Whadya mean Christmas is over?

Merry Christmas to all! Yeah ok, Christmas was over a month ago...and I'm just getting around to putting up pictures. Well, better late than never! Enjoy.


Our Christmas tree and stockings

Christmas breakfast! Egg/ham/cheese sandwich on toast! Yum

Opening stockings! I got lots of goodies, nail polish, and gloves (I've already lost one hand of those gloves...I go through gloves like no body's business. I apparently need to pin them to my shirt or something...)

Josh's stocking. He got lots of candy, a pocket knife, and wooden spoons haha

My gorgeous new necklace!!

Josh's present didn't get here in the mail in time, but he got a Nintendo 64. And his favorite game, Zelda (pictured above)

Our Christmas morning picture

So after presents and breakfast, we headed to Panaca for more food, family, and fun! I spent the whole break in my Rudolph slippers...

The trip to Panaca was uneventful...but the way home was a little more exciting :) Besides driving 45 mph the whole way through an awesome storm, Josh got a bloody nose. In the middle of nowhere, with no tissues in sight. :)

Overall, we had an awesome Christmas. We spent time with my crazy family in a house entirely too small for the amount of people we had sleeping there (25!!) but we're grateful for them and for the Christmas season!

We must be livin' right

So I've gotten into the habit of religiously checking craigslist and ksl at least 2 or 3 times a day for free stuff. Usually I come up with free dirt, or free rocks, or even less appealing, free kittens/cats. But this weekend, my luck changed. I logged on to good ol' craigslist and saw FREE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER. It had only been on for 9 mintues. I thought for sure it was mine. Joshua called and...someone beat us to it. Blast. So we go about our lives and I continue searching ads for treasures. The next day, as we were out and about, we get a call telling us that the FREE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER was never picked up and was ours for the taking if we still wanted it. Joshua consulted me and I said YES!!!! We then proceeded to frantically search for a truck to borrow to be able to pick it up and haul it home, which eventually we did, and then we set off on our quest to find the good man's house, which was an adventure in its own. The whole process took about 3 hours of driving and hauling, BUT IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! Check out our brand new (well new to us) FREE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER! Don't be jealous.

If you couldn't tell, I'm a little excited about the whole thing. Can you blame me? Anywho, the free things have continued and we spent this evening picking free apricots that I found on ksl classifieds. Let's just say that we picked puh-lenty.

And this is after the 20 minute drive home, in which we consumed entirely too many apriocots. But they were sooo delicious and I'll probably have a continuous bellyache for the next week or two (if they last that long). MMM MMM. Anyone have any apriocot recipes?