It's the most wonderful time of the year!

I apologize for taking so long between postings, but Jay and I were getting fat on yummy food and catching up on a semester's worth of sleep over Christmas break! We spent Christmas with Jay's family in Seattle, and the rest of the break with my family in Utah, and it was great. It rained lightly on Christmas Eve Day and Christmas Day, but it was green and sunny the rest of the time. It has been sunny for a good deal of the time on each of our trips to Seattle, so I'm beginning to think that western Washingtonians tell everyone how much it rains just to keep people from moving there.

Some highlights of our break were: going to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert (we sat 4th row center thanks to my mom and I waiting in line for tickets at 3 am), delivering sub-for-Santa presents to a Sudanese family (with six cute little boys) with the Pettys and the Smiths (family friends), watching Poirot murder mystery movies with Jay's family, being entertained by our niece Emma and nephew Ethan (seen in Christmas morning picture below--they're cute, huh?!), reading books other than textbooks (I read a Grisham novel, but it stressed me out because it was about law stuff), doing nothing and not feeling guilty about it, and realizing how blessed we are to have such loving and wonderful family and friends!