Christmas!

It's about time that I posted again. I need to post those Christmas tree pictures that I promised! And now I have some pictures from Christmas day, too. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas. I sure did! Here we have Tyler standing excitedly next to our finished Christmas tree! Right before I took this picture, he had placed our "tree-topper" on the tree - the big red and white ornament you can see at the top. A few days later, Tyler's mom gave us a real tree-topper, but I don't know if we took any pictures of the tree with it on. I might have to go home and do that!

Here is a picture of our tree with the lights in the house turned off. I decided to post it because I think it looks pretty darned cool.

I love this picture of Tyler's stocking hanging from our unusable fireplace. My stocking was added later, but no picture was taken. Another one I need to go home and take, I suppose. We'll have to work on getting some stocking holders in the next few years because we definitely have the mantel space to use them! :)
This picture is of Tyler and me after we finished opening our presents to each other on Christmas morning. As soon as we finished opening them we headed to my parents' house in Draper, where we opened more presents and got to talk to my brother, Kevin, on the phone. He's currently serving a mission in Florida (Jacksonville). We next headed to Tyler's parents' house to open presents, and then it was off to Tyler's grandparents' house for more present opening. Talk about a tiring day!

My mom gets my dad the temple calender every year for Christmas, and this year happened to feature the Sacramento temple, which is where Tyler and I got married. Here we are holding up the picture. (And in case you're wondering, the Sacramento temple picture fell on the month of June. Close!)

Welcome to Utah, Dad! My lucky parents decided to move to Utah just in time for all of the wonderful snow. Here's a picture of my dad snow-blowing the walkway and driveway. Thank goodness the neighbor let him borrow this snow-blower. It's much faster than the shoveling-technique my dad had previously been using.
Hahaha. My mom thinks this picture is funny. I'm eating a mint cookie while reading the crepe recipe we used to make crepes for Christmas breakfast. I obvioulsy have really great eating habits - eating a mint cookie before making breakfast. I think I'd eaten a Pillsbury biscuit at some point that morning, too. I love those things. That and ranch. ;)

Here we have Tyler with the cordless drill and accessories (on his belt) that my parents gave him for Christmas. Needless to say, I am a little worried for my house. Good thing it's a rental, huh? That means lots of practicing with the power tools before Tyler gets his hands on our first home. :) Oh, and the reason Karen's leaning over in the back is because she was trying to get out of the picture. Nice try. :P

That's all for now, folks!