Tis the Season

We had the best Christmas Season ever! It started with Matt getting us awesome tickets to the Christmas Devotional in Salt Lake. Here is our Christmas in pictures :) Brandley's leg wrestle, have a Tommy Right gift exchange, and the nativity as part of their traditions. Or should I say...OUR traditions since I am a Brandley after all ;)

One Magical Year Later

For our one year anniversary, Mark's parents got us a night in the Trump hotel in Vegas. AMAZING. Loved it. But not as much as I loved the last year of my life with my amazing husband.

My Older Brother

For some reason I am feeling pretty nostalgic. I guess being around Mark and all of his brothers makes me miss my brother Phillip. We had a lot of adventures together growing up, even though I am sure I got in the way a lot of the time :)

The adventures of Phillip and Laci

• When you would make me feed precious at night, by myself, so if the boogie man came he would get me and not you
• When Brandon had a laser pointer and y'all told me there was a murderer in the house.
• Toilet Monster.
• When we went hiking through the woods by our house and it was really cold and wet and we got lost and my socks and shoes were soaked so you gave me yours to keep my feet warm until we found our way home
• Putting China berries in the road at night and watching cars drive over them thinking they had popped their tires when the China Berries crushed
• Jumping from the top story of the tree house on to the trampoline
• Waking up at 4 in the morning on Christmas day and having to sit in your room until 6. 
• Wrestling in the den
• When I came up to Utah over Thanksgiving break and we made dry ice bombs
• When boys would call me and you would pick up the phone and interrogate them
• Watching you play computer games until all hours of the morning
• When you showed me around BYU when I went to school and helped me keep from getting homesick
• Sitting in the hospital with me for 2 days straight after my four-wheeling accident and threatening to beat up the guy who was driving
• When we got into a water fight in the kitchen at 503 post oak and soaked everything in sight
• Sitting under the kitchen table and eating sour punch straws, because for some reason we didn't think mom or dad could see us...

There are a billion more I am sure, but these were the first few that popped in to my mind. I am even grateful for all of the teasing  because it helped me fit in to Mark's sarcastic family. And for the pushing and wrestling because it kept me from being a girly girl.

I am pretty sure I have one of the best big brothers in the world.

Why I Love Him

He cracks me up. I told Mark that the window cleaners came by and cleaned the window in my office and it was pretty. Here was his reply:

"My name is Laci...I have a fancy office. I have a big window in my big fancy office. I'm fancy. Look at me everyone...I'm fancy Laci."

I don't think a day goes by that he doesn't bring a smile to my face.