Christmas...

It was great to be able to be home for Christmas! We got in late Saturday night and stopped at my parent's house to see everyone before we went down to Dustin's for the night...it was kinda weird sleeping in our old house! We went to church in the morning on Christmas Eve and then spent the afternoon at my grandparent's house for my dad's family Christmas. Then, we went to the annual candlelight Christmas Eve service at church, which was beautiful, as always! We opened our presents with my family that night and then had breakfast with them on Christmas morning. We spent the rest of the day at Jesse's parent's house, opening our presents with them and just hanging out. I got to play Dance Dance Revolution for the first time ever with some of Jesse's siblings, and it was so much fun!!! I came home Christmas night with our friends from the area who are at Moody because I had to work on Tuesday. It was kinda depressing to be here all by myself, so my friend Sarah came over on Tuesday night and we gave each other pedicures and dipped our hands in her paraffin wax pot...it was so nice to just relax and have some girly time! Jesse stayed in Indiana until Wednesday afternoon and spent some time with his friends and jamming with some of the guys on worship team at church :) Oh, yeah, he also changed the oil and spark plugs in the car. Here's a fun picture of my family after the Christmas Eve service...we had three couples and then Evan, so...

My sister finally got home from Guatemala on December 21st...for those of you who didn't know about her trip, we have a link to her blog on the side of our page, so check it out, she's got some pretty cool pictures and stories! She got in at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday night/Thursday morning, so Jesse and I went to surprise her and pick her up! We brought her back here and she got to spend a few hours here trying to sleep before I drove her and my friend Leeanne to the airport to catch their early-morning flights. I was kinda nervous about driving to and from O'Hare by myself...I was entirely convinced that I would get lost in the ginormous parking lot there or something, but everything went fine. Anyway, there were tons of people waiting for my sister at the Fort Wayne airport, including Dustin, who had a very important question to ask her...and now he is my future brother-in-law! I couldn't be more thrilled for them!

We will be in Indiana again this weekend; at my grandparent's house in Middlebury for my mom's family Christmas and then in Ohio for a New Year's Eve party, and then next weekend, we will be home again for Jesse's dad's family Christmas...three weekends of traveling aren't so fun, but three weekends in a row to see our family and friends...PRICELESS! :)