Student of the Month

On the last day of my fall finals for 2009, I received an email from Mrs. Penny Courtney. It said congratulations, you have been selected as December student of the month. That just made my day...well it added to my euphoria.( Look Mrs. Matthews! I used a vocab word----YAY MAR!) I was selected for Student of the month at the end of my freshman year as well. During that luncheon, i didn't know who the other freshman so I was wondering who the guy would be this time around. A few days ago as they were saying the names of the students of the month for December I was anticipating the worst. Much to my surprise, one of my best friends, Nick Miller, was the male junior recipient. I was like, "Heck Yeah, this will be so much fun." And it was. Now as a junior I wasn't afraid to talk and i had a great time chatting with all the other recipients. Now I really want to go to Ritzy's and get my free scoop of ice cream---yum.

Goodbye 2009....Hello 2010

They were the best of times they were the worst of times....
2009 brought many good and bad things for my life...let's reminisce shall we? In 2009,I was a sophomore. Sophomore was boring and I hated it. Also, I went to 3 more states that I've never been to before during spring break. I went to Baltimore in the summer for a mission trip. I came back to school for my junior year but before it really got started, my grandfather died. But on the happy side my brother is at Western for his first year of college. Josh really enjoys it and he made the president's list(3.8 GPA) We are all very proud of him, even though I have missed him a lot. That pretty much sums up my 2009...I sure hope 2010's way better. I have a feeling it will.
Oh and by the way, this morning on E.N.L it's two-thousand and 10 not twenty-ten...just saying.
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Conditioner Crisis

On Christmas morning I was opening up my stocking box and pulled out Pantienne products that my mom had bought. I got gel, hair spray, and a bottle of shampoo...or so I thought. I spent the whole week using my new shampoo until I noticed my hair not shining like it usually does. So on Saturday night after washing my hair I picked up the bottle and starting reading it. Much to my surprise it was only conditioner. For the past week I had only been washing my hair with conditioner. I felt so stupid. I just knew I had to blog about this so I did...just something interesting that happened over my winter break. I guess some other things that happened were me and my cousin hanging out again. Me and Ash had a sleepover and went to the movies. We went and saw Avatar which is a great movie...I recommend it. Then me and Josh hung out which was very refreshing. Yep that's about it.
Interesting blog right?

These are a few of my favorite things...

• Favorite Christmas present I ever received: My puppy Jezzy


• Favorite Christmas Food- My grandmother's home-made cinnamon rolls that I eat every Christmas Morning for brunch


• Favorite Christmas Candy- Ribbon Candy


• Favorite Christmas Memory- sitting at the top of the stairs with Josh, waiting for the parents to tell us that's Santa has been here and we can come down


• Favorite Christmas Tradition- listening to Dad read the Christmas Story from Luke Chapter 2 and The Night Before Christmas


• Favorite Christmas Movie- um...A LOT! but my tops are Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey, White Christmas, and Holiday in Handcuffs


• Favorite Christmas Carol- Silent Night


• Favorite Christmas Song- All I want for Christmas is you

Those are just a few of the many "favorites" I have at Christmas time.

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Best Thing about Christmas

Everybody knows the best thing about Christmas- spending time with the family and celebrating Our Savior's birth but there's another best thing about Christmas. One that I look forward to throughout the whole year. On Christmas morning I open my wonderful gifts, and enjoy with splendor as I watch the parents and brother open their presents. Once the main presents are opened there's only one thing left to do----open our stockings....boxes. That's right, you heard me boxes. My mother can't stuff all the little things she buys in a stocking so she gets copy paper boxes and fills it up mainly with food and candy. When I was little and in the church nursery they gave us the cheesy cracker snack-Goldfish. Once I put the treat in my mouth I realized it was true love. That has been my favorite food ever since. So on Christmas morning, I open up my box and it has a huge carton of Goldfish-forget all the candy. All I can say now is hurry up Christmas so I can get my Goldfish! Lolz

My Favorite Christmas Decoration

My favorite Christmas decoration would have to be this small musical angel statue. It plays a beautiful melody but not a well known Christmas carol. It is so beautiful. When I was little, I would always play it during the Christmas season...over and over and over again. My mother would sometimes have to hide it because I played it so much. haha.

Another Christmas decoration that I really enjoy are my baby ornaments. At my house we have a tradition. Josh puts up the tree, mom fluffs it and strings the lights on it, and I decorate, while Dad hangs lights on the outside of the house. When I decorate the tree I have a "system" for decorating it. I put all my ornaments and my favorites on the left side of the tree where on Christmas morning I sit and open presents. I hang my brothers ornaments and his favorites on the right side of the tree where he always sits. Then I place the rest of the pretty ornaments wherever there is room left, except for the back. The back is where the ugly ornaments go, such as this old creepy Santa Claus ornament....I swear it's the weirdest and ugliest ornament ever!

I have a lot of favorite Christmas decorations, but those would just happen to be my favorites.

Thanksgiving 2009

Ok so I feel like I haven't blogged in forever....maybe because I haven't. Anyways I thought I would catch up blogging and blog about my Thanksgiving even though it's almost Christmas time. So my Thanksgiving break was a good one. My brother got to come home for the break and we hung out and watched his favorite movie together-Kung Pow Enter the Fist....ok just saying that is the dumbest movie ever made----I felt like I was losing IQ points as the movie progressed but it was funny and refreshing spending quality time with Josh. On the actual Thanksgiving day, I went to my great aunt's for our thanksgiving lunch. There was a long table filled with the usual Thanksgiving meal plus more family specialties. After stuffing myself till I was about to burst I hung out with my cousin Ashley who's also in college. As we were catching up on old times and looking through all the black Friday ads, we got on the subject of New Moon. Ash is a movie fanatic. She goes to a lot of opening nights and has like almost every movie ever made. She saw New Moon on the night it came out. She liked it so much since she's read the series 3 times starting on her 4th time around. She decided that we needed to go see it so after we left my aunt's we went to Malco for the movie. The movie was ok---I like Jacob better so of course I didn't really like the movie but it wasn't as crowded as I thought it would be. After the movie we just hung out. I think that was the best part of my Thanksgiving, having Mar and Josh time as well as Mar and Ash time. It was the perfect way to spend Thanksgiving Break.