Top 10 of 2010

As we say goodbye to 2010 here are 10 things, in no particular order, we learned throughout the year:

1 - Never pass a police officer on the freeway.
2 - Cramming three friends into the back of your car for a 10 hour ride makes for good company.
3 - If you're on Ellis Island checking the database on a hunch just might be worth it. You never know who you might find.
4 - Spring term and Econ classes are not a good combination.
5 - As long as your on "Team Allie" it doesn't matter if you walk or run the 5k, you're going to win.
6 - When going Black Friday shopping, try to find find the food storage crowd; they know how to have a good time.
7 - Pay the fees for PA school applications and eventually someone will let you come to their school.
8 - People like pie. When you invite the ward to a pie party be sure to make enough (luckily we did)
9 - Doing a Primary program with only three kids isn't as hard as you would think.
10 - You can get a lot done while on hold with insurance companies.

2010 has been a great year. Thanks for all your support this year. We can't wait to see what 2011 will bring!

Christmas Tree

This is our Christmas tree this year. I love it! It's the perfect size for our tiny apartment and I love the garland of felt circles I got at a craft show to go around it.

Christmas Canning

Ok, so maybe we did the canning over Thanksgiving, but it's for Christmas and I liked the alliteration. I've been wanting to learn to can for a couple of years and this summer I was able to go up and help Wendy can tomatoes. Then when I got some birthday money this year I discovered the supplies were pretty cheap. This year Will and I found a spagetti sauce recipe that we love, so I decided that would be a perfect 1st canning experience. Not only that, but we thought it would make fun Christmas gifts to some of our friends, like giving a plate of goodies, but instead it's healthier and they can wait to use it until they're making spagetti or lasanga. Last night we made labels that say Merry Christmas and tonight for FHE we're going to go deliver them!

Quilt

Some of you might remember seeing pictures of this quilt on our blog before. Just to clarify those pictures were taken when I finished pieceing the top of the quilt. Now I have finally finished the quilt. I love it! I didn't use batting in the middle but just an extra layer of flannel. I didn't want to have to quilt over the tops of the t-shirts. Wendy and Cait were kind enough to help me pin the quilt and I watched the 1st and 2nd season on Pushing Daisies as I quilted (mostly on nights Will had to stay on campus late to write papers). I would highly recommend the show. I finally fished quilting it right before Thanksgiving and finished the binding last week. I'm quite proud of this creation!