The past two weeks of my life has been spent traveling.
Jared & I went to St. Louis to spend Christmas with my family. Love them!
Regrettably, I forgot my camera so no pictures were taken. Sad.
First a little girl says, "The sky is definitely blue."
The teacher says, "Sorry, Amy, but the sky can sometimes be gray, or black."
A second little boy says,"Trees are definitely green."
"Sorry, but in the autumn, the trees are brown."
Then little Johnny from the back of the class stands up and asks,
"Does a fart have lumps?"
The teacher looks horrified and says, "Johnny! Of course not!!!"
"OK...then I DEFINITELY just pooped my pants!"
I spent 100 percent of my time with my family. I went completely a-wall with the internet. No facebook. No blog. No bill stuff. It was actually pretty great. {Although I'm sad that I missed getting together with a couple of old friends.}
Christmas was great. We did all of our Christmas Eve traditions that we normally do {fancy dinner by mom, nativity scene, Christmas Eve gifting, mom read The Polar Express and dad read Jimmy Scarecrow} and my mom decided to add a new tradition because apparently we don't have enough.
This year we had a Christmas concert where everyone shared a talent.
I chose the order we had to perform in by doing eenie meenie miney moe. It's legit. Jason, Alyssa and I each played a song on the piano, Brandon showed off an art piece he made out of clay, Rachael played a song on her violin, Kristin and Bealer read a poem that they wrote "Twas the night before Christmas and at the Pope house..." It was dang cute and I need to get a copy of it. :) And Jared, being Jared, told a joke. This is the joke he told...
A nursery school teacher says to her class, "Who can use the word 'definitely' in a sentence?"
First a little girl says, "The sky is definitely blue."
The teacher says, "Sorry, Amy, but the sky can sometimes be gray, or black."
A second little boy says,"Trees are definitely green."
"Sorry, but in the autumn, the trees are brown."
Then little Johnny from the back of the class stands up and asks,
"Does a fart have lumps?"
The teacher looks horrified and says, "Johnny! Of course not!!!"
"OK...then I DEFINITELY just pooped my pants!"
Yep. That's the joke MY husband told at the Christmas concert, haha. Everyone laughed.
Christmas day was equally fun with opening presents and traditions.
We had our donuts and egg nog or chocolate milk for breakfast like we do every year and then we all went upstairs to see what Santa brought.
Jared and I decided to have a small Christmas this year because we have a lot of other things we need to use our money for {baby}.
I bought him all the Star Wars movies on blue ray and a GoPro Video Camera for his 4 wheeler and he is in love. He says I did good. :)
Jared bought me a Mandolin from William Sonoma
Not gonna lie... I'm pretty excited to give this sucker a try (:
He also got me my first mom gift! He bought a heart necklace from Tiffany's and had it engraved with 'Mom'
I asked if I should wait to wear it until the babies came, but he wants me to wear it now, lol. Do you think maybe he's excited to be a dad or something?
Out of the entire trip though, I think Jared's favorite part was setting up a new TV for my parents. I had told my dad back in July that if he bought a new TV when we came out, that Jared would set everything up for him. So a couple days after Christmas they all went out and bought a 60" Samsung LEDTV Smart TV with 3D. Jared had the entertainment center assembled, the center speaker and subwoofer added and the TV installed and ready to use in about 3 hours. He's awesome. And that TV is freaking awesome. One day we will have a TV like that :)
We flew back home on the 28th and it definitely felt too soon. We had a ton of fun with my family and miss them already!
The day we left Jared's brother convinced him to go to Utah for New Years. So at 5'o'clock, the day after we got home, we backed out of our driveway and drove to Utah. We got in about 4 am. Yuck.
Jared spent the day 4 wheeling with his brothers and I drove up to Ogden to see my bestie <3 I miss that girl tons! It was great spending the afternoon with her and it was fun to meet her new little baby. My friend is one cute mom I tell ya.
That night I got to meet my BIL's new fiance Kristy and her 4 children. I love them already. Frankie and Kristy are just like two teenagers, soooo in love and I love seeing how happy he is. He definitely deserves it! They'll get married in March and I can't wait.
We spent New Years eve hanging out at Ben's house and playing the ice game {best game ever}, although I had to go in TWICE. In a row. And I was the first one in. Lame. haha We left the next night to beat vegas traffic and got home about 2 am.
We did nothing on New Years day.
It was glorious.
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