The Best Time of the Year

Happy New Year! Matt is off skiing with his family (I hate downhill skiing so I happily stayed home with the boys) so I thought I’d give this blog an update!

December is always an event-filled month for us so let me give a brief recap.

• On the 1st we went up to get our Christmas tree with Matt’s family and my brother Kasey. It was a really fun day!

• Matt graduated from UW with a degree in Spanish! (He didn’t walk, though). Now he’s going to take the classes he needs to get certified to teach biology and Spanish and he’ll be done next May.
• We traveled to Lyman for Christmas. It was really fun to see all of my family and the boys had a lot of fun. Dean wasn’t as fascinated with the wrapping paper as I thought he would be but he liked his presents and so did Brennen! We played games, read stories, ate good food, went sledding, and just enjoyed each other!

• We got back to Laramie just in time to celebrate Matt’s mom’s birthday. We went out to dinner with the whole family and had cake back at their house.

• Kyle and Kylee came to Laramie and spent a lot of time here so it was fun to see them and for all three cousins to “play.” We also got to spend some time with Matt’s grandma.

• Matt and I celebrated out 6th anniversary! It was on a Sunday so on Saturday we left the kids at Grandma’s for awhile and ate dinner and watched a movie. It has been an amazing six years and I love him so much!

I love the Christmas season and the opportunity we have to celebrate the birth of our Savior. It was really fun this year to tell Brennen about Santa but I enjoyed our talks about the birth of Jesus a lot more and he seems to be understanding all that the Savior means to us.

We’re looking forward to a new year here in the Clark family! 2012 was full of ups and downs and we can’t wait to see how 2013 turns out (hopefully we’ll get some more of those “ups!”) :)