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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Happy New Year!


One of my new year's resolutions is to be better at keeping up on this blog...hopefully this is one I keep :). Dale and I have been busy these last couple of months. We've had a lot of fun through the holidays. We ended up going to Parowan for Thanksgiving, though Dale had a hard time staying down there for 4 days...he says there's only so much Mariocart and piano you can play. I admit, Parowan isn't much of a tourist place; there's not a whole lot to do, but I had lots of fun. My mom and sisters and I played with my mom's cricket and made fun crafty things. One of the best parts of Thanksgiving though, was that we actually had Thanksgiving dinner on time! Wow!!! That was a tremendous feat for our family. In years past we've tried to be eating around 2 and it's ended up being 6:00 by the time dinner was ready...we would all be famished and weak from hunger :). It was a nice change this year!
December was great too...I had December off from school, which I love. This month we got hooked on the TV show "Jericho," (thanks Laura :). Luckily I was off-track, because we spent a lot of late nights saying "just one more..." until we had found we had watched all 23 episodes in a week! Ha, that's gotta be some kind of record.

Dale and I got in a few fun Christmas activities this season. For one of our FHE's we made a gingerbread house. It lasted a little while, until the roof caved in. Next year we need to work on our blueprints and graham cracker skills before we get started :). We also had fun decorating our first tree together. My dad and brother were really sweet and cut us down one in Parowan and brought it up here for us :). I was excited to have a real tree this year!

This was our first Christmas together as a married couple. We spent Christmas Eve with Dale's family, which was a lot of fun. We ate dinner together and exchanged gifts. And Dale's family always gets new PJ's for Christmas, which is a fun tradition! We took pictures with everyone in our matching pajamas. Dale and I have been trying to think of some fun traditions we want to have...We decided one is going to be to have Papa Murphy's Veggie pizza for our Christmas dinner, which we started this year. Yum!!
It has been a great holiday season. We've learned a lot this past month about the true meaning of Christmas. We've been the lucky recipients of some tough trials this month, but we have definitly seen that God is aware of us. We have been blessed abundantly with wonderful family! They have been a great help this month as Dale produced his first Christmas CD, "Jingle Dale Rock." My favorite thing to do this season has been to listen to him play. His talent has been a huge blessing in our family!

We are very excited for this upcoming year! We spent New Year's Eve at Tim and Laura's house eating dinner and playing games...and rewatching a few episodes of Jericho :). We had lots of fun with them. It's hard to believe it's already another year. We are excited to see what's in store for us!
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