Christmas Time

Christmas has come and gone. It's kind of sad. I love Christmas. It is one of my favorite holidays. I wish it lasted a little longer though. I was so excited for Christmas this year. Mostly because I was able to get to skype my brother. He is doing really well. He has not changed one bit. But I'm pretty sure Fiji has changed since Karson has been there. :) Now just four more months and he will be home! I can't wait. It has been a long two years it feels like. He has been gone forever. 

This Christmas I got a gun, a gun case (its camo with pink in it! I like it!) and bullets,

 a clam

(I got to open it up to get to the pearl!) It was pretty gross but the pearl is very pretty! I'm not sure what I want to do with it yet. I got a new purse, a foot warmer, a foot spa!

I can't wait to use this! And some knee high boots and teal flats.

I love all of my gifts I got but one that I really like is something Karson gave us. Its called a masi.

It means a wall rug (something to that effect, I think that's what Kars told me it meant). It is made out of roots. I love having a part of Karson/ Fiji with me. It constantly makes me remember my brother but on a down fall it make me want to visit Fiji even more than I already do. My family and I are planning on taking a trip out there in 2015. So now comes the hard part... Tying to save our money! Wish us luck because we need it!

I hope every one had a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Merry Christmas

My family doesn't really do gifts for each other any more. Of course we still do but we have started a new tradition where we go find a Angle Tree and do Christmas for them. Its such a humbling experience. It just breaks my heart to know how many families are out there that don't get to have a Christmas. This year I decided to get a teenager because to me it seems like everybody wants the babies.It might not be true but that's how I feel. HOLY COW teenage kids are expensive. We spent so much money on her but it really is worth it.

The Dr. that I work for, his wife is in the Mo-Tab Choir. Every time there is a concert she gets a certain amount of tickets for the family. Luckily they had extras so I was able to get four tickets for the Thursday night Christmas Concert. (He did offer two to me and two to my office manager but she couldn't make it so that's why I got four). So Aaron and I went down to Salt Lake. We went to crown burger had some yummy hamburgers, walked around the Temple, then made our way to the Conference center for the concert. There we met up with Karyn and Ryan. I have never gone to the Christmas Concert before, but I really enjoyed it. We had some good laughs. On Friday night we went with Aarons parents to El Bandito's Christmas play. It was their first year they did a Bandito Christmas. It was interesting but it was pretty good. On Saturday in the afternoon we went to Brigham to hang out with the family. We had dinner, and then went out and looked at some Christmas lights. Today we have been making cookies and more cookies for our neighbors. 

I'm so excited for Christmas to come! I can't wait to Skype Karson. This is his last Christmas out as a Missionary. Soon after that it will be April and he will finally be home. 

I love to see the Temple

A cute little village

Cheese

At Bandito's Play