Feliz Navidad, todos!

This year, we spent most of our Christmas with the Anderson family. All of Travis's siblings came home for the holidays; it was a lot of fun to catch up with them and see how they're doing, and especially see all our adorable nieces and nephews again.

We spent a couple of days at a cabin where we were able to go sledding. It was so much fun, especially to see those nieces and nephews who have never sledded before! Some of them are from Texas or Arizona, so it was fun to see them playing in the snow, and try to catch snowflakes on their tongue.

I'm afraid the picture above is the only one we currently have from the week. We temporarily lost our camera, and still have to download pictures that other people took of us. Though our faces show thrill and excitement, it wasn't long before they turned to terror as Travis steered us into a pole. CRASH! The good news is that we found our camera a couple days later!  :)

We spent the rest of our time relaxing in the Anderson's home. We had a talent show, in which Travis and I performed a rendition of "Silent Night" that we played in Sacrament Meeting a couple weeks ago. Travis wrote the piano part a few years ago, and I wrote the flute part to go along with it. Later that day, the kids and I formed a "pack" where we planned to capture Santa Clause when he came down the chimney that night. Unfortunately, it didn't work out because everyone was sound asleep when he came! Maybe next time, Santa won't be so lucky...

Christmas morning, we woke up bright and early at 6:00 to eat a yummy breakfast and open our presents. I have to admit, growing up, my siblings and I never opened presents earlier than 9:00. Last year, when Travis and I had our first Christmas together (married), he still insisted that we get up early, even though we don't have any kids! So we did. I guess I better get used to it!

This week, we're just enjoying our time out of school. Travis will be starting winter semester soon, and then register for one more class after that. He'll be graduating with his Bachelors in August- we're so excited! He's applying for grad school in the next couple of weeks here, so wish him luck! I'm also excited for this second semester of school. We're going to be learning about conjugating verbs! Yay! This is one of my favorite units. It should be so much fun- I'm really excited! :)

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and have a Happy New Year!

Tetris

For my C++ programming class this semester (Me En 570), I made a Tetris game. It has both a one-player and a two-player mode, music, sounds effects, and even a Google-O-Meter that indicates who's winning! After about level 17, though, it starts to get really, really fast...

Click here to download and start playing the game. It's been a lot of fun to create. I've really enjoyed it, even if Lacee doesn't like playing it with me...

Happy Thanksgiving!

One holiday down, one more to go for 2009! We had a great Thanksgiving break this past week, and are sad that it's already over and we have to go back to work! :( Here's a look back at how we spent our Thanksgiving Day.

We're so blessed to live close to both sets of in-laws. Thanksgiving morning we had a really nice visit with Travis's parents. It was fun to talk with them and wish them a Happy Thanksgiving. That afternoon, we went over to have the Thanksgiving feast with the Talbot family.

Nearly everyone was there (we missed those who weren't!), and we had a great time talking, laughing, and of course, eating! While waiting for the turkey to cook, Travis and I played with my sibling's Nintendo Wii. As you can see, it was tons of fun!

After the feast, we decided to take a family stroll. We waddled with our very full bellies around the block before returning home to put on even MORE pounds with the 8 different pies just waiting to be eaten! We played games and then everybody shared a scripture about something we are grateful for.

We'd like to express our love and gratitude to all our family and friends this holiday season. We love you, and thank you for your Christ-like examples!