i spent christmas in california with my family. everyone was there. it was fun to go home and not do anything for work and enjoy my time with my family. it was really exciting because this was olivia's first christmas. i was kind of sad while i was there. a few of our family christmas traditions did not come to pass. i had a difficult time with that. but hey monitor and adjust (for those educators out there). we did keep the tradition alive of opening presents on christmas eve. olivia was really good at opening her presents. i caught this nice sequence of pictures at the end of her run at the presents:
i left on the 30th to get back to az for new years. wink wink. i got home late that night and went over to bry's to meet his sister and her husband before they took off back to utah. i also had the opportunity to meet his grandparents on his mom's side. it was a full house to say the least. i was a little intimidated, but had a good time.
of course i spent new year's with bryan (and every day since). started the evening with dinner with the bluth's. we all ate at oregano's. yum. after we got a surprise phone call from austin about being in a minor motor cycle accident. so bry, me, and lexi headed to pick him up. then we took lexi back to get ready for the youth dance that ashley and tom happen to be dj-ing at. after, we hit up a YSA activity here in phoenix with the "marrieds" in tow (courtney and austin l.). the activity was kind of crowded and not exactly what we thought (its what bry thought it would be actually). we left there after a few mintues of wandering. chatted with the roommates. i really wanted to go to see quinn, but unfortunately i left before he got there.

we rocked the night away playing rock band and guitar hero. bry and austin make quite the duet. trio with me... not so much. i think we played for a good 3 or 4 hours. then settled down and watched season 3 of the office. yes in our old age we managed to pull an all nighter... almost. we all parted ways around 6:30 am. good clean new years fun.
more to come...
wowwww sounds fun!! What is bryan's side of the story?!?! I am soo glad you blogged again!
ReplyDeleteYour lil neice is seriously so dang cute! i'm glad that you have posted again!
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