Christmas

To me my favorite thing about Christmas, is Christmas Eve. There is nothing better than getting together with family and friend. Not only do I have the best family in the world, but we all love eachother, and I can honestly say all of my cousins are my best friends. They are amazing!!! Anyway....every Christmas Eve we go over to Gramps and Grandma Bob's house to open presents from Grandpa Harold. He starts shopping the day after Christmas and starts shopping all the best sales, and he is the sweetest old man anyone will ever meet. This year he got me a "Cozy-Up" and a necklace. A "Cozy-Up" is the same things as a "Snuggie." It's pretty awesome. My cousin Krista got one too! they are quite amazing. Than after hanging out for a little while we head over to my house to read the Christmas story from the Bible in James. It was a lot of fun, we read some stuff from 3 Nephi, and some cute meaningful little stories. The best is just hanging out with the family though! I love it more than anything! After reading the stories we played in infamous Instruments. We added a new instrument called the "Groupie." Funniest thing ever when Uncle Brent was in that chair, we couldn't stop passing it to him, him just dancing was sooooo funny! The game winded down and everyone left. My family opened up our pajama's and everyone went to bed. Me and Dan went to Midnight Mass with my cousin Jenna and her friend. I like learning about everyone elses religions, it gives me a better appreciation for others.
Today, on Christmas, we opened up our presents and than we went to Grandpa Kenny's and Grandma Marion's for breakfast with all the Stuart's. I am really excited about one of my presents, its going to be a Mezuzah Pendant Necklace. In Jewish culture they have Mezuzah's that hang on the outside of your house, and when people say it, its supposed to remind them that they the house and the people in it are dedicated to God. It's pretty cool. So they have it in a pendant form, and I'm excited to wear mine. I also got a new laptop :] Really exciting. I love it, usually I know exactly what I'm getting, but I was really suprised to get that!!!

temple square :]

So not this week, but the last one, I went to temple square three times in one week. That's more than I have ever been in my whole life! I remember going twice before in the last eighteen wonderful years. Temple square is pretty cool, I love it all year round, not just around Christmas time when you get to see the lights, but there is a special spirit there.

Monday November 29th my college ward went down. We took two of those big tour buses, and went to The Spaghetti Factory, had dinner and than went to Temple square with everyone for our Christmas party. It was a lot of fun! I really love my college ward a lot! It's so nice to be going to church with your peer's and to know that they are going through the same stuff you are going through.

[me mitch and melissa]

[yeah i'm a shepherd]

[my homegirl melissa and I]

[some fun people in my ward!]

[just some random guys i got a picture with]

Than that Wednesday, my friend Nathan was like hey do you want to go to temple square with me and my brother, and I said sure! So we went down, and it was freezing! We spent most of the time inside one of the visitors centers and ended up getting kicked out because they were closing. So that was interesting to get kicked out of temple square.

[nathan. zac. me. ryan]

[while i'm a shepherd, ryan is a sheep]

[i dont know what they were doing]

[picture in the visitors center]

[zac was doing some thing wierd...at burger king after temple square]

Than on Sunday me and my family went down to the Christmas Devotional and got some awesome seats thanks to my aunt Cindy. We sat just off to the right and like nine rows back from where they were talking. Can I just say I love President Monson, he is so amazing! I met him once and he said I had beautiful eyes, I heard he has a photogenic memory, so I wonder if I saw him again, I wonder if he would remember me. But the devotional was great, I wasn't really in the Christmas mood until than, and now I'm all excited for it! Even though I hate the snow, I do love this time of year, everyone is so happy!

[me and dan in the conference center]

[best siblings in the world]

[mumsy and popcicle]

[our family is together forever]

[so us three had those headbands]

[michelle and dan had hoods]

[and my dad was a loser with the beanie.]

[pretty cool nativity set]