Christmas!

Well, one hear has gone and another one ahead! Preston and I had a great year! We're down to a year and a half until Preston is a pharmacist and yes, that is a milestone because it's taken us MANY years to get here :) Preston has been doing great in school and has still been tutoring a student in his class. It's good for him, it's been teaching him lots of patience and it helps the checking account too so all in all, it's been a good experience for him. Preston is also the young men's president in our ward and loves it, he loves working with the youth in the ward! I am still teaching primary and still work with the Activity Day girls which I absolutely love doing both. I am now teaching the 5 year old's when last year, I was teaching the 11 year old's.. so quite the change but still so great! Preston and I have explored more of AZ and been on a few trip this year and a couple camping trips. I am still working at the attorney's office and really enjoy it there, the people I work with are great! We booked a cruise, bought a car, cancelled the cruise and instead of a cruise during spring break, we're headed to... I bet you can't guess.. Cali.. again! haha we love that place and with this trip, we love the people we're going to visit even more and can't wait to see them. Preston and I even celebrated our 5 year anniversary! It's been a great 5 years and I love Preston more and more and I'm so lucky to be married to him. He really is my best friend and the greatest man ever! Well, for Christmas, we were lucky to be able to go to Ut, Mt and even Canada :) Why Canada you might ask? Well, Preston's sister and husband live in Cut Bank Montana about an hour out of Canada. We were able to go to the Cardston temple. It was our first time out of the country. Pretty exciting! Let the pictures begin!

Grandma Palmer's house Christmas Eve day. Two of the cutest kid's I know!

Cadence was trying to get rid of her food by feeding me.

Seeing the "moo" as Stockton calls Cow's.

This picture cracked me up. Cadence took a picture of the horse. Well, you can totally tell it's a horse, right?!

Cadence and her daddy.

The crew!

My lovely parents!

Some handsome stud that is my brother Chris!

Love me some Preston!

Christmas Eve at Oma and Opa's. My beautiful cousins. Nichole and Kelsey

Probably one of my favorite pictures of the trip. Oma and Opa!

Time to eat. It's almost as if none of us have ever eaten before...

haha Aunt Annette in the background cracks me up.

Dad and Lili singing "Stille Nacht"

Oma and Opa! New blanket :)

Mom and dad made their delicious "Holiday French Toast"

Christmas morning before church.

Christmas afternoon with Preston's parents and grandma.

Christmas Evening back at my parents for dinner. I love this picture. Preston teaching Stockton how to shoot the nerf gun.

Opa with the babies.

Except, it was NOT cold in Mt. It was cold like it was in Ut but not in the negatives. This sign didn't live up to it's name.

Everybody has their poker faces on for Tripoley!

Jess and Theron opening their new computer!

Leaving the U.S.A

Cardston Canada temple

don't mind the strap from the camera.

Driving home from Montana, we stopped in Idaho Falls. It was colder there then it was in Ut and Mt.

Then, we celebrated New Year's Eve with the Vielstich Clan. Minus the brother's who had better things to do. What 18 and 22 year old find it boring to hang out with your family on New Year's. I just don't get it! We're awesome!

Driving back home to sunny AZ. We took a different route and came across this cool bridge overlooking the Colorado River.

Cliffs.

We made it home safe and sound and were happy to get home and back to the normal routine. I was sad to take down Christmas and know I have to wait a whole year to put it all back up again! We love our families and we were so happy we were able to see everybody!