Holidays

For the holidays we visited my family and welcomed my sister Allison home from her mission to Indonesia. It was so fun to have her home! We went caroling, had a Christmas eve party at Mauri's new house and went to the beach. We also went to see the lights at Brookgreen Gardens, an old rice plantation that has been converted into gardens, sculpture gardens and a little zoo with local animals. I took pictures, but it's been really time-consuming to download pictures, so they will come soon (hopefully).

The Sunday that Allison was supposed to give her homecoming talk in church there was a little flurry of snowflakes, so church was canceled. We were all ready to leave for church, so we took some family pictures and Allison shared her talk with us. It was a really nice Sunday morning. It was funny to hear how everyone was nervous about driving in the snow. :)


(Allison, Ashley, me, Mauri)

Savannah has been smiling and cooing at us, which has been so delightful! I never expected to receive so much joy from my sweet girls. It feels like they've been in our family forever.


Now we're back to the snow, and Jason is back at school. This semester he'll be studying for the first part of his boards, which will require lots of studying. So, hopefully we make it through unscathed. :) We're happy to be home!