The Nutty Stokers: December 2009

Wow! Sorry for the delay.. I haven't exactly been super busy over the break, but just enough that I hadn't gotten around to blogging yet! This is going to be a pretty lengthy post, and GURANTEED i will get sidetracked. (alot of these pictures I borrowed from sash so don't be surprised if you saw them on her blog all ready!!!)

Well some notes from the holidays. Jared and Kayla with their three kids came and visited the week before Christmas and got here on Thursday? I'm pretty sure.
It was so fun to have them here and they didn't have to leave until the next Tuesday, so they were here for almost a week. They were here for my birthday along with Matt, Ashley, Dallin, and Mom & Dad.

My birthday was SO fun! I woke up around 6:30 to get ready for the day (I had one last final driver's ed class) which started at 8 and went till twelve. I passed the final with a B+ and I received my permit!! Which was pretty much one of the best birthday presents EVER! Funny story, though, in my DE class since my birthday fell on one of the class days, much like seminary I was surrouded in a circle and all the boys sang "happy birthday to me" (my seminary class sang "happy permit to me") and I'm sure the girls chimed in a little too :]. It was a wonderful last class and I loved it! I had Lon Piper for a teacher who pretty much knows the entire family and man, is he a character!! i would definitely do the entire class over it was so much fun.
One of the many "interesting" things we did in that class included "reflection time" which you got if you mouthed off, annoyed the teacher, or just plain did something Piper didn't totally agree with. It was SUPPOSEDLY a punishment but it turned out to be the funniest thing in the class. You had to stare ito the TV screen, then after a few minutes of "reflecting" you apologized to the class sincerely.
Proudly, I only received reflection time once for being "overly excited" about passing the final... haha it was hilarious though and I loved every minute of it!.
After driver's ed, I got to go to the mall and hang out with a couple of friends for a couple of hours before we headed over to Ashley's dance recital. i bought myself a purse which is SUPER cute! I love it.
Ashley did SO amazing at her dance recital. She choreagraphed quite a few dances and supervised a couple more. THey all turned out so cute- and I'm not lying her little girls' class that she taught hip hop completely KILLED the other kids in their hip hop dances. She also got to dance in two groups to "Stacey" (aka That's Not MY name) which was jazz and "Kill The Lights" which was hip hop. She did SO GOOD! She is pretty much amazing at dance. Everyone couldn't take their eyes off of her... of course she was FRONT AND CENTER!! She has a gift I'm telling ya!

After her recital IIIII drove mom and dad home and we celebrated my birthday with jared, kayla, and dallin. I got an ice cream cake from Baskin and Robbins that said "Happy 15th Birthday Natalie!" it was really cute... AND Great tastin' :]

I got the cutest boots from mom and dad, Dallin gave me an awesome shirt that I have wanted for almost the entire year, and jared and kayla gave me the CUTEST plaid/striped shirt from AEO.

Sharese sent me a gift card to Aeropostale (guilty, I've all ready spent most of it), Josh took me to Sherlock Holmes later in the week too. Matt and Ashley got me the coolest shoes from Chinatown in San Fran. THey are so comfy. I also talked to each sibling on the phone which was wonderful :]
After eating enormous amounts of cake and ice cream, i headed on over to a stake dance with a few friends. I got sung to TWICE! Because I had two groups of friends put my name on the billet two different times. It was so much fun though and I had the most amazing 15th birthday! Thanks to everyone I love you all- brothers, sisters, friends, and parents!!

Now, for Jeremy's Birthday! I can't exactly give you a play-by-play of his day... cause I can't remember everything!

But we did get to celebrated later in the evening with Chinese food from New Hong Kong (yum! good choice :]) and ice cream cake from B&R again.

I can't remember all his presents but I did give him this Indian ring that had engraved little swirls in it(i'm not gonna lie-it's pretty sweet!). Happy 26th Birthday Jeremy! WE love you!!!

ON to Christmas/(these pictures I "borrowed" from ashley)... Since we are quite a lazy bunch, we didn't even wake up till around 9 to 9:30. I woke everyone up and started to make a big breakfast with waffles and omelettes. We even ate before we opened presents.

WE started the opening at around 10 and didn't get done till 12!! We were all kinda boring but some of the highlights of the presents (that I can remember, they may give you different accounts) were: Dad-pants from AE, and new BYU clothes

, Mom- a DKNY peacoat that is SO cute!,

Josh-new business shirts... he will look very handsome!, Jeremy- and iTouch!which was a surprise, we almost gave it to him for his birthday but decided to wait,

Dallin- a new camera,

Ashley-new camera also, and me.. well pretty much all my presents!! but I have to say the smell good stuff from Jeremy is one of my favorites!

Later in the day, we went to Sherlock Holmes and Mom and Dad went to Invictus. Both movies were awesome!! Sherlock was long and misleading at first, but in the end it all came together finally! Invictus (i'm told) was very inspiring!
The rest of the day after eating lunch, we just vegged and enjoyed each others' company. Me and Josh went and looked at this house down by Skyline HS that coordinates the lights to music which was prety dang amazing I must say.
The following weekend were spent with many hours at the mall, and we also went down to Utah to take Josh so that he could catch his plane on Monday. A plus for me was definitely seeing all of my brothers!! Too bad I couldn't see all of my sisters! :(

Some other notes... We played this game: Ninja Destruction almost every single day. It was so much fun.

Dad also let me do his hair this year so.. yeah. You'll understand.

But I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and A happy new year! I love each and everyone of you and you have all impacted my life so much!! I love you :]

Always Love, Natalie

Wow I am so late in getting this post out but oh well! I have been a wee bit busy lately. Let's see about our holiday: Matt and Ashley came, Dallin and two friends (Dania and Garret), ME!, Devin and Julie, and Jeremy surprised us on Wednesday! Well here are some pictures from our holiday!

Relaxing on the couch