December

Time just continues to move on faster and faster! Our Thanksgiving was wonderful. We continued a fun tradition with friends and ran a turkey day 5k in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. Afterwards we all went over to our friends house and had an awesome day. Literally the entire day was devoted to eating, drinking, crafting, games, hot tubing and being merry! We are so lucky that we have friends here in Utah who love to do this as much as we do.
The next day Brendan and I also continued a new tradition for us from last year where we popped champagne and put up the tree and all of the decorations. I have a Ballerina tree that Brendan has slowly tried to integrate into a non ballerina tree. I have been collecting ballet ornaments since I was a very little girl and putting up the tree every year always brings back so many good memories. Somewhere down the road I hope we have a little girl, a white tree, hot pink lights and we can have a very specific Alyssa Ballerina tree and maybe a White regular green Christmas tree elsewhere! I love the advent season just something about December always makes me happy!
In a really good news, Brendan got a full time job! It is as a sales analyst for a company here in Utah called InContact. He does not graduate until this fall but this spring semester he only has one and a half credits really left. So he decided to get a jump on his classmates and get a job. He interviewed with a few companies but really enjoyed the culture and connected with the people at InContact. I am so proud and happy for him and us, hopefully this will lead to some exciting things ahead in 2012!
Love
Alyssa and Brendan!