Happy Birthday Babe!

My husband turned 25 on April 7th!  I love him so much and am so grateful to have him in my life.  For Chris' birthday I ditched school and we spent the whole day together!  We went to lunch with Grandma and Grandpa Lohner at Olive Garden which was so yummy!  After lunch, we went to the mall and bought Chris some new clothes.  After shopping we went to see the Source Code.  Finally, we headed home to relax for a while.  That night we played futsal until about 1 in the morning at UFA!  It was such a fun day, but the real party was on Friday night!  Chris' best friend Sean's wife, Ariel's birthday is the 12th so Sean and I decided to throw a surprise party for them!  It worked out really well!  We had Chris and Ariel thinking that we were going somewhere up the canyon or something for dinner and we blindfolded them and took them to my parents.  They had no idea where they were and they were completely surprised!  They had no idea about the party and we had a really good turn out.  There was tons of food and everyone had a good time.

The Fab 4 and our husbands, SO CUTE!!!

Part of the Birthday banner I made

Us girls

The Birthday boy and girl blowing out the candles!

BUSY!!!

Life has been so busy lately!  I know I am so bad at blogging but I really haven't had the time.  I am in my last semester of school and I can't wait to be done.  I graduate on April 29th, so just one more month!  The bad thing is that this has been one of my busiest semesters.  Not only is school super busy, but I am coaching two teams which has been so crazy trying to juggle practices and be to everything for both teams.  I absolutely love coaching though!  In February, we went down to a tournament with my 17's in St. George and we had a blast.  Unfortunately it was awful weather and really muddy, but we still had fun and they took 2nd.  My grandparents just bought a house down there so we got to spend some time with them.  The homeshow was also going on at the same time so we went and saw tons of amazing homes which made me want to buy our own!  Last weekend was our spring break and we had another tournament down in Vegas.  Again, it wasn't the best weather but it was still way fun getting away!  In between all the soccer, we did a lot of shopping.  I didn't get to spend any of my birthday money yet because we have been so busy so we literally went everywhere, the outlets, the forum shops, and the fashion show mall!  Even though Vegas is so dirty, we still love being on the strip because of all the lights and crazy people!  On Sunday morning, we were done playing so instead of heading back home, we went to St. George and stayed with one of Chris's friend at his parent's home down there.  We spent a couple hours in Zion's which is beautiful.  We did get out and go on a little walk and saw some desert sheep which was cool.  We got home Monday morning and are back to normal life.  Chris is still working at Chili's which he loves, and will graduate in December.  YAY!!!  We are super excited for the changes that are to come in the near future.  

Winter Fun

Chris and I went snowshoeing this weekend with our friends Dave and Jen.  We went up AF canyon by Tibblefork and hiked around for a couple hours.  It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and there was no smog up there!  It was so peaceful and just fun to enjoy the mountains.  Here are some pics! 

New Years!

For New Years this year we spent a week in Dallas, Texas for a wedding.  Chris' cousin Ashlie got married on December 28th in the Dallas Temple.  They are the same age and were close friends all growing up so we were very excited that we got to be there.  Two of Chris' uncles live there as well as my aunt so we got to spend lots of time with family.  It was a very busy week but we had tons of fun!  On Monday, the 27th, we flew in to the Dallas airport and had to change in the bathroom into our nice clothes in order to make it on time to the wedding dinner.  We had an amazing dinner at Maggianos and afterword headed back to Uncle Mike's for an after party for the bride and groom to be.  The next day they had the ceremony at noon at the Dallas Temple and after pictures we headed to the Galleria mall which is huge!  They have an ice skating rink and three stories of shops, I was in heaven!!!  We made it back to Uncle Matt's just in time to leave for the reception.  We were at the reception for almost five hours but we had a blast!  The food was great, there was a dance floor, and lots of good company.  The rest of the week we spent going to the gym, hanging out with Matt's four crazy boys, and visiting my aunt Collette in Allen.  Our New Year's Eve was actually pretty lame.  We went to Uncle Mike's and had take out, played games, and just hung out.  We were all pretty pooped by the time midnight rolled around but we shot off some fireworks and did some sparklers and that was about it.

Chris and I at the wedding dinner

Chris and I at the reception

Chris and his cousin Ashlie

Aimee, Chris, me, and Grandpa at the Galleria

Aunt Collette, Cassandra, Ali, Scarlett, and me at their home in Allen, Texas

Chris with his cousin Brooks

 

'tis the season

Christmas time is one of my favorite times of the year!  After a flood in our little basement apartment, we finally got everything put back together and got our skinny little tree decorated.  We are so excited to spend time with family and remember our Savior. 

Thanksgiving

This year for thanksgiving my mom took us to California.  We stayed in the Marriott at Newport Beach and it was so amazing!  The weather was amazing and it was absolutely beautiful there.  We spent Thanksgiving day at Disneyland.  On Friday we slept in and got to relax a little.  We then drove around and looked at all the amazing yachts and then spent some time walking around the beach.  Saturday we got to do a session at the Newport temple.  It is a gorgeous temple.  We also did some shopping, played tennis, hot tubed, and just relaxed.  It was so warm, it was hard to come home to the snowy weather.

Us at Disneyland, The Happiest Place on Earth!

They had all the Christmas decorations at Disneyland and it was absolutely amazing how much they spend on decorating!  If you haven't been around Christmas, you definitely need to go see it

This is the view from the pool with the ocean in the background

The Beach, the water was FREEZING!

The Newport Pier

The gorgeous temple

Chris, me, Amber and Spencer after doing a session at the temple

I can't believe it is already October!  I have been so busy that I haven't even had two seconds to blog.  But.....I am now officially an aunt!  My cute little nephew Kaiden Nielsen Johnson was born on September 13th.  He was 7 lbs and 11 oz and 19 1/2 inches.  He definitely has some Nielsen in him, his feet and hands are sooo big!  He is healthy and happy and just such a cute baby.  Here is a picture of him next to my cousin Allison's baby Scarlett who is two and a half weeks older than him.  He is way bigger than her but they are both so cute!

 This is me and Kaiden, he was getting hungry!

We got to go up and see the Lion King last weekend with my parents and sister.  It was so amazing!  All the costumes and music was so good!  We really enjoyed it even though we aren't huge on theater.