What have we been up to this month? Here are some of January's highlights in a nutshell...

Well, first off we took about a week to recover from all of the holiday festivities. We put away the Christmas Tree and decorations, and we got the apartment back in order. Robert started his final semester at BYU. He will be graduating in April with Jeff. Lately, we have been going to the BYU men's basketball games. One of the best games we went to was the Wake Forest game at home. It was a close game the whole time, but Wake pulled away with it in the last 2 minutes of the game. We had fun even though we lost because, as you may know, Wake Forest is an unbelievably great basketball team, so they were fun to watch. Robert and I signed up again this semester for BYU intramurals. We are playing mixed doubles in the second highest division. Our first tournament match is this Saturday. In order to get in the mindset of playing tennis again, we have been watching a lot of the Australian Open. I am rooting for my favorite tennis player Nadal to take it all the way. Robert still loves Federer, so we will see who wins that match up. My favorite TV show American Idol started up again. I am starting to work on internship (child life specialist) applications for the summer/fall for the areas where Robert applied to law school. We decided to move up with our "sunbeam" class at church, so now we sit on the second row in primary :) We love teaching the 4 and 5 year old class. Our class is full of fun, silliness, and excitement. They keep us very busy on Sundays, but we love them. Tonight we are giving two of the kids' (in our class) parents a night out, so we are tending 5 kids tonight! Wish us luck! They are all under the age of 8, so it will be an adventure keeping all 4 boys and one girl entertained. Well that about sums it up for the month of January! I can't believe February is already here!

One More Law School Acceptance

Robert found out on Saturday January 24, 2009 that he was accepted into Samford's Law School. Samford is located in Birmingham, Alabama. We did not think that he actually got in because when we opened the mailbox there was only a small envelope. In our experience so far, acceptance letters come in a big envelope with a packet of information; where as, rejection letters come in your normal sized envelope. Thus, to our surprise we opened an acceptance letter in such a small envelope! Now our whole schema is thrown off! Oh well, I guess it makes for a better surprise! Also, Robert did not get into the University of Georgia, so we are not moving to Athens. Atleast that is one option we do not have to consider now. Robert has gotten into 3 out of 4 schools he has heard back from! I am so proud of him!

Christmas in Nashville Highlights

The entire family came to Nashville and stayed at my sister's house. Yep all of us under one roof! It was a lot of fun and we crammed in a lot of activities into one week. As you can see from most of the pictures, we went to the Opryland Hotel, The Rockettes at the Grand 'Ole Opry, Downtown Nashville, played video games (Ben got the Wii for Christmas), shopped till we dropped, painted pottery, went bowling, played monopoly (Robert is addicted), and we ate ate ate!

My Grandpa and I. I don't know if he will ever want to travel again. We had a very eventful plane trip out to Nashville! It was supposed to snow so bad we wouldn't get out, but luckily the weather held off. However, they had to change our plane's tire, which set us back about an hour behind schedule. Well we only had an hour until our next flight, so Robert ran off the plane when we finally landed and held up our connection for us. My Grandpa, my mom, and I sped through the Houston airport on a golf cart trying to catch up to him. Well as the story would have it, we made our connection barely and made it on time to Nashville. It was a Christmas miracle!

The boys

Our matching Christmas socks my mom bought us! Notice how the guys are showing off their legs. Haha

Mamma T and her girls

Aunt JoJo with Tyler and Kayla

My brothers and their wives

The most delicious pancakes you can imagine - we stood in line for over an hour!

The Opryland Hotel

Beautiful

Absolutely stunning! The Hotel is built with all the rooms on the outside with an enclosed arboretum in the entire center.

Robert underneath the waterfall

The whole gang

Rocking out on the street inside the Opryland Hotel

Kayla and I were two peas in a pod this trip.

The girls

Standing in the middle of the Opryland Hotel

Merry Christmas!

We were tired from all the walking we were doing! That hotel is huge!

My mom took all of us girls out for our Christmas present to see the Radio City Rockettes!

Lunch at the Rainforest Cafe

The entire ceiling and restaurant looked like this. It was a very entertaining place to eat. The kids loved it!

Jeff and Laura, who will be moving soon to Dallas, TX.

Still at the Rainforest Cafe. We loved it!

The biggest chair I have ever sat in.

All the girls went out one afternoon and painted pottery. It was one of Kayla's Christmas presents from my mom.

I am showing off my ornament I painted.

Downtown Nashville

Robert walking down Broadway Street

Must be a nice place :)

We had a fun trip to Nashville, seeing everything.

Elvis was everywhere

We obviously were having too much fun! This ones for you mom ;)

Parthenon in Nashville, TN? I found it very strange, but nonetheless it was fun to see!

The columns were massive!

We drove around star sighting - we found Alan Jackson's house from a book my sister bought in one of the country & honky tonk stores for $10.00. It was a lot of fun!

I caught a cold while I was there and ended the trip feeling a bit sick. As a result, Robert is now sick. I am waiting for the rest of my family to tell me they are all sick now too. Thankfully, Keaton was trying to make me feel better here.

Winter Wonderland

What do you do with so much snow? You make a Snowman!

Look how much snow we got! It is up to my knees!

My cute husband!

Aren't we cute?

This was Robert's first snowman he has ever made!

Snowball anyone?

Watch out!

The aftermath of the yard - each row helped construct our beautiful snowman you saw.

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks. Dressed in Holiday Style. In the air there's a feeling of Christmas...

Mrs. Teri Fountain, who was so kind enough to take me to NY!

The whole group!

From the top left: Mary Beth Jones (Teri's best friend and Robert's best friend Spencer's mom, Hayley Raines-Spencer's girlfriend, Teri Fountain-mother-in-law, bottom: Amanda Jones-daughter of Mary Beth, and lastly me!)

Oh silly girls...

I got to meet up with my best friend, Jenny Shular who is living in NYC. I already miss her!

Wow look at those ladies!

This is the couch I slept on.

Nice pose huh?

Central Park

We were not excited to leave...in the airport