Warning: Longest Series of Posts...Ever!

Holy! It's been forever since I've had a good post. So much has happened since Christmas and it has been pure chaos at our house! For Christmas, we went down to Price and hung out with both families. It was fun to go to the Williams' Christmas Eve Party and see everyone. Christmas morning we were at the Kings and had fun watching Mom and Dad and MeLisa and John all be wasy surprised at their gifts this year. Mom was especially hiliarious.
Then, school started. UGH. I'm loving my classes but there are SO MANY! I'm taking 9 classes which is about 18 credits. I also start my 1st cohort this semester (like student teaching). I will be at Westridge Elementary in Provo with the 2nd grade. Kind of scary...actually...really scary. But it will be a good experience.

New Years

For New Years, we headed down to St. George and hung out at the Lotts. We spent most of our time playing Mario Kart (which I tend to slaughter everyone in). We also went to something called Jumping Jacks, where they have a bunch of those blow up slides. It was so fun and they even had a dancing moment where all the kids got out on the floor and danced. It was SO NICE in St. George. We were able to go to the elem. school near their house and play football and run around. I was so depressed when we got home and there was still snow on the ground. BLAH. Here are the pics!

Those suckers!

Then, about a week after school started, we decided to go to Salt Lake with our friends out to dinner and maybe a movie. While we were eating dinner, our friend KC said that he had left his bag at his work (Enterprise). We ended up at the airport and I didn't think anything of it because there is an Enterprise at the airport. We are walking through and all of the sudden....BAM! Tyler and Jackie are standing there. All of those suckers tricked me! Anywho, it was so fun to see them. The next day, we drove down to Price to surprise the rest of my family. Mom and Dad and MeLisa were so excited to see them. Mom was like freaking out and screaming. HILARIOUS! So then, we made a quick trip to St. George again to go and see the Lotts. Tyler, John, and I sat in the backseat and it was SO SQUISHED! We also stopped by and say Grandma and Grandpa Christensen and Grandma Blackburn.
Now, it's been so hard to get back into normal life! Enjoy the pics!

YES!

I finally figured out how to put a picture on the heading! A thousand huzzahs!

Baby Jackson

Today we went over to see Shara and Allen's new baby Jackson. He is SO cute and was born with a full head of hair! As always, whenever I touch a baby, some sort of bodily function occurs. When I would hold Easton, he would throw up all over me. Now, when I hold Jackson, he poops and toots. Nice. Anyway, here is Uncle John and Jackson.

(The pictures are fairly sucktastic because I took them with my phone)

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Stanislaw Lec

I think today was the only day I have ever appreciated snow because we got a snow day at work! It has been a blizzard all day and at about 1:30 p.m., my boss and I went out to measure the snow - 10 INCHES! At 2:00, BYU sent out an email that due to bad weather and concern for safety, we were all to leave work! YES! And, even better, they were still paying us until 5! So John and I got off work at about 2:30 and went and shopped the rest of the day. I just hope it isn't this bad when we try to drive to Price for Christmas!

We hope everyone has a Happy Holidays!

Here is my boss measuring the snow with a ruler. 10 inches!

Here are some pictures of John playing in the snow and me pouting about the snow.

HOLY! Literally!

Best Sunday EVER! So we had our family get together this weekend at the Lundell's. As part of that, we went to Music and the Spoken Word this morning. We got there pretty early so we ended up like right in the front rows. We are sitting there chatting with each other and listening to the warm-ups from the choir and orchestra. All of the sudden, President Monson walks in and right past us! It was so cool. I had never seen a Prophet that close up before. BUT WAIT! It gets better. The program was wonderful and the music was beautiful. After the program was over, we stand up as President Monson walks out. Then, he stops at our family and starts talking with us! He shook hands with Stockton and Carson and talked with them and then shook hands with Great Grandma Blackburn and talked with us for a couple more minutes after that. It was so cool and such a neat experience for us all. Afterwards, we walked around Temple Square for a little while and saw all the stuff at the visitors center. Anyway, here are some pictures from the tabernacle and President Monson. I felt weird taking pictures of him like he was a celebrity but hey, when will we ever have this opportunity again? (It's okay, they said we could take pictures before and after the program. Also, there was a professional photographer there taking pictures when President Monson was with our family so look for those to turn up somewhere!)