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So, we had to sign new papers for the bank, because they said that they didn't want to pay for some of the things that we had originally asked them to pay for.  Now by doing this, it is suppose to expedite our process.  Our realtor doesn't know if that means two weeks from now, or two months?  We are probably moving out next weekend to our friend Christie's house.  Now the bank has until February 1, to give us an answer.  The joy of trying to buy a house.

Happy New Year!

I hope that every one had a safe and fun New Years!!  We went to Matt and Katie's house for the night, and it was a blast.  We were able to hang out with them, Andy and the DaPenas.  We are so excited that Jeremy and Rachel are here now, and that we are going to start a young adult bible study!  It is exactly what Tyler and I have been looking for, so it's going to be a lot of fun.

Christmas was a very exciting time for us this year too.  We started Christmas in the beginning of December when Megan and Dan came to visit.  We had a lot of fun while they were here.  We went out to dinner with Christie one night, and went bowling.  We did Christmas on Saturday since dad was in town, and he made our traditional strip and go nakeds.  Don't worry, it's just a drink.  :D

With the money that Tyler's parents gave us for Christmas I was able to buy plane tickets to come home in February to go see Wicked with my mom, sister and aunt.  I bought some other things too, like new boots, Nicole's bridesmaid dress, and a plane ticket to Orange County to see Nicole graduate!!  Tyler bought his new computer!!  :D  It finally got here when we got back from Northern California, so he has had fun playing with that!

We both had really good Christmases at school.  My school gives each teacher a gift card to a local shopping center, so I am looking forward to going and buying some new clothes, books, maybe a jacket, shoes, and whatever else I can find in the mall!  Tyler got tickets to a Suns game on Jan 31, that are 13 rows from the floor!!  He is going to take Daniel with him since they will have way more fun at the game then I would going with him.  Tyler got a lot of other really cool stuff from his kids too, and a lot of gifts that show how much the kids enjoy having him as a teacher and that they listen to the crazy stuff he tells them.

We left for my parents house the Saturday before Christmas, December 20.  We left bright and early that morning, and when my parents picked us up from the airport, we went over to Aunt Michelle's house.  I tried to get out of dishes this year, and it just didn't work out.  We were so close, but no one else was helping, so of course I stepped in.  My aunt cooks all day, and the few days before Christmas dinner, you think other people would step up and help, but that's okay.  We will probably only have a few more years of those family Christmases so I need to enjoy them while we have them.

Sunday was Corey's birthday, so we all went to dinner at Claim Jumper.  It was a lot of fun to spend some extra time with them, and see Brooke again.  She is getting so big!  My friend Susan, who I graduated from Concordia with, came down to spend the day with us too.  She lives up in Santa Rosa now, and we haven't hung out since Tyler and I got married, so it was awesome to see her again.  We reconnected at teacher's conference in November so I'm super glad we were able to meet up with her.

Monday we drove down to Fresno to see Nicole and Jon!  We had a blast with them.  They took us to their two favorite places to eat.  Amazing places!!  If I knew what they were called I would tell you all to go!!  One was this tri tip sandwhich place, almost as good as Kinders, and the other is the little Mexican place, that was amazing!!  It was so nice to see them, and just hang out.  We went to Christmas Tree Lane too, which was a lot of fun!!  There were so many pretty lights, and the houses were beautiful.  One day we too will have a front yard all decorated for Christmas.

We spent the night in Fresno, and woke up the next morning to see Chris and Ashley for breakfast.  We haven't seen them since our wedding so it was nice to be able to see them for a little bit before we headed back to mom and dads.

At my parent's house we didn't do much of any thing.  My mom got really sick from all the babies at my aunt's house, so we had a very low key week.  Christmas morning I was up at six of course, I couldn't sleep in for yet another year.  Maybe one day I'll finally be able to sleep in on Christmas.  Santa brought us some really cool things, and then we opened presents.  My mom and I go shopping together the day after Thanksgiving, so most of the time I know what my presents are.  My parents totally surprised me this year though, and bought me my new computer!!  It's super nice, and I love it.  Tyler and I were saving money so I could buy it because my lap top just doesn't seem to like to work some days.  Now we are going to be able to use that money to buy furniture whenever we finally get a house!

Saturday night before we came home, we finally were able to see Breeann and Kevin.  It is so nice to have friends at home still, and to know that we are going to keep being awesome friends even though now we live in different states, and time zones.  We were admiring their Christmas tree and decorations, because there tree was all red.  Tyler had talked about wanting to do a themed tree, and I told him it wasn't possible with all of our other decorations we have.  Then we came home and looked at what we had bought last year after Christmas, and we had all red ornaments for our tree that we didn't have this year!! haha  Great minds think alike!

Now we are just enjoying the last couple days of our break, and getting ready to go back to school.  This month is going to be an exciting one, getting back into the swing of teaching, and being with the kids all day.  It's a good think we have a day off in two weeks!  :D

For those of you who have made it this far, and are still waiting to find out, no news about the house.  We are still waiting to hear.  We gave the bank an extension to January 21, due to the holidays, so we are hoping to know by then. My principal Andy had put an offer in on the house two doors down from us, and he just found out that they did not select him.  That's a huge bummer, because we were really hoping to all live next to each other.  We're hoping the house works, but if it doesn't, then we know that there is something better out there!

So from us here in sunny Arizona, to you out there in Cyberland, we love you guys and we miss you!