One night before Christmas, Kyle & Brianna invited Scott & I to go and see the lights at Thanksgiving Point. I love looking at and taking pictures of lights, so we said yes. We had dinner beforehand and then piled into one car to drive through the lights. It cost $8 per car to take a 10 minute tour of these lights. I honestly thought it would be a lot bigger and longer. It was pretty short and you could see pretty much the whole entire light display as you were driving to get in line to go in. I thought it was a waste of money, but it was fun to hang out and talk with Brianna & Kyle.
Christmas then came and went rather quickly. I have no pictures of any part of Christmas which I can say is totally my fault and there are no excuses. The Sunday before Christmas, we all gathered at Andrew & Rebecca's and had dinner and played games. Andrew even pulled out the N64 and we played some old school Mario Kart which was fun. I was even such a slacker that instead of making dessert to bring, I brought all the treats we got from neighbors and from my students. How's that for lazy? Christmas Eve, we went to the Bitner's for the traditional Christmas Eve gathering for the Omer family. We had dinner and a white elephant gift exchange. It usually lasts a long time, but it was shorter this time because of the lack of numbers. Scott & I ended up with horrible white elephants. We came away with this gift that's been circulating through the families, meaning I have to keep it until next year when some other poor family gets the privilege(?) of having it. We also came away with a Obama chocolate-scented soap head. Yeah, we got nothing good. Haha.
Scott was supposed to work Christmas eve/morning from 1am-7am, but he was put on-call instead and didn't have to work! Christmas morning started out with us waking up early and opening our stockings and presents. Scott was a great husband (as always) and got me a sewing machine! Poor guy tried to keep it a surprise, but I saw it in the back of his car one day. Although, I do have to say he probably got it more for him since I can make things for him or hem his clothes. I haven't used it yet, but I have a feeling I'll be using it quite often in the coming months. I'll also take a picture of it too because it is very pretty. We then headed over to grandma's and had our traditional breakfast of a cherry cheese roll, eggs, sausage and hot chocolate. We opened presents and then everyone (except Aaron, he was sick) headed over to our house. Kyle & Scott played Halo 4 while Brianna, mom and I played the Logo Board game. Everyone then left to head to Andrew & Rebecca's, but we stayed home since it's such a long drive and we saw them on Sunday anyway. Other than that, it was a pretty chill Christmas.
Again, no pictures because I'm a slacker, but we headed over to Brita & Lane's for New Years. Scott had to work new years, but got off by 8:30. Kyle, Brianna and mom came over also and we all played games and ate snacks. Scott bought a party set at Wal-Mart on the way home from work, so we had hats and noise makers that were quite loud and probably woke some people up when it turned midnight. There were lots of fireworks going off that night as well. We left Brita & Lane's around 1:30am. We really had no plans, so it was nice that something came together.
Other than that, school is back in session for me and Scott is working. I was thinking that since it is a new year that it's always fun to reflect back on the past year on all that happened and a lot definitely happened for Scott & I. I'm sure that I blogged about everything, so I don't want to post pictures, but here's a quick list on what the Fletcher family did in the year 2012 (most likely not in order of when things happened).
*We bought our first home!! What a momentous occasion this was and we are still happy with it.
*We brought Maddie home from the humane society and she is the best kitty.
*Road trip to see sister Brianna get married to Kyle in San Diego, California.
*Another road trip to see brother-in-law David get sealed to Kristene in San Diego, California.
*Scott graduated with his Bachelor degree in nursing, meaning he is officially done with school at UVU!
*Scott & I went to Lake Powell for the first time and Scott learned how to wake-board.
*We celebrated 2 years of marriage together.
*Niece Annika got baptized.
*Nephew Dylan was born.
*Hosted Thanksgiving dinner at our home for the Fletcher family.
*I learned how to golf.
*We went to the Olympic Park in Park City with Scott's brother Andrew
*I hosted my first Halloween party.
*I ran my first marathon & Scott ran his second!
*Scott & I went to the color festival together (my 4th time going)
That's all I can think of right now, but we had a great year and I know that 2013 is going to be just as eventful. :)
Haha, loved the fact that you got a chocolate-scented Obama head bar of soap!! And I loved seeing the highlights of your year, you guys are so cool!! :)
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