Nuttall Family: A December to Remember......

Monday, December 26, 2011

A December to Remember......

..... I wish!!!

This December was crazy!! With finals the 12th and 13th of the month (Monday, Tuesday) and being busy with school stuff up until Finals were over, it left us (me) with just under 2 weeks to get Christmas ready! Luckily we were able to get our tree, house lights and other decorations up the weekend of Thanksgiving so that was one thing we didn't have to worry about the few weeks leading up to Christmas! We are so lucky that Braxton is still to young to understand or to know what to "expect" during the Christmas season! I had great intentions of doing all the fun holiday traditional stuff - making sugar cookies, going to temple square to see lights, sitting on Santa's lap, going to Festival of trees, going on a family drive to look at lights on houses, movie night with pop corn and hot chocolate, etc. I'm very sad to say that we didn't get to any of those things. We really need to be better next year about making sure we do some of those fun family things. Brax will finally be to an age where he will start to remember and hopefully appreciate the fun times!

I did get our 2 Christmas movies out which Brax just LOVED!! We watched them both at least once a day - "Ginch" aka How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carry and "Train" aka The Polar express. It was fun to watch him learn fun Christmas words while watching the movies and seeing the excitement in his eyes when we would turn them on.

My Grandpa gave us his train last year for around our tree and Braxton thought that was the coolest thing. He would giggle so hard when we would turn it on and it would peek around the tree!

The Lamberts gave Braxton a Little Peoples nativity set in October while he was in Disneyland. We set it up for him on our end table so he could reach it. He loved playing with it and carrying the people and animals around.

Nate and I went to see the Forgotten Carols with my family the beginning of December. While growing up my family went to see the Forgotten Carols for quite a few years in a row. My Junior and Senior year of High School my Choir group was able to be the choir in the program for a couple of the shows each year. I have only been once since I graduated so it was fun to go back and see it again. I brought back many fun memories and he has made some changes in his show from when my family went last making it a little more exciting - not knowing exactly what was going to happen.

Despite our crazy December we have a couple of fun memories and were able to get a few family holiday traditions in - Christmas movies, nativities, Forgotten Carols, Christmas trains and family and ward Christmas parties.

1 comment:

Meghann said...: You didn't even mention the fever of 103 during finals! Seriously, you do so much and so much so well! P.s. I forgot to deliver your Christmas card. I have one for you if you want it late. :); December 27, 2011 at 1:23 PM

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Our Love Story....

Nate and I met back in 2004 when I asked him to my shcool's Halloween Dance and I guess I impressed him a little more than I thought I would. We went through a lot during our dating years but we were somehow always able to get through everything and knew we always would. Nate Proposed to me on November 17, 2007 at the Roof Restraunt and I was shocked. Definately not expecting it that night. We were sealed for time and all eternity almost 4 months later on March 13, 2008. We couldn't have picked a better day. We were one of only 8 other couples there that day so we had a lot of time and I got treated like a princess! Everone was so nice! It rained quite a bit during our pictures and reception and it was pretty cold outside but I was told that rain on your wedding day is good luck! That was the best day of our lives up to this point!

I realized just after our first anniversary that people weren't kidding when they said the first year is the hardest! It definitley wasn't easy but we learned so much about each other and ourselves that it was also a great year! We got our first house in October 2008 and Nate surprised me with our first little one, Chloee a golden lab, on Christmas Day 2008. We had a lot happen our first year of marriage and knew that the years to come would bring more happenings.

We just celebrated our second anniversary. Who would have thought that our second year of marriage would have brought what it did! We were blessed with our first child, a healthy beautiful baby boy, on February 26, 2010. The day he was born was the second best day of our lives! He has already brought so much joy to our lives in the little time that we have had him.