a christmas story

Since it's Christmas Eve I thought I'd share a Christmas memory of mine..

I think I was like 7 or 8 when this happened.. but one Christmas Eve morning when I was still sleeping, my dad kicked open my door so hard it woke me up and he screamed, "Someone stole all our presents from under our Christmas tree!".. I remember being like, "WHAAAT?!!" and rushing to our living room as fast as I can to see if he was being for real......... and he was. There was NOTHING under our tree. And just the day before our tree was buried with presents!

My dad told us that someone robbed us while we were sleeping and that he was going to hire a private investigator to find out who it was.. (lol) I'm pretty sure my siblings and I sat there in the living room crying ugly for a good half hour. haha

We were SO sad the entire day. But before we went to bed that night my dad sat all of us down and explained to us that we can still have a good Christmas without any presents.... that Christmas is about being with family and enjoying the holidays with them. At first we thought he was crazy (lol), and even though we would've much rather had our presents to open up on Christmas morning, it was at that point where we figured we were never gonna get our presents back so we might as well enjoy the holidays with each other's company. We were so bummed! but there were plenty of other Christmas' that we could look forward to.

Christmas morning we all woke up to all of our presents back under our tree! I didn't notice at first but now I realize that taking our presents was just my dads way of teaching us to have some humility. That sneaky guy! ha.

..so this christmas, there'll be no presents under mine and Rob's tree, but to be able to be home with my family & friends is enough for us.

merry christmas, bloggers! from my family to yours.

- the atigas

one for the books

This post should've been uploaded months ago, but just like any other late posts of mine its been because I'm a HUGE slacker.

 

So here's a bit of a peek into the highlight of my summer:

 

THE MRS. CARTER SHOW
WORLD TOUR

 

Yes, that's right! I got to attend the Beyoncé Concert in St. Paul, Minnesota with my in-laws.

AMAZING doesn't even begin to explain the whole experience

it was definitely something to remember for sure.

 

 

L2R: shawn, tangi, sweet, leta, me, cass and matt



..wouldn't have been so awesome if it weren't for my clique.

 

 

 

 

...don't even know who the sidebust is on the far left.

 

 

my hot date: ms. cassidi nae

..because our men couldn't be there, we were each others dates for the week.

 

 

the asiata's: tangi & matt

...the hosts of our trip and the two who made it all happen.

 

 

the gals

.. who are truly my sisters through my mister.

 

 

 

 

Our lives literally changed after that night and I'm so grateful I got to spend this experience with the people who matter most.

 

I can officially cross this off my Bucket List now!

 





The Big Move

This past Saturday, my husband finally graduated from the Univ. of Arkansas and proud is just one of the many things I felt during his ceremony.

He's worked SO hard to get to this point and he deserves every little bit of celebration.

 

 

For the past two years we lived in Arkansas so that Rob can pursue his college education and further his football career... and now that he's finished with school and we're wanting to start a family, we decided it would be best to move back to our home in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We've met so many good people and made so many great memories in those two years that it made it really hard to say good-bye to all our friends.

 

I'm so sad that we left.... but I'm also so happy to be home FOR GOOD :)

 

Christmas will be here soon and before you know it it'll be a whole new year!

 

2014 is gonna be a great year, I can feel it! :)

 

Happy Holidays, bloggers!

xoxo

-Nik