::to the sweet::

I just want to say happy Valentine's day to Kris. He's the sweetest and I'm so glad to have him!!


(Max took these two pictures for us. Pretty good, right?)

Here's what our little house looks like at home.

I think it misses us. But we don't miss it yet.

::more NM::

The sky in NM is so beautiful! I don't know if it's because the elevation is so high or what, but it's just gorgeous. Unless there's a big storm of course.
Here's the Albuquerque temple:



We got to run by it on the way to the airport heading back to UT.
And here is a view of Albuquerque's rocky mountains from near the temple. The mountains are reminiscent of Utah valley.

What do you think?
And it's not hot. Like I said before, there's winter. It was about 40 or 50 degrees in Albuquerque while we were there, and around 20s and 30s in Santa Fe.

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Kris and I are in Santa Fe, NM getting some business done. It's snowy out here! This is for all youse guys who think that NM is hot and full of palm trees. :)

::out::

We're out west! If I'm not too busy having fun I'll post more about it soon.

::disgruntled drainpipe::

It's too cold and dreary, even for drainpipes.

::wordless giveaway winner--in green::

YAY for Katie Gee!!!
(OK, so it wasn't totally wordless! Katie, can you email me your address and I'll send these cute little snowflakes your way!
ginnahendricks(at)yahoo(dot)com. Wish I could've made a snowflake for each of you. Max actually requested that. He wanted to keep drawing names.)

::other places::

Happy February!

I'm over here today celebrating love. If I were you I'd tune in for the whole 14 days--and beyond. Megan's blog is a delight.

I'm also sort of here. Well I'm not there exactly, but people I love are. And I instigated it.

Have fun linking along.

We'll announce the giveaway winner later today.

Thanks for leaving me comments and making my birthday just a little more happy!!

::my birthday in photos::

Pancake breakfast:

with bacon and overeasy eggs--my favorite!

Some fun presents:

Special Italian bistro dinner:



What a great day!!

::me me me::

This post is about me.
It's my birthday today. Yay for me!

But really I think it's yay for my mom. Because how would I be here to talk about myself if it wasn't for her?
So thanks mom--and dad! Thanks for making it so I could be here and have birthdays.

Last year I asked everybody to leave me a comment as my birthday present. I loved it so much last year that I want to do it again!

So if you read this, will you leave me a comment and say hi? I'd love to hear from some of you that I maybe don't know--or those that I know but I don't know are reading...you know what I mean. And of COURSE I want to hear from my lovely friends that often leave me comments. Youguys are the best.

And I love comments--I mean, don't all bloggers love comments?
So tell me hi--and if I don't know you, tell me how you found me?

Wish you were all here to share some cake. A lovely friend in the ward brought me over this gorgeous cake:

The good news? It takes as good as it looks. Scrumptious.

I got my hair cut yesterday (for my birthday). What do you think?

(I like this picture except there's just something weird about my hand--it looks way bigger than it should be, doesn't it?)

(this is how Max makes me feel on a regular basis)

The best news about my birthday? It means that we ALL made it through another long cold (unless you're someplace nice) January. And that's great news, isn't it?