Saturday, January 7, 2012

Our First Christmas 2011

Since we were going to be in Colorado for Christmas with my family, we put up our Christmas tree in our apartment right after Thanksgiving.  We both love Christmas and love the feeling of being home sitting in the living room with the Christmas tree lights on.  It makes the room feel so cozy, so we put it up as soon as we could! 

                                                          Andrew decorating the tree
finished product!

I had to teach until the 21st so for our class Christmas party we had a secret santa gift exchange where all the kids were assigned one student to bring a present for $1 or less max.  It was so fun to see the kids open their presents and so excited about them! Then we watched Polar Express and drank hot chocolate and played some Christmas games. 

It was so nice to have a break from school. It was definitely much needed. I slept in as late as I could to make up for a whole semesters lack of sleep.  After being in Colorado, I now know why moms who blog post mostly with pictures of their kiddos.  I couldn't stop taking pictures of my adorable nephews.  I couldn't get enough of them!  They are at such a fun stage right now.

 Teigy lovin on Uncle Andrew Christmas morning
                                                   Christmas morning with my loves! 

first married Christmas together :)
                                                         he loves his chocolate labs!!

It was great to be with all of my family and get to spend so much time together! Some other highlights from our break were:
*skyping with our brother, Michael, who is serving his mission in Africa.  It was so great seeing him doing so well!  We can't wait to have him home for Christmas next year (hopefully)
*playing hours and hours of Rook....and by playing, I mean Andrew and I beating my dad and Jordan :)
*unlimited amounts of delicious food!  Andrew and I were pretty sad to come back home to Utah and have much less options to choose from!
*TCBY frozen yogurt
*staying up late and sleeping in
*seeing The Help, Sherlock Holmes 2, and Mission Impossible 3 at the theaters with the fam
*catching up with my best friends over frozen yogurt
*lots of kinect action with my siblings
*taking my nephews to Chucke Cheese

We are blessed with such great family.  We missed Andrew's side of the family in Maryland, but fortunately get to see his mom and grandma in Florida in just 6 days! hooray!

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