December 2010

I think this may bring us right up to December! Can you believe it! We caught up before the year ended! That is an amazing feat in our eyes!

So to start off, we have to have a disclaimer, the commercial Christmas season does not start in the Steele home until after finals. Yep, pretty much the first half of December is consumed with finals, while the second half is consumed with Christmas! However we are pleased to announce that it will no longer be as such. Tyler has completed the graduation requirements to receive a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media! Cassidee will complete her final course (intro to stats) and an internship by August 2011 and then she will receive her Bachelor of Arts in Communication! And yes then officially these two eager (and eternal) learners will be graduates!

So now that that is out of the way, onto Christmas!

Again this Christmas was spent at the Lewis home. No not because Cassidee can’t stand her in-laws, its much more selfish than that. A certain Elder Lewis is allowed a phone call to the family and she felt it necessary to be there for that call. Best Christmas present ever! Riley sounds great (and rather smooth too)! He sound enthusiastic, happy, spiritual, and healthy! It almost felt like a missionary Christmas party because not only did we get to talk to Ry, we also got to hear the Tobler’s speak after returning from their mission and the last Janson boy, Ethan gave is final testimony before he heads out for his mission!

Again we failed with the pictures this month (but honestly how good does one look Christmas morning). And there were a few other things worthy of note that happened in between finals and Christmas. First off was the annual Madson Christmas party-unfortunately we couldn’t stay all that long because of work, but we did get to hear Shand pump out Star Wars on the trombone! Second off was Hilary’s birthday party! It started at my place were we were gonna play games, but only managed eating and talking. Then it merged over to Kayde and David’s and we played the crazy Just Dance game. It makes you sweat!

I guess all that is left now is self-reflection. Hmmm. 2010 has been the best year so far of our marriage. And that isn’t to say that the other years have been bad, but rather that it seems to get better with time.

It feels like so much has happened this year and yet we both feel more relaxed and seem to have more time. Not to say we aren’t busy, but it doesn’t seem as rushed or intense. And now that school is not top priority, we can look forward to more entertaining projects to keep us busy!

In 2010...

BOOKS
Halt's Peril (#9 RA)	*
The Kings of Clonmel (#8 RA)	*
Mistborn: The Final Empire	*
The Red Pyramid (#1 KC)	*
The Siege of Macindaw (#6 RA)	*
The Sorcerer in the North (#5 RA)	*
Erak's Ranson (#7 RA)	*
Regeneration	*
Goodbye to Berlin	*
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything	*
Desert Solitaire	*
Women in Love	*
Mrs. Dalloway	*
Heart of Darkness	*
Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder	*
Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War	*
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction	*
The Demigod Files	*
MOVIES & SHOWS
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (movie)	*
CATS (Tuacahn) TARZAN (Tuacahn)	*
Inception (movie) (Ty)	*
Avatar (movie) (Ty)	*
MUSIC
Mika (band)	*
Classical 89 (radio)	*
FIRSTS
vegetarian (Ty)	*
eyebrow wax (Ty)	*
St. George Ironman	*
smart phones	*
Matey's birthday	*
The Chocolate	*
The Sweet Tooth Fairy	*
public karaoke	*
niece	*
shovel snow (Cass)	*
research project (Cass)	*
Smash Bros (Cass)	*