Holiday Season!!

Steve and I had a fabulous holiday season! We spent Thanksgiving with his family in Cedar City, then Christmas/New Years with my family in Salt Lake. So- let's start with Thanksgiving. :)
We went down to Cedar City to spend several days with Steve's fabulous family. Julia made a YUMMY turkey dinner and we ate... a lot. We got to spend lots of time playing with our adorable nephews and playing Cranium with the bros and sisters. The morning after Thanksgiving we went on a beautiful hike with Jeff Sr, Nate, and Jared. Here's a picture of us at the end of the hike. Wahoola!


The next day Judy and Jared took us rock climbing! It was pretty exciting, because I had never been rock climbing. And, after a long time... I made it to the top of the cone! I was proud of myself. :D Steve conquered the cone too... a lot faster than I did... :) Wahoola!




















Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, and it was a good time to get to cedar city again. :) Wahoola!

The first Saturday in December was chocolate day. Chocolate day is a wonderful day of the year when my family makes chocolate... lots of yummy chocolate. Yep. This year we made such goodies as mint truffles, turtles, caramels, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, raspberry cremes, etc. It is a wonderful day, and Steve got to take part in it for the first time. Here is a picture of our first chocolate day experience together. Wahoola!We spent Christmas in Salt Lake at my parent's house. Santa was very good to us. He brought us such things as an ipod docking station, a kitchenaid mixer, puzzles, chocolates, games, and a camera! Now... we can post fabulous pictures from a camera rather than a phone. :) Here is the first picture our camera took- Christmas morning. Wahoola!Yes... we are beautiful. :) My family got a wii for Christmas, so we spent lots of time over the break playing with wii sports, wii mariokart, wii fit, etc. Wahoola!My sister Maggie gave Steve a Snowman making kit and me a Snowwoman making kit. We decided to put these to use in my parent's front yard. Steve made a fantastic traditional snowman, while I went for more of a snow diva look. Here's what we came up with. Wahoola!New Years Eve we were back up in Salt Lake. It was a fun night full of puzzling and shrimp eating. Yummy! :) At the stroke of midnight my sisters and my dad were at the airport picking up Berkeley's former roomate. So me, my mom, and Steve blew horns, ran up and down the street, and otherwise made merry. :) Here we are in our Fabulous festive costumes. Wahoola!
On New Year's Day my Grandma always takes the family out to the Old Spaghetti Factory in Trolley Square for dinner. It was super yummy! I have been to Trolley Square many times in my life, but I'd never walked across the bridge... so we parked across the street and walked across the bridge. We also tested our timer on our camera, and it works great! Wahoola!So, we had a fabulous holiday season. While it was nice to have a two week break, it has been very good to get back to school again. Steve's having lots of fun with the cute little autistic preschoolers, and I'm having a good time getting back into the swing of things- right in time for Parent Teacher Conferences this Thursday! :) I've told some people about our Stairs of Doom... or Stairs of Death, so here's a picture of them. They're not that bad... but be wary of them in the snow... :) We hope you all had a fantastic holiday season! Wahoola! (BTW: Steve helped with this post... his contribution consisted of the Wahoola at the end of every paragraph. :D )