Book surprise

   Around Christmas time I noticed that Barnes and Noble had a lot of classic books with nice leather covers.  I really wanted to get some of my favorite books leatherbound because I want special copies of them.  As probably everyone knows Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book, but of course that was not one of the books that I could get.  They had it in this set with other books that I was not super interested in, but did not have it for sale by itself.  I told Jason that if he could find it that I would love to have it for Christmas.  I did not get it for Christmas so I figured that he could not find it.  Earlier this week Jason said he had a surprise for me.  When he got home he gave me the copy of Pride and Prejudice that I wanted.  He had gone to Barnes and Noble and asked them about the book.  They found it in another state and had it sent to the store that is on Jason's route, where he picked it up.  I was so surprised and I love it.  I am so grateful to Jason who tries so hard to make me happy and makes me feel so loved.  I love the book, but I also love the effort that Jason put into getting it and I will always cherish the book because of that. 

Puzzle

   Jason and I love to do things together, but after ten years of being married sometimes it feels like we have done almost everything.  We have probably played hundreds of games of Ticket to Ride and there are only so many times we can go to Target for our date nights.  So I thought maybe to "spice things up" that we should do a puzzle.  In the past I have not really liked puzzles, but I thought maybe it was time to give it another try.  I also thought Jason would like to do one.  So we went to a game store and instead of getting a small puzzle to try it out we decided to get a 2000 peice panaramic puzzle.  When you look at the box it does not seem that big, but when you get all the peices out you realize it is a big long puzzle.  It took us about three weeks to get it done, but we got it done on Christmas Eve.  We sort of had to get it done because we needed the puzzle for Christmas dinner.  It was actually really fun to do the puzzle and I did not get as frustrated as I thought I would although there were a few places that were hard, like the sky.  It was fun to see it all finished and kind of sucked when we had to take it all apart.  I figure in a year or two we will probably do it again.  Jason would like to do a 5000 peice puzzle but I don't think that we have the room to do one that big. 

 

Lights



   I am a little behind on blogging.  I have been busy trying to get stuff ready for my brother's wedding that is this week.  I am trying to make up for it, hence the three posts in one day.  In December we were lucky enough to go downtown a couple of times to see the lights at Temple Square.  They were very beautiful and it was fun to go see them.  We have not been downtown to see the lights for a few years, so it was good to go again.  Of course the time that we went to get pictures it was freezing and snowing, but the snow made it seem even more Christmasy.  It was also fun to go down to City Creek and be there around Christmas.  It was super packed, but still really nice.  

 

I like this picture because Jason is actually smiling in it.