Well, I haven't been having much time at home to update the blog lately... We have been pretty busy trying to get everything together for our trip to Brasil! But, for Christmas, which was several weeks ago now, my parents and Grammy and Papa came up the weekend before Christmas to celebrate a little early! They came in on Thursday night and then we just relaxed and chatted on Friday. Saturday we did "Christmas" and had Christmas dinner! (Yum!) Then Sunday we went to church and came back and played games and chatted. Seems like we didn't do much, but it was WAY too cold to do much of anything outside! It was fun to just get to sit in front of the fire and enjoy each other's company though! I am happy to say that I was successful at my first attempt to make my own Christmas dinner, including Turkey (which turned out wonderfully! Thank you Danielle for your wonderful recipe!), dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, rolls, pumpkin and pecan pie! We kept it pretty simple this year. I just asked everyone what one thing that they wanted for the dinner was! But I have to say that it turned out pretty good! Yay! I was sad to see them leave on Monday, but they had to get back for my cousin Kristin's wedding, which unfortunately Lucas and I didn't get to make it to! We were so hoping that we could go, but with Lucas' limited vacation and our scheduled trip to Brasil for two weeks, it just wasn't going to happen... Kristin and Aaron, know that we were thinking of you and we both wish you all the happiness in the world! Being married is a wonderful blessing! Enjoy it! Congratulations! :-) Well, I'll post some pictures from their visit and our Christmas scavenger hunt in the next post... It might not be until we get back though... But, hopefully I'll have time to get caught up some day!