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Our 15th Anniversary Getaway

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Jaime and I decided we wanted to go somewhere to celebrate our 15th anniversary. We're half way through thirty years! To be honest, it does not seem like 15 years. Waiting for my 15th birthday seemed longer than my 15 years of marriage. I've always told Jaime how I'd love to take him walking through temple square during the holidays so he could see it all lit up. I remember my first time going. I went with my family. Dad got us a nice hotel room. There were lights everywhere. It was so beautiful. I'd gone multiple times during college as well. So when thinking about where to go for our anniversary Jaime decided he'd get plane tickets to Salt Lake. He didn't stop there! He booked us a beautiful room at the Grand America Hotel. When we got there we were upgraded to an executive sweet, had $300 credit to use at their stores, restaurants, room service, and spa. Such a beautiful hotel. I would recommend staying there to anyone who asked and I am sure I'll s

Merry Christmas!

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I really like Christmas Eve on being on Sunday. We were able to go to sacrament meeting, partake of the sacrament and then listen to and sing Christmas songs. The only speaker was the bishop at the end of the meeting. Then we all went home to spend the day with family.  My Sunday bunch after church.  We went to my parents for our Christmas FHE. I really don't want to give up that part of Christmas. It's important my kids act out or read the Christmas story to grow up understanding why we even celebrate Christmas. So that's why we were at mom's for a couple hours before heading to Morale's for dinner. When we had just arrived to Grandview it began to snow.  Once it started snowing a little harder the kids and I went out to see it. Something about needing to catch a snowflake on your tongue.  We saw a trail of these little prints. The kids started saying it was Santa's reindeer. :) (not deer prints but seeing a long trail of them did mak