Christmas in Maryland 2008

my mom made me a t-shirt quilt using all my t-shirts from college. i love it!

the Lyons men

hanging with Grandpa

My brother and parents flew out to Maryland to spend the holidays with us this year. Again we played a lot of games and ate a lot :) We were able to spend Christmas Eve with Jordan's mom (Julie), brother (Logan) and grandparents which was fun. Christmas day was spend at our house and Julie, Logan and Grandmom and Pop came over. We ate egg casserole and homemade cinnamon rolls (courtesy of Sam) for breakfast before opening gifts. On a side note: Jordan and I have been completely obsessed with the movie Twilight, so for christmas she got me a Twilight calender and made me a collage of Twilight pictures. I bought her a Twilight puzzle. Hehe, I'm not ashamed to admit how much I love this movie and the books! We've seen the movie 5 times.... Anyway, back to the main topic: Christmas. My parents gave Nick Guitar Hero for Christmas so naturally we had to play it immediately :) that is an awesome game! It was so nice to spend the week with my family and I'm very glad they were able to make it out here. It was weird not being in IL but at least we were all together and that's the most important thing.

Thanksgiving in Illinois 2008

Hanging with Grandma

checking out the christmas tree

Mac and Uncle Sam

all of us right after we picked out our christmas tree!!!

-----Yes, I am still alive. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not very good about keeping up with the consistant bloggage :) Anyhoo, these past few months have been very eventful! At the end of November, Nick, Jordan, Mac and I all flew home to spend Thanksgiving with my parents. We stayed in IL for a week and had a wonderful time! We definitely watched A LOT of movies, played A LOT of cards, slept A LOT and ate A LOT of food. I was able to go up to Olivet and spend the day with a few of my friends who are still undergrads there. It was so great to be back on campus, I almost felt like a true college student again. I miss it sometimes... :)