Christmas In Canada!!! and More!

Christmas 2009 was amazing!! We had quite a few events leading up to our traveling to Canada. I finally graduated with my BA in History Teaching from BYU, we moved to Orem, Brad started his new job (which he loves), Brad took the GMAT, and we discovered we had bad tires through doing a 180 on the freeway (don't worry, we are fine and the car was fixable- thank goodness!)

This is the only picture I could find of our little Christmas tree in our new apartment. My nephew Issac was super excited about the train, as you can see.

Before we left for Canada we had to make ginger bread houses for the holidays. We had our good friends, Jeff and Amanda Booth join us.

Despite a pervious car crash, we made it up to Canada!!! And to my families dismay, the Hunters are turning me Canadian!
Here is Brad siblings (except Elder Joshy Woshy, serving in Minnesota) and spouses

Brad and I loved to play with the little girls. Here Brad is playing airplane with Katie.

With the family together, we of course had to go play basketball. Thanks to Josh's high school attire he left behind, we were all dressed for the occasion.

This is a friendly reminder to me that I married into a "Mac" family :)

Brad has been talking about the Christmas Pageant since before we were married. Finally I was able to experince it myself- and the cold with it!! It was around - 6 F, or 21 C. My first time experiencing not only my nose hairs, but my eyelashes freezing all at once.

The pageant itself was beautiful. It was put on by the youth of the church around Calgary, I was impressed to think that these youth would be out in the cold all night, while I was out for only 30 minutes.

Because Anna ( the cute little girl in the picture) is taking ballet. Grandma took all the girls out to the Nutcracker.

Anna was so cute when she saw real ballerinas and insisted we take a picture with them.

Christmas morning was so magical, especially with Sarah's three little kids.
Here is Blaine just discovering how to work his new toy.

Anna and Katie were exstatic when they saw their doll house Santa left. Katie just jumped up and down and couldn't even say anything for excitement. I have to say, it is a really impressive doll house and I would have loved to have when I was little.

Christmas morning and us in our morning glory.

The day after Christmas (Boxing Day) the family went ice skating. I was shocked when I asked where we rent skates, laughing Brad's Dad brought out about 24 different pairs of skates they have collected through raising their kids in Calgary. You buy skates like you buy sneakers there.

We skated on a local lake right by thier house and I can not write how fun it was. To a girl who has only skated on a indoor crowded little rink- this experience was awesome!! And two hours passed without me noticing.

After Katie had enough of her bob skates, I pulled her on the sled.

Notice the Christmas lights around. It was beautiful.

Overall, it was a fabulous Christmas and we were sad to leave but look forward to the next time in Canada!

Brad's spare time....

Being currently unemployed gives Brad a lot of free time, and he has done some great things. This is one of the wonders he created. Enjoy!

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In order to find a camera....

There are two sure-fire ways to find your lost camera. The first is to buy a new one, because as soon as you have spent that much money on a camera, you are bound to find the old, not-really-that-great-in-comparison-with-the-new-one camera. Being that we didn't want to spend the money on a new camera, we had to go with surefire way number 2.

Move!

Yes, we are moving! It will be sad to say goodbye to the Hobbit House, but oh so wonderful to

move on. We call it the hobbit house for a couple of reasons, mostly because I can't stand up straight in the hallways, and we have a door that has a handle only high enough for a hobbit.

To give you a greater appreciation of the drastic nature of our move, we have included a few

pictures for your viewing pleasure. They are old then new, not-so-good and better, loser and winner.

So we will be going from This.... To this! (No carpet in the bathroom - very nice)

Then of course we travel to the kitchen. We

currently have green carpet, orange countertops, and a pull-down oven. Behold!

So we go from that...... to This!

There is so much space in this kitchen, I don't really know what to do with it all! Perhaps we will start on a kitchen table and chairs. :)

I didn't take a picture of our new living room (because it is full of all of our stuff that we are moving in right now) but I wanted to show you our current one.

There are two more reasons that have inspired the move. One of them is named Washer, and the other is named dryer. I wonder, do any boys call their muscles Washer and Dryer? You know, like Thunder and Lightning - don't get caught in the storm? Perhaps you could say Washer and Dryer - I'll spin you until you're dry! I don't know, I think it needs some work...

