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The packages are wrapped and laying quietly to be unwrapped tomorrow, as we remember the true gift that our our Father in Heaven has given us – the birth of His Son our Savior, Jesus Christ.
I can’t believe that this year has just flown by! What have we done this year? I started this last year and thought I would keep it up, but change it a little bit – one year I’ll get it the way I want. So let’s get started:
January
Can you believe it, I don’t have any pictures from January? It was probably because this was when I found my interest in photography. I started visiting websites, reading books, going to the library – to try and learn all that I could on the topic and started experimenting here and there (I can’t believe that was a year ago). I also was involved in my hit-and-run accident on the interstate, experienced my first Jury Duty, and fell in love with Real Simple magazine.
February
Was a fun Valentines Day in which our love for Guitar Hero Band developed.
March
We went and visited Mr. B’s parents in wonderful Kauai, Hawaii – where I want to go back to again this upcoming year sometime. Enjoy some pictures…. 
Saw and Emu Ceremony – Delicious Dinner and Fascinating Ceremony 
Chickens, Chickens, Chickens…. Everywhere – don’t worry I won’t post all gazillion pictures I took of them. 
Saw many a waterfall – they were beautiful! 
Enjoyed time together on glorious beaches. 
Enjoyed interesting Graffiti.
Had the best Fish & Chips in the world, along with a great view…. 
Went Deep Sea Fishing, where Mr. B caught a fish 
Which we had for dinner… (it was an Amberjack and it was delish!) 
Saw Beautiful Lighthouses
Saw Jeff Dunham Live – it was fantastic!
May 
Thought we would buy a house out in the sticks, so we spent quite a lot of time in the eastern side of our state.
June 
We got our first fish, Xavier our Betta.
July 
Had great seats at a Giants game! (went to several this year) 
Went to my cousins wedding in Rexburg, ID 
Had fun times at our family re-union, to include when my sister was extreme egged!
August 
Visited my family in Nevada, and played tons of Pinochle 
Saw incredible sunsets! 
Watched my brother play football 
Had fun at dads work fair (literally, it was a fair)
I took some of my sisters senior photos 
September 
I started working on things around the house, to personalize it a little, and started to get in touch with my crafty bone
October
November
Went back to Nevada and had our family pictures done.
December
We had our first Christmas tree, since this is the first year we have actually been home for Christmas, together. It is also my first REAL tree so I’m excited about that and am enjoying the wintry evergreen scent.
We played games and just enjoyed each others company. (I had to post that picture of my mother, as I love the natural beauty of it and that she has).
Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and lets look forward to a new fantastic year!
Here it is, my very first shot from my new unbelievably complicated, yet wonderful camera -
I can’t wait to learn about all that I can do! Be waiting and be prepared.
What a day…. started off well – got to work on time, started doing my typical daytime routine. Then the Firewall Box I’ve been waiting on for the past three weeks came – so I set it up and plugged it in, and it just said I need to have it authorized – so I called the “Help Desk” so they could authorize it, so to make a really incredibly long story short – 5 hours later it was ‘authorized’. Do you know what kept me going today? Well, it was the fact that when UPS comes to our neighborhood every night (which they have been doing for the past month) around 6:30pm I would have this little wonderful new addition to our family in my hands
Except, it was delivered at 2:30!?! What?!? Why?!? For the past 2 years that we have lived here, the UPS man only has ever come after 6pm – except for the first time that I needed something delivered to me that I was looking soooo forward to – oh well life goes on right? So I called the ‘Customer Service Center’ and they said I could come pick it up at 7:30pm – so my excitement stayed, until….
We showed up at 7:28 and eagerly awaited the opening of the doors, only to be told that the driver hadn’t returned yet and it would be a couple more hours before he got back. So now I’m in this sad little funk – and tried to get out of it by cleaning (which I feel I have so much to do) I really need to figure out how to stop feeling overwhelmed all the time. I’m not perfect nor will I probably ever be, but for some reason I feel I need to have everything perfect and in it’s designated place at all times.
I think I’ll ask for a maid for Christmas *hint, hint*
Have a wonderful evening, and hopefully my little friend will be available for pick up tomorrow!
So it has been a long time coming. Two months has gone by and I haven’t posted anything of importance. So here is our life for the past two months! Towards the end of November we left for Nevada to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with my parents. It was quite chilly and snowy in the Sierras – but we did see plenty of strange things to keep up entertained while we were driving at 20mph with chains on our tires and my bladder about to burst (HINT: If you know you’re going to have chains on your tires and bumping up and down USE the restroom first!). One of the funniest things we saw was a BMW was stuck (they didn’t put their chains on) and who was pushing this car? A skinny little male wearing a rainbow speedo and Doc Marten boots – yes ladies and gents that’s ALL he was wearing, so we finally made it only for me to realize that I had forgotten to charge my little cameras battery. So here are a few images from the trip – we had family pictures taken and my mom and I attempted to make a wreath that should have only taken us about an hour to make but really took us closer to 4 hours!
I would love to make the last one a big canvas for my parents except I’m not so sure of my brothers face, yet he always looks like that so I’m not sure…. Shall we venture to the wreath making fiasco?!
First, collect many different ornaments – my mom and I learned the hard way NOT TO use Glass ornaments. You untwist the top of a hanger and shape into a circle. Before you begin you also need to hot glue the little tops on to the ornament so it will help them to NOT pop off. Then begin stringing… 
After you string, and re-string, and re-string, and re-string you will finally get fed up and then just shove them on the hanger in no particular order, some will break and shatter because you did not use shatter-proof ornaments but it will end up looking somewhat like this…
(I am so happy to get my new SLR tomorrow so I can have really good quality pictures to take and use, after I figure out how to use it of course!)
We also went shooting which is a great family outing for us, we enjoy it and well, I’ll be honest I LOVE IT! 
I think Mr. B enjoyed it as well – my sister was a little tired because she claimed I woke her up. That rifle happens to be my very favorite – EVER.
We also drove out to Utah and spent some time with Mr.B’s mom and her horses, they are beautiful and so friendly – Sir Knight, Dot, Belle Star, and Dolly. I’ve been on horses before but just trail horses, and I’m kind of scared of them as every time I’m around a horse it seems they like to trample on my and/or roll over on me. But I rod Dolly bare back to get used to them and I’m excited to go back out again to ride and get to know them better.
We headed back home after a wonderful Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping – which I love to do, but only in the middle of nowhere NV where there isn’t a TON of people pushing and shoving. After arriving home we started to really invest in our new ‘family hobby’ of being fish tank owners and chemistry majors. Who knew that if you have fish you end up learning about biology and chemistry, and have to do tests?! Here is an image of my Betta, Xavier. He co-habitats with Pierre our Bamboo Shrimp and Zippy our Zebra Danio. I will post pictures of the other two as soon as I get some as Pierre is molting and won’t come out of hiding and Zippy is too fast to take a picture of right now. 
The little dots that look like salt? Yup, that’s the parasite, Ich. But it is going away now with some Organic Medicine that we have been medicating the tank with – I think we bought a fish that was sick and/or infected with them. She has since died and now our fish have Ich, but not for long. It’s funny because Minnie now craves more attention because I believe she knows that she isn’t the only pet anymore… but she still gets plenty of love, whether she thinks so or not.
That is all I can think of updating at the moment, but there will be more regular updates, especially as I am getting my new SLR in the mail tomorrow!!!! Woo Hoo! Have a great week and I’ll be back sooner than I was the last time.
