We spent an entire day in St. George with my family. We went down and the ladies went to Santa's Workshop craft fair while the men went with the kids to Defy Gravity. A ginormous bounce house with floors and walls covered with trampolines and blow up toys. The kids absolutely loved it. Derek had a lot of fun himself...and a really good work out from all that jumping. After that we all went and had lunch at Justin and Jen's house and then sat and talked and visited while the kids watched a Christmas movie in their new theater room.
Remember our big discussion on the shoe horn and pill box? Well, our great friends that we do a lot with, Pace and Amanda Clarke, over the Thanksgiving break brought us a fun treat. This is what they looked like decorated.
If you can't tell what it is it is a pair of shoes and a shoe horn on Derek's cupcake, and on my cupcake it is a pill box. Random? Yes. Funny? Yes. Thoughtful? Yes. Delicious? Yes. We thought it was a good laugh and then we all visited together and ate our yummy treats.
Also a important event that happened over the Thanksgiving break:
I was kind of teasing Derek a little bit about his shoe horn feddish when we were with all of his family at Thanksgiving. As we were discussing and having this argument once again of pill box vs. shoe horn, Derek's dad brings out from the other room an early Christmas gift for Derek and what is it? A shoe horn. But not any old shoe horn. One that belonged to and was built and hand laithed by his Grandpa Payne. So it made Derek's day and it was sentimental. Win-win situation and he has stood by his word and has used it everyday. I still think a pill box is more useful, but I am glad that he now is happy with his shoe horn and I am happy with my pillbox.
With the Thanksgiving break over we have started to decorate and felt the Christmas spirit around here quite a lot lately. All our shopping is done for family and each other. We have put up and decorated our Christmas tree (which took about 5 minutes...its not a very big tree). I made a cute new wreath that is hanging on our front door. And we are both excited for Christmas to come. Here are a few pictures of our newly Christmas decorated home.
For one of Derek's classes they were all in charge of designing a t-shirt and then at the end of that they got to print their t-shirt design as well as anyone else in the class that they would like to have done. Derek came home with a new shirt for me and a new shirt for him. Here they are. Derek designed the blue t-shirt that was his. They are both supposed to be humerus and probably have some slightly nerdy graphic design jokes involved but I like them.
We also had Friendsgiving this past weekend. It is the 2nd annual Friendsgiving and we have loved the tradition. What is Friendsgiving you might ask? Well its Thanksgiving with Friends. We all bring something and have a second Thanksgiving feast one week later after the actual Thanksgiving holiday. We had a lot of fun attending that.
This past week at church a member of our high council took some free Christmas pictures of couples and gave them to us if we wanted to make Christmas cards or anything like that. This is one of the pictures he took of us.
And with all of that said, Happy Holidays to all of you and good luck with finals and all of your many work endeavors and such until the Christmas break. We will be doing some big final projects around here at our house to get things turned in for the end of the semester and before the Christmas break.
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