I realize that my last post was posted today.. but in my own
defense, I wrote it like 2 weeks ago.. My life I feel like is literally just
getting away from me. Haha.
Christmas has come and gone.
It’s always so quick! After looking back on the last couple of days,
Devin and I have decided that we had a really, nice break. It was much needed!! We spent a lot of time together,
and enjoyed time with both of our families.
Friday I was able to get off from work at noon. I was able to go and finish some Christmas shopping.
Mostly for food. I did grab a couple of stocking stuffers
however. So last Monday (December 18th)
I was on my way down to Brigham City to go to the dentist. I was literally like ¼ of a mile away from
the Brigham City exit when my car went nuts.
My RPMs were bouncing back and forth, my engine light came on, (and then
it started to flash) and my oil light came on.
I knew I had to pull over. I
called Devin who called Tom’s Service out of Wellsville, and both came through
the canyon. I stopped by Tom’s on
Friday after work to check the status of my car. Looks like I’ll most likely need a new
computer put in. I didn’t understand all
the terminology other than he’s going to take it Accurate Automotive and
Performance in Logan. So my Martha is
currently sitting there waiting to hopefully be diagnosed soon. Also on Friday, we got a snow blower!! It was
delivered to us from Ipaco. Full of gas
and oil and ready to go! Which was nice – considering it snowed all night
Friday night.
Saturday we really just hung out at home. We did a lot of cleaning, preparing for the holiday. We got to use our new snow blower and man it’s
amazing. Isn’t it funny what we find
entertaining now as adults? This year,
since this is the first time in our own place for Christmas, we decided to
start a new little tradition. We’re going
to start decorating gingerbread houses!
We decided that where it’s just the two of us right now, we’d just decorate
one together. It really was just so much
fun!
Sunday we got up and went to church. It was nice that D didn’t have any meetings
before. Now that we’re going to start
going to church at 9:00, Devin’s meetings are going to start being at 7. Since we only had sacrament meeting, we just
went over to my parents or a little bit after church. We enjoyed Papa Murphey’s pizza! I love that stuff. I made a new bean dip too! 1 cup of sour cream, 1- 16 oz can of refried
beans, 4 oz (1/2 bar) of cream cheese (softened), 1 package taco seasoning, 1
cup Mexican blend cheese. Preheat oven
to 350, mix all (but cheese) into 8x8 pan, top with cheese and cook for 25
mins. It was so good!! After we left my parents, we had our annual
Fabricius Christmas party with Devin’s dad’s side of the family. We had a baked potato bar and it was so nice
to see everyone who came. When we got
home from Grandma Shirley’s, Devin and I decided it was high time we watched A
Christmas Story from start to finish. This
was the first time I’ve really seen any part of that movie and it was the first
time that Devin has seen that movie from start to finish. What a cute movie!! We will definitely be
watching that every Christmas Eve now.
Monday I set my alarm for 6:30.. Devin wasn’t exactly
thrilled haha. He made me wait in bed
until 7:00. Which is fair, since we only
got each other two gifts this year, we wanted to make Christmas last a little
longer. Devin got me a new Ninja Fit
blender and a new set of utensils! (Again, the things you get excited about as
an adult!!) Devin got a new set of wrenches and a GoPro for snowmobiling. After we did a little bit of shoveling and
food prep, we headed over to Jedd and LaDawns for breakfasts and gift exchange
with them. I got ONE HUNDRED AND ONE
cookie cutters, some kitchen gadgets and new clothes. I got this thing called an herb dryer. It’s a mesh net with layers in it to hang out
side and dry herbs/plants/fruits etc. without bugs getting on them. When I opened it, the package it was in was
the size of a small salad plate. I
unzipped it and it popped open! Scared me to death! Derik got me some new plates!! White, circled
plates. I love them!! Devin got a new
ladder and this game that’s called “Exploding Kittens”. It’s actually really fun! I won the first round. I was very proud of myself haha! Jedd and
LaDawn also surprised us with these hangers that we’ve been wanting from
Jackson! We found them on our trip in
October but we didn’t want to quite buy them yet. LaDawn called the store and they found the
exact ones we wanted and shipped them to her! We’re so excited to hang them in
the back hall way. We ate Christmas dinner with my family this
year. We had ham, funeral potatoes,
rolls, everything bad for you. A couple
of Saturdays ago, we made jalapeño jelly with my mom. Its sweet, and so so good over a block of
cream cheese!! I ate plenty of that!! I’m
actually like 90% sure I gained 3-5 lbs this holiday season. Not very thrilled about that, but we’ll make
due ;) My mom and dad got devin a bunch of new pliers! Now that we have our own
place, tools are prime gifts for Devin.
I got a new sweater. I think it’s
quite beautiful! We drew names this year
in my family. Kendal had Devin, Devin
had Lindsie, I had Jason and Allie had me.
Kendal got Devin an iTunes gift card.
He loves his music, so that was a perfect gift for him! Allie got me this gorgeous rose gold watch
set. It’s beautiful! Devin got Lindsie a new sweater and some Lindt
coconut chocolates. I got Jason a wood
carving kit and 2 Mountain Dews. Grandma
Karen also got us Scattergories. We
played that and ate and ate and ate. I
made my loaded baked potato dip. I
posted it in December of 2016 – but I’ll post my recipe here too. After time spent with my family, we headed
back on over to Grandma and Grandpa Jeppesens house. Ate good food, received wonderful gifts and
had a good time. I got a new purse, wii
u game, shoes and some perfume. Devin
and I got a new heated blanket too that will fit on our bed!! We tried it out last night, man, oh man do we
love it. We also got a new little
popcorn popper. I’ll do a little review
of that in another blog post. Haven’t
tried it yet, but it looks like so much fun! The best part of Christmas however, was
returning home to our own place, to find that we had water in our basement.
(yay! Not.) It was just a little, tiny bit, but enough to make me cry. (This
would be number three. My car, D needs
new truck tires, and then this?!) Devin
could hear something in the baby room that sounded like running water. Turns out, there were two leaks in the city’s
water line, and they were working on fixing it.
In the process, our water heater’s pressure release valve popped up (as
it should) but it got stuck. So we had
boiling hot water spilling out of our water heater. We decided to just turn our water off until
the city could get the line fixed.
Thankfully we got water back the next day at like 5:00PM. We are so blessed that we had such a great
Christmas. We were able to spend our Christmas
with the most important thing of all, family!
This is the ONLY picture I have of Devin and I on Christmas.
herb dryer and all my cookie cutters!
I am so grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ and that we were
able to spend time worshiping his birth.
I am so grateful for my families and for the time that I get with
them. I know that not everyone has the
same privilege that I have in seeing them so frequently and I can take that for
granted. I love them dearly and I am so
blessed to have the best. I hope that
everyone was able to have a very, Merry Christmas and that we will all be able
to have an enjoyable new year!
