A year end review

2008

We said goodbye to a few important people in our lives

President Hinckley

Grandma Petersen

Grandpa Lafeen

And Justin's brother, Bryan... but just to England for a couple of years -he'll be back.

We bought a house

Had our first wedding anniversary

And hosted a friend of Justin's from Brazil

We went on a few trips... some far

some not so far

We attended my 10 year high school reunion

The nation elected a new president (yipee!)

Lets see... I think I'm leaving something out...

Oh yeah...

So much more than a bag

For those of you have seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about. For rhose who haven't... watch this:




It wasn't QUITE that dramatic - I wasn't buying a gift for an office romance and trying to hide it from my spouse who was in the same store, and there were no cinnamon sticks, but this is what I thought of. Little Man and I went to a local store for a birthday present and the women offered to wrap the gifts. As... slowly... as... possible. It was almost comical. And, I'll be honest, a couple of boxes covered in tissue paper, placed in a bag with tissue paper is really NOT that impressive.

Then, to top it all off, when we walked back outside there was a guy working on his van directly in front of our car on the street. He gave me whole new concept of plumbers crack. I think if I had seen any more of his... bum, I would seen what was on the other side.

What an interesting outing.

At day at the grandparents

Justin working in Ogden today and our Little Man and I came with
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My mom getting a new camera for Christmas
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Merry Christmas

Compared to our first two Christmas's, this one was probably the least chaotic for Justin and I. Not as calm as my dad's, but compared to our first year together, when we were engaged and went SEVEN different places in two days, thus was pretty nice. We might have to take a lesson for next year and only do one side of our families each day.

We spent Christmas Eve with my parents and siblings- dinner & presents. We also opened gifts (including birthday ones) with Kathy and Bryon -and my mom is STILL vacuuming up glitter, by the way! It worked out pretty well that we went up there yesterday since the weather would have kept us away anyway.

Today we talked to Justin's brother, Bryan, who is serving a mission in England. We went to Justin's moms house for brunch & presents, and then headed to his dads after that. Our little man did great, and everybody was pretty excited to see him.

Justin gave me and our Little Man (and sort of Kathy) plane tickets to see her this spring in Arizona. I'm super excited to go... and a little nervous about the trip.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Merry Birthday

and Happy Christmas!

Happy Birthday, Kathy.

Love you more than a fat kid loves cake!

Concept of time

I have none. No concept of time, whatsoever.

And, for someone that used to live every day by a calendar and the clock, it's a little unnerving. And, strangely enough, a little liberating.

Okay, the term 'liberating' might be a bit much, but its definitely very different.

I know when its dark outside I try and get our Little Man to sleep right after a feeding, and there is no guilt associated with going back to bed.

During the day when most of society is busy being productive, at the very least, awake, I feel a little guilty. I should be sweeping my floors, folding our Little Man's laundry that I repeatedly toss in his crib, or making myself look half-way presentable to the outside world -in case we have visitors.

Depending on the night we had has a lot to do with how much I get done the following day. Sometimes I actually make dinner, much to Justin's surprise, and other days I hardly make it downstairs.

Either way, I've just found it interesting how I rarely know what day of the week it is, let alone the date. I'm assuming, by the increasing amount of holiday music I'm hearing on the radio, Christmas is sometime this week.

I should probably look into that.

Movie Night

I don't normally post or critique movies we see, but tonight (last night -it is 4:30 am Sunday morning) was a little different.





Justin and I left our Little Man with his grandparents and went on a date. For the most part, we enjoyed ourselves (until about 90 minutes after being gone and I started to feel... a bit of pain and would have really liked to have been able to feed him).



Anyway, on our first night out we saw Seven Pounds. Justin loved it. I thought it was a good movie, as long as you're in the mood for a slow-moving and depressing movie.

Popcorn anyone?