Christmas 2006

Santa was very good to us this year. We were extremely blessed! Some very good news for you who frequent this blog is that I got a digital camera, so hopefully I'll be able to post more pictures. Saturday night we all went to my family Christmas party and it was so fantastic. My whole family-cousins, aunts and uncles, neices and nephews, grandparents (minus my dad's twin and family from Michigan)-was all there. It was fabulous! It's been a while since we've all been together like that. Unfortunately I didn't get my camera until Monday morning, so I don't have any pictures of that. However, I wish I could've gotten a picture of my cousin's little boy. He loves Superman and was wearing some zip up pajamas w/ the footies. He kept unzipping them and saying "I'm supaman" So we snuck back to my grandparent's den and printed off the Superman logo, cut it out and tapped it onto his chest. It was classic, after that when he unzipped, he had something to show, as well as his muscles.

Here are some pictures that Rob snapped of our apartment on our first Christmas together.

Sunday was great. In YW all the leaders read their favorite Christmas story. I barely made it through mine. However, I had to stop a few times and gather myself. I swear! It's just so touching though. If you're interested, it's titled "Trouble at the Inn" by Dina Donahue. So precious! I'm sure you can Google it. Anyhow, it was so fabulous to be at church and think of our Saviour's birth.

After church we went to my parent's to meet my mother's cousins and their families who came to visit us from Florida and Honduras. Karen, who still lives in Honduras came on Thursday night, but Kathryn who lives in Florida, got to SLC Saturday night. It was so good to meet them. Kathryn is a memeber of the church and has been for a while, and her daughter Ashley just joined. She wants her son Robert Henry to come to school out here, so they are planning to do that while their here too. It's so great to have them here to spend the holidays with us!

After visiting with them shortly we went to Rob's parent's house and went on their traditional "Christmas Hike" with real latterns up to the canal (It's about 1 mile there and 1 back). It sounds kinda crazy to be hiking in the freezing cold, but it was actually quite fun! We sung Christmas carols and laughed the whole way and it's a tradition that I think I'll grow quite fond of.

Sunday night we were able to talk to my brother Tyson who's serving his mission in the Mexico, Cuernavaca mission. He's been there three weeks and sound so great! I love him so much! It's crazy to talk to him, but he says he's absoluely loving it and we know that's where he's supposed to be.

After the call we went back to Rob's parents to stay and wait for Santa to come. It's tradition in Rob's family as well that they all sleep together, so Rob, Will, and I all bunked in Mark's bedroom. We watched "How the Grinch stole Christmas" and fell asleep. In the morning we woke up about 6:20 and watched Taxi until 7:00am when Will felt it was okay for us to go down. Santa definately found us. The first thing I opened was our digital camera from my parents. I totally LOVE it! So excited! So we snapped a few pictures w/o a memory card and I can't figure out how to get them on the computer to post them yet, but I will.

I did however get some on the memory card of Rob and his new paintball gun. Him and his 3 brothers got one. Our brother in law already has one so, on New Years day, they are planning a war.
Yesterday Will, Rob and Matt got them out to break them in on each other and it was quite entertaining for us all to watch.

A night in Bethlehem

Rob and I dressed up for our ward party that was "Night in Bethlehem". It was pretty fun. Each organization was in charge of a booth, my YW were in charge of the bakery...forgive me for bragging, but ours looked the best! I wish I would've gotten a picture of it. It was so fun! We went around to each station to get a part of our meal. Each person recieved a sack of beans for money and paid that way. The activity person did an awesome job! As did the rest of the organizations.

ABC's of Me!

A - Available or single: nope, I have a very cute husband
B - Best friend: Rob
C - Cake or pie: I would probably say pie
D - Drink of choice: Water, although I should drink more
E - Essential item you use everyday: My cell phone
F - Favorite color: GREEN
G - Gummy bears or worms: I don't like gummy candy
H - Hometown: Brigham City, UT
I - Indulgence: chocolate
J - January or February: I think it would have to be January, it's still really winter time then, by February, it just needs to move to Spring
K - Kids & names: I don't know yet
L - Life is incomplete without? Christ, the gopspel, and my family
M - Marriage date: January 2006
N - Number of siblings: Three; two sisters and a brother
O - Oranges or apples: I like both; Golden delicious apples, and oranges that are sweet and juciy
P - Phobias or fears: That I'm not all that I should be.
Q - Fave quote: "You are the only one who determines how your day goes." -my mom
R - Reason to smile: My husband, he makes me really happy!
S - Season: I love fall and winter b/c the holidays mean family!
U - Unknown fact about me: I've performed on an international TV broadcast
V- Vegetable you don't like: Bressel sprouts
W - Worst habit: Wanting things done my way
X - Xrays: Dental
Y - Your fave food: Ice Cream
Z - Zodiac sign: Leo

....Now you know my ABC, next time won't you sing with me!

So way DONE!

I'm done! I kinda cut it close. I had 4 more quads of a class 3 and I had 2 scheduled to come back at the VA on thrusday. Luckily I got them! I got a total of 5 quads of class 3. Yeah! My first pt was a class 4! His pockets were seriously so deep everywhere! His anteriors even had 8's! The crazy thing was that it wasn't all the way around the tooth, just in random areas. It was like 568, 486, etc. but it wasn't an 8 all along the (ie) facial surface, that was just the deepest spot. Anyhow, I did get to do injections, so that was fun! My 10:00 pt was my returning class 3 and we were able to finish his R side and I got to do injections on him too. His mandibular anataomy was crazy though, and it was hard to find the penetration site on the IA.
My afternoon pt had an upper partial denture. My first denture pt! Crazy! He was pretty healthy though, he kept pretty good care of his remaining teeth and his tissues under the partial were healthy.
Anyhow, the best thing of the whole entire day was that it was the last thing I had to do to finish this semester up. Yippie! One more to go baby! Then I'm so way DONE!