Merry Christmas!!

Big 4-0!

Yes, I hit the big 40 a couple days ago. It's very strange to be that old. I still feel like I'm 25, but I'm sure I am definitely as mature as a 40 year old :)

For my birthday, we went to dinner with my sisters and mom and their husbands. It was a lot of fun. Scott made a cake. He insisted on making it...he did work at a bakery when he was a teenage, so I was expecting his usual perfection in everything he does...

Perfection? Not quite. I guess it's been a tad bit too many years since those bakery days...

I love BYU...

We met Scott's parents at the BYU bookstore a couple days ago so the kids could pick out some BYU sweatshirts for Christmas. I was shocked how much the Wilkinson Center and the bookstore have changed. I love BYU and want my kids to love it to...and go there someday. It brought back a lot of wonderful memories to be on the campus. I admit I got a little teary eyed. Scott just rolled his eyes at me. He likes to tease me about how much I love hiking the Y, going to the Creamery, eating at Brick Oven, and how I always point out to the kids my college days jogging route and the apartments I lived in. My family moved to Europe when I was a sophomore at BYU, so BYU became home to me. It was a great time of life...and a hard one too, but mostly great. It was the place I went from teenage to adult and figured out what I wanted out of life. One day I hope to go back and get my PhD and then teach there. Maybe we'll even move to Provo and I can make Scott hike the Y and run my old jogging route regularly :)