A Very Merry Christmas..

A special thanks to our families and friends who made this holiday so special. We don't know what we would do without you!!

Christmas Festivities

We have done a lot to celebrate Christmas this year:

1) We got our house festive. We bought a big tree and some decorations. It may take me several years to accumulate neat ornaments though. :(

2) We kept the Horsley family tradition alive, and walked around the Festival of Trees.

3) We attended some holiday parties and got some great white elephant gifts.

4) We've been watching Christmas movies at home and seen them in theaters. We went to see A Christmas Carol in 3D. I of course thought it was scary, Matt loved it. We had fun with our 3D glasses.

5) I saw the Nutcracker with my sisters and nieces. I LOVED it (as I always do), and will try to attend every year.

6) Most importantly, we've gotten to reunite with family we haven't seen/talked to in a while. Yesterday we talked to Matt's brother Kevin, who is on a mission. We skyped with him, so it was like we were face to face (very cool!!). We have also been so excited to spend time with Mads, Wy Wy, and Steph.

As you can tell, we've really enjoyed being done with school, and are trying to soak up every second of Christmas break. I'm so excited for Matt to open his presents on Christmas. I think I did good this year folks. More updates to come and Merry Christmas. :)

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I love the meal, and the anticipation of Christmas. We had an especially great Thanksgiving this year. On Wednesday night we went and made gingerbread houses at Matt's parents. Ours was actually terrific. It took us about 3 hours to make, but I was very happy with the results compared to last year.


On Thanksgiving day Matt played in a turkey bowl (which he is still sore from..we should work out more often) and I watched the parade all morning. Then we had a delicious meal at Pat and Rolfe's.


Right after eating, we left on a little road trip to California. It was dreamy to be in Coronado, which is a Horsley family favorite. My mouth waters thinking of the food we eat. The only downfall of the trip was that I forgot to bring pants. That's right, I didn't bring one pair of pants. I had some pajamas and a few skirts, but it was quite cold and miserable.


Thanks Pat and Rolfe for a wonderful and relaxing vacation. It was the perfect way to start finals. It calmed us down. We hope you all had a fun Thanksgiving break!

Last Week...

Last week was interesting..we had some fun things happen. Matt was able to shadow an anesthesiologist (finally :) He watched 3 surgeries. I thought it sounded quite gross, but he LOVED it. I've never seen him so giddy. Very exciting! I was deathly ill all week. I got sick on Halloween. 5 days later, and still not feeling one ounce better, I decided I needed to take it easy. I called in sick to work and ditched out on school. I'm finally feeling about 85% normal. Why does sickness always come at the worst times? I feel like I have so much to catch up on because of all I missed last week. Thankfully, I've had Matt to take care of me. He was constantly making me soup and hot cider, and took care of all of the household chores for the week. He's the best!! It's an understatement to say that we were excited for the weekend. I was looking forward to getting insane amounts of sleep and we had some fun things planned. These fun things included the So You Think You Can Dance concert with the girls!! I LOVED this season, and couldn't wait for the concert.

Fun fact: Randi was totally Matt's first make-out...ever. We had our own little dance party when she made it into the top 20. I wasn't even jealous, just a little proud to have such a cool hubby. Totally a Lloyd family claim to fame.

It was the best night in the world.

Halloween

We did a lot of fun things to celebrate Halloween this year! It started off by going on the ghost tour in Ogden. We did this in Salt Lake last year, and it was a blast. We decided Ogden would be super spooky because lets face it, it's a weird place. It was very scary and Matt got really into it this year. He kept trying to capture orbs in our pictures. He was very satisfied with some of the results. (I won't show you those pictures because they are super boring. Seriously, over 100 pictures from the ghost tour, and they are mainly of nothing. Just Matt taking a picture of a building and such to try to capture orbs. Cute thing.)

We had so much fun celebrating the holiday. Now, on to my favorite month...can I just say, Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday. The SYTYCD concert and New Moon coming out also help a little bit...November, thanks for being here.