Happy Holidays...a little late.

Welp, I'm terrible at updating this thing. Usually, I'm just not in the mood to write. But tonight, I'm going to give it a go.

So far, all that's happened since the last post was Christmas and New years. I shouldn't say "all" that's happened - those are pretty big holidays. We went to a Christmas service at a church called The River a few days before Christmas, and it was fun to check out a new church. We've been going to different churches in the area with our friends Megan and Aaron, trying to find one that we all love.
Jon and I spent all day Christmas at my parents house. It was so fun. We opened our gifts to each other here at our apartment first, and then packed up the animals and headed to my parents to hang out for the day. It was such a fun, relaxing day. Everyone was so generous with their gifts to us, and they gave us way way more than they should have. My dad had a surprise for everyone - he bought Beatles Rock Band and had it set up in the basement, so we all played that a lot during the day. My grandma and my great aunt came later for dinner. Jon and I ended up staying pretty late, until I couldn't stay awake anymore and I requested to go home, even though I didn't want to.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Jon and I were both pretty sick in the days leading up to Christmas. I had some sort of stomach flu, and I'm convinced he had the swine flu. Not fun. So we both missed some work, but in the end, it was really nice to actually be home together at the same time, since our work schedules rarely allow that.
Jon and I both took work off so we could have a 4 day weekend for New Years. That was really great to both be healthy and get to relax. I have a tradition with two friends from school that we started freshman year: we've spent every New Years together for the past 4 years. We were all going our separate ways this year, so we all went out together on the night before New Years Eve. Then, for New Years, we spent the evening with our friend Jake and his family. Jake's a good friend of ours and he's home on leave from the Marines. His family is a blast to hang out with, and both of his sisters have new babies, so that's really fun. It was a really low-key night, which was perfect. The rest of the weekend, we finally finished Prison Break, which we've been watching for about 4 months now. We laid around in our pajamas all day, ate junk food, and did nothing. It was exactly what we needed. Also, we went and saw Avatar, which was amazing. It was unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm not sure that I liked seeing it in 3D though...a little hard for my eyes to adjust. But it was such a sweet movie. Yesterday, we went to church with our friends, and then went to Jake's again for some good food and board games. Jon and I went on a date to On the Border for dinner, thanks to a gift card from his grandparents :)
Our nice little break finally came to an end and we both went back to work today. It was a tiring day, to say the least (It's 7:15pm and Jon's already asleep...) but I'm just so thankful I don't have class this week. I'm not looking forward to going back to school next Monday.
I wish I had taken more pictures during this past week, but I didn't really, and I'm too lazy to upload the ones I did take. So, maybe I'll post some later.