End of a great year!

This year has been filled with some incredible events.  Mainly, that I met Andrew and we have started a great new life together.  Also, that we attend BYU and we're receiving a wonderful education.  We love living in Provo and are excited for what the new year will bring.  It was nice to have a two week break from school and to have some time to spend with both of our families.  For the first week we were in American Fork with Andrew's family.  It was fun to have Adam and Lindsey and their two little girls with us.  The week was filled with fun games, good food, and a spontaneous dance party.  After Christmas we headed up to Logan to be with my family and enjoy some more fun.  We had a "second Christmas" on Tuesday.  We did all our same Christmas Eve traditions of singing/dancing to the 12 days of Christmas, opening books and socks, and of course having British crackers for our Christmas Eve dinner. After dinner all the kids went downstairs for a half hour while "Santa" came for a second time.  For New Years Eve we went back to American Fork to have a party with Adam and Lindsey and Joseph and Andrea Beck's family's. Then a couple of days later we decided to break our our chocolate fountain that we got from our wedding.  It was a hit, Andrew had a little too much fun with it. (See Picture)  We are so blessed to have both of our families live in Utah and to get to spend time with both of them. 2012 is going to be full of lots of new goals and new experiences that we can't wait for.  We hope you all have a Happy New Year!!!

 We were able to go the the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert.  Then we walked around Temple Square to see the lights.

 Our first Christmas tree.

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!! :)

Andrew having some fun with the chocolate fountain.

CLASSES ARE OVER!!!!!

Andrew and I could not be more happier that our classes are over for the semester.  It has been a long semester filled with lots of school projects and a terrible 8 page New Testament paper....one of the joys of BYU Religion classes.  We should be studying for our finals but we decided to have a nice fun filled Saturday.  We're headed to lunch with some cousins to Tucanos, then we're baking about 6 dozen cookies for all the Primary kids in our ward.  We actually switched from a married student ward to a family ward.  Now that we've made the switch we love it.  I was called to be the Primary Secretary about 3 weeks ago and it is a blast.  We have about 70 kids in our primary.  Andrew got called to be a teacher in the Elders Quorum and he loves it.  So this will be an exciting day for us and then its time to buckle down and study for finals.