Sunday, December 25, 2011

Happy Christmas!!!


So I know it's been a while since my last post. The reason: I suck at keeping secrets so I've tried to limit the amount of communication I've had with the outside world for the past month... two months.. while. Anywho the reason for this need for secrecy is no longer because of the following:




What my father is reading, in case you can't hear for some reason or if you want to follow along with what he's reading it is the following:
"PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ms. Erin Madsen

November 18, 2011

Dear Erin,

Congratulations! I am pleased to offer you a transfer as an Experienced Associate to PwC's Rockies Risk Assurance Practice based in the Salt Lake City office, effective January 1, 2012."

Yup, it's official. I'm transferring offices and we will be in Utah again. Drew has been accepted in to BYU as a former student and will start classes on January 3. He's going to be getting a second undergrad degree in Exercise Science to bump up his science GPA so he can be a more competitive candidate for med school. I think he's going to apply to med school this year also though just to see what happens.

We decided the middle of October that we needed to move back to Utah and holy cow we've seen a lot of things that show us this was the right decision. Everything has fit together sooo well and just helps us know that we made the right decision. Drew got in to BYU, we're going to be able to live in his parents house there in Orem, I got to have 3 weeks off for Peter's wedding (which was lovely. I have supermodels for in-laws, curse you Peter and Becca ;)), Christmas, moving our stuff, and getting settled. I"m really excited to be here.

So yeah, we did the "we're moving!" thing as Mom and Dad's Christmas gift and holy cow it was difficult to keep it a secret. I suck, as I said, at keeping secrets so I've been dying and seriously stressing out every time I talk to my mom. As you can tell from the video, the secretive-ness was a success though so yay! It was exactly the reaction I was hoping for :)

It was seriously a great Christmas. I went all crafty and made everyone's gifts so Clari, Colton, and Christian all got scarves that I crocheted


and then for Annette/John, Peter/Becca, and Ryan/Natalie I made decorative wood thingies.




And I got an AWESOME gift from and for Drew. He got me an awesome sewing machine and surger so now I have no excuse but to be crafty :)
I seriously look like such a grandma though. I mean, I got a sewing machine for my gift and I crocheted everyone scarves and yeah... I need to go sky diving or something like that to remind me that I'm 23 years old instead of 93.

But yeah, I'm ranting now and people don't really like reading long blog posts. I don't at least. I will update more often with details of once we've settled in and life is going.

Merry Christmas and I hope everyone has a fantastic day :)