Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

This Christmas was wonderful! It was so good to be around family for the Holidays. Last night, as a Christmas tradition, we went to look for Christmas lights. We found the most AMAZING Christmas lights I had EVER seen. It was a whole street, called Bainbridge Falls, that had at LEAST 11 houses all lit up and synchronized to music. This is my first time loading a video from YouTube onto my blog, so if this doesn't work, give me a few tries to figure it out. =)

They had their own radio station, you tuned to it in your car and drove up and down the street, seeing the amazing lights. It truely got me and my family into the Christmas mood. It was wonderful opportunity to be with my family, enjoying the lights, and the music. There were SO many cars in the line to drive down the street, so we parked, and walked. I am so glad we did it, they had the music playing as we walked down the street.
When I woke up this morning around 7:30, I quickly wrapped my gifts for my family and put them under the tree. My family came down and we proceeded to open presents and see what Santa had brought us!! Little did we know that Dallin had in fact woken up in the wee hours of the morning to see what presents awaited him, snatched his new iPod Nano up, and was playing with it quietly in his room until everyone else woke up. Now, I'm not talking early like, 6am, I am talking EARLY as in about 3:30am! Santa had to have just left, wouldn't be surprised if he saw him squishing back up the fireplace!
Dallin and I got Anaheim Ducks Jerseys, Dallin's Jersey is Ryan Getzlaf #15 game jersey. My Jersey is just a basic Ducks game jersey, and I LOVE IT! We are BIG hockey fans here in the Ovard house, We love the Ducks most of all, but are also fans of Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals (Yeah Ovechkin!), and the Pittsburgh Penguins (Yeah Crosby!) But that is for a whole different post.
I tried to get Dallin to pose for a picture, but he wouldn't have it. Even when he did, he wouldn't smile. So forget it!
We got a new TV for Christmas, really nice LCD Flat screen, it's so CLEAR! So of course the first movie we watch is Avatar, with the surround sound and crisp image, it is AMAZING!

I have so much to be grateful for this Holiday Season.
I hope every one of you have a fabulous Christmas and New Years.

Fly, Fly, Fly.

I really cannot believe it has be OVER a year since I posted on my blog. It does not seem like that long ago, time really does fly! Well, In the mean time, a lot has happened! My roommate Tyese was married to one of my greatest friends Steven Blackhurst on October 21st 2010. They are an adorable couple, their reception was very elegant and beautiful and Tyese was as GORGEOUS as ever.

Living in Salt Lake City was wonderful. I loved being so close to relatives that I originally had only seen once a year. I was working as a stylist at Great Clips and a very quaint little salon in the area. Both locations were very close to home, very convenient.

Allison, Tyese, and I became very good friends. We did everything together! The best roommates I had ever had, friendships that will last a life time. We took a liking to a restaurant nearby by the name of Hoppers, to which we were frequent diners.
On my last night in Utah Tyese, Jessica, Allison, and I met at hoppers and enjoyed each others company, laughing the night away!
The LDS ward I was involved in was a very LARGE but very well organized University singles ward. That is where I started my paperwork to serve an LDS mission. Shortly after that I returned home to California and have been here just over a month!
Tonight is Christmas Eve and everyone in my house is anxious to see what we will be greeted by in the morning. Dad has been asking for it to be Christmas for a couple days now. He knows what's coming and is anxious to see what SANTA will bring!
I hope your Christmas Eve is as thrilling as mine is becoming!