Valentines Day/Koreans

Ok so January and February are off and to a great start!!! Our new year began with us being a host family for 2 Korean students, which was a total blast!!! Their names (Americanized of course) are MJ and Hanna.on the right is Hanna and in the middle is MJ. So they came the last week in January and left on Valentines day. We had a ton of fun, we went sledding, out to ice cream, shooting, and lots of other American activities that I take WAY too much advantage of! While they were here they had a friend come and visit, Sun (on the far left), and we made Valentines day sugar cookies. They had never done it before and were totally amazed at how they turned out. To the left is a picture of them receiving their certificates for completing there school work while they were here. I guess I should explain that better...They came over here for school to learn how Americans teach/learn. They were here for 4 weeks and went to SUU for 2 weeks and to East Elementary for the other two weeks.
Hanna and MJ left on Valentines day and it was sad to see they go. As for our first Valentines day as a married couple we really didn't do anything eventful. These are the flowers that Shane surprised me with and he made a wonderful breakfast for me on Sunday morning and then we spent the day laying around the house.As for the next two weeks of February we are training for the Moab half marathon/5 mile run. and so far we are doing ok....Shane is a running machine...me on the other hand not so much.

until next time! Love the Armstrongs!

Our First Christmas

Ok so I am a little Slow!!!! but here are some of pics from out first Christmas together!!! and might I add that it was a totally awesome Christmas and 4 days of celebration! First we started our adventure on Christmas Eve day and drove to Roy, stopping in Payson of course to say a quick hi! We spent Christmas Eve with the Smith side of the family and it was tons of fun! We also spent all of Christmas day with the Smith side of the family and we were able to see all of the Dodge side of the family as well. It was a blast!!! The day after Christmas we managed to get our butts out of bed and head out to get some updated family pic which we haven't had in 10 years!

After the family pics we headed down to Payson where we had our Christmas with the Armstrong side of the family which was totally awesome! And they were so awesome because they waited to have their big turkey dinner with the
whole family there so that we could all be together! Now this was
first time since august that the Armstrong family had been together and the first time we had all been together in Payson! It was great!
After our two days in Payson we were able to head back up to Roy to celebrate my dad's 50th BIRTHDAY!!!! which was a blast!!!
We unfortunately had to leave all the family fun and head back to Cedar which was a sad sad day not to mention a horrible day to travel! It took us six and a half hours to get back when it usually takes 4!!! it was terrible!