Our First Snowman

Christmas

On Christmas we were thrilled to have a white Christmas and to play in the snow. We opened presents, ate breakfast with the whole family, then Shaun and I built our first snowman together and had fun throwing snowballs at each other, and Shaun had fun tackling me.

Kareokee Night

For the past couple of nights my aunt and her husband and Shaun and I have stayed up late into the night singing out hearts out. We split teams girls against boys and we certainly met our matches! The boys gave the girls a run for our money and proved to be "great" Karaoke singers...notice "great." It was quite an experience. Lets just say my grandfather told us that we better keep our day jobs.

New Job, New Fun, New Start

Shaun and I have enjoyed the out come of our recent migration to Utah immensly. We have definitly felt the hand of the Lord in our lives these past few weeks. I was blessed with a job only a week and a half after we moved here working in the State Licensing Department for APX Alarms. Shaun has wiggled his way into Comcasts radar with the help of family, and will hopefully be starting work for them in January when their new training starts. We have been blessed with great connections to great jobs which makes moving here all that much easier.

This Christmas season as quickly made its approach and it is a wonderful time to reflect on what we have been given and what we can give to others. I can't help but think about so many families out there that are struggling and I am so grateful that even as a young couple we are able to have such wonderful things.

As we take a look at 2008 and all the memories that made this year so great, and all the difficult times that made this year so hard to get through some times we can't help but feel like things happen for a reason and fall into the right place, at the right time. We have learned that our time is not even in the same dimension as the Lords time, and we must put all our faith in God, sometimes meaning we will have to put everything we know or we think we know to the challenge.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

This year for Christmas Shaun and I had the chance to go shopping for a Christmas tree with my grandfather. This is something I have never done, having grown up with an artificial tree. It was so fun to go out all bundled up and look for the perfect tree. We then went and bought Christmas decorations, and I got to decorate the tree! Since last year Shaun and I had just gotten married and got home from our honeymoon two days for Christmas, and then we moved here to my grandparents right before Christmas we have never had the chance to decorate our own home for Christmas, however my grandma was happy and willing to turn the decorating over to me! As you can see I excitedly accepted that task.

Puppies are in the house!

My aunts dog, Bella, had puppies about 5 weeks ago and they are the cutest little pups ever. I am very fond of the girl puppy we call Lola. She is going to my brothers and sisters back in California. Bella and her puppies are here at my grandmas house while my aunt and uncle are out of town. Watching them has become a group effort and has been a lot of fun. They are so fun to watch as they wrestle around and play tug o' war with each other. Lola is so cute and she certainly can defend herself against her 2 brothers.

Aliens in the house!!!

Shaun and I watched Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D! It was so awesome to watch, except we looked kind of silly in our 3D glasses. My grandma walked in the room and just started laughing at us, and said we looked like Aliens....that we did!

I scream for...hot chocolate???

We went to Gateway Mall to get ice cream and hot chocolate for a refreshment. Little bit contradictory with cold and hot, hehehe. We had a lot of fun there also!

Christmas Lights at Temple Square

Shaun and I had the chance to go to Temple Square with my grandparents on December 1st to look at the Christmas Lights. It was amazing! It has been so long since I have been to Temple Square to look at lights, and it was Shaun's first time seeing the Christmas lights at Temple Square.

Thanksgiving Decorations

I was so bummed that I had to take down all of our Fall and Thanksgiving decorations early because we were moving, so I put them to use as the centerpieces for the tables at our Thanksgiving dinner. They were a hit, which made me very happy!

Happy Turkey Day!

Shaun and I had the wonderful opportunity to spend Thanksgiving at my grandparents house with them, my great grandparents, and all my aunts and uncles, and cousins.

Fresh Start

Shaun and I recently made our move from our apartment in Newhall, California all the way to Orem, Utah. It is a big change away from both of our families. We are excited to be here in Utah and looking forward to all the new adventures heading our way. We have been fortunate enough to have such great grandparents that are letting us live with them while we transist into our own apartment. I am orgininally from Utah so I feel like I here at my home away from home. My moms side of the family are all out here and I am so happy to be near all my aunts and uncles and my cousins. Shaun is adjusting to "Mormonville," and being so far away from his family.
This move was sudden and threw us through quite a loop. At the end of the day we just thank the Lord for giving us all we have been so blessed with and for guiding us along what seems to have been a very trecherous path.