Our Year

This year has been very exciting. We have grown so much as a married couple, and we are enjoying every minute of it. In September Chris and I went to Australia to go see my sister Jenny and her family. Who knows if we will ever make it there again. It was beatiful and very fun. We got to try some fun food. Kangaroo was one of them (we didn't catch our own). It was kind of like a really tender beef jerky. We got to see Kaola bears, dolphins, and lots of birds. Its weird the seagulls over there have different colors around their eyes, some have orange, some yellow, and others black. It was fun to see the other side of the world. When we got back from that trip Chris and I were both so busy trying to catch up on work we barely were h0me. I worked a lot of weekends because we had trial. I am very glad that trial ended before the holidays.

We spent Thanksgiving with my family this year, we even went to a park and had our own bowl game. Dinner was delicous. I love getting the family together and just spending time.
We decided to go shopping for black friday. So my sisters and I all went to Toys R Us at 11. Then at 2 Cynthia and I went to Walmart. It was the longest night ever. I did end up getting the things I needed to get. We were also able to go to TSO this year. So Amazing. I am looking forward to their first tour in the Spring for their Night Castle Album.

We have been to a few Christmas Parties this year. My cousin had a mexican themed party. We had fajitas and we learned about the Culture and had a cookie exchange. Then the cook Christmas party we went and saw the lights at Temple Square, went to Adam and Heathers, and had Pizza, and opened gifts. We gave my mom a American Girl doll. She loved it so much. She has always wanted one. Guess we got one right. We gave my dad an ipod car adapter with a gift card for Itunes. My parents gave us a starter kit for food storage. We were so glad because we have wanted to start one for so long. The big Cook family get together was at Aunt Nans house this year. Chris and I invaded their house so that we could get our appetizers out. We kind of toasted the bread a little too much. Thanks for all your help everyone that helped us.

We are heading down to Ferron for Christmas. We are going to have a seafood feast. They bought 4 lbs of crab legs, and shrimp. We are so lucky. I have really loved this holiday season and we are so happy to have such wonderful friends and family in our lives.

Traditions- TSO

Row 20 was where Liz and Kori sat. What a great show.

Tiffany and Troy. This is the sister that I wrote my essay about.

I won 4 tickets to the TSO concert this year because I wrote an essay about my sister Tiffany. The seats were on the floor, 20 rows from the stage. It was awesome.

This is my family that went with us. We decided after the show to go and get hot chocolate from Dennys. I thought I was hungry and got a grilled cheese, french fries, and a chocolate shake. I do not think that is part of the tradition that we will carry on. I was so sick after.

Our 1 Year Anniversary

These are the beautiful flowers that Chris gave me for our Anniversary

This is the awesome breakfast that was included with our room. It was so yummy. Hot chocolate. Eggs, Cured Salmon, fresh fruit. It was so fantastic.

This was how our room was set up when we got there. Little America was so great. I would have to say that the worst part about it was that it took us probably 5 minutes to open the door to our room. We had such a great time. I can't believe its been a whole year.

Halloween

So I decided I would dress up this year for Halloween. I thought about being an anime but that didn't work out very well. I don't have any big poofy wedding dresses that I could wear. So now I am from Greece and I bet you can picture me singing Beauty School Drop out...

Melbourne - The Great Ocean Road

This is my sister that lives in Australia. We had so much fun with them. We miss them so much, but we had a great time with them.

Jared liked to boss me around. He told me I wasn't allowed to wear my sunglasses in the car because it wasn't sunny. The minute I took them off he asked if he could wear them. He is so funny. He definitley is going to have a great personality when he is older.

Our first spoting of rainforest. We ate lunch here and and then continued on our great ocean road trip.

Wyomming Trip 2009

We took a trip to Wyomming and stayed with Chris

s Sister Cindy. They have a friend who owns a cabin up there. It was beautiful. We had so much fun.

Girls Weekend

I was so excited to make sushi for everyone at our sisters party. We had a great time shopping, watching movies, and just hanging out.

Liz had to leave early sunday morning to get back and teach her class. We were sad she couldn't be here for our picture. Thanks Het for letting us use your dad's place.