Took forever again....

So I'm late again as always but oh well. Just not much in a blogging mood lately. Well of course the latest happenings are Christmas, new years, Going to Washington, and coming back home. It was all pretty fun. I started out making a lot of treats for Christmas. trying my hand at fudge, caramels, and English toffee. And they all turned out great i was really surprised and happy! i had decided that from now on i will start a new tradition where we do Christmas's around the world. It was fun. One night we did France. Pierre Noel Came to our house. We laid out our shoes and woke up in the morning to find them filled with little toys and treats. Mady loved hers and found it as soon as she got up. :) Then one night we did Germany. We invited my family over for that. We did an advent calender and tried our hand at ginger bread houses. It was also really fun. We also did another day. I be live it was japan. you clean the house really well in preparation for Christmas. Sorry i didn't take any pictures ahaha. Then we had the huntsman Christmas party at my mom on Christmas eve. Then stayed up late playing games and having fun. We spent the night at my parents and woke up for Christmas the next morning. Mady loved it. The only problem was after she opened a few gifts she wasn't interested in opening any others she just wanted to play haha I've learned my lesson. Get her less things :) then we had the murri Christmas party which as always was a blast. then we made the journey to Washington the next morning. We drove to Utah and then flew to Seattle then drove from Seattle to Custer. It was long but it was nice to see all of johns family. We had fun. Played games, went five pin bowling in Canada, and just enjoyed each others company. It would have been a lot more pleasant if Mady hadn't gotten sick. I don't know what it is about Washington but we always end up getting sick with one thing or another. Poor girl had a fever fro more than 3 days (First time ever getting a fever). I'm pretty sure she had a sore throat and just was not a very happy girl. She felt better about the second day we got home. It was nice to have my little girl back to normal. I wasn't a big fan when she was so grumpy, but i don't know too many people that are happy when they are sick :) Then after a while we went to my parents to watch the final college football game. It was really fun and we found out how much Mady really loves popcorn :) She's worse than her parents :) Speaking of Mady.... and speaking of speaking and Mady. She had started to say her first words. She has babbled out a bunch of gibberish for a long time and she understands what i say very well. She just doesn't feel like talking. finally she decided to. Her first words are...(Well they are more like phrases)..... Thank you, Here you go, Uh-oh, I did it! That's pretty much it so far but its pretty darn cute. Well enjoy some pics and i will hopefully post again soon :)