December was a crazy month...

...and our blog doesn't have much to show for it. So for now I am going to just list out what we did with the hope that I will post more about some of the activities soon. I have a lot of pictures and more to say about things, but it is a bit overwhelming at the moment. Plus I only have the attention span to do something quick and I want to check something off on my to-do list. Everyone does that sometimes, right? And if I never get around to posting again, at least we have this record.

Okay, here goes:

December 2010

• Dec 1--Traveled to Omaha, NE, to watch the BYU Cougars beat the Creighton Blue Jays.

• Dec 4 & 5--Game nights and holiday parties. Too much good food.

We tried to dress Will up in this size 9 month Santa suit. It was a bit snug, I think he looked cute, but he will probably wonder why I did that to him someday.

• Dec 6-10--Pretty much spent every waking moment I wasn't taking care of Will working on the final project for my class. There is a reason my professor warned us to spread the work out over the course of the semester. The project was really time consuming. I probably averaged 5 1/2 hours of sleep Monday and Tuesday night and Wednesday and Thursday I went to bed after 3am. Yuck.

• Dec 10--Final project due. Cut things a little too close for comfort, but I passed the class, got an A on my project and that's all that matters, right? Thanks to TJ for helping me figure out how to get my pages to number correctly in my sleep deprived state.
  

• Dec 11--Ward Christmas Party. The last hurrah for the activities committee.
  

Will seemed to be void of emotion when he met Santa. I was pleased he didn't cry, but I think he was probably just too tired to care.

• Dec 13&14--Tony in DC for work.

• Dec 17--Big Willy turns one.

Will was way more interested in making a mess with the frosting than he was in eating the cake.

• Dec 18--Birthday party for Will, BYU bowl game, and sister Melanie arrives home for the holidays.

• Dec 20--Will + 1 year check up and shots = one year old in a very bad mood. Attempt to clean house, do lots of laundry, and prepare for trip to Boston while appeasing child who cannot be pleased.
  

• Dec 21--Sisters Jill & Emily arrive home for the holidays.

First time we are all in the same state at the same time since last Christmas. It was a fun 18 hours (10 of which we were actually awake and together).

• Dec 22--Fly to Boston. Little sister, Melanie's 21st bday. I don't feel like it has been that long since I turned 21.
  

• Dec 23-25--Christmas Festivities with John Family.

Traditional John Family Christmas Eve caroling at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston.

• Dec 26&27--Wedding preparations with John Family.

• Dec 28--Wedding festivities for Hillary and Ben.

The gorgeous couple.

• Dec 29--TJ's 30th bday and our scheduled flight home. Flight was canceled, but we didn't find out until after we got to the airport--after checking the flight status multiple times throughout the day.

It would have been nice to know this BEFORE I spent 2 hours packing. When we flew home two days later I spent about 15 minutes stuffing our belongings into our bags.

• Dec 30--Bonus day in Boston, but sad to miss my mom's bday celebrations in OP. Enjoyed some Friendly's ice cream sundaes and very memorable games of Apples to Apples and Catchphrase.
  

• Dec 31--Quiet day with John's before catching evening flight back home. If you ever want to travel when there are absolutely NO lines in security, fly after 6pm on New Year's Eve. We arrived home a little after 10pm and barely made it up til 12.

One last thing, is it too late to send out Christmas cards? I had such good intentions and then the month got away from me. Maybe I could change them to Happy New Years cards or something like that...