What a Merry, Merry Christmas!!

Well…it’s been far too long since I’ve posted on our Blog. Don’t worry, I’m ashamed and it will never happen again. A lot has happened in the last two months. I’ll try to give a thorough update:

To put ourselves in the holly jolly spirit, Toren and I made stockings for our first Christmas together. I know it's really hard to tell whose is better. What can I say, we’re a talented family!

We were able to spend two whole weeks between Washington and Oregon visiting both our families. It was amazing…and we cleaned up pretty well gift-wise. We were also honored to be Mary and Joseph in the traditional Spader Family (my mom’s side) Nativity. As you can imagine, Toren was absolutely thrilled.

While in Washington, we were able to do some scuba diving in the Puget Sound. It was freezing, but pretty incredible. Local divers sunk some interesting things (a boat frame, a VW beetle, an oven) in the area a few years ago, so there was tons of cool sea life growing there. We also saw a couple crabs, tons of sun stars and starfish, and some really ugly fish. The hardest part about the dive was getting into our flattering wetsuits.

We went with Toren’s family to a Cirque du Soleil type performance called Do Jump. It was pretty sweet and briefly inspired me to want to take up gymnastics. The only problem is that I can’t even successfully land a cartwheel, so I don’t think I’ll be able to go very far.

We rang in the New Year at the Cheesecake Factory with friends in Oregon and then again with a Silly String war in my parents' garage with my family.

All in all, it was a great holiday season for us. If only it came more than once a year!