2012: Starting out right

January has already been a blast and a half - even with all we've done in our many years of friendship, courtship, and marriage-ship it looks like 2012 is gonna top a lot of lists.

 

The BEST part of the month (sorry to start with the wonderful-est part first) was discovering our new family member is a GIRL!  The jury is still out on names, but anticipating a daughter is oober exciting...if only I could actually get around to decorating the nursery...

We had a mini-reunion with some of the sister missionaries from my mission - including my greenie! She and her husband were visiting from BYU-Hawaii.  Looks like she is expecting their first baby in July. It was great to see her and the rest of the sisters.

We also took a weekend to drive up and see Rachel, Dorian, William, and brand-new baby Emma in Roosevelt.  Of course we planned it on top of a snowstorm, but driving actually wasn't that bad.

We had a GREAT time - special thanks to Dorian for whipping up some fantastically tasting Japanese food.  I think I finally got my fill of rice...AND kimchi (special treat for us!) We also managed to fit in homemade waffle cones with Coldstone ice cream, pancakes at the Eddington's home, AND the traditional stuffage at a Chinese buffet.  Add onto that time out shooting 6 different kinds of guns, sleeping on a thousand fingers, and pillow-fights with William...you have an awesome weekend.  And we still got back in time to teach Nursery at church the next day.

 

Driving to and from Roosevelt gave us a chance to really enjoy our new "old-fogey" habit: Dustin and I have discovered how much fun it is to read books aloud together.  We finished "Treasure Island" by R.L. Stevenson and began "The Hobbit." (We have now finished The Hobbit and are almost through with "The Hunger Games" trilogy.  Fun times.)

 

2012 is definitely going to be a great ride.