Less than a week until Christmas!

Ok, so I've pretty much failed at the Christmas countdown, but I haven't really been able to blog lately. 6 days until Christmas everyone! I am entering last minute panic mode, trying to finish presents and some schoolwork. Christmas gets harder every year, with all the stress of presents, decorating, gift wrapping, etc. Of course, those are all fun things to do, but sometimes it's good to just slow down and remember what Christmas is. Jesus Christ our savior was born, and blessed all of our lives with his miraculous gift. So, I'll get back to making Christmas gifts, but everyone try to remember the reason we're making and giving them in the first place. And, just because, here's one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes Christmas moments! :)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas countdown is.....16 days until Christmas! Today we went to church and sacrament meeting was nice. Hopefully today I can get some work in on Christmas presents. Have a nice Sunday everyone!

Sagerific(Santa's helper)

Birthdays!

Today is December 8, Sydney and Sabrina's birthday! I have a devil's food cake in the oven, they opened presents a little while ago, and now they're playing with their new toys. Today we also got a Christmas tree. It is a classic Christmas tree. It's just how a Christmas tree should be:) I sound like a little kid. And of course, the Christmas countdown, 17 days until Christmas! I need to get a move on making presents. Seems like I'm always finishing presents at the last minute. Well anyway, enjoy your Saturday!

Sagerific(Santa's helper)

St. Nikolaus Tag, twins' birthdays, and Countdown to Christmas!

Yesterday night St. Nikolaus(or St. Nicholas, if you prefer) came! For those of you who are confused about Santa coming, no, we don't celebrate Christmas early. St. Nikolaus Tag is a German tradition where everyone puts a shoe out December 5, and St. Nikolaus comes during the night and puts candy in all the shoes! Of course, there're lots of different legends about St. Nicholas, so I'll let you go look that up yourself on Wikipedia. It's a super fun tradition that our family has celebrated for as long as I can remember. Tomorrow, December 8, is the birthday of two very special girls. They are super excited to turn seven! I can't believe they'll be old enough to get baptized in a year. Crazy, right? So in addition to Christmas presents I'm making birthday presents. I'm kind of excited about them too:) And, last but not least, I'm starting a late Christmas countdown. 18 days until Christmas everyone! Merry Christmas!

Sagerific (Santa's helper)

I'm going to blog, just for the sake of blogging. I had a good thanksgiving at my grandparents' house, we ate lots of food, slept in uncomfortable spaces, went to sonic(awesomeness!!), went black friday shopping, I took a nap(what is wrong with me, I never take naps?), ate more, came home. Then I watched what is honestly one of the weirdest movies I've ever watched, and then I went to sleep. Then I had seminary today. And I was tired. And then I had piano lessons. And then Sydney had to go to the emergency room:( She's doing better now though than she was hours ago so don't worry. Now I'm really tired and I'm going to go find a book.

There's my post for the day, just so I can say I did it:)

Sagerific

Happy Thanksgiving! Or Thanksgiving Eve...?

So it's not quite Thanksgiving day yet, but happy Thanksgiving Eve! I'm making the "Eve" officially a holiday now by the way, so now you know. I probably won't be blogging tomorrow, in all the craziness of Thanksgiving, so I might as well do it now. Today we're driving about three and a half to four hours to my grandmamma's house, then staying there until either Saturday or Sunday, I'm not sure which one. Tomorrow will probably (and when I say probably, I mean most definitely)be a crazy day, getting everything ready for dinner, desserts, etc. Then Friday will be black Friday. Oh black friday. As much as I love the one time of year where we stand in line for hours in the freezing cold at O' dark thirty in the morning, some of the stores are being unfair. Why do you need to open on Thanksgiving day? As early as 8:00? Why not let everyone just enjoy their dinner and visit? It won't hurt you to wait one more day! I feel betrayed. Oh well. It's not like I'm going to go on Thanksgiving anyway. I wait until the next day to go shopping. Sleep is very important to me. But this is a time every year that I get to spend with my mom, and that's the best part. It's hard to have time alone with your mom when you have five younger siblings, and that's the main reason I love black friday:) And then we can mainly relax the rest of the day with family:) I might even blog tomorrow or Friday and tell you what all we had for dinner! Please post what you had and we can compare recipes:) And I'm so excited to see my Grandma and Boppa! Anyway, happy Thanksgiving Eve everyone! Yep, officially a holiday now.

Sagerific

RED

So has anyone else heard or gotten Taylor Swift's new album RED? It's pretty good, and now I have jumbles or mixtures or whatever of the songs in my head. Stay, stay, stay, never, ever ever, getting back together, all we know, is touch and go. This is really confusing. Anyway, if you like Taylor Swift(or love Taylor Swift), you should get her new album. It's good:) Oh and just to let you know, I'm going to try and blog every day, or at least once a week, so check my blog more often:)