holiday fun

what an amazing month we have had. we have totally embraced the holiday season. let me tell you what we have done. two weekends ago we had an awesome date. we went up to salt lake city to participate in the christmas festivities. we went to a session at the salt lake city temple. it was beautiful and very spiritual. it's amazing to think of all the many people that have been in that temple. after eating a nice dinner we walked around temple square to see the lights. man there were a lot. the beautiful lights on the reflecting pond. my favorite were the orange and red light combo. we then went to see the nutcracker at capital theater. it was beautiful. it was danny's first time seeing the nutcracker. it was tons of fun and danny sure knows how to put together an awesome date. the only bad part was that we forgot our camera!! iiii know. that weekend we also went out to dinner with our awesome aunt shelley and our fun cousins. i like them. it was fun to visit.

so i have finished with midterms and now am on christmas break. danny is finished with the semester!!! he finished with 2 A's and 1 B+ and still waiting for his last class's grade. it was a hard semester so i'm really proud of him. he graduates this april which is exciting.

this past weekend we also had a fun PACKED weekend. on friday we went up to the canyons ski/snowboard resort in park city. we had gone to the warren miller ski movie in october for 20 bucks and scored free passes to canyons. so we went snowboarding up there. we had a blast. we went with some friends of ours. it was my 3rd time snowboarding and, if i do say so myself, i rocked! danny didnt' have to wait for me that long. he was impressed. he did head out with his friends and tackelled the blacks. it will probably be our only time up to the canyons this season. i'll tell ya i'm still sore but it was definately well worth it. i'll crave it for another year until next year.

then saturday we went up to my extended family and made candy! we made tons of stuff. pecan brittle, peanut brittle, toffee, carmel, and dipped twizzlers, cinnimon santas, and swedish fish, and pretzels in chocolate. it was devine. my aunts are so amazing. i wanted to make some candy to hand out to family members and friends for christmas and hadn't ever made this candy before. they opened up there house, shared their chocolate and ingredients, and took time to explain to me how to make these goodies. i myself made a batch of toffee and brittles. it's something that danny has wanted and has commented since we have first been married. i'm excited that we can now do it on our own now in the future with our own family.

after making candy we then went out with our cute mentees, kirsten and kaleb. we took them caroling to some friends to drop off our goodies and then went to see some christmas lights. i think they had a blast because they kept on talking and talking. they are such cute kids. we went to the festival of lights in spanish fork along with salem pond where we meet santa and took a picture. i hope they have a good christmas.

now we are just waiting for christmas eve!!!! we can not wait. we'll update ya then.