In July my brother Taft left on his mission to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. We were really close so I was sad when he left, but he's doing awesome!!! I'm so proud of him! I think in the last post I said for our anniversary Collin took me to see Phantom of the Opera in Vegas. It was AMAZING!!! I absolutely loved it!
Then school started and life got boring again. But it was Collin's last semester so that was exciting! We were involved with a Halloween party full of Disney characters and the kids came trick-or-treating to the Disney characters. Collin and I were Woody and Bo Peep from Toy Story. We did this the year before too and we had so much fun! It's fun to see the cute little kids come and be so excited to see the Disney people in real life!
We had 3 Thanksgivings to go to in one day so that was pretty crazy. The Cragun family, the Barker family, and then my aunt's family. It was crazy, but fun to be with family the whole day. Collin graduated in December with a Bachelors in Microbiology and a minor in Chemistry. That was a very exciting day for our family! Technically he could get a real job now, but he has more school to do since he wants to be a chiropractor!
Our Christmas was once again small this year. We got a big Draper Temple picture, a few seasons of The Office, Collin got me a Disney Piano Book, and I got him Drill Bits. Even though we've had small Christmases, we've loved them. And I'm trained from my family to wake up super early to open presents so we were up at like 6 I think opening presents. After we had our Christmas we went to parents to have breakfast with them and to talk with my brother on the phone. I absolutely loved talking with him. He's such a great kid. Christmas Eve we were at Collin's parents having the Cragun Christmas. That was a lot of fun too. I love seeing how excited all the little nieces and nephews are with their presents.
January 2013 Collin lost his job from something that was an accident and he didn't know was wrong. So that was a tough little while, but luckily my brother Dallin got him a job at Trampoline Parks about 2 weeks after so we didn't have to wait too long before we had another job. He helps build Trampoline Parks all over the country. The end of January he was in Virginia for a week. I missed him at home, but he got lots of hours while he was there.
This month we celebrated Valentines Day the smart way. I was busy the night of Valentines Day with something for school, so we went out to dinner the night before. GREAT IDEA! It's not packed and busy the night before. Then on Valentines Day we gave each other our presents (Collin gave me chocolates and then said he was taking me shopping, and I gave him a basket of "101 Reasons Why I Love You". I typed up 101 reasons why I love him and then bought a few presents that had to do with the reasons. Pinterest was such a help for this). Then February 25 was Collin's birthday so we went out to dinner at The Pie and I gave Collin his presents, Skyfall, the game Ratuki, dark chocolate covered pomegranates, Riesens, and a nice bright blue AE shirt.
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