Happy New Year!!!

So with the new year coming, I have decided to write down my new year's resolutions. I know that if I write them down where I can see them often, I am more likely to follow through. So here goes:

• Be better at having spousal prayer daily
• Be better at saying my personal prayers daily
• Daily Scripture study
• Make Sunday a more meaningful/sacred day
• Write in my journal at least once a week (this ones for you Mom!!!)
• P90X Workouts (I have already started this and let me tell you...it is a killer!)
• Read a book instead of watching tv
• Eat a healthy, balanced diet
• Read a book with Jeff just for fun (I am determined to change Jeff's perception about reading!)
• Be better at staying in contact with my family
• Work on my domestic skills (baking/cooking/sewing/decorating)
• Help Jeff plan his primary lessons each week so he is more prepared, and his knowledge of the Scriptures grow

Wish me luck!

Christmas 2009

We spent Christmas morning with my parents in Temecula. We opened presents and then had amazing stuffed french toast. We also had a great suprise when Caleb, Lindsey's boyfriend, proposed to her while on a bike ride in Meadowview. Yay!!! Lindsey is getting married sometime in May, and I cannot wait to help her plan the wedding. Christmas afternoon we did a service project with a couple of different families, and then headed over to the church where we played dodgeball and then volleyball for a couple of hours. Christmas was a lot of fun and I am bummed it is over.

After announcing their engagement

Lindsey showing off her diamond ring to her friends.


Admiring the ring

Lanae looking at the ring

Gorgeous diamond band...the new thing

Organizing the gifts

Mckenna and Rylee

Mckenna and Bella

Our family on Christmas morning

Me and Bella

Lindsey and her new mountain bike

All the kids...we line up on the stairs every year in order of age

All the kids again

Family Time

My favorite part about the holidays now that I don't live at home, is having everyone come home for Christmas. We have been able to spend a lot of time with the entire family, and it has been so much fun.

Friends of the family...Gavin and Natalie. Jeff invited them over to our house for the BYU game

Lindsey and Kaleb

Corrie enjoying the game, and the food...as always

My cute parents

My dad...kind of a weird smile, but I took this as he was lying down so maybe that is why.

My mom...I hope to be like her someday

Mckenna and corrie

The two lovebirds watching the game...very focused.

The whole gang...

This is about the best picture we can get while everyone was watching the football game

Jeff and I at my friend Heidi's wedding reception

Lindsey and Kaleb at the reception

My dad

Mckenna and Mom

Corrie's Singing Group

So every year Corrie joins a singing group for Christmas. Their group sings at the Crech Festival, in a number of different programs, and their last performance is at the Mall in Temecula. This year Jeff and I were able to go, and it was so fun to see Corrie singing with her group.

The whole singing group

Corrie got to dress up as a shepherd while she sang...she looks so cute!

I didn't know shepherds had transition lenses on their glasses :) (lenses that get darker in the sun, like sunglasses)

All the kids had props and dance moves as well

Jeff and Kaleb...Lindsey has been dating Kaleb for about 5 m onths now, and has brought him home for Thanksgiving and now Christmas. It has been so fun getting to know him...he and Jeff get along really well, and my dad is very happy to have another guy around.

Corrie using her star to block the sun from her eyes...

She knew the dance moves so well, and looks so concentrated

Corrie looking a little bored

Say ch eese...we are still working with Corrie on smiling pretty...she doesn't seem to understand it

The cutest girl in the whole group :)

Puppy!!!

So I finally backed down and let Jeff get a puppy. He has been wanting one forever, and all of our friends have dogs. Every time he goes over to one of their houses, he is in heaven. He plays with them constantly, and I have never seen him so happy. I decided that getting Jeff a puppy for Christmas would be the ultimate gift, and nothing would make him happier. We rescued our puppy from a shelter. She is a mix of breeds, we are not exactly sure. She is about 4 months old, and she couldn't be sweeter. She snuggles up with you, and is so loving. She never barks or is loud, she sleeps all night long, and plays with Jeff when he is home. We are still working on potty training her, and hopefully she masters that soon.

Our family
Bella and I at the mall in Temecula

Jeff and Bella...if the tv is on, she will just sit there and watch it.

She has the sweetest look...if she wants you to play with her, she just looks up at you like this...how could we say no???

The newest addition to the Gallego household...Bella (no, we did not name her after Twilight, we just both liked the name, and thought it fit).

Our Living Room

So Jeff has worked really hard this last month doing side jobs after the 40 hours he puts in with his actual company. I told him he could use his side job money to get something he wanted...he chose to update our living room with a new theatre system, and furniture. He and his friend Ren put in the surround sound speakers, built a new equipment rack, and got the top of the line tv. The quality is very different, and it feels like I am in a movie theatre whenever we watch a movie. He also got a blu ray player, and has started his blue ray collection.

Our new kitchen table...it is a lot smaller than our other one, which is what we wanted because there really wasn't enough room for it

Jeff's new equipment rack...along with his new computer that his friend Ren built


The rack has a fan built in to cool down the equpment, and Jeff painted and sealed it


Our new tv...the Samsung 55" flat screen...and when I say flat screen, I mean it. The tv is about an inch thick, if that. It is pretty amazing.

Our new couch...much nicer than the previous one, and very comfy...gotta love craigslist

Jeff put surround sound speakers in the ceiling. These are the two on the back wall.

And these are the three in t he front, above the tv.

This is the tv from a front view

A picture of the tv at an angle...you can really see how thin it is.

The tv really opened up our living room. Before we had a tv stand, and a bigger tv...this tv is perfect!

This tv is Jeff's pride and joy...he is always looking for ways to invite people over to watch a movie...he worked so hard for it.