Saturday, January 9, 2010

So much to tell..heres the short version!

So much has happened since my last post. First off, Christmas break was awesome! We got to spend about a week with each of our families..but it still wasn't long enough! We had to come back to California on the 28th because I had to work that week... I think Daniel was ready to come back to reality anyway so it worked out. The first week of break was with my family (and Katie for most of it). We went sledding, built a massive snowman, played games, and celebrated Christmas on the 14th since most of the kids weren't going to be around for Christmas Day. It was so much fun to all be together, and we even got to be there when Hattie was born! She is so cute and we're so excited to have another girl in the family. I wonder if there are ever going to be any nephews on our side! Overall it was such a fun week. We can't wait to go back again..maybe in June? We'll see! I took a ton of pictures but for some reason I can't upload them to my computer..I'll put them up later :)

The second week we spent in Idaho Falls/Sun Valley, Idaho.  The first few days in Idaho Falls were pretty low key. We did go see The Blind Side which was amazing! Sandra Bullock is unreal. We actually saw a ton of movies over the break..Avatar (twice) Sherlock Holmes, The Blind Side, New Moon...what can I say--Daniel NEVER has time to go to the movies. Therefore, we pretty much went every day. Haha :) In Sun Valley we stayed at the Symphony Cottage with all of Daniels family. His sweet grandparents were nice enough to rent out this huge 10 bedroom cottage where The Bachelor was filmed last year. It was beautiful and the view outside of the windows was incredible! If you have never been to Sun Valley--go. It's like a fairy tale. We played a ton of games with family, and Daniel went snowboarding one day. I chose to babysit the kids due to the 10 degree weather outside, but he had a blast. We were so sad to come back! Time flies when you're on vacation and goes by so freaking slow when we are back here in CA. We would love some visitors this year since we don't have any scheduled yet...

Life is back to being crazy again. Work is going well for me, as good as it could be going  I guess. Daniel is back in classes and back to studying. We're looking forward to the week long break that he has in March! Today he is at an Army base learning about what this program that he has joined is going to offer us over the next 8 years. I'm proud of him for everything he is involving himself in. It seems like every day he's started another research project, A-ced another quiz or test, or helps someone else in some way. He's an overachiever and I love it! 

Pictures to come soon of everything! Dumb Costco doesn't have them ready for me yet!

4 comments:

  1. did we win the biggest snowman contest?

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  2. i wish we would've been in utah at the same time.. and speaking of visitors... jd and i really want to go to california sometime this year!

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  3. Sounds so fun!! Did you tell Julie where you stayed on vacation? She is Bachelor obsessed and I think she is sucking me in with her!

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  4. You forgot to tell the tale of how I kicked your husbands butt all up and down the ping-pong table. But I get it, wouldn't want those dental school kids knowing that there is a teacher to the so called "master"! bahaha!

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