Life is like a recipe. You've got the fun and yummy ingredients but you've also got the necessary gross ingredients that don't
become something great until all mixed in. Life is the same. You've got your good days and then you've got your trials. Taking
trials by themselves, they're terrible and bitter. But when all mixed into life, you see the blessings and wonderful joys they bring.
Like flour and baking powder, you have your necessary evils. Butter is like the grease of working. Sugar is like the good days,
they make everything sweet. But when all of these are mixed together, you come out with something wonderful... hopefully. When
you mix the elements of life, you also come out with something very... Extraordinary.
Welcome to the recipe of our lives.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

It Was a _____________ Holiday

It was a.....


Utah 
{We spent all of the Christmas holiday with our families in Utah and it was so wonderful}

Primary Children's Hospital
{ Right up until Christmas, my new nephew Trey was in Primary's so we spent a lot of time up there with him, but he luckily was able to come home in the nick of time!}

Tucker
{Since Trey was at Primary's, we spent a lot of time watching my older nephew Tucker, who has had my heart since day one. I love that boy!}

Getting Hair done
{I got my hair done twice due to the amount of regrowth I had. Turns out Cali isn't good for my hair, or maybe it's the prices.....}

Choir Concert
{Derek's dad sings in a big Choir in Salt Lake City. And so does the little girl I used to nanny. When we realized that they were singing in the EXACT SAME concert, we had to go. And it was wonderful. Best concert I have ever been to.}

Family
{We toggled between both families, which was fun, and also a tough thing to do. It's hard to keep things balanced with so much going on}

Skyping
{We skyped Derek's little brother Kendrick who is on his mission in Thailand! I finally got to meet him. Skype is a funny way to meet people and I did a lot of it last year;)}

Movies
{We watched tons of movies and we received tons of movies. Hands down, we are movie people}

Watch
{We both got each other watches this christmas, we both were in need of them}

Boogie Board
{D got me my very own boogie board! Now we don't have to share and good thing since I have my new wetsuit to use!}

Upgrade to Iphone 5
{we've been loving siri}

New Toms
{It was time. And they're gray with white polka dots. Perfect in every way}

New Converse
{When D got into town, we realized that he brought slippers, basketball shoes, and church shoes. He was convinced he could wear his slippers the whole week, until I reminded him that it snows in Utah. And boy did it snow. Good thing we went out and bought him new shoes!}

Cold
{We used two space heaters at D's parents house and had to buy our very own when we got home to Cali!}

Seeing a Good friend after his mission
{Welcome home Russ! It was good to see you!}

Les Mis and Zupas 
{Having only met them once, we went on a double with Kylee and Alijandro. And they are the cutest:) We will be friends with them for life and I just know it}

Wendy's and Zoolights and drawing on windows
{We went out with Chris and Kailey and we went to Wendy's and lucky we did because they had discounts to Zoolights and it was so much fun! I didn't expect Zoolights to be that great but it was! After, we sat in the car and chatted and began drawing pictures on the window! It was perfect because seconds after our pictures were drawn, the windows would fog back up and it was like a clean slate. An hour of picture drawing took place}

Skiing
{The McCaleb family is a skiing family and if you're going to be a part of it, you must ski! Therefore, it was time to teach the hubby. He did great and it was so fun to be back on the mountain!}

Ontario
{We drove back to Cali and not even 24 hours later, we were off to Ontario for our New Year's celebration and to meet Bryce's new fiance!}

Going to the Single's New Years Eve event
{After finding out we did this, my sister says "You do realize you are married right? You don't have to keep going to the singles activities anymore." Well said Bay, well said. But when everybody your age is headed there, that's where you go. And it was a blast. And we weren't the only married ones. We went to Dave and Busters and they have, by far, the coolest arcade games ever}

A dipped New Year's Eve Kiss
{My first New Year's Eve Kiss (at 21 and while married) needed to be a grand one and the hubby made sure it was! It was dipped and it was amazing. And it was in front of all the singles in Southern California. It was the best}

Big Yummy BBQ
{We ended this amazing holiday season with a big BBQ at the Miller's and the food was amazing. It was then back home and back to reality}


..... Holiday :)


And it was wonderful.


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