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What a holiday season it was for me. We made it to Salt Lake on our second attempt on Christmas Eve because of the weather. Before heading down to Salt Lake we went on a walk, Steve helped someone get unstuck and went sledding with all the snow we got. On our way down the weather never let up which made me extremely nervous, I almost wanted to turn around again.
Christmas morning was so beautiful waking up to so much snow. At first when I found out that Christmas was on Sunday I was sort of bummed, but as it got closer my thoughts changed and reminded me of what the TRUE meaning of Christmas is.

I was so grateful that we made it down to spending Christmas with my crazy family. We went snowshoeing my very first time and we had a blast. I got to see my bestest buddies and chat about our lives. On Tuesday I had an appointment for our surrogacy process that went smoothly. I have gotten all my hormones that I am going to be starting here soon and before I blink again we will have our embryos. It is nuts how quick all this has happened. There is still a lot of stuff that we need to make happen, but the closer it gets the more realistic it becomes :)

Wrigley had a follow up appointment on his anger problems. We went to Petco! Steve and I have never, NEVER taken Wrigley into a store with other dogs. He did good though, which surprised both of us.

Yesterday we went to Wild Root Cafe in downtown Boise to eat dinner. It was amazingly good and oh so fresh. After we ate, we walked over to the Capitol to see the this gigantic potato. It was the 4th year Boise has done this potato drop. It was interesting, I guess there are people around the world that come and see this potato. It is not a real potato, but it looked pretty real. We had a fun New Years Eve it was way cold, so we chickened out and watched the potato drop on tv.

In 2016 I believe that I accomplished all my resolutions. For this new year's resolution I am going to have to get back to you on them, but we hope to have a baby this year!



 






Happy New Year from us to you

























Yummy goodness on the left and the huge potato on the upper right

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