Holidays!!

Our friends all decided we should get together for a Halloween party this year, & it ended up being at our house. No biggie, until Levi said, "We're having a Halloween party! You can't have a party without decorations!!" And so... we decorated! 

I'm figuring out that all it takes to have a successful party is food and access to YouTube.
The boys were entertained for hours.

And then Thanksgiving was here! We spent the holiday in Arbon, giving our thanks and stuffing ourselves with Levi's fam. That evening, I was able to electronically be with all of my family at once! My uncle and his family flew to Oregon from Georgia, and so we all Skyped! We had Georgia Berrys (Mike's family), Oregon Berrys (the grandparents, Lloyd's clan, and Melinda's bunch), Nebraska Berrys (Mum and the kids - Dad does not Skype), and me - the Idaho/Utah Berry-Nutt.

This was the first time we've all "been together" since Levi and I got married. My heart was so full!

And then came Christmas!! We wanted to surprise Morgan and Zane, so we left Logan at 3 AM (yes, as in 0300 hours!) on Sunday morning and drove all the way to Nebraska in a snowstorm, so that we could hide in their rooms before they came home from church. So worth it! I WISH I had a picture of the looks on their faces when they found us.

Before we left UT, Levi and I had our own Christmas and opened all of our presents from each other. (We thought about waiting until we got back on Christmas night. And then we laughed and laughed and said "Yeah right!")

Yes, that is a "Santa-wrapped" present. I was pretty proud
of how it turned out!!

 

This was the first time since I graduated high school that I've gotten to be with my parents and the kids on Christmas. We had so much fun! 

We got up extra early Christmas morning to open presents, and then Dad had to go take care of the cows and we had to head back to Utah, so Levi could return to work the next day. We were hopeful that SOMEDAY we wouldn't have to take these lightening trips across dreary Wyoming to windy Nebraska to see my family....

 

 

  

We rang in the New Year with our friends out in Arbon, as we learned the joys of the "Just Dance" Wii games. I don't think I've laughed that hard in YEARS!