Hello my friends.  It has been an eventful and satisfying week for us.  

Bad news story: On Thursday, I dropped off MyKel for class and then was on my up to the free parking lot near the temple.  Suddenly, I heard a siren and I was pulled over.  AHH!!  MyKel and I were in a hurry that morning, so I scraped a large hole out of the frost on the front windshield and rolled down my window.  Everything seemed to be fine, until I got a fine.  $85.  As it turns out, ALL of your windows must be scraped and clean in order to be on the road.  I learned my lesson...the hard way.   

Good news story: The geology museum on campus receives many of its rocks and minerals from a couple  that lives in Colorado Springs.  They wanted to make another donation, and the geology department was trying to figure out how they could transport all of the samples back to the school.  Somehow they found out that MyKel is from Monument (right next to CO Springs), so they asked us to pick them up.  They are letting us take a school vehicle out to Colorado, paying for the gas, and paying us $$ on top of that!! Aw ya...talk about blessings.  We are very grateful to have been given this opportunity. As Bishop Wrightson would say, "oh, the blessings of being a full tithe payer."  :)

We are excited for Christmas this year...and a break from school! We had an amazing ward Christmas party last night, complete with waiters, delicious food, ballroom dancing, and live music.  The funniest part of the night was when the fire alarm went off during the elegant dinner.  

Here is a random picture with Santa Claus that we got on campus Thursday afternoon:

Merry Christmas!! From the Hazards and Santa Claus 

  

Giving Thanks

It has been an exciting 2 weeks for us.  Sorry for not posting last week.  We had Wednesday through Friday off from school last week, and hitched a ride up to Helena, Montana for the break to hang out with Grandpa and Grandma Sager, Bobo, Jaren, Braden, Krystalee, Sierra, Hannah, Monica and some of Jaren's and Braden's friends.  It was a lot of fun, and a lot of food!  Grandma made 2 turkeys!!  To keep with tradition, we went to see Twilight.  We also played football on Thanksgiving and on Saturday. We had an awesome dance party with DJ Braden, soaked in the hot tub, read books, did some homework, and played Super Smash Brothers on the Wii.  Overall, it was a great break from school and we all had a lot of fun.

Fun with Family and Friends!

Time to Eat!!

This week just flew by.  Besides the normal schoolwork, we went to a play on Tuesday night entitled "The Drowsy Chaperone."  It was very funny and I feel like the school always does an awesome job on their plays.  One of the main actors, the drowsy chaperone herself, happens to be in our ward.

Thursday afternoon, Grandma and Grandpa Sager came down to our apartment.  Krista, Hannah and Monica all played in an orchestra concert that evening, so we celebrated by going to Taco Bell before the show and G's Dairy afterwards.  They all play the violin.  Then, we all played "Werewolf."  It was a lot of fun.  Grandma and Grandpa stayed the night at our apartment, and they brought the biggest cinnamon roles I have ever seen in my life...as big as a dinner plate!!

Today I gave the lesson in Priesthood meeting on being a righteous husband and father.  For men, this is truly our greatest duty, and it is the only calling that we will have forever.