.:as of late.

Well as of late, I have been slacking on blogging.  I guess I should catch you all up on my super exciting life, not! Haha, but life has been rather busy! Last time I blogged was when I was simply enjoying life! I was doing great, and don't get me wrong life is still great but just a little busier than I would like! But that's life I guess.... School is exceptionally busy! I feel like teachers think we are only taking their class so they pile on the homework thinking we have all the time in the world to do it. Along with that it was the week before Thanksgiving and so my motivation level was somewhere between -4 and 0! Such is life! I made it through those dreadful three weeks and finally got to go home for longer than two days! It was wonderful! We stuffed our face, watched One Tree Hill all week, saw Santa turn on the Christmas lights, and spent lots of time with family! I love going home! It is almost harder for me to leave after going home to visit than it was to move out for college. I just get so comfortable and happy that when I have to leave it is really hard for me, and I always hate it! But luckily I am going home again in three weeks and it will be wonderful! Especially because it will be Christmas!!! I love Christmas our apt. is decked out in Christmas decor, our house is all lit up I have the Michael Bluble, Justin Bieber Christmas cd's, and I LOVE it!! So all in all I just need to stay strong for three more weeks finish the semester out strong, stay off of facebook, and then I can go home with no stress, no homework and lots of relaxation! I just can't wait... I can do it! I can do it! I CAN DO IT!!!
P.S. I feel like this is a great way to vent my feelings so I'm sorry! :]

I Love Life!

This weekend has been one I will never forget. I have had such an AMAZING weekend, all of which I loved! So on Friday night, I went to Heidi's apartment and watched a movie when it began to SNOW!!! I am usually not to excited for snow this early, but I freaked out! It was so pretty! So my roomate and I decided to go document the first snow fall of the season by taking a bunch of pictures! Then on Saturday morning my ward was doing Temple Baptisms. I love the Rexburg temple it is so pretty and it reminds me a lot of the one in Twin Falls which makes me feel like I am at home. So my roommates and I woke up at 5:00 to go to the temple at 6:00 AM. We got back about 7:30 and no body said anything but good night! It felt so good to sleep for a few hours and not worry about anything else. I woke up made myself a delicious breakfast and decided I was going to get all my homework done that afternoon. So I made my roomate change my facebook password and I said I wasn't going to come out of my room until 2:00 when a really good Halmark Christmas movie was going to be on! I did it; which doesn't happen very often. I got all my homework done by two and got to watch my movie! That night was the first session of our stake conference. Our stake president is President Henry J. Eyring, President Henry B. Eyring's son. It was so so so good! I was just on a spiritual high that day! After conference my sister Heidi, her roomates Alex, and Emma, me, and my roomates Lizzy and Natalie all went to dinner at Wingers....DELICOUS! We all ate way to much and felt so sick after, but it was great. That night I grabbed a snuggy curled up on the couch watched the snow fall and put in Christmas With the Kranks, a Christmas favorite. It was AWESOME! On Sunday daylight savings began, made a HUGE difference in my night. I now realize how much I took sleep for granted in high school. In college I am barely alive by Friday so that extra hour made a huge difference and is going to continue to! Sunday morning we woke up and went to the second session of stake conference and again it was wonderful! We came home and my roomates and I made homemade pizza and Heidi's roomates made breadsticks and cookies and it was delicious. Now I am sitting in my room, I just got off the phone with my family and I began to feel sorry for myself wanting to be home and with them. Then I just realized how much of an amazing weekend I had, and if I were home none of this would have happened! I am so so so grateful to be up here at BYU-I and have one of my best friends live just next door! I am seriously the luckiest girl! I love my life right now and I wouldn't want to change a thing! 'Tis the season! : ]

It may be a little early.......

It may be a little early but I CAN'T stop thinking about how excited I am for Christmas! All I can think about is Santa turning on the lights on the Square, snow storms, the movie Elf, Hallmark Christmas movies, and of course the true meaning of Christmas! I honestly am not thinking about all the presents, I just love the spirit of Christmas and the love it brings! So here are a few of my favorite memories of Christmas growing up!

1. When I was 10 we lived in the country and on Christmas morning we went outside and saw a herd of reindeer, as my dad called them! I was so worried about Santa because I knew he needed his reindeer to fly and I was just so worried he wrecked and the reindeer ran away, but rest assured my parents explained those weren't Santa's real reindeer just ones he has keep an eye on us to see if we were naughty or nice.

2. When I was about 8 Holli was 2, I remember getting a barbie dream house and Holli wanted it so she took it and ran away with it, I cried and Holli cried because I tried to take it back from her, defiantly the most dramatic Christmas I can remember.

3. Just this last two Christmas's my sister Heidi was on a mission and the Christmas spirit was so neat and was defiantly something I won't ever forget.

4. Every Christmas Eve we get to open one present and it is ALWAYS Christmas P.J.'s and I most defiantly wear them year round!

5. And last but not least what makes every Christmas one you will never forget? Your FAMILY! I love mine and I am so thankful to have them here with me! They make the season that much more memorable, it doesn't matter where we are, how many presents we get, or who got what all that matters is that we are together and I love it!

This blog post is def. a little cheesy, but hey what else are the holidays for? <3