Where to begin?

So much has been going on this past month, I don't know where to start.

We spent the Holidays with family in Utah and stayed there until last Saturday. Good timing, right? We missed out on massive amounts of snow and crazy ice storms in Des Moines and only had to brave Utah's temperatures, which were usually in the 30's.

Matt's parents let us stay with them in North Salt Lake, but we were up at my parents' in Heber at least once a week. Laura, Matt's younger sister, and her family are living with Matt's parents right now, so it was great to have someone to hang with while Matt was gone—not that he was gone all that much. He did a four-week anesthesia rotation at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful. It was super cush. He left for the hospital around 7:00 a.m. and was home most days by noon, sometimes earlier. We all loved it!

My boss let me work from Utah the entire break (AKA 1-2 hours a day of actual work for full-time pay), which I didn't mind and my bank account loved.

Some memorable times in Utah include:

• Getting together with high school friends at Kim's parents' home
• Celebrating Christmas with both families
• Sledding behind the Tracker with Kim and Matt
• Eating lunch at Dairy Keen with high school friends
• Staying up with Tyler and Ginny until 3 or 4 a.m. on New Year's Eve Eve (We ruined our New Year's Eve, but it was totally worth it!)
• Playing basketball with Josh, Sam, Kim, and Matt
• Seeing Mark, Kyra, and Brielle
• Babysitting Porter and Savannah
• Seeing The Blind Side. Loved it!
• Having a date night with high school friends, college friends, Brad and Laura, etc.
• Dining with the Whiting's, Matt's friends from his mission
• Meeting up with college roommates at Café Rio
• Attending the temple as much as possible
• Touring model homes with Laura
• Helping my mom with her quilt
• Buying life insurance (We are worth so much more dead than alive.)
• Staying up with Brad way past his bedtime (until 9:40 p.m.), just because we were leaving the next day (Thanks, Brad!)
• Playing Rock Band, Wii Fit, Ticket to Ride

The month we spent in Utah flew by. Before we left for the Holidays I thought I'd be anxious to get home to Iowa, but that wasn't the case at all. I could've stayed in Utah a bit longer, but the day we drove back to Iowa I got super excited to see all our friends here. Is it weird that both Iowa and Utah feel like home?