thoughts on a sunday

• We're back! We feel so happy to be home and so sad to have left, both at the same time. We had a wonderful three weeks in Utah with our families. I miss them already.

• Out of the four of us, I am probably the worst traveler. McKay was perfect, Brian is a rock in the drivers seat, and then there's me and Elle. She is just two, and a fourteen hour drive is a lot to ask of a two year old. So that kind of gives her an excuse for having her moments, but I'm much older than that. It's really hard for me to stay still.

• When we got home last night McKay was walking around our house with wonder in his voice as if he'd been away for five years. "Oh, and here's the laundry room. And here's our bathroom!"

• When we walked into the house it smelled like it did when we looked at it for the first time back in August. It made me feel weird. It wasn't a bad smell, but I'm glad we're back to put our own scent in here again.

• I asked for a Snuggie for Christmas. It wasn't to be funny or anything. I really wanted one. Brian convinced me that he would never buy a Snuggie and so I was so pleasantly surprised on Christmas morning. It is the color of pepto bismol and it's wonderful. Doesn't Brian look good snuggling in it? Our downstairs is so drafty and I am so freezing here so you can just picture me rocking my pink Snuggie every night on the couch. The Snuggie ended up being quite a popular gift on my side of the family, so you can actually picture most of us in them.

• So far it looks like when church starts are two 'o clock that means that you don't start getting ready until noon. Gross and wonderful. We're implementing mandatory crock pot Sundays starting next week and wondering when we're going to fit in our family movie.

• Brian starts a new clinical rotation tomorrow. He will be learning from a CRNA in a real operating room with real surgeries and real people being anesthetized. It's getting real! I hope he really likes it.

• I had a break from all electronics while I was gone. Well, almost the whole time. And guess what? I kind of loved it. It made me want to re-evaluate my time on the computer. I really love blogging- I do. I love capturing the moments of our life and I love sharing those moments (and thoughts) with people who care. It's really important to me to keep doing this for my own personal purposes. But the tricky part comes when I waste so much time on unimportant things. Like blogs of people I don't know. Why do I do that? And why do I feel a need to get on the computer and check on things everyday? It will be there the next day, or week, or whatever.

• Brian and I got fat while we were in Utah. We are both disgusted by it. My parents gave us a blend tech for Christmas and we are planning on drinking green drinks daily and I know that will help. I am going to need big pep talks before grocery shopping about not buying treats. . .but I think I'm in trouble because I have not been able to stop thinking about the cookies from Safeway since we at them on our way out of Oregon three weeks ago. Maybe if I just get those and that's it?! They are SO delicious!

• Every year I am amazed at how we fit a car load of new things into our life. Since we got home last night we haven't really unpacked any of the new stuff we got and it is littering the house and driving me crazy. I have a busy week ahead of me between the giant pile of laundry, cleaning the neglected house, putting away our Christmas decorations and finding a place for all our new stuff.

Happy Sunday!