January

I haven't blogged much this month. I don't know why. So, due to a lack of blogging, here's the month in review.

We bought Teddy a new toy 'cause it crinkles like paper and squeaks. I personally like the new toy. I thought it was really cute, so I took a picture.

Teddy learned to shake when I stayed home sick on Monday. Now that' all he'll do when people try to pet him.

Yeah. I was sick this past weekend. Not fun! I tried REALLY hard not to get this nasty cold thing but I did. I think all my resistance paid off a little though. I'm getting better a lot faster than everyone at work that's had it. So, if you start to get this cold that's going around take a whole lot of Airborne, take Zicam as soon as you start feeling sick, do the NeilMed Sinus Rinse thing, and drink lots of water. Hopefully it'll work for you too. So far it hasn't turned into a sinus infection. If I get all the way better without a sinus infection it's the first non-Hawaii (salty, humid air) cold that hasn't turned evil on me for as long as I can remember.

When my wonderful husband made a trip to the store for orange juice and Zicam he bought me flowers! Isn't he cute?! I love them in the beautiful vase he won for being a wonderful employee. I think they're beautiful and that I'm a lucky girl to have such a good husband that will go to the store for me, clean the WHOLE house, do the laundry, play with the puppy, and take care of me while I'm sick.

The vase is really pretty and HUGE.


I love flowers!

Lastly, I got a perm! My hair isn't straight anymore! As soon as I take a picture, I'll post it.

My New Calling!

Yesterday I started my new calling. I am now a co-teacher for the Sunbeams, the 3 year olds, at church. We had a 'meet your teacher' activity where everyone sat in their new classes and we played games and colored lots of pictures. If all of our kids show up, we'll have 16 in our class. Busy, busy! Today we had 8. Eight 3 year olds makes you stay on your toes. They are pretty good though. Most are very well behaved all the time and the rest are well behaved most of the time, so it's a good class. If nothing else it's entertaining. We had everything from kids crying over leaving their mommies classes, to the little girls in the class giving an "injured" classemate hugs, to them being just plain funny.

During sharing time we were learning the first verse of "I Lived in Heaven", which says:

I lived in heaven a long time ago, it is true;
Lived there and loved there with people I know. So did you.
Then Heav'nly Father presented a beautiful plan,
All about earth and eternal salvation for man.I'm pretty excited

With a drawing of what was supposed to be heaven in his hands, the singing time guy asked the class Junior Primmary where we lived a long time ago. Someone from a slightly older class in primmary said "I used to live in Orem!!!" Not quite what he was looking for, but funny.

I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with that many kids for a whole 40 min lesson, but with entertainment like that all around, I am pretty excited about my new calling!

Who needs a paper shredder?

Since we got married we've been thinking about how nice it would be to have a paper shredder. You get all of these credit card offers and even worse, credit card checks in the mail. Without a shredder, what is one to do but rip it in to tiny shreds all by yourself? After watching Teddy rip apart important pieces of paper and wrapping paper we thought to ourselves "We should put those skills to use." So here it is. Teddy earning his keep.

Our Cookie Jar Runneth Over

I guess I haven't summoned the courage to go through all of the pictures and then post them, hence waiting so long to get to it. Even now, I'm just proud of myself for doing this much. Since I spend my whole work week on a computer (or two, or three) at a time, when I think about vacation time I think about spending considerably less time staring at a computer monitor. Not that I spent my whole Christmas vacation without the internet, I just thought doing more than Quicken, checking email, and a little Facebook fun was much more computer time than necessary. Anyways, here are some pictures from Christmas.

This year we decided to stay home instead of visiting family. We both missed seeing our families during the holidays, but it was SOOOOOO nice not to have to worry about traveling in the horrible weather that came at Christmas time. I'm not sure that we would have made it if we had tried, to be completely honest. With just the two of us and Teddy it was a really quiet Christmas.

Christmas Eve we prepped for Christmas day then made a Christmas Eve roast. We had a lot of fun making an assortment of traditional Holiday goodies from each of our childhood Christmases. Knowing that there is only two of us we tried to limit how much we made. We even halved recipes and picked a couple of our favorites out of the plethora of things we would have like to have. Even still, we had WAY too much food!!!! It was fun though!

Nate getting ready to read the Chirstmas story.
(The lamp is crooked and I'm REALLY excited to get it back in the corner where the Christmas tree is sitting. It's not as noticeable in that corner. And you don't want to know how many times I've tried to straighten it since we put it there.)


Teddy has found a new favorite spot to sleep. Right next to the warm ovens.

Nate with his stocking Christmas morning.


Teddy really enjoyed the wrapping paper, boxes, and his new ball rope.

Teddy in a box :)

Santa brought us a nice tilt head 5 qt Kitchen Aid for Christmas. He must have thought we lived in Europe though. When we took it out of the box to make Christmas dinner we discovered a European plug (The kind with the two huge grounder prongs). A little confused, we looked for a converter then turned to the mixer handbook. With only help numbers for people in the U.K. and Australia/New Zealand, we decided to take it back to an obliging store the day after Christmas. We ended up getting a nice profesisonal Kitchen Aid (the kind with the arms) for $50 cheaper than the smaller motored mixer. Oh happy day!!

For Christmas Nate got me a pair of pretty earrings, I got him tickets to see Celtic Woman when they come in the spring. I love my husband and how he enjoys stuff like that!!! From our families we got clothes, a trip to Disney World, a knife set, a marble rolling pin, a dutch oven we can use on our glass top stove, and lots of other fun stuff.

It was a wonderful Christmas. Nice and quiet and fun to start establishing our own traditions. I'm already getting excited for next year!