Christmas Craziness

My friend Denise pointed out that I hadn't written a blog in ten days. I can't believe how time flies! I was trying to figure out how to concisely explain all I've been up to (as you can all imagine how busy the holidays get). I stole the following number list idea from my sister-in-law Michelle's blog (http://www.mbzross.blogspot.com/). I must say her Christmas was much more crazy than mine, but here it goes:

Number of times attending the "Nutcracker": 1

Number of weddings attended: 1 (Cousin Dane in Manti temple)

Number of baby blessings: 2 (Annie & Marshall)

Number of my immediate family members seen: 20 (That's all of them! In one house!)

Number of extended family members seen: 12 (Six that I hadn't seen in almost five years!)

Number of friends seen: 8 (The Cockrell family)

Number of former roommates seen: 1 (Naoko, from Japan -- hadn't seen her in 81/2 years)

Number of trips up and down the SLC Valley: 5

Number of games played: At least 23

Number of haircuts received: 1

Number of new jobs looked for: 1 (We have a promising option.)

Number of us who came home with sore throats and colds: 3 (Brynne still might join us in this one.)

Number of minutes it took me to shovel the driveway when I got home: 50

And last, but not least...

Number of days we got to see Lee: 3 (Although none of those days was Christmas.)

Lee didn't get home until Dec. 28. We were at Alyson's for the first few days, and then we came home. We had a "second Christmas" with presents for Lee and one for each of us from him. Later that day Morgan asked Lee, "How many days of Christmas are there?" Lee had to explain that usually there's just one, but we got two since Lee had been gone.

I have so many fun pictures, so I'm just going to stick them all on here.