Christmas Devotional

The Ingebrigtsens were able to get tickets to the First Presidency devotional at the conference center on Sunday. It was so much fun to be there in person. I'm always amazed at the size of the conference center. The choir was incredible and the talks were amazing. Such a great reminder of what is really important at this busy time of year.


When it was over we decided to walk through temple square (along with the hundreds of other people who had the same idea). It was totally worth it though. Awesome fog + beautiful lights + the Salt Lake Temple = some cool pictures. Plus temple square is a holiday must.

 

 

Christmas Cards

As I mentioned in my previous post, my sister is a very talented photographer. With the holidays upon us, she is once again doing photo Christmas cards and this year I designed some of them for her! Here is a sneak peak at some of my favorites:

5 x 7 front

5 x 7 back

5 x 5 front

5 x 5 back

5 x 5 front

5 x 5 back

5 x 7 front

 5 x 7 back

To see more cards and get details on how to order, pricing, etc. visit her blog HERE

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

The Monson Family

Once again I am so grateful to have a photographer for a sister. She took some family pictures at my parent's house a couple of weeks ago. Aren't we cute - the kiddos have almost outnumbered the adults.

Thank you Emily!! She is awesome - check out her photography blog HERE

More Halloween Festivities

We had a lot of fun this Halloween. Here are some of our lovely family members in costume:

NINJA CHAD

 A BAKER and A BUN IN THE OVEN (Gold star for creativity and effort)

 BARB as a WITCH

 JEFF & ELIZA JANE the JESTERS

TENNIS PLAYER and CHEERLEADER 

In search of a Halloween costume, the night before a party, I happened upon this little number in one of my parent's closets. Yep, it is Vera Gene's Bear River cheerleading uniform!! For some reason I had never seen this before and was thrilled to find it, but even more thrilled that it actually fit! Yay mom - thank you for the awesome costume!

 I stole these last two pictures from Eliza and Jeff's blog - they had a super fun fondue party with some of her friends. It was awesome, except for the scary movie (that was not scary) picked out by Erik and I. 

 NOW.... On to the true holiday season!!!

Murder Mystery

One of Erik's friends always throws a murder mystery party for Halloween. This year we were supposed to dress from the 40's and for Erik that = straightened hair.  Not sure why, but it was a fun experiment. It took about 30 min. to tame his curls and I'm proud to present the finished product:

***Disclaimer: the cigarette was all part of his character. Don't want anyone thinking the Ingebrigtsens are experimenting with new lifestyles.
Now, the real question - have we found Erik's celebrity look-alike?
Unfortunately, no luck on my side of things. Dream on, right!

Stay tuned to "E" for this season's new hit, "Keeping Up with the Ingebrigtsens" :)


Anyway - back to the murder mystery. I'm always hesitant about these parties because of the fact that they can really put you outside of your comfort zone, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. It was all based around the murder of a movie producer, so we all had to find a team with a producer, director and actors and then at the end we had to act out a scene from our movie. I'm very proud to say that I was on the winning team.

Here is a shot of the whole group:

And some couple shots - sorry some of them are blurry.

Some very impressive costumes - Erik and I weren't nearly as creative as most.

Washington DC

What makes work trips awesome - when I also get to visit friends who live on the other side of the country. I've been promising my dear friend Shannon that I would come visit her ever since she moved home a few years ago (I'm a horrible friend I know), but flights can be expensive so when I found out we were having a meeting in DC I was SO excited. A free trip to see my friends!!! In addition to Shannon, I also got to hang out with my friend (and Shannon's cousin) Rachel and my good friend Leslie who is working in DC. What a great time we had.
Even though this was my third time to DC, I've never seen the sites - weird I know! So, Shannon and Rachel were kind enough to take me all over DC with their cute kiddos. We started out with some shopping and lunch at Georgetown and then we hit up the monuments. So fun and such a beautiful place!
Shannon and I enjoying lunch at Johnny Rockets.

Shannon, Rachel and me with their cute kids.

Ahhh, the history!

 Cute Shannon with Chloe (Rachel's daughter)

 Utah pride!

Jordan (Shannon's cute son) was the only one who would make the trek up the steps with me to see Lincoln. It was the last stop on our walk :)

It was also SO fun to see my friend Leslie while I was there. Shannon and I took the metro to China Town (where Leslie lives - so cool) and had dinner at a place called Ping Pong (also very cool). I wish I had taken a picture of Leslie's apartment. It was so perfect! 

I also became friends with Rachel's GREAT DANE! See how friendly we are being - he actually kind of terrified me. I'm not comfortable when animals can stand face-to-face with me. No offense Rachel - he wasn't nearly as scary when he wasn't standing up :)

THANK YOU SHANNON - for being such a fabulous host. I love you and your cute family and your cute house. I also love that no matter how long it's been, it feels like no time has passed when I see you and I can talk to you about anything and everything. You're one in a million!