New Traditions

This is our Christmas ornament. I think traditions are great and every family should have them. If you ask me I cant remember any really huge or significant Christmas traditions in my family. (Mom or Dad if you want to jump in here and let me know of any I've forgotten, that'd be great) I mean, we would have one person be “Santa” and give out the presents every year. We would all put on ornaments together as a family. We would watch “A Christmas Story” every year. (You'll shoot your eye out!) Our traditions were simply and subtle I guess. Tracey and I have decided to purchase a Christmas ornament every year that we are married. I just think it'll be awesome in 40 years or so to hang forty ornament on our tree marked with each year we've been together.

On a completely separate note; school went great last semester. I got all B's in my classes. My calculus class went great and I would've gotten an A if it hadn't of been for the great habit I got into during high school; the habit of not doing my homework. Ugh. I'm kicking myself in the face now thinking about it. Oh well, I've gotten all B's so I'm happy.

My History of Economic thought was hard and a real pain to get through. It was rewarding though, because it made me think in depths about a range of different subjects. We had to write an 8 to 10 page paper almost every week on different subjects including Wal-mart, health care, and the cause of the great depression. It was a real eye opener. I think a lot of Americans don't really think about important issues as much as they should. The general feel seems to be “If the idea sounds good, go for it! Ah, don't worry about it, we'll work out the details when people start complaining.”

I got a full time shift at Melaleuca. I will be working 6am to 3pm. This is great because I'll be done at 3 and have the rest of the day the goof off. Tracey will be working until 7, so that'll suck, but we'll have the evenings together to watch the new season of LOST and work out.

There are some more pictures of me putting up the lights and of our tiny Christmas tree. Enjoy!
-Jacob

 

Our tiny Christmas tree!

Jacob putting up Christmas lights in our window :)

 

The presents for our families! 

 

Christmas, movies, and grades!

It's Christmas! Jacob and I are down here with my family for the weekend.  We thought we were going to be able to sleep in today but we were woken up at 7:40 to eat breakfast and then open presents.  I'm happy about my presents; it's one of the first years I didn't know a lot of the presents I was getting! I got the first two seasons of Alias from my parents which I am really excited about because Jacob and I just finished the fifth season of Lost and we need a new series to watch until the sixth season of Lost comes out on February 2nd. Since we don't have cable, we just watch TV series's. :) I also got 3 DVD's : The Proposal, The Golden Compass, and Baby Mama. 

I got a pair of brown dress shoes and three pairs of earrings from Jacob --that I picked out :)  But then he suprised me with the book Blindside--the one that the movie was based on.  Speaking of that my sister, Rachel, and I went and saw Blindside last night while Jacob and my brother, Jacob went and saw Avatar--Blindside was soo good! I loved it.  Sandra Bullock was really good in it--she made me laugh pretty hard.  Jacob loved Avatar--he wants me to go see it with him once we get back to Rexburg.

One more exciting thing--we found out our grades for the Fall Semester yesterday!

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I got 5 A's and 1 A-!  I'm really happy with those grades.  It's funny though because my A- was in my easiest class--I just always skipped that class in order to work on stuff for my other classes :)  The most exciting part for me though is that I got an A on my portfolio for my Observation and Assessment class.  The portfolio was a semester-long project and therefore, since I was working on it all semester, it was stressful for me to decide it was done and turn it in.   Partway through the semester, I had a dream that I turned it in, and my teacher gave me a C! And in my dream, I went to him and said "I don't deserve this; give me a better grade!" Haha luckily that didn't have to happen in real life!
-Tracey

Relaxation

I'm here at Dave's house playing video games and relaxing.  Its nice to have this day to relax after school has gotten out and before I start my full-time shift at Melaleuca.  We are leaving to go to Tracey's parent's house Wednesday night.  I'm going to put a book onto my I-pod to listen to on the way down (thanks dad).
-Jacob

We finally got a blog!

We finally got around to making a blog! Now that we're done with the semester, we'll actually have time to update it.  Our camera isn't the greatest camera right now, but we're hoping to get a new one soon so we can put up better pictures.


On Wednesday, we'll be going down to Utah to visit my family for Christmas.  We'll be back up in Rexburg by Monday, and Jacob's parents are coming up here to stay with us for a few days.  


It's our first Christmas together and we've gotten some Christmas decorations for our apartment.  Pictures to come soon!
-Tracey