Sunday Night Lights...

Christmas time always brings back some precious memories for mine and Ryan's relationship.  For some of you who don't know our story, we waited about a year to start dating after we first met.  (This being my decision, not Ryan's;  he was thankful we waited though!)  When we finally became a couple it was December 1st, so we got to jump start our relationship with holiday cheer! OK, that was cheesy....but Christmas of 2009 brings back some great memories. Our first date as a couple we made a gingerbread house together.  Trying to keep this a "Queck" tradition, we made an attempt to do a homemade gingerbread house this year.  After leaving the cookies to cool on the baking sheet...OVERNIGHT, they crumbled as I pried them off the pan the next morning.  Attempt #2 will be this weekend since we still have the ingredients.  Here is a snapshot of our first date and our fist gingerbread house we crafted together :)

The past week has been super full: we had a couple Christmas parties that we attended, a graduation party, and  last night we had dinner at Ryan's employee's house.  It was so gracious of his family to have us over for dinner.  They're a family originally from Mexico and served us some tasty tortillas, rice and goat...good cookin'! I have never been more honored in someone else's home --they served us in such humility.

After a busy week, we decided to spend this Sunday resting around the house....and that is EXACTLY what we did -- we got home from church and took a 2 hour nap.  After resting up, we went out for some yummy Mediterranean food at Pasha (excellent restaurant and incredibly reasonable prices!)  To wrap up an amazing Sabbath, we took a drive to Windcrest, off 410 and 35, to look at Christmas lights. Here are some pictures from our adventure to the Lights at Windcrest!