This will be my official last post about the year 2015, but I would rather have it be late than never write it in the first place. In fact, I still have not taken my Christmas decorations down and packed them up. Either I dislike putting away stuff or I am just getting a head start for Christmas 2016! But the first is true. I very much loathe putting stuff away and "redecorating" to put my place back in order. Which is why I am finally writing this blog post instead of putting away my Christmas decorations. :)
2015 was a great year for us! We had a great Christmas in Colorado with my family and celebrated New Years in Texas with friends. We did the usual during our family get togethers: we played lots and lots of games (John family favorite past time), went shooting in the mountains, made lots of cookies for Santa, played football at the Air Force Academy, had a Star Wars marathon to get prepared for the new Episode VII, had a birthday celebration for my awesome dad, and did our Christmas family traditions!
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| Pandemic! Our usual game after Settlers of Catan |
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| Happy Birthday DAD! |
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| First Christmas without multicolored lights. But it sure turned out to be a great BYU tree! |
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| Christmas Traditions at their best. December 23rd: Mom and Dad read Christmas stories while we sleep under the Christmas tree. |
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| Christmas Morning!! Almost everyone is here minus one sister, brother-in-law and nephew! |
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| Christmas Day snow |
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| Another game to add to our collection. This time it's all about oil. |
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| MMmmmmm smoked Turkey for Christmas dinner. |
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| Guitar Lessons |
After our short visit in Colorado, we needed to drive back to Texas. However, we were delayed a day because West Texas had a record-breaking snow blizzard. Some places received over a foot of snow! And the farther you go down the panhandle the more likely towns won't have snow plows. Even though we delayed our drive by one day we still had hazardous road conditions and some towns were basically shutdown because everyone was snowed in! On our drive back we saw a ton of cars that had been left stranded because they were stuck in the snow. We even saw several semi trucks stuck.
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| Not what you usually see in the flats of West Texas, and this was a day later. I can't imagine what it was like the during the blizzard! |
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| Many frontage roads were completely impassable because of the snow drifts. |
After we finally made it back to Texas we had a wonderful New Year's Eve and New Year's Day with friends. For New Year's Eve, we went to a stake dance from 8-10 pm. Then we went to our friend's house and had bunt cakes, set off fireworks, drank sparkling cider and watched Studio C. The next day we went to an old fashioned skating rank. We only fell a couple of times. You have to find the groove and keep going! After the skating rink we had some amazing dessert pizza and played Settlers of Catan.
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| New Years Eve crowds! |
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| New Years Day was our 5 year engagement day! I'm so happy I said YES! |
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