2010

First post of the new year. Woot.

Our New Year's Eve was pretty nice. We drove up to Salt Lake to go see the lights on Temple Square. Parking was another matter, but it was nice. After walking around Temple Square, we were hungry and we went to a Chinese restaurant that Stephan's Advanced Calculus teacher (who is from China) recommended. It was pretty good--the potstickers were delicious though! We drove back home, and Stephan talked to his friends on Skype until almost midnight. I just vegged. We're pretty boring here in the Anderson household.

The next day was when we celebrated a late Christmas with Stephan's family, since some of us were out of town for Christmas. The party wasn't until four, but Stephan dropped me off early so he could hang out with his friends. Meanwhile, I sewed an apron for Stephan's cousin's wife for the extended Anderson family Christmas party that was to take place the next day. She also just married into the family. I did pretty well considering how I am not the most experienced seamstress (shocking since my mother is famous for her sewing) and we had to make up a pattern for it since Kathy's original pattern was nowhere to be found. I think I've decided that I want to get serious about sewing.

At four, the party started. I forgot to mention that it was Alex's (Stephan's younger brother) birthday on New Year's. So now they have a Christmas birthday (me) and a New Year's birthday. We opened presents (Stephan and I got some nice stuff), ate food, and played a lot of games. It was fun and tiring evening.

The next day, we drove up to Logan for the annual Anderson Christmas Party at the Coppermill (a restaurant). The food was pretty good; Stephan kept raving about the chicken, but I thought it was merely all right. Then again, I didn't have a huge appetite that evening. the beef was quite good, though. There were a few games and there was also a gift exchange. Kaitlin (the girl who I gave the apron to, but wasn't there) had purchased some beautiful black velvet gloves for me and a lovely teal "scharf" (scarf+shawl) as Stephan likes to call it. I've only met Kaitlin once, but I must say she has exquisite taste :)

That's pretty much all for now. The last few days have been pretty lazy and somewhat boring. I'm not really looking forward to Stephan starting back to school tomorrow. At least we only have one more year of this, hopefully.

Oh, if anyone wants any sweets, let me know. We have too much sweets and such around here that we got as gifts.