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Oh my goodness, what a great 10-day holiday from books, papers, and tests I have had! How about you? Was your holiday everything you wished it to be? Oh, mine was. Let me give you the “deets” {that is, “details” in cool girl talk. Or something like that. I am not absolutely sure.}

Holidays are my favorite. Well, actually, holidays are all of the sudden my favorite. For the last 5 years holidays have been just another workday for me. You know, just one of those days when the person checking out of the hotel says “Happy Holidays” instead of “Give me a refund”. {Really, it’s the little things you have to be thankful for.}

I can’t even tell you the last time I had a Christmas or Thanksgiving {or even an Easter for goodness sake} off of work. But thanks to Jake and I both being promoted to “kind of big deals” {ha} at our workplaces, this Thanksgiving we got 4 days off. IN. A. ROW. {I know, it’s like a miracle happened or something.}

So what did we do? We celebrated! And what a fun celebration it was!

This marks the first Thanksgiving I have spent away from my family. But, man, I didn’t even miss them. {just kidding… please don’t ban us from Christmas} But really. It is super fun to have in-laws that are so much like my own family.

And it doesn’t hurt that Jake and I have the most adorable niece, Jane, who all of the sudden has the cutest little personality ever. Jake even admitted to a little hunger. You know, baby hunger. Don’t worry. I quickly changed his mind. {phew} Or it might have been the other way around. Whatever.

After Thanksgiving we made a quick trip to Boise for the night with some good friends {Jake’s best friend from high school and his wife}. Working for a hotel really does have its perks {uhhum, like free rooms and such}. We spent the night giggling over the silly stories of our husbands’ adventures in high school and secretly letting out a sigh of relief that we weren’t around for their so called “glory days” {Man, some of their stories…}

We woke up bright and early {you know, around 9 … so super early} and headed to the Bronco Stadium for a little football. Jake and his friends from high school have started a tradition of going to a Boise State game every year. This time around they allowed the old, married ones to bring their wives…which equated to two tag along wives and eight high school buddies {I am really hoping more of them get married. Soon.}

Our Boise State get-up.

The main members of the Butte County Gang.

Uhh. This is the picture I took of Jake and I waiting for the game to start. Real good. 

The only other picture I took of us at the game. Really, I need to work on my photography skills. 

Don’t ask me how the game went. I really don’t know the details. I was too busy asking Jake really important questions like “Did you just see that bird?” or “What am I suppose to be looking at? ”. Of course, these questions were supplemented with very important comments like “Look at his hair!” and “Ooh, I really like his shoes!”.  So, you know, it was a really good game for both of us. {Just kidding. I am pretty sure I am uninvited next year.}

On our way back from Boise we decided we just could not drive for one. more. MINUTE. So, we took a detour to Twin Falls, ate at Quiznos {if you know us, you know we can’t take a trip without stopping here at least twice} went Christmas window shopping {which is the best kind of Christmas shopping} and grabbed ourselves another hotel room for the night.

So there you have it. That is what I would call a complete, successful week away from school. And now we are counting down the minutes until our Christmas break. Because really, once you have a break, you cannot convince yourself to go back.

Hope your holiday was everything you wanted it to be,

♥kate