I'm An Aunt.... Again!

Today I became the proud aunt of THIS little beauty:
Oh how I just want to squeeze her. She looks perfect. I heard her cry on the phone today, and even her little cry is perfect. I cannot wait to see her and hold her and give her some loves tomorrow.

Baby, Mom & Dad are all doing well.
Congrats Hen & Jared! We love you, Oakden Family :)

Well What Would YOU Do if You Were Getting Kidnapped?

A few weeks ago Luke was in Texas on a business trip with his boss (whom we will call Jack). He was to be gone from Mon- Wed. It was Tuesday night. I had gone to mutual after being at work all day long and then had a Presidency meeting after mutual, so it wasn't until 10:00 pm that I was finally on my way home for the day and got to call my hubby and say hello- which meant it was midnight there in Texas. The convo went something like this:
Me: Hi hun. What are you doing?
Luke: Nothing, just got back to the hotel.
Me: Um... isn't it midnight there? Why were you out so late?
Luke: I went shopping with Jack.
Me: Shopping? What could you guys possibly be shopping for at midnight?
Luke: Just stuff, I don't know.
Me: I don't get it. What kind of stuff did you get?
Luke: Just random stuff.
Me: Okay you're being super sketchy right now. I'm going home and taking a shower and I'll call you before I go to bed.
So I got home, LOCKED the front door and LOCKED the bathroom door (because I'm paranoid like that when Luke's not home), and jumped in the shower. A few minutes into my shower I realize the shampoo bottle is empty so I slide the shower curtain back and reach out to the near-by cabinet to get a new bottle. Just as I grab the bottle I hear the bathroom door handle shaking. Someone was trying to get in! I freeze. A second later I see the door handle twist and the door opens. I seriously don't think I have ever screamed so loud in my life! And never for so long before either; it took a good 10 straight seconds of screaming before my brain realized that the intruder was none other than my loving husband who had returned home from his trip a day early and wanted to surprise me, but ended up terrifying me to death instead.
Now that got me to thinking that:
1. My bathroom door is obviously very easy to pick and I'm not sure I'll even bother locking it from now on because someone can still get in whether it's locked or not.
2. I'm glad my husband isn't really "sketchy" and was really only a few miles away from coming home to me when he said they were "shopping".
3. I need to work on my self defense skills because, honestly, if that were a true kidnapper I would have been stuffed in a bag and hauled into someone's car in .2 seconds. I did nothing but scream!! That's so lame! (Of course I'm glad now that I didn't do anything other than scream because it was Luke, and I wouldn't want to hurt him... but I DO want to hurt a real kidnapper if the time ever came and obviously I am HIGHLY incapable.


But seriously... What would YOU do if you thought you were getting kidnapped?

Luke and I had a great Holiday break! Both of our bosses let us take a whole week off from work, so we were able to spend a lot of valuable time together, with Luke's family, and with friends.

We spent Christmas in Vegas with Luke's family. We got spoiled with a lot of great gifts and enjoyed our time playing games, talking, and watching videos of previous Christmases in the Stephenson home.



During our time in Vegas we also did a little site-seeing and visited Red Rock Canyon, which I had never even heard of before, but is super cool. Next time we're in Vegas I'm definitely going to bring my tennis shoes so we can climb around instead of just watching everyone else.



After 5 days in Vegas Luke and I started our trek to Utah for our friend's wedding. We got caught in the worst snow storm either of us had ever seen, and both got extremely sick from hanging out the window and snapping the frozen ice off our windshield wipers. I was so looking forward to being back in Utah visiting our friends, playing games and hanging out but Luke and I were so sick we were hardly able to enjoy anything. I swore I would take a ton of pictures over our break, but sadly being sick really made me lose any motivation I had to take any. Sadly this is one of the only pics I took while in Utah. This was while we were outside the Draper temple waiting for Nate & Liz to come out. We were beyond freezing.



We spent New Years Eve at with some of our friends and their family playing games.

Since being home Luke and I have both made our goals for 2011 and took some time to reflect on the good/ bad of 2010. Ultimately we both agree that we have had a year of many blessings. We love being here in San Diego with great jobs, awesome friends, a nice apartment, and each other. We have loved taking this adventure and exploring this new place together. We loved 2010 and can't wait to see what 2011 holds!