Just a couple of pictures, is all.

You might recognize this park from a from a few months ago.

Holiday Break (Mostly Pictured Here)

We had a great holiday break.

Christmas morning we slept in and leisurely opened our gifts (pictured here). Thank you to everyone who contributed. The important part of the morning for me was getting some exercise at the apartment gym (not pictured here). The important part of the morning for Brandon was the amazing breakfast, complete with orange juice and bacon (pictured here). Most of you know about the breakfast already because he's told practically everyone about how exciting it was to eat bacon again.

On Friday, the day after Christmas, we drove to St. Louis and back again. We attended the St. Louis temple (pictured here). Later, after a long detour and lots of traffic, we made it to the famous St. Louis Gateway Arch (pictured here).

The rest of our holiday break (mostly not pictured here) was spent celebrating our second anniversary, celebrating the New Year by playing games with the LaBou family, frequenting the nearest RedBox, and playing Carcassonne, a late Christmas gift.

Work and classes start again tomorrow morning, regrettably. Hope you all have a great year.

O Tannenbaum

So Melody and I decided to save some money this Christmas by buying our Christmas tree at an after-Christmas sale. We hear those are pretty good but we'll see about that when the time comes. But since we decided to wait, that means that our apartment is Christmas Tree-less for the holidays. So, with all my free time while Melody is at work, I printed off a picture of a tree from the Internet and blew it up. We don't have a color printer, so it took me the better part of a day to color it in with Melody's crayons, colored pencils, and markers. This is the final product, hung up on our wall, complete with presents. It's about 4 feet tall, if you want to put the picture into perspective.

In other news, Melody and I went ice skating last Friday with Brittnea and Eric. It has been about 3 years since we went ice skating last, so we were a little clumsy on our feet for a while. As a little flash back in time, some of you might remember the last time we went ice skating (it happened to be the first time we went ice skating as well). It was Feb 10th, 2006 and it was Melody and my 4th official date. That was the first time I held Melody's hand. Awww. Sweet memories. That was a good date.

Right now we're looking forward to time off of work, a quick trip to St. Louis this weekend to see the city there and visit the temple, a few fantastic Christmas meals, and talking to family during the next few days. Merry Christmas everyone.

Quick

Here's a quick shot we took the other day of the first snowfall of the season.

While we have your attention here's a brief update. We've been diverting ourselves lately by watching Lost over the Internet which has been delightful. We just finished the fourth season in anticipation of the new season coming out in January, in case you follow those kinds of things.

Brandon's finals will be over next week on Wednesday the 17th. Melody also has a few days off around Christmas and the New Year so we'll be relaxing heavily on those days.

In other news, we updated our website, brandonandmelody.com, over the Thanksgiving holiday with a new, hip look to it. The content didn't change too much, however a few of the addresses did change so if you had any of those bookmarked you might want to go back and see if they still exist. Just a thought.

Happy holidays everyone.