Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008 was a busy time for our family.  December 13th was when Uncle Jake and his girlfriend Dani came to visit us here in Utah.  We'd experienced a lot of warmer than normal weather in November so we weren't sure they'd see any snow... how wrong we were.  They got to experience 2 huge Utah snow storms.  Uncle Jake even attempted to shovel the driveway (I took a picture for all those of you who don't believe me... hehe).  We got to go snowboarding up at the Sundance Resort.  I skiied cause I don't fancy my chances on a snowboard.  Jake and Dani did really well for their first time... I think that was mostly due to the excellent teaching skills of Sunny! (Thanks sunny, you're amazing).  Jake got stuck in about 2 feet of powder and it took him about 20 minutes to get out.  I wish everyone could have seen him because he was doing the army crawl with his head down using all his energy to get out.  I showed him an impression later that night and was laughing my head off about it.

We held our annual Gingerbread house making party and had all our friends over.  Jake and Dani were able to be there for it and made their own house.  Dani did it all cute and Jake decorated his half of the roof with a face with a golden (orange) tooth.  It was funny.  I made a mess as usual, spilling some of the icing on the carpet (Matt said I would have freaked out if he'd done it, but since I spilled it myself I laughed).  I managed to get icing all over my hands as the roof started to slide off.  Luckily I salvaged the roof and the gingerbread house looked pretty damn good if you ask me!  Later that night we gave each other white elephant gifts.  One of Matt's friends had printed out a picture of a guy wearing thong underwear and super-imposed his face on it.  I stole that gift and decided to decorate the guest bedroom with the picture.  It was really funny!  Maybe I should scan it in for all to see.

Christmas was fun.  Marshall experienced wrapping paper and many presents, but was mostly interested in the paper and bows.  He got so many clothes, a basketball hoop for future and a radio flyer wagon which he loves cause he gets to go outside and play in the snow in it.  We had a smaller Christmas than normal, but it still seemed like we all got a lot - all that bargain shopping saves so much money.

We were surrounded by wonderful friends and family.  I loved having my brother here cause I hadn't seen him in over 2 years.  December was FAB!!!