Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and the semester in which we will never see each other!

Christmas was an enjoyable holiday for both of us. Daniel and I had our second Christmas together. Daniel wanted to open presents on Christmas Eve so we could sleep in the next morning, I wouldn't let him! We went to my parents house after we did our own thing, had a breakfast of delicious sour dough pancakes and buttermilk syrup, and then exchanged presents. Daniel then went on to play Jared's new game for the Wii for the next two hours, Cabela's Big Game Hunter. I finally had to pry Daniel's fingers away from the controller to get him to the car to get to Orangville and Ferron to visit with his family. We had visited my Grandma Wilson and Uncle David in Huntington the night before Christmas Eve, so went straight to Orangville to visit Grandma and Grandpa Luke. From there we went to the Luke's and had Christmas there, and watched Daniel play nintendo with Conlee for a few hours (Which is why we do not have a Nintendo of any kind.. nothing would ever get done, and Daniel would have bad grades) We had dinner that night, yummy roast and cheesy funeral potatoes, and frog-eye salad.

For New Year's we traveled down the Richfield to visit Grandma and Grandpa Hansen, Uncle Brian, Aunt Debbie, and the kids. We had a blast down there, even though Maddie still won't give Daniel a hug even if I am there to help her. :) We went sledding with the kids, Brigham was a stud going down any hill, and Daniel would carry him back to the top because his legs got tired. Maddie loved eating the snow, Maren missed out because she was still taking her nap back at the house. I made cookies for the kids to decorate, Jake, Maddie, and Maren were my helpers and boy did Maren love the sprinkles! We didn't stay up to welcome the New Year, we're old now and like our sleep. The next day we built a snowman with the kids and played in the snow.

We came home Saturday and did some deep cleaning, I finally have that big pile of shed horns out of the front room! Well, most of them. Daniel did haul a lot away, but still arranged some around the lamp, but I can now vaccum my carpet!

This week is bringing a lot of new beginnings, Daniel is starting school for spring semester, taking on 19 credit hours, and telling me he is going to try and work 40 hours for as long as he physically can. I get to go to Logan for two days next week for a mandatory student teaching orientation, and then start my first student teaching block the next day on the 13th. It's going to be a busy 16 weeks for both of us, and maybe we will get to say hi to each other once in a while, but I keep telling myself that it will all be worth it. I graduate in May and will be done! I am very happy for that to look forward to, just a few more hoops to jump through. Daniel is liking his classes so far, so we will see how things go.

Also, our friends the O'Neil's had their little baby girl. She is the New Year's baby here in Price, born January 1st, 1:43 am. 7 lbs, 5 oz. 20 inches long. She's a cutie! Congratulations to them!