January 4th - Our 1 Year Anniversary

Yes, it has been a year since we've been married. We made it a year! Honestly, it seems longer. It's been a great year and we look forward to the many years to come! We didn't celebrate our Anniversary until the weekend following January 4th. We stayed in and made a special dinner. We would have liked to leave town for a few days but we got ourselves a treadmill instead. It was such a great deal! We have always talked about being better about exercising but moving to a place that is in the boondocks posed the question, 'where would we go running'? There isn't any room to go running on the 55 mph road that we live off of. Our second bedroom in our new place fits the treadmill perfectly. We've been using it a lot too!

Happy New Year!

For New Year's Eve, we as family and friends gathered at my parents house. It looked like everyone had a great time. I slept from 9pm or so until 30 seconds before the ball dropped, so I wasn't much company. There was plenty of food to go around, times ten and a lot of visiting, and Settler's of Catan was being played. It was a good evening. Happy New Year!!!

This was our first New Year's as a married couple and I was asleep for most of it then half asleep for our New Year's kiss! Pretty funny lookin' eh?

Here are some random pictures of Mikey's turtle. This turtle is so cool. His name is Speed. Sometimes we catch him sleeping, standing up, on the edge of the rock in his little aquarium. It is hilarious!

Then sometimes he lays there on the rock with his head stretched forward and one or both of his back legs stretched behind him, and this is how he sunbathes.

Our friends, Sean and Courtney Whelan were in town and came over before the family and friends get together. Although it was a quick visit, it was a good one. We wish we could see them more, they are going to school in Utah.

WE MOVED!

Morgan and I recently moved into a two bedroom single wide, mobile home. For the past few months we had been looking for somewhere where we could save a little money and we were blessed through word of mouth to find this adorable place. It is on the property of some great people from our ward. We are so grateful to them. Everything has worked out so wonderfully. It is beautiful out here! We just adore it! Mikey was a big help during the move. It was during the holidays so help was hard to come by but he helped us move the majority of stuff.

Our life in a box. Sadly enough, it's probably only half of it. We took several trips after this one to move the rest of our stuff before we fully moved in.

Here's a couple pictures from the inside. It is so roomy. We definitely have room for growth and plan on being here atleast a few years. We are so blessed.

We have a carport and all! It can fit about 3 cars and we have our own separate driveway from the main property. We have a place for a garden too!

Christmas Day

There is no better way to celebrate the birth of Christ and His life, than with family. Morgan and I woke up on Christmas morning and exchanged gifts. We then went over to Momma and Pappa Watkins house to spend Christmas morning there. We wish we would've taken more pictures of everyone that was there.

Mya and Brianna got helmets for quad riding.

All of us kids ordered a custom made blanket that had a picture from the mid 90's of all of us kids on Christmas morning. We neglected to take a picture of it after it was opened.

Emilie and her little ones. Charlie, age 2, and Myles, 2 months old.

We then celebrated Christmas with Momma & Pappa Young and family. We had a great dinner feast and visit with all of them. We sure love spending time with our families!

Morgan got a new shotgun from his parents. At first he opened a gift which was a gun sock and thought 'Well, this will be nice to use when I have a gun where the stock isn't broken,' and then his dad said, 'Come over here, I think there's something missing' and he had him look in a corner, and lo and behold, he found a shiny new shotgun.

Brian gave some awesome gifts. A few of us were lucky enough to get tie dye socks and aprons. It was great!

A Few Days Before Christmas

Everyone was together for Christmas. It was so wonderful! These pictures are up through Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve we went to the Reynolds. We all had a great time with family and friends.

Chris and Marianne found a box! Remember the good ol' days? All you needed was a box and a big imagination. Life was so simple. What happened to those days?

I had so much fun cuddling with the babies. There are two new babies in the family. My sister Emilie had a baby boy, Myles, and my other sister Leslie, had a little girl, Madelyn. All of the kids were just so cute!

Morgan found the Linkin' Logs. He and Ben had a lot of fun constructing their Linkin' Log Mansion.

At the Reynolds on Christmas Eve, we visited, ate food, and then read the story of The Nativity in The New Testament and sang Christmas songs.