Happy Belated New Year

Hi Friends... or who ever reads this blog... :-)
Just thought I would fill in the gaps from my last post over a month ago. Football for the Griz is over by a long shot. We, like everyone is Missoula, wanted them to go to the championship game. However, it is so cool that NDSU won the championship game!! We had a lot of fun watching the game at the Montana club with friends and other Griz fans. Russ passed his piano test and is now free to student teach!! PRAISE JESUS!! He starts in Victor on January 23rd. I am so excited for him! One more semester and he will have his Music Education degree!! So proud of you, my amazing hubby!! 
We made it to Nashua for New Years and my brothers birthday. It was so much fun! Thanks to my Dad my Ford Focus got it's oil changed, and is still going strong, despite it's external injuries. We cleaned it and got it ready for the soon to be daily commute to school. Russ has been taking me to school in his car, but when he is commuting to Victor then the trips will be daily. I'm going to miss having him take me to school everyday, but I have enjoyed our morning trips together. I panic about being late, but he gets me to school right on time. The school holiday program with great! It was very smooth and not as hectic as I thought it would be. 
We spent Christmas with the Johnsons and it was a lovely day! Christmas Eve service at MAC was so great! To see the entire sanctuary lit up by over 100 candles was a breath taking sight to see. It reminded me of the candle light services at Grain. So, my first Christmas in Missoula was a good one for sure. :)
I returned to work on the 3rd and started the year off with a four day week. A four day week... not too bad right? Wrong. Most craziest week ever! I hate it when four day week feel like an eight day week. 

Today Russ helped his folks put up their new microwave and I scrapbooked our weeding album. I thought that my Mary Kay conference was this week, but that was just the registration dead line, with the actual conference being next week. So, since I was up I drove over to Scrapbook Hideaway and stayed until about 3. Didn't eat lunch... not that I meant to, but I just kept working on the album and before I knew it half of the afternoon went by. I ran out of photos to scrapbook and page protectors. I was missing some photos to make the last couple of pages that I needed. We had lunch at Wendy's with Richard and went shopping at TJ Max, Ross and Shop Ko. We only bought socks for Russ, but we got some great ideas to spruce up our bland white walls in our apartment. Thanks to Pinterest (not only another addiction, but a pretty cool way to keep track of ideas and such on the web) I have found some great ways to make stunning wall hangings out of recycled materials. 

We hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 
Love, 

R&J