Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary to our Blog!!!

At last! The long lost Peacock's are home and accounted for. Sorry for the REALLY long vacation from posting. I had too much to blog about, and too little time to do it. December was a C R A Z Y month! So much happened, and we were really never home for more than a few days at a time.

I won't be able to give detailed updates on all of the events but I'll go through the month's major activities. It's going to be a novel anyway!


FIRST WEEK- Luke and Tianna went to Castle Dale so that Luke could attend the temple with his little sister as she went through for the first time. I went with the Young Women in my ward to Temple Square where we watched the Joseph Smith movie and looked at the lights. I then stayed at my brother's house because Sunday they blessed their adorable baby boy, Jacomo. Luke arrived JUST in the nick of time. (and by that, picture him walking up the isle, dropping Tianna and the diaper bag off with whoever was sitting on the end of the row and walking up to join the Priesthood circle)
Afterwards, we took Tianna to see the lights at Temple Square.

WEEK TWO- Luke's finals week. We are pleased to say that his hard work paid off and he got accepted into the concurrant program for his senior year to count towards his Master's degree in addition to his Bachelor's degree. HUGE BLESSING from Heaven! He had to have pretty much all A's this semester in order to get accepted and HE DID! I'm so proud of him! Not only does this mean his schooling will be fast tracked, but since you can't receive scholarships and grants for Grad school, having his senior year count towards both degrees saves us a lot of $$$.

As soon as he finished his last final up on Friday we went down to Price to attend my dad's company Christmas party. It was nice being able to make it this year. It worked out really well because, Luke's sister, Courtney, got married the next day. So we had a busy busy day with going to bed at 1 or 2 and waking up at 5 am to get to the temple on time... since it was suppose to be a huge storm. Luckily we had not problems. Their ceremony was beautiful by the way. Their sealer was the same man who sealed us... so that was cool! Then we came back to Castle Dale for a luncheon and then a reception etc. Again, VERY busy day.
The next day we had to leave to head back to Logan... but we left Tianna at Grandma and Grandpa's house for a few days.

WEEK THREE- Luke worked on that Monday and then Tuesday he had the joyous experience of getting a tonsillectomy. Not only did they take out his tonsils and his adenoids, but they trimmed his uvula (the hangy ball) which was the most painful of all. So he got nice and drugged up and I finished the last few items I needed to do so that we could leave for the Holidays. That night I ended up having some medical issues and had to drag Luke to the Insta Care with me. I then had a prenatal visit the next morning so by Thursday night we were finally able to leave.
NOTE- this may be my last post ever because Luke is going to KILL ME for putting this picture on! :) It could be worse, I could have put one while he was wearing the cute little cap too!

We spent a few recovery days at Luke's parents house and then a few more at my parent's house. One neat thing was getting together with all of my family and having a visit for Old Saint Nick. Tianna thought that was really awesome... until she had to sit on his lap of course.

WEEK FOUR- Christmas week! Yippeeeeeee!! Tuesday we made it to Scofield around 8:00 pm and it took us until almost 1 am to get all moved in. And BOY WAS IT COLD! Christmas Eve night we had a cute little Nativity pageant with my nieces and nephew. We actually had a baby boy to play the part of Jesus! That's a first for my family! Tianna got to be a wise-man and she thoroughly enjoyed her performance. Before bed we read her this little book we bought about Christ's birth as told in the bible and the book of mormon and it was really neat to see how she recognized each character. Well, at least the bible parts. We really wanted her to recognize there is so much more to Christmas than Santa Claus and toys... but it's hard when they are so little to look past the fun stuff.

Tianna looking very wise... and manly in her purple nightgown as she played the role for the pageant.


Christmas was so fun! We had 9 little kids, ranging in ages 8 on down to a newborn. The only one missing was Jocelyn and of course her parents... and we really missed them.
Santa brought Tianna a baby and a wooden cradle, a Cinderella sleeping bag, and a portable DVD player. He must know how much we travel. :) It's more for Mom and Dad anyway. She also loved all the wonderful and generous gifts she received from everyone! We all did! So thank you to all o
It really was so fun watching her experience the Christmas magic. She got so excited...and you could just see pure joy on her face.

The next few days were spent hanging out and relaxing... with a little playing in the snow too. We weren't up to much, especially Luke. He was glad when he stopped taking his pain meds though... not that his throat didn't still hurt, but he hated the way they made him feel. (it's nice to know he won't become a drug abuser)

Friday night we went back to Castle Dale to visit his family and to have the annual Peacock Christmas party on Saturday. It was fun getting together with his uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandparents.

LAST WEEK--Sadly, on Sunday Luke had to get back to Logan to work for the week. He was nice enough to let me stay behind at the cabin with Tianna.
New Years was a bit weird though. He ended up not getting to have Friday off like we planned on, so he drove down to his parents after work on N. Y. eve and I stayed up in Scofield. New Years day he came and got me and we went home. I didn't go to Castle Dale with him because he was suppose to go coyote calling with his dad all day and so I figured why not just stay where I was. We didn't get our New Years kiss at midnight though. *tear*

Now we're home and just trying to recovery!!!!
Sorry about the mini-novel but hey-- no one made you read it! ; ) ..... IF anyone actually did. If not, oh well, it's my form of a journa anywayl.