What a treat it was to see every single member of my husband’s family for Christmas! I am so grateful that all of my spouse’s siblings are people I want to be around and they all married great people too. I love the fact we got a picture of all 24 grandchildren with their grandparents. This is a picture from a phone and I can’t wait to see the ones Jordan took with his fancy camera. And, I must brag, after 10 years of being married I can tell you I finally got someone a good draw name present. Thanks for crying, Mark. We love you guys!
Before all that excitement, we were able to see Dan’s grandmother and many of his aunts, uncles, cousins, and their children at a church held Christmas party. It was so strange to see people I haven’t seen for years. It was hard to talk because although we are all pretty heavy on the social media so I kind of know what is going on in their lives, I don’t have conversations with them! I decided that without Facebook I might have not even known who they were. Feeling grateful for Instagram and FB all of a sudden! It’s also thanks to our family FB page I was lucky enough to go see the new movie “Into the Woods” with 11 ladies from the clan. It was a good movie and even better company! The movie wasn’t as great as I was expecting, but I can’t complain because we were all laughing out loud, especially when we saw princes singing about agony. Tee hee.
It has been an entire year since were were in this part of the state and the trip we made last Christmas was kind of a quick, last minute thing. This time I got to see some of the best friends a person could ever ask for. Being the busy lady I was, it didn’t even occur to me that was an option and I quickly wrote friends I knew lived nearby and luckily all 4 of them were able to do something with us. Emily, a mission friend of mine, and her husband already had plans to see the lights at Temple Square on Christmas Eve just like we did. We had a wonderful time eating dinner and walking around with them. Something about Emily makes me feel like a million bucks when I am around her. Anyone would be lucky to know her.
Dan was able to meet my friend Kelly’s husband for the first time as we all ate at Chuck a Rama together. I loved being able to talk to my awesome friend again. I am convinced she is one of the strongest, kindest people I know and I didn’t want to say good-bye. What I really wanted to do was take another trip to California with her instead.
And these two college roommates of mine came swimming at our hotel pool with us and their sons. They made me wish I had never moved away. If I was the crying type, I would be doing so right now just thinking about them. I have truly been blessed to encounter good people in my life in both my circle of friends and in my family.
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