New Years

Last week Chris went up to Tucson to build a toybox at his grandpa's house while his dad had a doctors appointment. I went up there on Thursday to hang and "help" build the toybox, which was helping to rotate the box when needed haha! That was difficult for me because the toybox was just about an inch shorter than I am. It's a pretty big box and it looks great! We had a good time hanging out with his grandparents and just chilling. While Chris was working on a shelf that his grandma wanted made, there was a javelina that ran in front of him and he was like what the heck?! So we went looking and there were four javelina just chilling in his grandparents backyard. So we got a picture of that. On New Years Eve we watched the ball fall at midnight, which was a first for me. I have never stayed up long enough to watch it! And I don't have TV which makes it kinda hard to watch also. So that was fun. Then we went to bed and finished the toybox in the morning. On Friday night, his grandparents took us out to dinner at Micayos, which was delicious. I had never eaten there before either and we had a fun time and got some good pictures! On Saturday we drove to Buckeye for Cheyenne's birthday party and Kim's baby shower. I don't have any pictures from either of those but they were really fun and we had a blast on our mini vacation!

Temple Lights

This year my family and I went to Mesa to see the temple lights. They were awesome! We spent the day up in Mesa shopping and hanging out. The lights were beautiful and we enjoyed going very much.

While we were doing our shopping we went into a best buy and outside was a little bug that said "Geek Squad" on it and my sister and I had to get a picture next to it, of course and they were AWESOME!! And of course, we had to put on our Geek faces! It was pretty much great!

Christmas Eve

This year for Christmas Eve, it was a little bit different. I went with Chris and his family to their family party at Aunt Vicki's house. It was a blast and there were a ton of people there. I had a good time. I gave every family a jar of pomegranate jelly that I made in October and I gave his aunt's a set of potholders to go with their jelly. They really enjoyed it. It was fun telling everyone how the jelly is made. They thought it was a lot harder to make then what I told them I did! In the middle of the party Chris and I left to go to my house to get a picture with Santa, because Santa comes to our house every Christmas Eve so we can put in our last minute Christmas wishes. We missed Santa coming, but we both got to sit on his lap and tell him what we wanted. It was fun. I also got a fun picture with my favorite cousin Belle. We always have to take a picture together because we are each others favorites! Then the family started the yearly tradition of making sugar cookie stained glass windows. It's really easy to do. You make some sugar cookie dough up and you mold it into a shape that you want and then you get chopped up jolly ranchers to put in the middle and cook the cookie at the temperature the recipe says and watch the jolly ranchers melt. It's a favorite of our family! After the party at Aunt Vicki's house we went over to Chris's house and had a gift exchange with his family. Cheyenne took my horse I got and gave me her sticker packet which I gave to Curtis and Cheyenne to play with. It was a ton of fun. Then Chris and I went to Jake's house to help do some stuff. It was a fun Christmas Eve. (More pictures to come!)

My Cousins

This is me and my cousins Jeremy and Jason. Jason just returned home from his mission and it was the first time in almost three years that we were able to get together and hang out. I love these two boys. We are super close and we have a good time whenever we hang out. Oh, and yes they are twins. Jeremy is on the left and Jason is on the right.

Collettes Wedding

On Thursday, December 3 one of my best friends from high school got married. It was probably the best day ever! I woke up and went to my early lab and then Jessica and I left to go on the road to get to Snowflake in time for Collettes wedding. Pretty much, it was really really cold and windy, as it always is in Snowflake. When Collette came out of the temple she looked so beautiful and happy. I am so glad that I was there to witness her coming out of the temple and her happiness. Her and Ty and are great together! The perfect little country couple! Here are all of us friends. The first one has Tyrel in it. We had to be nice and allow him to stay for a couple pictures and then we got our famous girl picture that we take whenever all of us girls get together. Pretty much I love this group of people and it was such a great, fantastic day!

School!

So this semester has been a rough one. I have three really boring teachers that all teach from powerpoint and never add anything else into their lectures. I learn more from reading the book than I do from my actual teachers...sad right? So this last week in my Microbiology class, we had a test and we got a copy of an old test, well two actually, and we only studied from those tests and I got my test back and I only missed 3 out of 50 which equals A 94 PERCENT! And the last test that we took, we also got the old tests, only we had like 4 of them and I only missed one (because it was a trick question) and I got 96 PERCENT! And before I started studying from the old tests, I got not that good of grades! So I was very excited! I might actually pass this class with a B which is what I need in order to get into the nursing program! In Chemistry I'm passing with an A which is amazing because I don't pay attention in that class whatsoever. Pathophysiology is a whole different challenge. Luckily the tests are take home tests and I am able to take a week to do them otherwise I would be failing for sure! That's my semester. Only a few more weeks until finals week and then I'm home free! For a couple of weeks. I got a new computer which is great! Oh and only 8 more days until Chris is home!

Little Gray Kittens Adventure...

This is my kitten. Her name is Little Gray Kitten and she is one of my most favorite kittens in the world. Last week she went missing on Tuesday or Wednesday and i looked and looked all over for her and I finally told my mom that I was pretty sure that she had gotten eaten by the coyotes and she wasn't coming back. Well, on Sunday I was helping Jessica finish getting dinner ready at her mom's house and I get this phone call. It was my mom asking me when all of my meetings are going to be over. I told her and I asked why. She said, "Oh the neighbors called, and" I interrupted her and said, "THEY FOUND MY KITTEN!" and my mom said, "Your kitten took a vacation to their house this week and they have her for you to pick up when you are done with your meetings tonight." Needless to say, I was so excited. I love this kitten so much. My coworker showed me the pictures of the kittens her cat had and I saw this one and knew it had to be mine so I told her that I called the gray one and nobody else could take her. So she saved her just for me. I went to go and pick up my kitten at the neighbors house and she (the neighbor) kept telling me how good of a kitten she was and that she didn't mind taking care of her at all. So the next time my kitten decides on taking a little vacation I know where to look for her first!