'Twas the Night Before Christmas

The Chuy's invited us over to their house for dinner for Christmas Eve. After working all day and getting everything closed and cleaned I came home quickly changed and we headed for Salt Lake for dinner. In Peruvian culture Christmas Eve is when all the big celebration happens, they have a HUGE meal (with like 4 different kinds of meats!) and they even count down to midnight and have fireworks/dancing. 

Ben and Lily brought some really yummy meat with a delicious juices and my favorite Peruvian dish Papas a la Huancaina. 

Lexie Lou was getting her pre-meal walking in by having me help her walk laps around the house. 

The beautiful set-up.

Yep Lexie drank her first "wine" :)

Lexie might have drank a little too much and started to choke so we were trying to help her and show her what to do, instead she just started at us all like we were weirdos (which I'm sure we all are).

It was a fun Christmas Eve, we were all more than a little tired by the time we got home around/after midnight but fun nonetheless!

Getting to Know You

(When I was thinking of a title for this post I thought of that song and this movie and realized that I haven't seen it in awhile and I would like to...good thing my Mom has it so that I can borrow :D)

This evening at ward prayer my apartment did the spotlight (which we have been avoiding for awhile now). Basically you are supposed to think up a creative way to introduce your apartment, we decided to split of the ABC's and introduce yourself using those letters. I got D,F,L,and X.

D: Don't Drink Dairy

F: Filled- my passport is half filled with Peru, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Cambodia (afterwards I found out that our new 1st counselor in the Bishopric served in Cambodia so he asked me about why I had been there and what I had done)

L: Love blogging and baking

X: X-Ray, I had an x-ray on my brain (well I guess my whole body technically) after blacking out while driving on the road.

Adios Hermana Williams

Last week Sister Jamie Williams entered the MTC, she will be there for 3 weeks and then heading to the Peru MTC!!! I'm so excited for her!