THE DAYTON FAMILY

This Christmas was so incredibly wonderful! We started out by going to the Las Vegas Bowl on Saturday with my little brother and sister. BYU barely pulled off a 17 to 16 win by blocking a field goal with 3 seconds left in the game - it was so exciting! While we were in Vegas we ate at a buffet and a cafe in The Paris Hotel-gotta love Vegas food. We also helped David's sister Sara and her husband when they realized that the auto shop had not replaced their oil cap when they filled it up, so they had lost all of their oil. We randomly called them to stop for lunch with us in Vegas on their way out to California, and had they not stopped, they wouldn't have known and the engine would have seized up out in the middle of nowhere. So - it was VERY lucky that they stopped and also that we were able to go pick up oil and a new cap for them, it was also lucky that we made it to kick off on time after helping them. :-) Both of our mothers were in charge of the Christmas programs in their...

I'm so excited for Christmas - and it's only one week from today! We've had our tree for a couple of weeks - but I just barely took a picture of it. This last weekend we went to a fun Couples Christmas Party at Kyle and Rebecca Laws' home. Rebecca made lots of homemade sweets and we played some fun games together - in one of the games I won a key chain and David won a pair of earrings - we switched of course. :-)

David has been wanting to win an intramural tournament for all of his years at BYU. He sets up a football team every fall and winter semester, plays on a softball team during the spring and summer semesters, and organizes his favorite -a basketball team - during winter semester. Last year he came SO close with his basketball team making it to the final 4 out of more than 200 teams before they lost. Ironically, this semester he decided to play on our ward's ultimate frisbee team for fun - and that is how he became an intramural champion!

This past weekend, it snowed for the first time this Holiday Season. It was so beautiful, but quite scary to drive in. We spent Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon at the Peterson home so that we could watch the BYU game on a big TV. We took a family picture for their Christmas card, and although it turned out great with the snowy mountains in the back, we had to stand out in the middle of the snow-covered deck for a while posing for the self-timer on the camera. It was pretty freezing! We also went up to the Christmas Devotional on Sunday evening with the Dayton family. It was so wonderful and Christmas-y!!!

Chrissy, Jessie, Becky, Chris & Sara, Marie, David & Heather, Benjy, Cindy On Thanksgiving Day, David got up early and went to play football with some of his family and friends. After the first hour of boring two-hand touch, some of the guys left, and the remaining few played tackle against some juveniles from Discovery Academy - they had a blast playing tackle against these teenagers (some of whom were quite large.) We went to the Dayton home around 12:30pm, took some family pictures, and then headed to his aunt and uncle's home in Orem. We had hors d'oeuvres, sang songs, and then ate a huge meal. After dinner, there was a pool competition-David was paired up with his cousin, Barbara, and they did awesome until we had to go so we could see my family for a bit. Before we left the Dayton's we had some dessert, which was definitely scrumptious. :-) Benjy and Marie vs. David and Barbara What a cutie in his argyle sweater!!! At my family's house, we mainly just...

Last Thursday night, David and I went up to SLC to watch his sister Becky in 'Savior of the World.' We went with his sister, Chrissy, and met his other sister and husband, Chris & Sara, there. It was a nice performance and we went to a french bakery afterwards to get a treat. :-) As we pulled into the Dayton's driveway around 11:30pm that night, we noticed an extremely strong and unnatural smell. I immediately noticed that the storage doors at the back of their carport had black streaks up them. We assumed there was a gas leak or fire, so we jumped out of the car and David rang the doorbell a bunch to get his mom and two sisters out. When his sister Marie answered the door she was pretty annoyed until he told her what was going on. He ran in and got his sister Jessie out of bed and his mom ran out in her pajamas and slippers. Soon, the street was flooded with police cars, a fire truck, and quite a few neighbors. We sat in the car for about 40 minutes while they put out ...

Okay - 6 interesting facts about me... 1. My favorite foods: drink-milk, fruit-apples (preferably gala), meat-chicken, side dish-mashed potatoes & gravy, vegetable-spinach (but it has to be fresh-not all wilted like when it is cooked), meal my husband makes-it's a tie between steak stroganoff and hamburgers. 2. I LOVE getting my nails done. I only do it for dance competitions because it is expensi ve and makes it hard to type, but I absolutely love it. I've had my toes done twice as well. If we ever have extra money - I think that I will have them done a little more often. :-) 3. In my 9th grade yearbook, they asked a few of us what we wanted to do by the time we were 20 years old. Most people said crazy adventurous things, but I simply stated, "I want to be married." AND - I did just that. I got married exactly a month after I turned 20, but not because I was trying to fulfill my silly 9th grade statement - that just happened to be when my perfect match showed u...