Crazy Christmas Break!!!

It has been forever since my last post! I've been busy enjoying my winter break! :) Friday night, I kicked off my break by having a ton of friends over at my house. It was me, Lauren, Lauren, Allison, Travis, Daniel, Scooter, Brett, Blake, Jaen Soc, Kevin and James and Matthew. We had a way fun night just hanging out in my basement and eating candy :). Christmas itself was way fun, too! I got a new ipod (A blue nano Chromatic!) A ticket to see Idols in Concert in sg, and money and clothes and stuff. It was pretty awesome!!! I've been spending lots of time putting pictures and music on my ipod! The day after Christmas, Lauren, Lauren, and me did our own little gift exchange. We drew names (random for 3 people, but we thought it was fun!) and Lauren Adamson gave me Pajama pants, a big chocolate bar and a travel sized thing of Febreeze (inside joke lol). Tomorrow I have Volleyball and a Stake Dance. The dance will be way fun because its all of the Layton stakes combined and we have a big Italian dinner right before. I'll tell you how that all goes later!

My Favorite Things About Christmas...

So continuing with my monthly theme, here are a few more of my favorite things about Christmas:

*Happiness. Some of the most unlikely people have a great Christmas spirit. I remember in SG our neighbor, Oscar the Grouch, lol, would but up the most beautiful, fancy lights on the block. It was surprising because you'd always thing that grouchy old man would be a Scrooge!

*Small Gifts. It's always fun when your neighbors bring around the small little gifts. Little things like a pack of Cocoa Mix can really help spread a little Christmas Cheer.

*Traditions. The small little traditions are always fun. Every year my parents tell us we won't get Pjs, but we always do. We always find new tree ornaments in our stockings, little things like that always give you something to look forward to!

*Stockings. Stockings are so fun to me! A cute, giant sock that you dig for presents in! It's genius!

*Candy Canes. Another genius, fun idea! I love all flavors of candy canes! They're a fun, tasty Christmas traditions that I love! It's like a sucker in a weird shape that is its own stick!

I guess that's all for today!

Back in the Swing of Things

Yesterday it was back to school after my extended break and it was not an easy thing to do! Mondays are usually hard enough, but yesterday was especially hard after such a LOONG weekend. It certainly feel long! Oh well, soon enough I'll have a nice, two and a half week break! Nothing too exciting happened these past two days. Today, my school made all of the new students go get hearing and vision screening. That wasn't too fun but it got me out of Science for a few minutes! In 2nd period we've been playing basketball. That is always fun, and my team, which is me and Lauren A. and our friends Scooter and Hunter, has always gotten a treat at the end for winning King of the Court. :) Orchestra is not my favorite class but we've been playing Christmas music, so that's exciting. 4th is Seminary and that is my all time favorite class. Lots of my friends are in that class, and we learn a lot in exciting ways. We're learning about the Christmas story, which is one of my favorites. Geometry is 5th, i have some friends it that class, but Geometry is just not my favorite subject.

Lunch is one of my favorite parts of the day. A bunch of my friends have started playing 4 square at lunch, just like when we were in elementary school, and we have so much fun with it! We always play for a long time but the last five minutes we usually just start kicking the ball around and just messing around. It's a lot of fun!

6th Period is Honors English. I like that class a lot. The whole class is pretty much friends, so we just mess around and have fun. I don't really like 7th period Geography, but I always seem to make it through. My teacher usually goes back into his office during the whole class, so we usually just talk and hangout!