Year 1 Gratitude List

I can not believe how quickly this year has gone by! (I wish the two years I was waiting could have gone this fast..) We have been very blessed in so many ways, and I am very lucky to have Spencer in my life.

I am grateful that Brooke puts up with me so well and that my family has not had to bribe her too much to make her stick around. She's the best company I could ever have asked for. It sure puts a lot of pressure on me to be the kind of husband that she deserves.

Together, we have created a list of the many things we are thankful for.

• Family
• fantastic Parents (specifically)
• being sealed for eternity
• the Gospel of Jesus Christ
• Spencer!
• Brooke :)
• a warm, comfortable place to live
• Pell Grants!
• good jobs
• education at the U
• our fun ward
• running water in the kitchen
• our new car
• No payments on our new car
• being in good health
• Sunday Skype calls
• financial stability
• Aaron and Jayde serving missions

Christmas Projects

I finally finished sewing our stockings today! It took me a while... and they aren't perfect, but they will do. Spencer picked out his own fabric and everything.

This is how they started. A newspaper drawing I made.

They did get better from here.

And now they are done and hanging on the wall.

My other Christmas project was at work. I did a lot of wrapping for the Huntsman Christmas party. We got a sweet Blue-Ray player from it, but I made Spencer wait before he opened it because I was so proud of all my work.

And that's all so far :) That I'm allowed to post.

Christmas Decorating for FHE

This year we were lucky and got our own Christmas tree. Kim Hicken was super nice and let us have a cute little tree. So for family home evening one night, we set it up. With Ryan's help too.

They both got upset because I wanted white lights on the tree. They claim I am racist because I didn't want the colored lights... **rolling eyes**

But I did let them put the colored lights in the windows, so everyone else can see them too.

This is our cute little tree :)

They put lights in the kitchen too...

And this is our super awesome Nativity set from Ecuador. Spencer's parents gave it to us for Christmas last year.

They did help me with the tree... by putting Spencer's lovely shot-gun shell ornaments up...