fireworks, flips, and fire breathing dragons.

So it wasn't so bad for them after all.
the sailors of the Little Mermaid were doing flips

The fire breathing Dragon

(name that disney movie!)

after the show ready to brave the snow!

It snowed the entire time they were here!!

Tavie's probably grabbing for her princess snowcone

once again, she has a problem with concentrating on the camera

Waving to Belle's dinner party

Sarah, Evan, and Tavie drove up to see us last weekend and we took them to Disney on Ice (mainly for Tavie). It was such a blast! Tavie was a kick! She was having so much fun, laughing and smiling, it was so great! She kept waving to all the princesses and clapped at just about everything. It was so much fun watching her loving it.

Avery Girl

Pretty much the Hippest Chick around

She kept these on for a few minutes (until they fell off.)

Avery is just so freaking rad. She's got attitude and a good sense of style.

She's rockin in my black and pink Aubrey-Smith sunglasses!

I went to Cali to visit my family before thanksgiving and only managed to

muster up maybe 3 pictures! I know, what a dummy!

Thanksgiving Pie!

Blair was proud of me too!

(k, I'm not pregnant, its just not a very flattering picture of me!)

So happy I didn't screw it up!

I made my first Chocolate Meringue Pie. It was yummy! I was really stoked about it, and it turned out really well! Blair and I spent Thanksgiving with his family here and we had a really nice time. Once again the turkey was huge!!! (30lbs). Last year someone set the turkey on the oven door for a moment and it ended up costing about $600 in repairs! This year poor Blair got burned from the juices while transporting the turkey, because the turkey was much too big for the pan! After a few laughs and lots of pie and football, the day turned out to be great!
I got this beautiful pie dish from Michelle Hunt as a bridal shower gift

along with the awesome pie crust recipe.

Here's to you Michelle!!