I am so excited for Christmas this year! Like I usually am every year but this year there will be a couple things that are different. First I'll get to spend all of it with my handsome husband! It's my family's year this year and I'm excited to show him exactly how Christmas works at our house. I'm also excited to have Christmas with my family. It will be so much fun to have little kids again. This Christmas we will also get a phone call from Braden and Ben! This will be Ben's last Christmas and Braden's first. My families first missionary phone call! We miss them both a ton but we are so so proud of them! Last night Mark and I got our Christmas decorations up. We have been given a lot of stuff from Mark's parents so we feel blessed that we even have stuff to decorate with. I love Christmas time, the lights, the music. It's just all so exciting!
A few months ago Mark heard some rumors that the varsity volleyball team this year was better than his team in high school. He wasn't very impressed and wanted to prove to them who the real champs were. He talked to a couple of his team mates about possibly doing a game during alumni here in Cardston. He heard back from a few people but it didn't really look like it was going to work. Well when the high school team lost in zones and ended up not being able to go to Provincials the smack talk started in the Olsen family. Brady played for the high school team and his older brother Mark played with Mark back in the day. This motivated both teams to actually make this game happen so Mark and Mark got most of their team together to play most of the high school team.
It was so much fun to see how excited the alumni team was. They were just so happy to be playing together again. The alumni team actually won 2 sets out of 3, but I think everyone had fun:)
