Christmas

This is one of my favorite times of the year. The other is when we are at the lake in the summer and we gorge ourselves on italian sodas and cookies and sail. We did a fun thing last year and did a geocache IN the lake. Sarah and Travis set it up and two teams each took a boat around the lake and raced to find the caches. My favorite was one where we had to snorkel and find something that ended up being a toy dino tied to a rock and Trav had written "grr" with a Sharpie and the next cordinates on it's belly. So random, sorry... I know this post is about Christmas but I just starting laughing about that dinosour when I though about the lake :) Anywho ... so I started a new job! (still not about Christmas, I know) ... but I am really liking it so far. I work for Nexant. They're engineers that work on energy effeciency and some other things that are WAY above my head. Then there's a team that does the incentives and rebates for the customers on behalf of companies like Questar, Rocky Mountain Poser (I'm going to leave it spelled like that), Jaco, Salt River Project and Pacific Power. That's where I come in. I work with great people and definately have a challenge ahead of me. It's a great, worldwide, company and I feel very "secure" :) Definately a good feeling! Nexant treats their employees very well and even for being engineers everybody is VERY friendly! It just feels right ... if you know what I mean. I knew why there was a reason that I was turning down jobs and now I know. The timing was great leaving the mortgage company, helping with the Chocolot order explosion and transitioning into this.

Ok, now Christmas, really. I LOVE this time of year! I love the snow and I wish that Christmas were still weeks away because I love every second of this season. I'm excited to go to Spokane where they have 23'' of snow right now and counting. It's suppose to snow heavily for the next few days. I wanted to share a fun tradition that Ryan and I started the first year we were married. I got him a starter train set just like the one he had when he was little. Each year we buy one more car and write that year on the bottom of it. It's pretty cute and fun but we have more cars than years of marriage because the set came with 5 cars. So that trainset is in the picture below and then there's a picture of the tree. We also got this tree the first year of marriage when we were living in our apartment/bombshelter in Lindon and the tree is huge! Even in our living room now it is big. It's about 5 feet in diameter and in Lindon we had to bend the top of it down for it to fit vertically. It's our big, happy tree with 1300 or 1400 lights. It's a bright one :)