Overdue update!

OH MY GOODNESS! I seriously have not written since October? Goodness I am such a slacker! Alright, well since I know you are all dying to know what been going on with the Nelsons... pull up a chair, warm up some hot cocoa and get comfy cause 3 months is a long time in the life of newly weds!

First, an overall update... we are FANTASTIC! Patricia moved to nights for winter break so we get most days off together at least until 3. It makes it a bit harder to keep up with the house work since I am not stuck at home all night now. Our puppy is still doing great! She is finally healthy and so full of energy. We take her to the dog park to let her run and play. As long as there are no "moving chew toys" (AKA small dogs) she loves it! We love her! We got a second car thanks to Taylor's sweet sister, Ashley. It will be nice to not have to work out who will take the truck!

Now on to our adventures... in October we went to the state fair for the day. We had a blast playing the games and even got to go to a free Lady Antebellum concert. I am slowly turning Taylor into a country music fan. It is a tough job but one step at a time! We also tried out some "fried foods" like a fried twinkie, fried snickers, and of course, a fried scorpion! The entire day we had our eyes set on these 4 foot Scooby Doo Dolls that were a prize for the ring toss game. You know, that impossible-to-win-game with the coke bottles and itty bitty rings. Well we played about 4 times and with our last 2 tickets of the night we gave it one more go. Patricia was ready to go home so she was just half heartedly tossing them when to the surprise of everyone, mostly the guy that worked there... SHE HOOKED IT! Scooby now sits in the corner of our living room baracaded by the couch so Lacey won't find him! GO PATRICIA!!! We think the fair will have to be an annual tradition.

Thanksgiving was fun. We started the morning off doing the Turkey Trott (marathon not the dance). Taylor's parents and brother & sister-in-law and us did the 1 mile fun run! Taylor & his mom ran the whole way and finished in about 9 minutes. Then we went down to Patricia's parents where we had a delicious feast!

Patricia was able to talk Taylor into joining the madness of Black Friday by telling him that Sports Authority was giving a gift card between $10 and $500 to the first 80 customers. So at 3 am we joined the crowd and sat out in front of the store... we got $10 each! Then we went to the Disney store anf bought some cute Mickey & Minne Stockings, then Home Depot and purchased our first Christmas tree together (also Taylor's first real Christmas tree)! We were done with our Black Friday adventures by 7:30am!

Our first Christmas together was spent with Taylor's family. We spent Christmas Eve at his parents and had tamlaes and chili then opened our PJ presents! Christmas morning we were woken up by Santa at 6:30 am! Santa was very good to us and we got new internal frame backpacking backpacks! After our celebration at home we went to Taylor's brother & sister-in-law's, Scott & Christine's in Sun City. Then we headed over to some good friends of the Nelson's, the Jackson's for a wonderful dinner! We celebrated with the Sherman's on Jan 3rd so we got spoiled twice! The Sherman Santa gave us many great things including a popcorn maker! We are so thankful for all that our familes do for us!

New Year's Eve was spent just the two of us watching movies. It was pretty uneventful, we looked at each other half way through a movie and said "Happy New Year!" We are, nevertheless, excited for 2010 and all the fun we will have!

This semester Taylor and Patricia are finising up thier Associate's Degrees. Luckily we needed the same classes so we are taking 2 classes togehter which ensures us 3 nights a week together. We are also going to go to institute once a week and we are taking an Outdoor Survival Class together! We are super excited! Taylor is applying to the nursing program at Mesa Community College. After he applies we will have a 3 semester wait (a year and a half)!

So life is good! We are loving being married and being with each other! We hope you are all also doing well! We'd love to hear from you some time!