Holiday Adventures

With the winter break in full force, I've had a lot of time to think these past few weeks and ponder my life and my blessings. I know there are a lot of lucky people in this world, but I can't stop thinking about how I AM THE LUCKIEST MAN ON EARTH. I have the most gorgeous, kindest wife with the best personality and she makes me happy everyday. I have an amazing family; both my immediate family AND my "family-in-law". I am blessed to live in an AMAZING city, go to an AMAZING school and live in an AMAZING apartment. I am blessed to carry a testimony of Christ and His church and have all of the other blessings, which I receive daily from the hand of the Lord in my life.

Anyway, enough with the sappy stuff...


Our holiday season was great! Here's what we did:

1. Decorated our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
2. Worked
3. Jolene's finals at school. (She did great on all of them by the way)
4. Hosted a Christmas party with friends.
5. Hosted a candy making party with family.
6. Had people over for dinner.
7. Went to a work Christmas party.
8. Went to our ward Christmas party.
9. Went to a family Christmas party (my dad's side of the family).
10. Went to another family Christmas party (my mom's side of the family).
11. Got a little sick of partying. :)
12. Worked some more.
13. Conducted the ward choir Christmas sacrament program. (Jolene played the piano as I directed the choir).
14. Had a family slumber party on Christmas eve at my grandparents house (Thanks Nan and Pop).
15. Opened presents Christmas morning.
16. Spent the afternoon and the next day with Jolene's brothers and their families.
17. Worked even more.
18. RELAXED!
19. ATE TOO MUCH.
20. Celebrated our 6 MONTH-IVERSARY!
21. Stayed up ALL NIGHT on New Year's eve to celebrate New Years.
22. Celebrated New Years.
23. Went to Logan to visit my parents for a weekend.
24. Started school...again.
25. Still haven't taken down our tree so I guess we're still celebrating. :)


Tanner and Ella had tons of fun opening their presents, although I think they had more fun playing with them.



TNT came over and we had a blast making cake balls, english toffee, fudge and rolo pretzels!




My mom's side of the family... notice how about half of the cousins' faces either have a goofy look or a fake mustache. :)


Jolene and I, just a few weeks before our 6 Month-iversary.



The kids LOVE 'gampa'.




Herold. Our snowman that we made in Logan while visiting. He was cool, but he didn't come to life and start telling us to chase him.



Oh the joys of being a kid. If I did this now, Jolene would make a much bigger deal out of it than we did with little Benji.



Ben, Scott, and Bean kind of fought at first, but became best buds before long. As you can see in the following video.



Sabrina loved to grab Ben's shirt and just pull him around. Ben liked it too! It was funny watching them together.