So Gaven and I have had our own little Christmas break time despite the fact that we are not in school. Both of us have no work/school until Jan. 5th. It's been nice to just hang out and relax. It seems like it's been a long time sense we've had a break like this... Yay! Lots of fun, sleep, movies, and food!

Last Wednesday we decided to venture over to the local snowboard/ski shop and rent some cross country skis and go give it a try. Turns out one of Gaven's old mission buddies works at this place so I got to meet him and we all talked for awhile... He hooked us up with the only pair of cross country skis there and we were off. We decided to go up Parley's Canyon a ways to Mountain Del golf coarse (a popular place to go cross country skiing). It was so beautiful!!! There was already a track around the golf coarse but after seeing the pro's skiing along we thought we might try skiing in the new powder off the beaten path to try and get use to the skis. We watched a bunch of people trying to pick up how they were doing it. We fell a lot and laughed alot so it was good. Don't know if we were even doing it right but we both enjoyed trying something new.

Making our way up Parley's Canyon







We've enjoyed the buckets and buckets of snow. We went out late one night after it had just dumped on us and shoveled the walks and Gaven jumped in the snow! I got to cover him and take a picture.





Last Friday Sister Mary Grow got home from her mission. This past year and a half has flown by... I've missed her so much. She was one of my best friends and roommates during college. After I found out she was coming home on the 19th I tried to find out when her actual flight was scheduled to land so we could go see her. I finally ended up calling her mom and asking... It was so nice to see all the Grow's at the airport and so fun to see Mary again. She is an amazing person and I look up to her in many different ways.





Today Gaven was nice to take me all over downtown to drop off some fliers for the yoga studio. It took us pretty much all morning and into the afternoon. We were both beat. Thanks so much Gaven. I appreciate all you do for me!

We appreciate the notes and Christmas cards from many of you and hope that you all have a Merry Christmas.

This was an AWSOME week(end)!

It started with the Judd's inviting us and a couple other peoples up to a condo in Park City on Thursday! Gaven and I both love going over there. It's nice because its only 20 min. away, it's beautiful and fun! So after work we packed up and headed over. It was nice seeing Brad and Alicia (I didn't get to see the baby because she was sleeping), Carter and Amanda, and Bryson and Brittany! We munched down on some yummy food and hung out with some awsome people! I left Friday morning for work but Gaven got to stay up there and enjoy the day snowboarding and shopping! We both had lots of fun!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday I got to participate in one of the best yoga practices i've had yet. The yoga studio I practice at had the creator of Vinyasa Flow (the style of yoga I practice), Shiva Rea, come to the studio and take the weekend to dive into some serious yoga! It was fun to be a part of that... It was fun to see someone teach with such creativity and passion. I don't have any pictures so here are a few examples of the new poses we learned...



We did some fun arm poses... This one was the hardest for me.


This was fun


Backbends have been a bit of a challenge but I think I'm really starting to like them!



I also got to spend some time with Gaven... That is always nice. We relaxed around the house most of Saturday and then ended up going to Eagle Eye. That was a cool movie. Afterwords we made our way to Barnes and Noble to get some hot chocolate and a cookie. Mmmmm... so good.