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 Christmas break!

What an awesome Christmas break. Santa was very good to Daniel this year! An e-bike and an electric guitar made this Christmas a peak year for Santa - it’s never going to be better than that!

Daniel also bought gifts for mom and dad. He bought Dad a domino rally set and he bought me lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant! But my birthday is also very close to Christmas so it was a joint gift. So sweet!

We won the BYU Pop-Tart Bowl game! Daniel got a lot of work done and came home with a bunch of boxes that he and Olivia got very creative with. And we rang in the New Year with friends and Daniel shot off a Roman candle to celebrate!

On my birthday, Daniel took me to the restaurant and surprised me with the best birthday gift ever!!! He arranged and paid for the taxes on a plane ticket for my sister from Virginia! And she was waiting for me inside a wrapped box in the restaurant’s lobby! Plus he paid for my meal with cash and got to do a little math as he tipped our waiter.

We also got to see Frozen at the Hale Center Theater! And on Sunday, Daniel learned how to tie a neck tie and was ordained to the office of a deacon. Holy smokes, how did that even happen???

We are looking forward to getting back into a groove here and Daniel is most excited about a career report we are planning on so stay tuned for that!
























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