Festival of Colors

We've always heard about the Festival of Colors but have never gone, so this year we decided to see what it was all about :) It's a celebration of the passing of winter, and the start of spring-- so it's a festival where everyone throws colored chalk on each other to show the spring colors. It was so much fun!

There were thousands of people there so we had to park really far away and walk. We did make it there eventually, but I'm not quite sure if we took the right route cuz we ended up walking through some random junkyard...

We didn't make it in time for the initial throwing of colors all at once-- but it was cool to see the cloud of colors from the distance!

We had fun walking around the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple, listening to the band play, and getting chalked by randoms :)

Their temple grounds were really pretty, they had a big pond and a llama farm (and peacocks that kept showing off for us!) Some of the llamas got chalked too..

We came back to our place and cleaned up (we got Max all colorful first though) and enjoyed a steak dinner made by Evan and Trevor. Such a fun day!!

Oakley Turns 3!

I can't believe my little niece is already 3! We celebrated with cupcakes and lots of presents :)



Rick's sister came with her kids so it was fun to watch everyone play together! It was the first time I've seen Oakley around other kids, and it was so cute to watch her and her cousin Allison interact.



We had a fun night playing with Oakley and all the new toys she got :) It made Trevor excited to buy toys for our baby!

Cristina's 24th Birthday

Trevor called me on the way home and told me to get dressed up to go out to dinner. I was so excited when we pulled up to Gloria's Little Italy! I've been wanting to go there forever, and it was the perfect birthday dinner! We walked in and Trevor had flowers waiting on our table (LOVE him!), and the whole restaurant was just romantic and cute and it had good food.
Trevor took me back home, where there was a surprise party waiting for me! (and not just any party.. a princess party! haha PERFECT!) I wasn't expecting everyone to be there, it was so much fun :)
Oakley loved that she was at a princess party-- I think she was smiling the most I've ever seen her smile! Haha she was in heaven.
Nicolina went all out on my cake, it was a gorgeous princess castle! Ahh, perfection.
I loved hanging out and talking with everyone-- it was the perfect way to spend my birthday.I can't believe I'm 24!!!

Evan's 30th Birthday

Last night Evan turned 30!!! We kept giving him a hard time but he took it pretty well :) Nicole had him close his eyes in the car all the way from their house to Herriman, and then up until we walked into Famous Daves. We kept trying to throw Evan off so he wouldn't know where we were... he kept trying to guess! At first Nicole was like "we're goin to Vegas!" and he didn't really believe us, so she was like "Okay fiiiine.. I wasn't gonna tell you, but we're going to APX to eat at the cafe." Haha but once we walked into Famous Daves, Evan was a happy guy.

After dinner, we headed back to Herriman for delicious cake. Look how beautiful Nicole's creation was! Such a fun night! (and I still can't believe Evan is actually 30!)

Smallest Strawberry Smoothies

This weekend went by way too fast! Trevor and I both had to work on Saturday so we felt a little robbed of our days off. We had fun Saturday night though-- Steph, Rick and Oakley came over to hang out (Oakley and I spent the majority of the time going through my princess stuff.. I swear I need a little girl to play with everything, it's a good thing I have her to keep me occupied for now). After a little while, we met Evan and Nicole at Macaroni Grill.

We got served these mini strawberry smoothies while we waited-- aren't they so cute?

We all had fun drawing on the table while Evan wow-ed all of us with his magic trick. We all tried to do it too and then realized his knife had a magnet in it!

Good food, good company, good times :)

New Years Eve

We had a family get together for New Years Eve at Trevor's parent's house. It was very chill, which was good for us. We had lots of finger foods the whole night-- including the famous Sanford delicious mini cheesecakes (Steph, Nico and I made them together this year).

On the way up, we stopped at a grocery store to get some Martinelli's and all the shelves were literally empty of it! (and of course there was tons of alcohol available, haha gotta love Utah) Good thing Trevor's parents already got some Martinelli's, and we ended up getting a knock off brand that turned out good (Peach and Strawberry flavored.. mmm)

Oakley got a bunch of princess dresses for Christmas so a lot of the night was her wanting to change into different ones to show us. When we first got there, she was in a Snow White dress and I said "Ooooh hi Snow White!" and she gave me the biggest smile I've ever seen :)



Oaks also got a princess castle.. Nico and I oooh-ed and aww-ed over it, and later we caught Trevor playing with it! I think he needs a little girl of his own :)

We all played the game Quelf-- it's the most random, funny game-- we loved it! (For example, Nico drew a card at the beginning of the game that said she had to put her thumb on her forehead and wink every time she asked a question the entire time. The whole game is random stuff like that)

Sanford Thanksgiving

Since we were with my family on Thanksgiving (and Steph and Rick were with Rick's fam), Trevor's parents had us all over on Saturday for a Thanksgiving Feast. Two Thanksgiving dinners in one week was amazing! SO much food!
Momma Sanford made a perfect dinner, but the best dish was the candied yams-- that was my favorite part of the meal!

After the wonderful lunch/dinner, we watched the BYU vs. Utah football game. I fell asleep cuddling with Trevor and got woken up by everyone screaming at the TV many times :) I also got woken up by Miss Oakley a bajillion times.. it's a good thing I love her so much. She kept coming up to me and when she saw my eyes closed, she'd be like "CINA!! WAKE UP!" Haha oh goodness.

Oakley also made a few entrances to get our attention during the game (including dressing up as a pretty princess pageant girl and having Nicole push her around so she could wave to 'her people').



The boys put up Christmas lights on the tree, we ate homemade Pumpkin Pie and just enjoyed each other's company the whole night :)