Holidays

It's been a while, so we're going to give a quick summary of the holidays and fun stuff since we last wrote in November.
First, I turned 23 on the 23rd of November! I ended up working a ton that day to make up for the days off I took for Thanksgiving, but it was still fun. After work, Rob made a delicious dinner of haystacks, then we went to a little cupcake cafe for dessert.

Later that week, we went to Salt Lake for Thanksgiving. Liz and her family were there, and Katie and Reuben were also. After Thanksgiving, Lindsey and Kyle showed up with their boys. We didn't take pictures of Thanskgiving, but we did have another birthday celebration for me there, complete with a Costco cake, my favorite.
We did after Thanksgiving shopping and got most of our Christmas presents while we were in Salt Lake. We came home and finished decorating our tree. Here is the finished product!

We spent Christmas in Sunnyside with Rob's family. We stayed at Tiffanie and Jeff's house (Rob's parents' old house) for the first couple of nights and spend Christmas morning with their family. Christmas day was spend with everyone at Tiffanie's playing games and eating lots of food. (We might add some more pictures later when we find some). We also spent a couple nights at Amber and Steve's. It was fun to spend time with everyone and we are excited for this fall when we will live closer to all of them.

Rob and I started our own family tradition of writing in a journal every Christmas. We bought our Christmas journal and wrote our first entry this year. We hope it will be a fun tradition for us and our future children to write about Christmas each year and add some pictures, and write about any major events or changes from that year. Also, we think it will be a good account of our family's main events over the years, since our personal journal habits are inconsistent :)

Christmas picture

When we were in Sunnyside, Rob and I got the chance to hang out with some of Rob's good buddies from high school, Skyler and Joe.

And I went to Diana's baby shower in Yakima and got to see Lindsey there too.

We stopped by my parents' house in Yakima since their renters had just moved out. It may have been the last time we'll be there, because they are planning to sell it.

We celebrated our 1st Anniversary in Sunnyside too! It's hard to believe it's been a year. We had frozen the top layer to our wedding cake and we ate some to celebrate.

For New Year's, we got together with some friends in our clubhouse and played games and barely made it to midnight without falling asleep. Since then, we have been getting back into the swing of things with work and school. We are working on our New Years Resolutions of eating healthier and getting in shape (we started adding Jillian Michaels DVDs to our routine and they are tough!). Things have been pretty busy but are settling down.