New Year!

We kind of disappeared the last three months of 2008!  They are my favorite months, and they get packed full of activities!

Honestly December was disappointing because I was sick so much!  I got sick December 1, and I had the last traces of my cough from that cold around December 19.  But, I was so glad to break my yearly curse of being sick ON Christmas!

Ha - ha.  December 24 I started in with another cold, and this one has been worse than the first.  Probably since I had been sick so recently.  Anyway - this one is still hanging on.  Matt's entire family, except one individual, got sick.  So, we had a cough-filled holiday.  It's just my luck that I'll be feeling good in time to go back to work!  I really can't remember a time when I've been sick for so long.  Only 5-days of being well in one month!  Crazy!

But, we tried to have fun anyway, and did some cool things:

• December 2 - We went to the play "Savior of the World".
• December 4 - We got free tickets from my work and went to see "The Nutcracker".
• December 6 - It was a very warm Saturday and we finished our Winter yard preparations, and put the Christmas lights on the house.
• December 14 - We had our yearly Christmas Dinner with my family.

• December 17 - We got free tickets from my work to see the advanced showing of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".  It was interesting, but soooo sad.
• December 20 - Our friend Quincy got married and we went to his reception.
• December 22 & 23 - I had two glorious non-sick days of cleaning/shredding junk out of our office.
• December 24 - We had a fun evening doing what we traditionally do this night - - - dinner with Matt's family at his Aunt & Uncle's and then watching "We're No Angels", our yearly Christmas movie, with my family.
• December 25 - We had Christmas breakfast at our house with Matt's family.  Normally we go to my brother's house for dinner, but I was really sick so we stayed home this year.
• December 28 - Matt's mom made her own birthday dinner (isn't that sad), and everyone came to our house to eat.  Matt and I were both horribly sick by this point, so mom took over and did all the work.  We woke up to eat.  She flew home on her actually birthday - December 29 - and was the last one to get sick, starting in with it that day!  What a birthday present.

We hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year's!  Happy 2009!