My New Toy!

Mike is my favorite :) One day he picked me up from work, and sitting there on the passenger side was a Canon Rebel digital camera with a lens! He knew how much I wanted it, and being the great husband that he is, he bought it for me for Christmas. I was speechless when he said "Merry Christmas!!!" I didn't really know what to think because he is always very careful with his money, but I accepted his gift with a smile and a kiss :)

The Holiday Season

I love Christmas. Everything about it. I start listening to Christmas music around my birthday in October, and I can hardly wait to start baking goodies for my friends and family. This year, however, was little bit different. I am not at home with my family in Washington, but I'm in cold Rexburg, Idaho with my new family, Mike! I love it! We got to travel down to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with my grandma and other family that live there. And on the way back up to Idaho, we stopped to say hey to my Aunt Dauneen and Uncle Shannon in Layton, UT. They were very generous to us! They fed us some delicious turkey sandwiches, and even gave us an artificial Christmas tree! But we can't have a Christmas tree without Christmas lights! They gave us a box full of lights- white lights, red lights, and colored lights. We were so excited to put up all the decorations we accumulated over the weekend! When we got home, however, we realized that our apartment is quite small. So small, in fact, that it will hardly fit a tree! This tree that we got is about 7.5 feet tall. Luckily it fit into our teeny living room, giving us just enough room to walk by it to get to the couch :) The ornaments that we put on it are mostly mine from when I was growing up, from my first Christmas to last years. I love seeing my old ornaments. This year for Christmas Mike and I are going to stay here and start our own traditions. We will probably carry on some of our family's, but we would like to make new ones as well.