christmas was wonderful!!!  Pat and I love going home to see our folks... we wish it would happen more often.  I love how west monroe was something i wanted to move away from so bad but how now i want to move back there or as close to there as possible because of my amazing family.  We both felt so at ease and seemed like we could be more motivated to get our buisness started even faster. It was hard to leave all of that behind knowing we were heading back to hotel life.  Hotel life so far, since we have been back, hasn't been that bad though because we have made the Laquinta a little home away from home and the people that work here have done a great job making it feel that way too.  New years eve was great too because it was mine and pat's first time that we were actually together for the big new year's eve count down  since my family always goes to Gatlinburg, Tennessee every year.  So we got to have our first new years kiss in the first year of our marriage... woohoo!  Man, there was so much that went on in the two weeks we were home that i can't fit it all in to a post.  i do have to give it up to ella and everett for being the cutest kids while opening their presents... especially everett since this was his first christmas to actually understand that it is stinking fun ripping open presents and seeing what they are... geez they were CUTE!