Christmas Festivites.

What a Christmas break! I have had probably the best one ever! Other than driving back and forth all week to work in Provo and home in Morgan, it's been an awesome week! It started off last Saturday with the Thatcher family Christmas party! Terry Lynn always does such a good job with that party and as always we had so much fun! It was so good to see everyone again. I left my camera in my car until almost the very end so I don't have any pics from that day... Sunday Brandon and I went down to Music and the Spoken Word at the Conference Center. It was their Christmas program and it was so good! I always love Music and the Spoken Word but this time was especially good with all of the Christmas music! Jason was supposed to come with us but he woke up sick that morning...We missed you! After we got back Jason and I went to church at the Single's Ward here in Morgan, it is always interesting to go back and see everyone from high school. The rest of the day Jason and I spent bouncing between houses to eat dinner and play games before I made the trek back to Provo for work on Monday morning. Tuesday we spent the day with Jason's family, watching movies, playing games, and delivering Christmas presents to the neighbors. We also had a big snowball fight that was very fun! Wednesday Brandon, Jason and his brother Mike and sister Wendy, and my sister Shayli went up behind my house and went sledding! My grandma and grandpa came up later that afternoon and we ate dinner together and then I had to head back to Provo to work Christmas day. I stayed the night in Provo and woke up to a phone call at 5 AM from work saying that I actually didn't need to come in...So I got up and got ready and drove back to Morgan and here I am! It is nice to spend Christmas with my family rather than work....even though I love what I do and wouldn't have minded too much being there...I hope that all of you are having a beautiful Christmas with your family and friends. I hope you can all remember the true 'reason for the season' and keep the Spirit of Christ in your hearts all year long. "Christmas isn't a day or a season, it is a condition of heart and mind" MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Thansgiving. Baby Showers. Forgotten Carols. Temple Square. Late Pictures!

Of things past...and to come...

I have been SO bad about updating my blog! It is hard when I don't have a computer here that I can upload my pictures onto...SO I haven't updated in forever because I can't post any pics! But I will give a brief run down of the last few weeks and then when I go home this week hopefully I can post some pictures! I get my new laptop in like 3 weeks and then I will able to post regularly!! Well my very "bestest" (yes I know) friend came home from his mission about 3 weeks ago now I think it has been, on the 19th. It has been so much fun having him home! His homecoming was that Sunday right after and he did such a good job! It is so nice to have him here again I missed him so much! We have been able to do so many fun things! He came down here 3 times this week and had so much fun. Thanksgiving was awesome. My Aunt Terry Lynn and Uncle Kim came, and Tif and Jon and their family and Shane! It was a lot smaller than Thanksgivings that I am used to and I definately missed having so much family around, but we had a good time still!! We played games and played the Wii which is always a blast! I had to work still all week so I was driving back and forth from home to work all week but it was good still! I did miss the day after Thanksgiving shopping which was very sad :( I will definately be getting that day off work next year! That Saturday we had a baby shower for one of my very good friends Emily at Katie's house. She did such a good job and it was really good to see everyone! Especially Emily! She looks so cute and we are all so excited for her and Derek! This is going to be a big Christmas for them! It was fun catching up with all of my high school girlfriends! We got to see each other fairly often for a few months there because Emily, Katie, and Kelsie all got married! But now we don't get to get together nearly as often with none of the rest of us really "on track for marriage" as you might say...it'll happen just not right now!! haha! Brandon and Jason and I went to my very favorite thing to do at Christmas time on Wednesday The Forgotten Carols! It was so much fun to just hang out with us three and go to that! It was their first time seeing it and they loved it! I made a HUGE Mexican dinner that night since they both went to Spanish Speaking/Mexican missions. And our other friend Jake Blazzard came over for dinner as well! We had Carne Asada, Frijoles Negro, Tres Leches, and Mexican Arroz. It took me ALL day to cook EVERYTHING from scratch, and a little extra help from Brandon, but I made it through and it ended up tasting pretty good! I was happy! Those are the highlights of the past few weeks...Hopefully I will be able to get those pictures up this week sometime for you all! Other than that life is still going very well. I continue to be blessed by the Lord everyday and can see his hand in my life constantly. It has been such a blessing to be down here in Provo with awesome roommates that I adore and with Jason and Brandon coming down January. I am so blessed with those two boys as friends and am so grateful for them! It was also SO good to see my family during Thanksgiving as well! I am blessed with an awesome family!! Both immediate and awesome cousins! We have so much fun together and I am so glad that we were able to grow up knowing each other so well and being so close! I hope that in the coming weeks you will be able to spend lots of time with your family and friends during this Christmas season, because that is really what it is all about. Thanks to each one of you that have blessed my life is ways you will never know. I love you all!

