January:
For
New Years, we get family and friends together at our house to play games and
enjoy soup. Susan enjoys experimenting
with new soup recipes and then letting our friends sample them.
February: We like to get gifts for each other and spend
some time together for Valentine’s Day.
Susan’s mom started the tradition of Valentine’s Day gifts when she was
little, and it has stuck ever since.
March: Girl Scout cookies, gotta have em. Nick loves the Samoas, and Susan loves the
Thin Mints especially!
April: Spring skiing is the life!
We enjoy skiing in the winter as well, but in the spring, the canyons
aren’t as bitter cold. Also, by April we
are ready to ski the black diamond.
Every year, we get nervous about hitting the slopes again and then work
our way up to be more daring, only to put the skis away and forget how
adventurous we once were.
May: We haven’t figured this
one out yet, but our birthdays are in April and June. We invite family and friends over for a party
in the style of our choice. One of our
favorites is playing Mop. Mop is a tag
like game, where we make the house dark, and the person who is it has to stay
on the wood (hard floor) with the mop in hand. The other players run from carpet or furniture
and risk being caught on the hard floor.
June: Our anniversary falls in the beginning of June. We travel somewhere new every time.
July: Every year on Independence
Day, we ride our bicycle to near Susan’s mom’s and meet family and friends
along the parade route. After the
parade, we attend the booths at the Freedom Festival. We finish the day off by riding our bikes to
watch a large firework show.
August: School starts… that means math
and seminary!
September:
Our large tree begins to lose a small amount of leaves at this time, and it
doesn’t stop until sometime in December. October:
Halloween time… Susan loves to dress up. Nick is good at scaring the trick-o-treaters. He used to work at haunted houses. Now, we go to Susan’s mom’s, where she gets
over 300 trick-o-treaters.
November:
Nick’s family has a huge Thanksgiving meal which we drive up to Idaho to
attend.
December: Christmas so far has
included Disneyland with Nick’s sister’s family and Disneyworld with Susan’s
dad and brother.
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