The Haole Hawaiian: Christmas time is here ;)

Well, not too much to catch up on...
     Things seem to be in full swing with my new position as FRG leader of Nate's company. I seem to have a meeting every time I turn around. We have an FRG Christmas Party coming up so that will be exciting. I have a FRG "Bootcamp" I have to go to this weekend, but one of my friends is going to so it hopefully won't be too boring, afterward we are going to go see Harry Potter.
    Nate and I are planning to have a party Christmas Eve and invite the neighbors. I need to send out invites soon. He just went on a staff ride the other night so I was able to make dinner for my friend/neighbor and her daughter. I love having people over, but often get scared that they won't like what I cook, but all went well and the food was so good. Nate and I have decided to wait to celebrate our anniversary until March/April. We are going to wait and do it right before he deploys. We are just going to go out to dinner and maybe the water park on our actual anniversary. Nate surprised me with an early Birthday/Anniversary present yesterday. I needed a new phone and I was just going to wait until closer to my bday to get it. Nate said we had to make a stop on our way to Bed, Bath and Beyond. He stopped buy at&t and said we are getting your phone now ;). I am officially on the "dark side" now. I LOVE my Iphone 4. Nate will get his when he gets back from deployment, but for now I let him play with mine.
     We are working on our Christmas letters. It is a tradition in Nate's family to send out a Christmas letter, so we are adopting it especially since we have a lot to update here from Hawaii. Nate's Dad sent us our Christmas present early. It is amazing! It's a Balough family cookbook. He put it together with all these amazing family recipes and cooking tips. I am so excited to get to use it and add to it. We still have to go out and get Christmas presents. Our moms are both covered and normally they are the hardest so that makes it easier on us. I still want to get Nate a few more little things since he got his big gift already (surf board). We have all of our decorations up and it feels a little more like the holidays, which helps when it is in the 70's outside.
   Well, that is about it for now I feel like I am forgetting some stuff. Nate leaves soon for NTC so that will be coming up. I hope you all are doing well.

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