Two years

We have been married two years and 1 day now! We celebrated our 2 year anniversary yesterday. I can't believe it's already been two years. Time really does go fast. But, I am such a lucky girl. I have the best husband ever. I know many women say that, but really, for me he is perfect. I am so happy! I love you Jimmy Joe!

Snowshoeing

Last week we went snowshoeing! I love it. It's so fun and refreshing being in the mountain air. After some hesitation about where to go so that we wouldn't get buried by an avalanche, we found a trail in Little Cottonwood canyon-- Little Cottonwood Trail, in fact. It was perfect: not too steep, by a river, and so pretty! We hiked in, ate our snacks, and hiked back out. We had a great time.

A little disappointing

The first week and a half of my break was spent reading all 4 books in the Twilight series. I finally gave in and read them. I knew they were a guaranteed easy, fast, entertaining read, and that's just what I needed. I actually really liked them! They kind of suck you in and you can't stop reading--I loved it! Jimmy Joe wanted to know what all the buzz was about and read Twilight, isn't that great! lol. He liked it too- and, like me, he couldn't stop reading it either.

What was disappointing to us was the movie! I know I'm a little late on this and it's old news by now, but the movie was SO disappointing! Since we were all hyped up after reading Twilight, we indulged ourselves and saw the movie in the big theater (we're usually dollar movie patrons). We were so excited only to be let down by the cheesy/bad acting and no love. Where was the love in the movie?! That was our biggest peeve. And yet it could have been so good. I'm sure I'll watch it again though once it comes to the dollar theater. I'm such a sucker :).

Yay for Christmas!

Christmas has got to be one of the best times of the year. We had such a fun time! We got to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert, and then another time went to see the Salt Lake Temple lights-- always a favorite.

















We finally got around to decorating our Christmas tree. We had been so busy with the end of the semester we didn't do it until like the 21st. Better late than never though! I love having it up.













We also made the famous annual Lee family Christmas sugar cookies! This is always a big project, but SO FUN! I made the dough, and we later rolled it out, cut the shapes, baked and frosted the cookies with homemade cream cheese frosting. It's the best!



























Digging into our Christmas dinner! We decided to make it on Christmas Eve to avoid having two dinners on Christmas day- the 2nd being his family dinner in Salt Lake. Our dinner was sooo good. We made ham, mashed potatoes, my Dad's famous stuffing, sunshine carrots (carrots with an orange glaze) and had bubbly cider. mmmmm!













Here is Jimmy Joe with the tool set I gave him. I was so excited to give this to him! I researched drills and tools for about a month before buying one, and he was so excited when he opened it!! That made my Christmas right there.

















And of course this blog post wouldn't be complete without some representation of the immense quantity of snow here. This is a picture of us playing outside on Christmas Eve. Any doubts of a White Christmas were swiftly obliterated by the time the first snow storm hit! 3 storms later, this is what we were left with.













I am still clinging to Christmas music on FM 100.3; I'm not ready for it all to be over yet. It seemed like Christmas came and went too fast this year!

Ready to Par-tay!

Finals are DONE! Hallelujah! Jimmy Joe and I both finished this morning. My last one today was eventful- the test started at 8 am, but because of the snow, it took the bus an extra hour to get to Salt Lake, and I walked in at at 8:30. I finished and left school by 10 am. Then it took me 3 1/2 hours to get back down to Provo via a ride from a classmate and two late buses trying to make it through the snow! Crazy! Now I know why people hate snow so much. Or maybe they hate it when I-15 doesn't get snow plowed like today. People were sliding all over the place especially this morning. But, what's important is I finally made it home, and I'm going to settle in, watch Oprah, and go sledding later. YAY for no school for 3 weeks and 1 day!!!! I am so excited!

Festival of Trees

Last weekend we went to the Festival of Trees in Sandy. I think this is the third year we've gone. We love it! Primary Children's Hospital puts it on. People decorate gorgeous Christmas trees, often dedicated to a lost loved one who was treated at Primary Children's, and donate them, and then other people buy them to raise money for the hospital. It is something I support, and everything there-the ticket price, the activities and treat sales- goes toward the hospital; I love going. It always puts me in the Christmas spirit. We had a great time.

The obligatory picture by the all-penguin tree (penguins were my favorite animal growing up)

















One of my favorite trees. I love the colors!

















We even made Santa Faces! (we were probably the only ones in the kids section without an actual kid)