Christmas, Anniversary, and New Year

This year for Christmas we stayed in Laramie and spent a lot of time with Matt's family. His family hadn't been together since the Christmas before Matt's mission (in 2002) so we thought it would be good to stay here and it was a lot of fun. I actually didn't take any pictures of Christmas itself but here are a couple of Matt and I and our tree.

We went to Lyman for New Years and spent a few days with my family. Everyone was there and it was really fun to see them all. Here's a picture of my cute nieces and nephews.

While we were in Lyman we celebrated our 3rd anniversary! It's crazy to me how fast time flies. We went to Utah to the Bountiful Temple and then to Salt Lake to eat at the spaghetti factory. It was a good day and it has been such a wonderful 3 years. I didn't take any pictures (lame) but here's one of us from the day after our anniversary. :)Since we're starting a new year and a new decade, I thought I'd list some things that have happened in my life.

This decade
2000: got my braces off
2001: made all state and all northwest choir
2002: had the lead in the high school musical "Music Man"
2003: graduated high school
2004: decided to leave Utah State
2005: came to UW
2006: went to Europe and married my Matt!!
2007: moved 3 times
2008: was the section leader in collegiate chorale
2009: graduated from UW and got pregnant!

This year
Jan: started student teaching at Linford elementary
Feb: turned 24

March: started student teaching at Laramie JHS

April: conducted my first concert

May: graduated from UW

June: interviewed for and got my first teaching job!

July: Matt was in Scottsbluff :(
Aug: started my new job

Sept: realized I hated riding a school bus to work every day
Oct: found out I was pregnant!

Nov: went to Lyman for Thanksgiving

Dec: directed a successful Christmas program

And as far as pregnancy news, I have taken a couple of "belly" pictures, but you can hardly tell I'm pregnant even though I'm almost 17 weeks! So I decided they aren't worth posting. :) I'll put some on here once there's something to see. But I did go to the doc last Monday and everything is looking good!