So a little update...
I'm back in lovely Rexburg, Idaho after spending a much needed family visit in Virginia for the past two weeks. There's nothing like being home and reverting back to juvenescence. You know what I'm talkin about? It doesn't matter how old you are-- you get back in Mama's kitchen and you're just another kid scrounging for food and attention. It kills me! But I love it. It was just so good to be home. While there, we made a quick trip to New Jersey to see family we hadn't seen for almost ten years! Yes, ten! Let this go down in the books...ten years is too long to not see family. It was so wonderful to see everyone and how we've grown. Life is just too amazing. Family is amazing and just so precious. What is so crazy to me is that we're all crazy! Isn't it nice?! We are all so different and have walked so many paths. People might look at us and think, "man...what do they even talk about?" I don't know. But whatever it is, we think we're funny. Maybe the point of family is to like each other instead of worrying about being "normal" (normalcy isn't even normal anyway).
Some other highlights of the trip:
-I had the pleasure of meeting my very first Target cashier who was a self-proclaimed-Grammy-winner-Chris-Brown-look-alike. (That might have been the cherry on top)
-My mom taught me how to can chicken! Probably one of the best tasting food storage items if you don't see what it looks like.
-I had my first taste of brie..and it was amazing.
-I ate the most wonderful Aunt Annie's pretzel sticks on the planet.
-I talked with my sisters. Like really talked. Can't beat it.
-We had the missionaries over for Christmas dinner. Poor things probably wished we hadn't after Apples to Apples and Would You Rather.
-My laptop got to be the receptacle by which one of those missionaries could see his family for the first time since he left home. It might have made me a teensy bit teary.
-I got the laugh. The one only my mom provokes, where my face gets distorted and I can't breathe and tears flow.
-I got to see my mom bear her testimony. That just makes everything right in the world.
-I got to rejoin with my two best friends for the first time since we've all been married and talk about the days when we made plans to live next door to each other with our smokin' husbands and perfect kids. One out of three isn't bad...for now.
-I watched home videos with my parents and husband (on Skype).
-I went to the D.C. Temple for the first time with my mom and her best friend and about died it was so beautiful.
Oh, and I GRADUATED! (That was pre-trip, but still a highlight, don't you think?)
Happy New Year!
I loved reading this, Kristen. Especially, your VA trip :) You are just so dang cute and I miss your face. Tonight, on the way home from visiting your Grandma Holt, Kelly and I entertained each other by naming the temples we want to go to when we have the money and my first one was the DC Temple, I hear it is beautiful. Hang in there doll face, Nathaniel will be home before you know it ;) Love ya!
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