Reed Family Pre-Christmas

This weekend was a blast!! For starters, Brian and I found an apartment. It is actually a 4-plex and we are on the end so we only have to share one wall!! It is in Long Beach. Not too far from Bri's work. We are going to sign a 1 year lease and in the meantime look for something else. It is a little scary neighborhood, reminds me a little of Stockton, but it will do for now and we hear the ward is great!

Friday night we went to Mom and Dad Reed's ward Christmas party. It was very nice. The food was soooo yummy!!! Ham, baked potatoes, fresh green beans, green salad...Janee, what is the name of that salad? I just know it as "Janee's Salad" ~ that is what Brian calls it. :) They had butcher paper on the tables and they melted crayons into little snowflake and tree molds so we could color and draw at the tables. Very fun. I think that was Brian's favorite part. Janee came with Elise and Jason. It was nice to be able to spend time with them.

Saturday we had "Christmas". They were all too kind to us. Thank you guys so much for all the amazing presents! Brian's mom loaded me up on Nativity sets....LOVE THEM! They got us some stuff off our registry. Brian got a new IPod and was soooo excited about that!! He got me beautiful diamond earrings. So sweet of him. Then his dad made "Bodacious Omlets". They were awesome! However, all of us that ate from the first batch, didn't feel too well for the rest of the day.....we will just leave it at that. Saturday evening we visited with one of my mission comps, a very good friend of ours (Jenn and Karl). We got to see their cute kids and had a great time. It is fun to spend time with them. We made plans to go back for Brian's b-day for a Wii party! Jenn is going to kick me in the behind in Guitar Hero! hahahaha

Sunday we tried to go to our new ward, but went to the wrong one. Too bad too because we really liked the ward. Everyone was so nice and came up and introduced themselves to us. We were told that our ward is very nice too. We drove around Long Beach to check it out. Brian knew most of it since he served there on his mission. Pretty cool that we get to live where he served his mission.

We had an AWESOME weekend!