Christmas this year was incredibly busy. We spent the first few hours of Christmas Eve with Josh's extended family. We played games and exchanged gifts. Josh and I ended up with candy, a water bottle, and an electric toothbrush (which I was especially excited about!). After the party, we headed over to Warren and Taisley's for the Weston family pajama party.
We did our traditional white elephant exchange and Josh and I got the size 68 jeans. We fit the two of us, Bentley, and Everett inside of them and still had room to spare. They're
outrageous!!! I have to say, though, that my mom got the best gift. I custom made a calendar featuring refridgerators in scandalous poses, and we rigged the exchange so my mom could end up with it. My favorite month is Miss February. Oh baby! After the white elephant exchange, and a boys vs. girls round of Twilight Scene-It, everyone pooped out and wanted to go to bed. Warren, Taisley, Josh and myself were troopers though and played a round of Settlers.Christmas morning was really fun, we loved watching the boys with their toys! We couldn't stay long, though, because we then spent the rest of Christmas morning with Josh's family. We mostly just relaxed until evening, then the Jarman friends and family came over for dinner. It was an exhausting day!
We've had some pretty exciting changes in our lives over the past month. First, I lost my job at the piano studio and then it was offered back to me. Roger felt that he wasn't making enough money from lessons alone, so he wanted to put more effort into the publishing side of the business. Because of that, he needed a teacher who could put in extra hours to help with those projects. Of course I didn't have an extra minute to give so he needed to replace me. After a week, however, Roger realized that he didn't have enough space or computers for all the teachers to be working at once and he told me I didn't need to go if I didn't want to. Buuuut I'm exhausted, so I told him thanks but I need a break from working so much. I don't know what to do with myself now that I have an extra 12 hours/week! So far I've rediscovered quilting, cleaning, studying, and The Bachelor (ick!).
School has started again, and with that comes grant money (yay!!!). We were able to pay off all of our debt, so we are now working to save as much money as possible so we can go to Taiwan next summer. Josh is incredibly busy with his 18 credit hours. I'm happy to report, however, that he will be graduating with three bachelors degrees next May! I'm only taking three classes again, but this semester is turning out to be much more philosophical than I expected. I have to read all the time, and my classes only consist of group discussion on what we thought about the reading and how it made us feel. Pretty weird for business classes...
I know this post wasn't very exciting, but that's just how we roll! We're a boring old couple who sits at home, complains about the government, watches movies, and eats hamburger helper. Maybe my next post will be about quilting...
I love the calendar idea and wish you had included more pictures on your post. :D