We are back to Colorado. She lovingly welcomed us with about 4-6 inches of snow and temperatures in the 10's. Needless to say, we haven't turned our heat off since arriving home 6 hours ago. A few lessons have also been learned in the last 6 hours.
1. When your husband and you are both sick at the same time, its nice to just lay in bed and watch movies, something that never happens in medical/nursing school.
2. They don't always plow the roads here, meaning I got to drive to costco on packed and powdery snow.
3. Pushing a cart in the snow is a lot harder than one would think. It was really hard!
4. When your wearing 4 layers, it can sometimes be hard to walk :) Add this to a slow cart and grocery shopping takes a lot more time.
5. When your at the grocery store and you have a really runny nose, go pick up some nice tissues, open them, and then pay for them later at checkout :) 

All this to say, God is gently reminding both of us of our need for him. He is our strength both when we are weak and when we are strong, but so often our "strength" leads us to confidence in our selves and away from trust and dependence on him.

So before moving on, some big prayer requests:
-we both start school on monday (jan 3) so prayer that we would get over our sicknesses and not share what we have with each other (since we have 2 completely different bugs).
- I am walking into a whole new nursing school on Monday, so prayer for contentment and strength would be awesome. And that I would "bloom where planted".
- That as Stephen starts, he would be refreshed and rested and ready to go

On another subject, we got a camera cord for Christmas :) so here's the update from the past 3 months

This is my car that I arrived home to :) I just loved how it looked like it had nostrils

This is back to CA over Christmas break. We went Jeeping with Jogi (Stephen's brother) Other than getting stuck several times and the thought in the back of my mind that we might be stuck all night, It was a blast! 

The Downtown Denver Parade! It was awesome! A little cold, but we felt like it was a "real" parade (real meaning its in the category of the macy's day parade, etc.) 

Picking out our 1st Christmas tree. "This looks pretty good"  as he spun it for me to see 

 "Yep that looks great, lets take it" :)

This is the week before thanksgiving when my family stopped by for a few days on their way to Texas. My mom helped me cook a turkey so I would know how when the big day came. (p.s. miss these guys already) 

And back to October. This is Stephen and I (and Jess and Jenn) helping out at our churches "harvest party" (and yep you guessed it, with a candyland theme, who could resist dressing up like cotton candy.) 

Halloween Party at Jess and Jenn's. Carving competition between boys and girls

Group Picture. 

So there you go :) Blessing this new year!
Hannah