To start off our break, Garrett and I celebrated the end of our finals by going down to play in St. George. We hot tubbed, played games, jumped on cushions in the movie room, had a dessert contest, went to the pet store, ate delicious carne asada, looked at Christmas lights, and went to In'n'out.
Then we had Christmas at Garrett's parents' house. Even though the economy is a little slow, I think I had a pretty prosperous Christmas (as far as presents go). One of my favorite gifts was made by Garrett's own hardworking hands. We decided each year, along with store bought gifts, we have to make at least one gift for each other. He made me a bookshelf and it was awesome. It totally looks professional and now it's sitting in our family room with lots of books and decorations on it, I love it. And I made him something for Christmas too, but it's more of a decoration than actually something to use, like his was. I just painted a little thing to hang on our wall, it's currently in the bathroom. It's awesome.
For New Year's Eve, we volunteered at Provo's event, "First Night." And we met up with a couple friends and played games and had Martinelli's to ring in the new year. New Year's day we played with most of Garrett's family (one of his sisters and family didn't come, and of course neither did his brother who's still on a mission in England). Everyone plays all the games and we get ranked at the end. Based on our ranking, we get first or second or third (and so on) pick of prizes. I got 5th out of 6 and I chose a flat frying pan and a flipper. Garrett got 2nd and originally chose the gift he thought I wanted ("The Devil wears Prada" and caramel corn) but then switched it for a remote control car.
Anyway, we got to spend a lot of time with his family and it was pretty fun. It was the first time I had been away from my family for Christmas, but surprisingly it went better than I thought it would. I did still miss my family extremely, but I wasn't painfully homesick to the point where I had a rotten Christmas experience, so that was really nice.
One of our Christmas family pictures
A sideways version of the bookshelves Garrett built for me
The little wall hangy thing I painted for Garrett
It says, "Together is a wonderful place to be"
Garrett, Chad, Elizabeth and me (Kasey) before hot tubbing
The dessert that won first place- created by Elizabeth
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Garrett did a great job on your shelves. I didn't really think it post-worthy, but Normand built me shelves too. They are nice also, and I love them. I may post a picture so i can brag too.
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