Christmas

Well, Christmas has come and gone, and I have managed to not post since August. I guess I just haven't really felt like I've had that much to talk about. I got laid off from my job in the end of October, and have been feeling a little low since then. Hard to keep your spirits up when you don't feel productive. But, I start a job again tomorrow, only working 2 days a week, but at least it's something. J got me a great present for Christmas that will hopefully keep me posting more often, a very cool camera. It's a digital SLR camera. A Nikon DX5000 with a AF-S nikkor 18-55mm lens...I don't even know what all of those numbers and letters mean. So I've been trying to learn what aperature and shutter speed actually do. Luckily, the camera came with a class, so I will have some sort of tutorial on the thing. I took a cool picture of my christmas tree that actually makes my tree look nicer than it is :)
We also got a woodstove, and it was a beast to move into the house.

It looks great there, but when we went to the fireplace shop to buy pipe to hook it up, the informed us that unless you have the installation manual, and unless it is installed according to manufacturer's instructions, and you get it inspected to meet the specifications, then if your house burns down, your home owner's insurance won't cover it.... Well we did a little bit of research, and timberline, the company that made the wood stove, went out of business about 10 years ago, and we certainly didn't get an installation manual from the guy that sold it to us from craigslist. So it might be a little more work to get it up and running than we anticipated. In the mean time, it's pretty and that tiled area doesn't look as out of place in our living room.

I'm getting more and more excited about going to Belize. I got my passport, I've been watching airfare prices, now all we have to do is buy the plane tickets, set up the rental car to drive to Salt Lake and off we go, tropical vacation with a wedding attached. Now I just need to get my family to figure out when they're coming to Boise so I can get plans around the reception done.