Christmas!

We slept over at Scott's house on Christmas Eve and had Christmas morning over there. Here's a picture of us on the real Christmas morning:

We got stockings and got to open our presents. It was us with Scott's brother Justin and his parents. It was a fun morning except for the fact that his parents were both sick....it's sad to be sick on Christmas. I felt bad. Anyway, after we opened presents we made some food for dinner later and got ready for the day. We headed over to my house because my brother Cameron was going to call from his mission in Canada. When we walked in the door Taesya, my niece, ran over to us saying she opened presents. She wanted to open the one from us but she was told she couldn't until we were there and Grandma (my mom) was there. As soon as my mom came in she started opening her present. Here's a picture of her with her new Belle barbie (from Beauty and the Beast):

Now, Canon, my nephew, was sleeping so he couldn't come and open his present. My siblings were playing in the other room when they heard Taesya over the intercom waking Canon up, giving him his present and telling him to open it. Amber heard and went upstairs. Sure enough, Canon had opened his present and said goodnight to his new truck. I ended up accidentally getting him the same firetruck that my mom had given him so now he has 2 firetrucks. Here's a picture of him with another one of his trucks:

We talked to Cameron and it was a very emotional experience for most of us. It was sad talking to him because he's only been gone since June. It was good to hear from him though. After the phone call we went back over to Scott's house.

When everyone came over to their house they opened their presents. Brad and Kate (Scott's brother and his wife) were in California with Kate's family so they weren't there and we missed them. Scott's niece's and nephew opened up their presents from us.

We got Kincade a nerf gun. Here he is opening it:

We got Reagan a Sleeping Beauty Barbie. Here she is with Natalie:

We got Cosette a baby cell phone. Here she is with Camille :

Christmas was fun with everyone. We ate some food, played games, watched a movie, etc. It was a successful Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent with my family. It was really fun! My parents invited aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents on the Mortensen side. Not everyone was able to come but there were still a lot of people. We had dinner, sang "No Room" with Grandma, had a nativity program, and played games. My parents got a Wii with the Wii fit so we played with that. We made characters for a few people. The one our Uncle Bart made looked very much like himself. It was fun hanging out with family! After the extended family left, Scott and I opened up our presents from my parents. We also gave my siblings their gifts. It was a very fun Christmas Eve! The holidays are so fun! Pictures to come....

Our Own Little First Christmas

We decided that we wanted to have "Our Own Little First Christmas." We were going to my house for Christmas Eve, and Scott's house for Christmas so we wanted our own. Plus we didn't want to bring our presents up there because we were already getting gifts at our parents. We had our presents under the tree and decided to have our Christmas on Christmas Eve Morning.

This is our Tree: It took up a lot of our living room


We woke up on Christmas Eve morning and opened our presents. I wanted to wake up earlier than Scott, we eventually got up at 7:00 AM. We opened our presents and then headed to Kaysville to my family's house.


This is us on "Christmas Morning"



It was fun to open the presents that we got for each other. We also got to pull out what was in our stockings. It was the best first Christmas ever!

We started a blog...

So, yes we started a blog. As soon as you get married people start to ask where your blog is. We decided that now is the time since we have something interesting to post: our Christmas letter that you probably read before this. We also have a lot coming up in our lives next year and want to keep people updated. I like reading other people's blogs to see what they are up to so hopefully ours will be fun to read too. Starting a blog was a lot harder than I thought, well just choosing the layout was hard. I wanted to choose a really cute one while Scott wanted one that wasn't too girly so this is our compromise. Enjoy our future posts!

-Ashley

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