Christmas

Since the last post we have completed another semester at BYU-I, and have been enjoying our Christmas break in Rexburg, Idaho. Chris and I both had a very successful semester with good grades (more like GREAT grades) and one semester closer to graduation. Once the semester was completed we opened one of our Christmas presents since we already knew what it was, which were Kindles, and that way we would be able to have time to enjoy them before school started once again. I lucked out this semester in not having any finals and was done December 14th. I enjoyed my break for a couple days and then came down with the flu and wanted to DIE! It was mainly a very miserable one day, but took me a couple days to recover from that.
We have been busy catching up on things that get very much neglected while in school and enjoying our much needed relaxation. December 23rd, we made a little day trip down to the Logan Utah Temple, which can be read about in my other blog. On the way home we stopped and visited some very good friends in Idaho Falls before making our way back to Rexburg. Then Saturday we went shopping for our Christmas dinner and picked up a very nice ham that was on sale, which makes it even better. We also went to a white elephant which was a TON of fun and we were able to spend time with friends.
Christmas morning we got up very excited for Christmas and remembering the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, the greatest gift ever given. We had some very delicious Christmas rolls that a friend gave to us to have Christmas morning. We then went through our stockings. We were going to open presents after church, but I just couldn't wait anymore. After opening our presents we got ready for church and had a very wonderful time filled with a Christmas message.
After church we prepared dinner and invited two other couples over that didn't have any plans for Christmas dinner. (We would have invited more over, but I figured our little apartment can only hold so many people). We had a wonderful dinner with a very delicious, juicy ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, homemade potato chips and rolls, and homemade pumpkin pie. It was oh so good, and we enjoyed spending Christmas with friends. After dinner we played board games and that ended up going until almost 10pm when we realized what time it was. It was truly a wonderful Christmas!
Now I am very excited to use our new GPS (which would have been very useful this last summer while we were in California). Also enjoying the last week or so of our break before our last and final semester at BYU-Idaho. It has been a wonderful time going to school at BYU-Idaho, but I am very excited to see where we end up next and open another chapter in the book of our life.