*Christmas Night out at the LIGHTS*

To top off Christmas day, as a family, we went out for hot chocolate and went to Temple Square to walk around and "oooooo, awwwwwe" at the lights! Luckily, it wasn't near as cold as last Christmas when we went. It was so cold we ran around and raced back to the car. It was a record time of about 20 minutes to look at all the lights!

*CHRISTMAS*

For Christmas this year, we had it again at Shawn and Melinda's home in Taylorsville, Utah! Though, Scott and Megan were in Oregon (F.Y.I. They just got engaged!) and Craig with Becca's family in Rexburg....but, we still had a house full with my parents and me, Jenna and Mark's family, Shawn and Melinda's family, FOUR dogs (my dad brought Hershey and Jake along for the fun), and two cats! Talk about a rowdy, fun Christmas!

Oh Christmas Tree

It's Christmas morning!

My brother, Scott, attends school at the University of Oregon....hence the U of O gear he sends every year! They love their DUCKS!

My brother, Shawn, got my dad an authentic Willie Mays Giants jersey........LUCKY. Before he opened it, Shawn was so proud that he told my dad he was going to cry like a little boy.......and he almost did! Go GIANTS!

Shawn and Craig made the cover of the Times New (Twin Falls, Id newspaper)......and they thank Mark for that (inside joke) but they were kind enough to autograph it and give it to Mark for Christmas!

I LOVE Ugly Sweaters

Like I have mentioned, I love all my classmates! We had quite the Christmas fun together. To start it off, we had a Sweater Soup Party at school. We had tons of yummy soup (obviously), a snowflake competition, and an ugly sweater contest......which I almost won!!!

Yes, I know......my sweater is not a Christmas one.....but hey, you have to admit that it is pretty ugly!!!

Randy, in our class, and his wife were so gracious and wonderful for hosting our OT Class Christmas Party at their house. We all were impressed with their hosting skills and abilities! The food display was beautiful and absolutely delicious! To top off the night, we rocked out with some karaoke performances! SO HILARIOUS! I give ThuVan the Grammy award of the night! I think the highlight for me, though, was giving my ugly sweater away as a white elephant gift and Michelle was the LUCKY one! HAHA! She later told me that her husband wore it to another ugly sweater party and won the ugly sweater award!!!! I'm SO proud!