The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I love this time of year!! Not because it's winter and gets cold (my least favorite thing), but because it's such a joyful time. This season has been especially wonderful. I've spent more time with friends than I have pretty much any year previous, I spent time with family (like every year), and it's just been amazing!

I was very pleased with myself for actually getting presents for my friends this year. I've never really done it before, but this year, it just felt right. Most of my best friends (I have 3) are leaving (most = 2/3) for anywhere from a few to several months. I understand why and I'm happy for them, but it still leaves me a bit melancholy, to be honest. One friend is going to work at Disneyland (YAY ALI!!!), and my other friend is going up to BYU for school. My third best friend (Yes, that's you, Kara! ;D ) is student teaching, so I probably won't see much of her, either. :( (We need to watch Pushing Daisies sometimes. ;) Especially since I got season 2 now. hehehehe)

Christmas was amazing this year! I'll just go through from Wednesday to today, because most of the time I work. Wednesday I got to go see Princess and the Frog again with Ali and James. It was amazing! You know a movie is good when I don't talk at all during it. XD And I didn't talk at all. Usually I make comments left and right throughout the movie. So that was fun. :) I then went to work for a while and then came home, and prepped (kind of) for Kara to come over, so we could watch PD, Season 1. (We watched episodes 6 & 7.)

Thursday, I went to work in the morning, until about noon, and was counting pills for most of that. XD Not so fun, but whatever. That afternoon, I picked up a copy of my book from Americopy, where I had had it bound for James, since he wanted to read it. I then proceeded to head over to his house for a gift exchange, and a look at some mission stuff. 2 1/2 hours of chatting, laughing, and looking at pics and things, it was amazing. I had soooo much fun! He's a neat guy!

Thursday night was our traditional family Christmas Eve gathering, where we eat dinner and have a program. It's really neat to have a musical family. Four of the six of my family performed a song called Baby in a Manger by Sally DeFord. Here you can listen to it. It's a wonderful song. One of the joys is our Christmas Carol time, where my Uncle Brent (Brent Jorgensen, LDS music composer and arranger extraordinaire) plays the tunes to different songs and we all sing along. :) This year, he wrote his own song, and it's AMAZING. I wish I could have recorded it or something, it was absolutely beautiful. After our program is over, we head back home and read the Christmas story from the scriptures, and then open our 1 present, or in this case 2, because my mom made us all pajamas, so we got to open that one and then another. It was awesome. :)

Christmas morning was amazing. It started out like any normal Christmas, with the gift opening and whatnot. At about 9am, we were told to go outside, and in the driveway was our next Christmas present. Mary Martin and her sister, Marilyn Crosby, had ridden down, on our very own horses. It was AMAZING!!! I was shocked!! Their names are Mack and Seinfeld, and a thoroughbred and purebred Arabian, respectively. They are so awesome! It's exciting! Kristen and I spent a lot of the day with them (she more than I), and Saturday we spent most of the day riding. It's awesome. There are still some things we need to get, but it's just awesome. :)


Anyways, that was my week. It's been intense and crazy and fun, but I love it! :D I can't wait to see what happens next in my life!!! It really is the most wonderful time of the year!

Alright....

So I got begged to do another post. ;) hehe

Sorry it's been so long. =/ Just been taking things one day at a time and trying to survive the semester. And.... now the semester is over, and I'm that much closer to finishing my college degree!!!

The past few weeks have been amazing, challenging, wonderful, hard, fun, and stressful. All those emotions mashed up together, varying on the different days and such. I finished the semester, and I didn't have any finals during final week, which was AMAZING!!!! Our institute choir performed 5 times in one week, and we rocked!!! ;> James even went to see a couple of them, which made me happy, and by now he's pretty much met all my friends that I've made since he's been gone. At least, all my close friends. :)

On Wednesday, I had a Muppet Christmas Carol watching party, and there was me, Josh Arbizu, Kara Morris, and James. Alana and Derek showed up not too far into the movie, so they joined us for a little bit, and definitely joined in when we started playing Curses. XD Awesome game! We got some pretty funny things going. lol I put some videos up on Facebook that I got on my phone. It was pretty awesome!

James and I have hung out a few times randomly. He got to come with me and my sisters to an American Idol Christmas show at the MAC, which was awesome, even if we were a little bit too close. XD We were in the orchestra pit seating. It was awesome, though! James a pretty cool guy. :) I'm kinda bummed that he's leaving to go to BYU this next semester, but like I said, I'm just taking things one day at a time. It's better that way. :)


Christmas is coming up!!!! :D I'm done Christmas shopping, so now I just get to sit back and wait. ;) Not long after Christmas is New Years, and then my BIRTHDAY!!!! I cannot believe I'm almost 21! It's crazy! :D But it'll be interesting.

We had some drill performances this weekend which rocked, even if it was really pretty stressful. =/ Anyways, hope everything goes smoothly the next few weeks as the holidays really start happening. ;)

BEST WISHES!!!!!!