My First Ever Blog.............

It's hard for me to decide what to write about in my first ever blog. I'm not the type of person that will update this every day, so I think it's okay for me to re-cap Christmas. For the first time in a long time, my entire family was in Panguitch for Christmas. This is for a few reasons. Of course, Kendra and I rotate our Christmas visits between Sugar City and Panguitch, so it had been two years since we had gone to Panguitch. Also, my brothers have been gone on missions for two years. Mike got back from Brasil in November and Matt returned from Portugal in early December. It had been 3 years since they had been home for a Christmas. Anyway, with everybody home, it was nice - but very busy!

We did a few fun things over the holiday. I played a lot of Star Wars: Battlefront II with Matt and Mike. The big video game of the holiday though, was Mario Kart: Double Dash on the Gamecube. Trevin, Abby and Taeya all played it alot, along with us "adults." A few of us also played a game of Carcasonne. We watched a few movies, including a surprisingly good Serenity (I want to watch the Firefly series now). Regrettably, we were never able to go see King Kong or Narnia at the theater, nor were we able to play our traditional game of Clue: Master Detective. I think Jana was a little disappointed, so we'll have to make it a sure thing in two years.

There was absolutely zero snow in Panguitch or the surrounding mountains, so we didn't get to go sledding or tubing. The temperatures had to be in the 40's or 50's most of the time - so it was nice to go outside - it just wasn't very wintery. Instead of tubing, we went to the Panguitch Park and played on the new equipment there. Close by was the Panguitch River, where we had fun breaking ice and throwing rocks in. We all had a great time at the park.

Christmas morning was a mad-house. With presents for 17 people in one room, the paper and ribbon was about 3 feet high when we got done. I think my nephew Jaden was completely lost under it all. Being Sunday, we all went to church at 11. Most of Panguitch was there.

That is all for now. Until the next........