new year's eve!

buuut...to quickly wrap up the very end of 2017...

james and i celebrated our anniversary by going to a movie, the greatest showman, easily in my favorite top 5, sitting down to watch our wedding day dvd with our girls, and then dinner at the mandarin of course. my mother in law and tori were so nice to take them so we could do all of our outings without kids. it was such a fun day just the two of us!

and we lucked out finding this tree in bountiful while driving around looking at lights aka getting adi to sleep. the girls are obsessed with it, especially kendall. she said we need to see it 5 nights!

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two days later was my birthday and it ended up being a great day! i went to the gym with chelsea (who also drove me, AND took me to lunch at the cheesecake factory), i got to go shopping, to swig, to get my nails done, and go to target all by myself! there was also some cafe rio in there for lunch and then a drive up to coalville. we all left the kids with babysitters and the adults went for a late night dinner at denny's in park city. it was so fun to be together! especially because dev and kenz were in town for the holidays. my girls loved being with them and all of their cousins over the break. we ate delicious food, including homemade rolls twice (thanks mom!). watched lots of football, played games and dealt with a lot of chaos! 

new year's eve was pretty low key. we had a delicious spread of shrimp and dip, krab cocktail, chips and salsa, oreos, slush, and of course, sparkling cider at midnight. james got the kids into a movie and then they all went to bed. we stayed up just past midnight and then all hit the hay. it was such a great way to ring in the new year and luckily, catching up on sleep hasn't been too bad!

the next day we said goodbye to dev & kenz (and the dogs). we can't wait to see them again! we had sourdough pancakes and bacon, then it was more cousin time, a workout at the high school for the grown ups, more football, and then time to head back home. so much fun but i was so ready to get home and get christmas down and get back to the routine of life. we loved 2017 and can't wait to see what happens in 2018!