Thursday, January 14, 2010

2009 Holiday Review

Ready for the longest blog post ever? We had wonderful holidays with lots of family around. Here's a very condensed review:
- It was our first year back to two Thanksgivings, which I had forgotten is not that bad a racket!
- I celebrated my 31st birthday in early December with a very fun, relaxing, selfish day.
- I got called into the Relief Society presidency and was initiated by hosting the Christmas party.
- My parents got the cutest golden retriever puppy, Nani Wahini Nui (Beautiful Big Girl) to give my dad lots to do.
- Our first Christmas in our own house was terrific. It was one of those rare, pretty nearly perfect days.
- The day after Christmas, Bud and I had the funnest spur-of-the-moment anniversary night out.
- For New Years, after a "Nertz" tournament and partying with the cousins, the boys actually stayed awake until midnight and we had fun playing games and yelling "Happy New Year" off our balcony.
- The family left, school started back up and we got back to real life, which for some reason was a little bit welcome. But it really was a terrific holiday season!

Below are tons of pictures of the past month or so:

Practicing with my new camera:









Relief Society Christmas party which helped get my house in check:









Cousins, Cousins, Cousins (and Nani)!:










Christmas morning:









Anniversary:









New Years (check out our antique TV stand that I re-tiled):

6 comments:

Erin Camp said...

I love it. We sure so miss you guys. It's amazing that it is still so hard to get together even though we live in the same city!

The Rennakers: said...

So excited to see you Lindsay! Love the tv stand.

Lana said...

Hey! Saw your blog on Leslie's. How fun!

I love that the boys stayed up till midnight...Aubree did too. What a fun pic of them in front of the fireworks

Erica said...

Way to go Lindsay! Sounds like you have been busy! Cute pictures of the kids!

Natalie said...

Fun Holiday post! The picture of you and Bud it great, your a HOT mama Linds!! Hope to see you guys soon!

Holly Park said...

Yay! Missing you! And so proud of your tv stand! Wishing I were headed on a plane this weekend...let's start planning another girls trip!