January dates

Ryan looking very smooth and charming during our anniversary dinner at Vivace. Our waitress loved him...but Jess won. :-)
Jess smelling the beautiful roses that Ryan surprised her with for their anniversary
Ryan and Jess at Powdrells after snowboarding...he's cleaning the ribs out of my teeth :-)
Us at Vivace for our sixth-month anniversary dinner...this was after we visited the Tram and got to look at all the city lights and right before we went to The Melting Pot for a fondue dessert.


Ryan and I had so much fun our last couple of weeks together! He surprised me with white roses on our sixth-month anniversary and we went to lunch (at one of our favorite places- flying star), drove to the bottom of the Tram and looked over the city as the sun set, went to Vivace and had an amazing Italian dinner, and then went to The Melting Pot for a chocolate fondue dessert that was amazing! It was such a good night and we had so much fun.

We also got to go on three snowboarding trips in the beginning of January. Some of the pictures are below, but we went to Wolf Creek, Santa Fe, and then did a half day at Sandia on our last full day together. Ryan is such a great snowboarder and helped me improve a lot...we had tons of fun and next season will be amazing too!

On New Years Day, the Bell and Hanko family finally got to meet...Ryan and I spent the day making dinner for everyone and it was a success :-) Ryan made the spinach/walnut/dried cranberry salad, the french onion soup, the asparagus, and the delicious banana dessert, while Jess made the Chicken cordon bleu and set the table :-)

We both had such a wonderful Christmas break and had so much fun with each other! I'm really going to miss him this semester, but we're making sure to talk a lot on the phone :-) hahaha. I love you babe!