New Years Eve

New Years Eve was a blast. We went to my sister Sharon's house. We ate pizza and tons of sweets. We took turns playing Wii and watched Eagle Eye. I fell asleep which is very common for me. I have a hard time staying up late. My poor husband poured his own sparkling cider and welcomed the New Year without a kiss. He tried waking me up and so did my sisters and I may have sat up, but I was not all there. I didn't make any goals for the New Year, but I do have a sweet dream and that is to have a baby. So we'll just see what happens with that.

Christmas 2008

Christmas was good this year. It was hard since it was only a month after Matt's dad died. But in spite of that it was a good Christmas. Melissa has a very hard time when there are presents in the house that she can't open. She was doing alright when she knew what they all were, but as soon as there were a few surprise presents it drove her crazy. Luckily Matt waited until a week before Christmas to get her the surprises. With the presents from family and friends the tree did look pretty full underneath. One of the presents was a beautiful advent calendar from Lauren. She made it and it will be displayed with pride next year. She also remembered the kitties. She sent three little toys for them, that had catnip in them. On Christmas Eve the cats were locked up because they were interested in the toys and would have taken them out of the stockings that they were in. We also got two sets of our wedding china and a picture of the D.C. Temple from Matt's mom. We cleaned out the china hutch that we have in our house from Melissa's grandma, and put our china in it, and hung our Temple picture on the wall. It was a good Christmas.

Christmas Santa

Melissa's Grandma had this up year round in her home. Just before she passed away she gave it to Melissa because she knew how much she loved it. This is the first Christmas since she passed and it's little things like this that help us remember the people we love.