Our Christmas Letter

Our First Christmas . . . & First Christmas Letter!

We received our first Christmas letters a few weeks ago and realized that we hadn’t started writing our own letter yet. We quickly got our act pulled together and thought about writing something . . . but didn’t. After we received enough cards to make us feel guilty about not sending our season’s greetings, we decided that staying in touch with people is probably a good thing. Here’s the best and the worst of 2008.

After Scott decided to run off and play in Africa for 2 months (he says he was working, but Ashley’s convinced it was just an extended vacation), we started our married lives together on July 31, 2008. We were welcomed to our first apartment, just south of BYU campus in Provo, by navigating through a maze of yellow caution tape. The view out our front window looked more like a scene from CSI than a beautiful mountain vista. However, after a couple of months, the management eventually planted fresh Astroturf in the yard, so we can practice our putting and enjoy luscious green grass, even in December.

Scott is in his senior year at Brigham Young University, majoring in Entrepreneurship. He has one more semester of classes and is ready to be done. He has interviewed at a few different medical schools and is now playing game called, “Thanks for interviewing in September, now you have to wait in suspense until April before you hear from us againJ.” Scott works as a research assistant for a professor in the Marriott School of Business. He has also been working as a Physics TA in the tutorial lab . . . that is, until he got his Christmas bonus this week (downsizing).

Ashley is also in her senior year at BYU. She is majoring in Family and Consumer Science Education. Sounds fancy, huh? No one really knows what it means, including Ashley, but it means she can be a home economics teacher. She just finished her last semester of classes (I think I can hear the Star Wars victory theme song), and she will be student teaching in the subjects fashion strategies, adult roles/sex ed., and interior design in January at Lone Peak High School. In March, she will be teaching at a Riverview Jr. High in Murray. Ashley’s scared to teach, but as long as she takes her professors advice and uses an “outside” voice in the classroom, the students should be able to recognize who the teacher is. Ashley currently works for the University Accessibility Center (office for students with disabilities) as an Office Assistant. She has worked there for almost four years and they are very sad to see her go. They are now looking for a replacement, and Scott is now looking for a new part-time position . . . wait, now there’s an idea! Yep, Scott will be taking over Ashley’s job next semester. He might be able to fill her shoes, but he will never be as cute.

Next year will be exciting and full of change. We will be headed to whichever medical school Scott gets accepted to. It will also be Ashley’s first year as a teacher wherever she can find a teaching job. The fine details will be worked out throughout the next year, and depending on how long we procrastinate writing that letter, you might hear about it before December 25 in 2009.

Merry Christmas!


Scott and Ashley Stevenson