Christmas, New Years, Shooting...

Christmas Season...I still can't believe how much stuff we do together.  It's AMAZING to me!  We are always doing something with someone.  We did gingerbread houses with Mel Christensen and her kids, Robin Adams' family and Sarah Larsen's family.  We didn't take great pictures, so we didn't have much

to show.  We had a lot of fun though.  We also spent our first Christmas together…kind of!!!  You came over on Christmas Eve and we made tacos and watched a movie and just talked!  You got us matching pink slippers.  It made me laugh, and just love you that much more!  It was so nice to just be with you!  I love being with you, talking to you, having you hold me, and just connecting to you!  It was our first Christmas together and  you wanted to set some traditions that we will do with our future family.  We talked about a lot of stuff and then decided that we

will just start traditions as we start our family and each year will bring something new.  These are some of the traditions we did talk about that we may or may not do:

-          Stockings
-          Advent calendar – you suggested that every other day we do an act of service for someone
-          Watching White Christmas together
-          Do eggs, grits and bacon for dinner for Christmas Eve
-          Find a new recipe and do something new each year for dinner (from a different culture)
-          Do a birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas Day
-          Celebrate Christmas Adam (the day before Christmas Eve since Adam came first).  We would always celebrate Christmas Adam with just you and me (or our family) no matter where we are.  That way we know that we would always get at least one night with our family if we are with in-laws.  I think there were a lot more that we talked about, but I can’t remember all of them.  Babe, you made my Christmas Eve so wonderful!  My mom sent us presents, so we opened them on Christmas Eve together.

You got a lot of Royal stuff...it was quite funny!  :)  We didn’t really get to spend Christmas together.  We went to Mandy Woodhouse’s and spent time with her and her kids in the morning for French toast and then you took off to your mom’s place.  I was going to meet up with you, but Mandy’s kids got sick and were throwing up and I was bathing them and putting them to bed and Mandy was running around trying to find an Instacare!  So, I am glad we at least got to spend some time together for Christmas Eve.  I did enjoy every minute I got to spend with you. 

Your brother, Jim, came in to town to visit your family.  He came alone, and you got to spend a lot of time

with him.  Your whole family got invited to come up to Steph's parent's place in Park City.  We all drove up there and spent a good weekend up there.  It was fun watching you interact with your brothers.  Rob even came up.  We ate lots of yummy food, you played video games with your brothers and the girls cooked and watched movies.  It was nice and snowy up there.  The home is big and beautiful!  Ron Smart took us all

to the private shooting range up there.  It was so much fun.  I got to shoot a lot of new guns that I had never shot before.  I really enjoyed shooting.  It was nice spending time with your family and getting to know Steph's family a little bit better!  We also got to go to the horse stalls where there were really beautiful horses.  It was just nice to relax and

just do lots of fun things with your family!  You have a wonderful family and I love spending time with them.  

We also went down to Temple Square.  Your Mom and JT performed in a concert that we went to. Rob and Ted came as well and then we all went out to dinner after.  We met up with my friends, Darren and Ericka Cooper at Temple Square and walked around.  

It was so much fun to see them.  We only saw them for about an hour and then they had to leave.  We went and walked around ourselves and took some fun pictures.  That is when you started the squishy face.  You make me laugh and I love you so much!!!