{this past weekend}

We had such a fun night at the Garlick Cousin Christmas Party last night! My cousin Kate made me an adorable chalkboard menu board that I can't wait to use!! She has one in her apartment and I loved it when I saw it and she was so sweet to remember and make me one. I still can't believe our babies are due the same day! Our moms actually had babies on the same day (my sister Makell and her brother Jospeh)!! So maybe we'll go with trend and deliever on the same day.

We had a fun weekend watching all of the Lord of the Rings movies; my work is renting out a theater for a pre-screening of The Hobbit on Thursday so we decided we should watch them all right before! We also went to a pizza party at Travis' accounting friend's house to celebrate Ph.D. applications being submitted. We are grateful that process is complete! After just 4 days of submitting them last week (it usually takes more like 1-2 months), we heard back from  one of the universities with good news, so Travis will be flying out there at the end of next month for a visit and interview!! We are waiting on all of the others now and are hoping for good news as well.