Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, we were lucky enough to get work off and travel up north and spend the holiday with my family. We had the whole day Wednesday, which was my brother's birthday and all day Thursday. On Thursday morning, a bunch of my family ran the 5k Utah Human Race. We had to be there at 7 am. It was freezing. We cut Kurt's hair the night before to make him look like a Turkey. He sure did run like a Turkey with 23 minutes as his time. There was no way I was going to keep up with him. My mom attempted but soon lost him. I tried to keep up with my brothers the whole time, I think I did pretty good with that. It was a great feeling to know that we ran 3 miles so we didn't feel so yucky when we ate a lot of food. 

My mom and I finished my Christmas candy countdown box. Last year I only had the box, so I made her help me with it while I was there since I wouldn't see them until after Christmas. Kurt had to be back at work on black Friday by 2, so I decided to decorate the house! On Saturday when Kurt did't have work, we put up our tree! We are so excited. I think Kurt more so because he gets to have Christmas with his whole family and he has not had that since before his mission. He is like a little kid. But i love him! We also did a fun little project, we had this pooping moose and we decided to paint him like one of the moose's in park city. I think Kurt did a pretty good job with the design.

Goodbye Dixie

Well it's official, Kurt and I are moving away from St. George. Say goodbye to warm weather in November, goodbye to traffic free freeways, goodbye to Gardner family. Say hello to freezing weather, sit in one spot hour traffic, and hello Mikkelson family. Yep we are moving to Salt Lake City to go to the University of Utah starting January. Kurt is finishing up his associates this December and wants to start the business program at the U. Dixie does not have a marketing program and we needed a school that does. We are both really excited about the move but also a little nervous for the change. It is always such a hassle to find jobs and such, but guess that is the fun in life. It's been a good year here in St. George, and we are going to miss it and the friends that we have made. But more fun and friends are sure to come.