Is this real life?

When I got my wisdom teeth out I remembered that I would say everything that came into my mind. It can be kind of a scary thing, especially when you are in the car with your dad and cursing about how thirsty you are....Anyways this awesome video reminded me of that experience. Enjoy.

January

I realize that I really can't complain about nobody looking at my blog when I never write in it. I mean who the heck wants to look at the same blog every time they go there? Not me. I don't write simply because I am not that interesting and I don't have any cute kids to brag about (because we all know thats what blogs are for). So here is what happened in the exciting life of JonAli in the month of January.

For those of you who don't know. Our anniversary is January 2nd. This year we were really debating what to do when I remembered that the castle near our house is a bed and breakfast. We decided to look into it and from what we saw it looked perfect. 10 minutes away from home but still a little bit secluded and something new and exciting. So we took a tour (which I suggest anyone do for fun) and it looked fabulous. That night we got online and booked our reservation. There is only one room that I had to stay in and it was the Kings Lodge. It was awesome! Very clean, cozy, and it had a pool table and jacuzzi. We had a great time at the Castle Creek Inn! They had treats and soda(yessss) available at all hours in the dining room. They also served a great breakfast in the morning. It started of with a grapefruit
and some delicious raspberry bread. Then we got french toast with sausage and cottage potatoes! Overall it was a pretty great way to spend on our anniversary.



While deciding what to do for our anniversary we knew that the Sugar Bowl landed on the same night as our anniversary! OH NO!!! Our solution, move our anniversary night to January 1st instead of the 2nd. I know what all of you are thinking "Shame on that dirty, no good Jon. You should put your wife first!". I know, I know but guess what it was my awesome wifes idea! Yup I married the perfect woman. So we got to stay at the b&b on the 1st and watch the game on the 2nd :)
The Game
So incase you didn't know this is a picture of Alabama head coach Nick Saban the "2008 coach of the year" shaking hands with the runner up for that award Kyle Whittingham (the real coach of the year).
I couldn't imagine a much better way for my Utes to go out in 2008. This was probably the biggest game in Utah football history and they showed up to play!

one other thing that happened in January
Utah 94 BYU 88

Christmas excitement

Remember how excited we used to get on Christmas? I love this video! :) I can totally see all of us freaking out about getting our original nintendo :)

Moms Favorite

Sorry Jim and Judi but I found out who Mom's favorite child is....It's Jer.

So I got this call at work today from a guy who worked at LDS hospital in Endoscopy and I said, "oh do you know an Anne Jackson that used to work there?" he said that he did and that she is working at IMC now. I told him that I was her son and he said :
"Oh are you the son that went to Australia on a mission?"
me - "oh, no that is my brother"
Him - "oh so you must be the computer whizz who fixes everyone’s computer and graduated from BYU"
me - "um, no that is my brother"
Him - "Oh, so you must be the singer"
me - (not wanting to embarrass him or me any further) "umm yeah, that’s me"

So sorry guys but Jer is the favorite, no one else was mentioned at all :) Looks like I'll be working on Dad....

The Lights

So Saturday we all went as a family (Hansen Family) downtown to go and see the lights. It was quite an experience. First we traveled downtown and parked at the 4th south building (thanks dad!) and then PACKED onto the trax train. I don't have a great picture to see how packed we really were but it I was getting crazy claustrophobic!



The lights were awesome this year and we have decided that we go to them too much when we started realizing which trees don't have lights which had them in previous years.

It was a great time with family that we won't soon forget. Thanks to Arvie for taking so many awesome pictures!



















After walking around temple square we walked up to Skool Lunch and got some yummy hot chocolate.







As you can see the Hansen family knows how to have fun....








So much so that Amy grabbed Jeff's hand on trax and touched some random guys butt with it..... The guy didn't think it was so funny. But as you can see Amy nearly passed out :)





Someone had the wise idea to all walk like we had no knees and Jeff decided that he wanted to make it an Olympic sport and see how fast he could run to the trax stop without using his knees :) Enjoy :)

Decorating Time

This is me modeling where our tree will go. I felt like one of the Sneeches in a Dr. Suess book or something :)










This is our awesome tree. We bought it last year, but it looks better in the room this year since we don't have our bed in that room now :)















Ali decided that to compete with mom that we would also need to have 3 trees :)










You got nothing on our trees mom! (jk your trees rock)








And finally here are our sweet stockings....

Hitlers Reaction to BYU's loss vs Utah...

I know it was a week ago, but I don't get to gloat very often :)

In related news: On Sunday, Max Hall at church was asked to pass the sacrament but it was immediately picked off by a University of Utah player...