LET IT SNOW!!!

This last weekend gave us over a foot of snow in the valley and much more in the mountains! Mike and his brother had a blast snowmobiling everywhere by the cabin.


It took us fifteen minutes just to clean off our cars!

They also got a lot of work done at the cabin. It's awesome that we can still go up there and work even though the mountains are covered in snow. We are finishing the ceiling on the main floor with boards from the old cabin. Mike and his brother Andy have planed all them all so they look like new. They also finished installing the main lights. It looks great!

Feliz Navidad!

Our nephew Joshua had his Spanish school program this past weekend. Josh was one of the loudest and best singers in the group. He did a great job!!

Christina's sister Sarah has run a Spanish Immersion school in her basement for two years now. All while raising a family of six. Crazy huh? The kids have really learned how to speak Spanish fluently, and they all did a great job at singing. They definitely didn't need any help with the volume.


After the concert we headed to good ol' McDonalds for the kids to enjoy the playland. While the older ones were climbing and jumping around, little Annamarie was just talking and laughing to us. So cute!

This past Sunday was a special day because Christina's niece, Annamarie Dee Hansen, was blessed. She was blessed by her father Jared, and Mike was able to be apart of the circle. The blessing was beautiful! Little Annamarie is such a doll! Her Grandma Hansen made her blessing dress. Annamarie absolutely LOVES to sleep! She loves sleep even more than food! She is so calm and quiet, which is a change from Sarah's other five kids.

Christina's sister Julie came down from Nevada with her three oldest kids, Dillon, Landen, and Brook. It was a short trip, but it was so good to see them. Her kids are growing up! Christina gave Brook a bunch of hand-me-down clothes that Brook looks great in. Julie said that Christina and Brook could be sisters. What do you think?

Julie and Mike are both naturals when it comes to kids, and Sarah's kids loved to be with them!

Wow! It's already December...where has the year gone? Like everyone else we are staying busy. Mike is powering through and preparing for finals. This semester has been pretty rough, and sadly it is the first of many to come, but Mike has done well we know that he'll do great things.
We also have an exciting Christmas week coming up with Mike's birthday on the 26th and our 1st anniversary on the 30th and then New Years! It's our official Party Week!

A few fun things that have happened this month so far is Christina's work Christmas party. As many of you know the owners of Lightstream Communications absolutely LOVE food. So for our party they took us out to one of the best restaurants - Ruth's Chris. There we enjoyed amazing steak and salmon as well as great appetizers and desserts. Then at the end of the night the company gave their employees a $500 bonus check as well as an XBox 360!! An XBox makes perfect sense since the other thing Lightstream loves besides food is Halo, so this is just the next best thing. Lightstream is really generous and nice. Christina couldn't ask to work for a better company.

As for the Xbox...we wanted to keep it, but we decided that we could get a lot more things that we want/need in exchange for the cash. Mike did get to enjoy trying it for a couple of days though.