Merry Christmas and Meet Chavez!

Me and Gracie at Thanksgiving


Taresa and Bryce

Baby Chavez taking my spot in the bed

Nick and Chavez

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope that everyone had a great day. Ours was pretty busy, as usual, trying to fit time in the day for three family visits. We started out with my dad for brunch and games, then my mom's for an early dinner, and lastly to Nick's mom's for his family visit. It was a crazy day, but a good one! My family decided to do a Sub-4-Santa this year, so we had no holiday shopping stress, and it was awesome, I recommend it to anyone who wants to give back and do something different for Christmas. It was a little weird though to not open presents on Christmas Day! I don't have pictures from yesterday yet, hopefully soon. I do have pictures of Chavez finally, and a few from Thanksgiving(I know, but it is hard when I don't have my own camera...) So enjoy our new family member, and check back for new better pictures!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd give a quick update. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! As dumb as it sounds, this year was my first year not having Thanksgiving with my mom, and it was a little weird! Nick and I spent last Thanksgiving with my family on a houseboat trip to Lake Powell, so this year was his family's turn. The food was great and we had a good time eating and watching a movie. We did miss the Winquists, it was sad not to have my girls there! I also had hours worth of homework that I was supposed to get done, but with all of the family activities and Christmas preparation I did none of it! I am already regretting it, but I got a lot done at home so oh well.

In other news, Nick and I decided to get our Christmas present a little early this year. We were going to wait a few weeks, but we were too excited. So on Friday night we drove to the Humane Society and adopted the newest member of our family, Chavez. He is a Chihuahua mix, but looks mostly chihuhua. I will have pictures up soon, but my camera has disappeared and Nick's is full of Iraqi sand. Chavez is an angel, and we love him already! It didn't take him long to warm up, he already has claimed our bed. Good thing he only weighs 13 pounds:) He is a sad puppy today, he got really sick this weekend and when I took him to the doctor today he had a temperature of 105! He has medicine now and seems to be doing better already. I know posts are boring without pictures, so I'll stop here and hopefully have Chavez up soon!