We're almost there!

Hello everybody! I just thought i'd post this fun pic of eric and I on an airplane because thats what we're going to be doing in 5 days! I'm so excited! After all of the places we've flown and been and seen, I never thought that St. George would be our destination for vacation. And here we are going to St. George for vacation! I'm so excited I can hardly stand it! I must admit, I'm a little sad that I can't see Laura and Josh or Joe, Ashley, and Ethan. It will be so good to see everyone though! It is so cold here right now and 20 degrees! I hope that St. George is a little warmer, even if it is only 35 degrees. I'm sure it will be warmer than this! I love it though, and it is beautiful here. The snow melted for Christmas, so we were kind of bummed about that, but Saturday morning we woke up to snow again, and I swear, I'm like a little child. I just light up when it snows! Now I'm just rambling! At any rate, I can't wait to see ya'll! 5 DAYS!
-Sara

Gingerbread House Party

Every month my three sisters and some of our friends get together with our families for dinner or just for fun. This month we decided to make gingerbread homes. It was a lot of fun. The kids really enjoyed it. We had tons of candy and we made a hugh mess, but it was worth it. This is a picture of Tasia helping Jeff with the icing.

This is our beautiful gingerbread home. This year we learned a new trick on how to do the windows. We melted jolly ranchers in the oven to make stained glass windows.

It looked awesome.
This is all of the wonderful candy. We had tons to choose from.
This is my twin sister Tessa's house. I love their roof. It was made out of airheads.
This is my older sister Tricia and her husband and five kids decorating their house.

2007 Family Picture

Christmas in St. George

To get you into the Christmas spirit some more and for those of you who are unable to join us in sunny St. Geogre for the holidays-- here are some photos of downtown St. George during the holidays. Of course this photo of the temple does not due it enough justice. There are lights twinkling in every nook-and-cranny.

Santa Claus is peeking over one of the buildings in downtown--- he's checking out who's naughty and who's nice.... that's why I don't drive by this building this time of year. If he sees my road rage, I'll for sure only get coal for Christmas!
This is the new Town Square for those who remember it as only being under-construction. For those who haven't been around the downtown area in a while...the old library on Main Street was torn down and this is what is there now. It's right beside the Tabernacle-- there's a nice grassy area with a water feature-- the tower's windows are stainglass images of the history of Dixie. The Town Square is large! The new library was built just around the corner-- it is HUGE and extremely nice.
This is the Tabernacle of course. They re-did their parking lot in bricks to match the rest of the area that is made to look more historical. Even the handicap parking spaces have dark bricks to seperate the lanes. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland oversaw this project.
This is a walkway at the new Town Square. The new library is lit up in the back.
As part of the Town Square project, the city also built the Water Walk. It runs from a pond at the top of Main Street (which they cleaned and remodled the park which is really nice and quaint)-- and the water flows down troughs from the top of Main, across the Boulevard and down through the Town Square. You can see some puddles, but generally the water runs a lot more when it's not so cold. There are other water features at the square as well.

Wherever you are for the holidays, make sure you either start a new tradition or participate in old family traditions. If your plans aren't here for the holidays, know that Coby, Ben and I sure do love you and will miss the Dickens out of you. (Pun intended).

Merry Christmas,

The Washington Hunts

Here's our modest little Christmas tree!

I guess I'll post another pic until someone else gets sick of my post and decides to post again! Way to go Coby and Jill! I love those pics! Check out our blog to see our fun Christmas party video!

IS ANYONE ELSE GOING TO POST!

a very touching evening

So this evening I had the opportunity to travel across town to our church house for our young womens activity. It was a stake activity and we were in charge. We did kind of a traveling nativity story. We heard the inn keeper tell his part of the story. We heard the shepherd and thd wisemen tell their parts of the story, and then onto Mary's story. It was a really nice evening and i highly recommend this activity to anyone with a group of young adults. That, although a very meaningful evening, is not what was touching. As I was driving to the church, I was thinking of my family. Not really sadly thinking, just thinking happy thoughts. Then all of the sudden we were stopped at a light and ..... ready for this.......?! Someone honked! and it wasn't just any honk. It sounded like this........ duh duh dada duh.......duh duh! I just about started crying! That of course, made me smile! Just thought i'd share a happy moment of how Heavenly Father helps us stay happy by letting us hear the horn honk.....or something!