But, here is our current beauty...

Now I will no longer have to wheel this baby over to the sink, because we have these!!! Behold them in all their majesty!

Now, I want to show you the piece de resistance (say it with a French accent, will you please?) This one thing alone could make Angie move. You see the paintbrush on the counter? You do? Good, because that's not it at all. It is.... A DISHWASHER!!!

Well, now my excitement is peaked. I think I'll go start packing right now!

Camera, where are you?

As many of you have noticed we have not posted anything on our blog lately. This may be due to the fact that Angie is doing her student teaching, and I am working full time and I am now taking a GMAT prep class. However, the greater reason is that we have lost our camera! We don't know where it is, and thus we cannot post the pictures. Once we have our camera we will post again.

O Canada Continues!

To celebrate Brad getting his green card, we went to Canada twice in August! This time was for Brad's good friend Alex's wedding. Congradulation Alex!!

But on our way we had to stop for Canadian Slurps. Our good friend, Willie Style (also known as Eric Willison) joined us our this trip as well. It was awesome!

Here we are at the Alberta Temple

Can you guess how tall they are???

Brad 6'3

Eric 6'6

Wedding Fun

Dancing at the Reception

Mom breaking out her moves

We also made time to hike in beautiful Baniff

Breathtaking

O Canada!!!!

A few weeks ago we were able to go and visit the motherland! O Canada!!!!

It was so great to go back home, especially since Krista and I both have our green cards. I can't tell you how much I love home, and how much I love Waterton! It is really the greatest place on earth! Note: Pure awesomeness is to follow.

We saw tons of wildlife in the park. This is a grizzly bear, and yes, we were that close! We saw 5 of them while we were in Waterton.

You always have to have a weenie roast, and we had one despite the rain! So delicious!

This is us at Crandall Lake. Note Brad's sweet rock-throwing action stance. We skipped a lot of rocks!

We went fishing at Wall Lake! It was so much fun, and we were all very excited!

Angie even got in on the fishing action with her pink Panther-Martin lure.

We took the traditional Hunter family photo minus Josh, Sarah, Christian, Anna, Katie and Blaine. So, really this is just half of the family.

Let's just say that my wife gets hotter every day, so I have to compensate with awesome poses.

Summer Fun

Park City 4th of July Parade!!
The parade turned out to be pretty lame, but it was so fun to be with the family, espeically to watch the kids' faces as the floats passed.

Family Fun Week!!
Every year my family has what we call "Family Fun Week." Throughout the years the "week" slowly gets cut, until this year it was a great weekend. We all went up to some condos in Park City and spent some family fun time together.
Despite the weather, we went up the mountian and played frisbee golf.

Everyone together. Michael with his dark sunglasses with overcast- you got to love his Vegas spririt.

Brad with Issac, our cute little nephew.

Angie and Michael- my big little brother

Since my family had the condos for a little longer, Brad and I went up afterward and went hiking.

Staduim of Fire:

We lucked out, when we were handed some tickets that included great seats at Stadium of Fire plus a dinner before the event. I was super excited because Brad did not grow up with these 4th of July festivities in Canada. What a better way to show him how we celebrate our independence than bringing him to the biggest celebration in Utah. At the dinner we felt like celebrates especailly when we got a close look at the special guest- Shedaisy, Glen Beck, and (the screaming teenage girls favorits) the Jonas Brothers. Here is a picture of Glen Beck, he spoke a little to us before the show as well.

Getting ready for the Show

Jacob, James, Mom, Syliva, Angie, Brad, Daniel( and Sarah, who is taking the picture)

Harry Potter #6!!

So everyone has thier thing that they just love- that they are fanatic about. Some may be Twlight, for Brad it is Transformers and Thundercats. Well, my passion is Harry Potter. In junior high, reading was a chore for me, I didn't enjoy it at all. Until my 7th grade English teacher suggested that I read Harry Potter. Since then I have loved these books and my love for reading has only grown since. In addition to that, the last two books of Harry Potter were the first books that Brad and I have read togehter and it has started a wonderful tradition of reading togehter as a couple. That passion and excitement brought me and Brad to sacrifice sleep to watch the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Here we are with our dear friends Stephen and Sarah Godfrey, who we had watched all five other Harry Potter movies prior to this historic night.