Friday, January 2, 2009

Finals, A Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!

I guess the best news since we last posted is that I passed all my classes and have successfully moved into my final semester. This last semester should be a little lighter and hopefully some more fun since I have been part of a team that is designing a dunebuggy type offroad vehicle. THis next semester we get to build what we designed, so in addition to 2 math classes and 1 business class I am taking a shop class.

After finals came birthday numero 26 for me. Naoko and I went down to SLC and played for a bit where for my present we upgraded our cellphones and I got the iphone.


We promptly used the google maps to find the restaurant we wanted to eat at and got turn by turn directions from the location we were at. We enjoyed a delicious Japanese cuisine at Matsu. As you can see we loved it. Rumor has it Naoko likes sushi...



Christmas is always a fun time of year. We enjoyed lots of presents and family. Here is a small taste of our Christmas.


You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, but do you recall ... HOWIE???


Howie had a very merry Christmas too.


New Years topped us off with a lot a great food and celebration. In Japan New Years is where it is at for holidays. So Naoko went all out and made a lot of good food. See for yourself...


We couldn't really find a lot a stuff going on in Logan so we crashed the institute dance and after about twenty minutes someone yoinked the fire alarm and so there was no dancing going on after that. We managed to enjoy some refreshmants though and rang in the New Year with style.


Howie also joined in the fun!


We just want to wish every one a Happy New Year!!

2 comments:

Lyndon said...

It's good to see how you are doing. "Last semester" sounds nice, did james and dan finish last month?

-Valdez

Andrew & Naoko said...

Yeah, the last semester thing will be nice. Dan just finished and Jim has been done for a while now.