A little side note: Our ASU Cheerleader!
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We did! We decided to "sleep in" this year and wake up a little later...is 5:00 am better? Bret, Julie, Ayla, Marcie and I spent the night while Dena, Mike, and Lincoln slept at home but came over the next morning. We are running out of room! It was so fun to watch Ayla and Lincoln open their presents then fight over what the other one was playing with. Lincoln loved the Elmo Live we gave him and Ayla yelled out "WHOA!" when she saw her Barbie jeep from us. She has been driving it all weekend. Marcie and I finally got our quilts made by our mom! They are so pretty. We got great stuff and we are so blessed to have a wonderful, happy family! 
We would like to say Happy Birthday to our SIL and BIL! That's right! They have the SAME birthday. We are so LUCKY to have such great in laws. We have a new shopping buddy (Julie, not Mike) and someone new to poke fun at (Mike, not Julie). Julie is always so willing to help out and we always have fun hanging out with her. For example, in the pic above we were doing karaoke and let's just say Julie can give Christina Aguilera a run for her money! Mike will always fix our car or hang something in our apartment for us whenever we ask. He is our go to fix it guy! We joke with him a lot and he is really good about it, but we only do it because we love him. He also teaches Holly Spanish (or espanól). Happy Birthday you two! Hope you have a great one! Well, we had a good weekend. What did we do? Oh we just hung out with the BACKSTREET BOYS! No, that is not a misprint. We hung out with the Backstreet Boys! It was a little bittersweet because we got tickets to go to the concert, and Marcie and I got tickets to do a sound check with them, meet them and get our pics with them. (Dena was meeting us for the concert only.) Marcie and I got there and we were waiting to go in to meet them, but they kept saying the boys were running behind. When they finally brought us into the lobby they told us Nick (Holly's fave) was sick and that the concert was canceled! WHAT?! At this point some girls are crying, and we are wondering what we are going to do. They said that the 3 remaining members (Brian, A.J., and Howie) would still do the sound check, Q & A, sign autographs, and get their pics with us. It was the coolest thing ever! There was only about 50-60 people and it was so neat! They were so personable and funny. We had like our own private concert! (front row, no less) Then they answered questions, signed a poster and CD, then we got our pic with them. Brian told Marcie that her shirt was cute and they called me Sparkle Girl! That's right, the boys gave me a nickname! I could tell they LOVED us!!! So even though there was no concert and we didn't get to see Nick, we still had loads of fun! Don't worry we narrowed the pics down so we wouldn't have all 500 that we took!
It's been such a BUSY month! Hopefully we can remember everything we did!
We got to go to D-land for the Trick or Treat. It was a blast! Everyone dressed up and we got to trick or treat, ride the rides, dance, and meet TONS of characters. It wasn't even crowded! It was an exhasuting 3 day trip, but TOTALLY worth it.
Everyone knows we are HUGE High School Musical fans. We were so excited when HSM3 came out. We saw it 3 times in 5 days. Then we went again a week later. It was the best one (they are all good though). We can't wait for it to come out on video. We love Troy Bolton!