{Christmas Tag}

I've Been Tagged!
1. Egg Nog or Hot chocolate...........Actually I make this hot chocolate that I LOVE with Sugar Free Hot Chocolate and Egg Nog coffee creamer!
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? ........ Everything is always wrapped
3. Colored lights on a tree/house or white............. All white lights...I don't like multi-colored
4. Do I hang mistletoe?............ Yes sometimes. In Rexburg we always did because this lady would come around selling it for a dollar!
5. When do I put up my decorations?............. Well since we just have our small aparment we usually put up a few deocrations right when we all get back from Thanksgiving break but they are only up for about two weeks because we leave for Christmas break in the middle of December!
6. What is my favorite holiday dish?.................. Hot chocolate, and Christmas Eve Dinner, my mom always makes ham and funeral potatoes and green bean casserole
7. Favorite holiday memory as a child..............Thatcher Family Christmas Parties
8. When and how did I learn the truth about Santa?...............I found the presents in the basement...
9. Do we open a Christmas gift on Christmas Eve? .............. Yes, Christmas PJ's
10. How do I decorate our tree?............... Haha we just had a mini tree last year with little bulbs, this year who knows! It's hard with not so much room!
11. Can I ice skate?.................. Yeah, I am kinda shakey at first but after I get warmed up I want to keep going for hours.
12. Can I remember my favorite gift?.............. There are so many....
13. What is the most important thing about the holidays for me?........... The celebration of Christ’s birth and the special spirit of the season. I wish it would stay all year. There is something about this time of year that is just special, I hate to lose that in January.
14. What is my favorite holiday dessert?............ When my mom and aunt make their Homemade Caramels and Chocolates! And Aunt Terry Lynn's amazing sugar cookies!
15. What is my favorite holiday tradition?............. I love Thatcher Christmas parties, and on Christmas Eve my grandparents come up and spend it with us every year. I love that. My own personal favorite tradition that I have started is to go to the Forgotten Carols every year I love it!
16. What tops my tree............ Haha I think last year my roommate cut out a star from yellow cardstock....it looked nice...enough...haha
17. What do I prefer. Giving or receiving............... Giving for sure.
18. What is my favorite Christmas song?..................... Thankful by Josh Groban; Noel by Josh Groban and the entire soundtrack of the Forgotten Carols
19. Candy Canes?.............. Yeah I love candy canes!
20. Do I feel Christmas is too commercialized?............... YES!!! I hate it! I wish people would focus more on what Christmas is really about rather than the presents and everything else.

{What happens in Vegas...}

This weekend was SO much fun! Two of my roommates, Megan and Julia, and 4 of our really good friends, pratically our new best friends haha, went to Vegas for the weekend! Megan's family has some really good friends that just live in Boulder City so we went and stayed with them and just had a fun weekend away! The boys that came were Colby, Jon Matthew, Josh, and Adam. They are the most crazy group of guys ever and are all best friends from high school, except Colby who is a mission comp that moved in with all of them. We had such a fun weekend. After I put up all of these pictures I realized that I put them up in the wrong order so it starts at the end of the trip and goes to the first...oh well...

Hoover Dam

{Colby, Julia, and Megan at Hoover Dam}

{Josh, Adam, Julia, and Jon Matthew at Hoover Dam}

{L-R: Jon Matthew, Adam, Josh and Colby laying in the front...}

{Julia and I with the biggest stuffed bogs in the world I think!}

{The Boys}

{Roommates in front of the Coke World}

{Our Val Kilmer look-a-like}

{At M&M World}

{Colby modeling girls jackets...It was so funny while he was trying this on a little Chinese lady that worked there came up and tapped him on the shoulder and was like "you know that is a girl's jacket.." We laughed so hard}

{Julia and I}

{The fountain show at the Bellagio}

{Jon, Colby, Julia, and Josh}

{All of us in front of the house we stayed at}

{Colby has expensive taste...}

{Very expensive taste...}

{See...}

{Jon Matthew, Me, and Colby in front of the fountains either at the Venetian or the Palazzo...I can't remember}

{Inside the Venetian, that ceiling is painted! It is GORGEOUS!}

{Colby and I and the middle of the Venetian hotel}

{Jon, Arnold, and Colby at the Wax Museum}

{Us three again at the Venetian}

{Jon and Colby in front of the Venetian}

{Saturday morning we got up and went to the Strip. We parked at this mall and walked through it to get over to Las Vegas Blvd. While walking through Saks Fifth Avenue Jon Matthew spotted this Armani suit jacket and decided to try it on....just this and the shirt under it was $1400 the man helping us made us laugh so hard, he really was taking us seriously and just told Jon to grab a pair of designer jeans and he'd be set...We were tempted to ask if Old Navy counted as designer but didn't dare....}

This is the Fountain Show at the Bellagio! SOOO cool, I wish you could here the music it was even better with Celine Dion singing the Titanic Song in the background, just picture the most intense part of that song going on with these fountains...it was so neat!

Well there is a summary of our weekend, I have about 200 pictures from this weekend so needless to say this doesn't even scratch the surface...haha. The rest are one Facebook if any of you have that. But it really was an awesome weekend! Thanks guys we had a blast!!

{Acceptance Letter}

Hey! I just wanted to let you all know I got accepted into Nursing School for next semester! I'm super excited! I start January 5!

{So close we could SMELL the SWEAT!}

I've been so bad about blogging! So you get two posts in one day! Saturday night my roommate Julia and our friend Colby and I went to the Goo Goo Dolls Concert at the Salt Palace. Talk about a blast! We had SO much fun dancing and singing and not caring what anyone thought! Pretty sure Colby thought that we were a little strange, but we had so much fun! The base player was a little bit Satanic and really all of them are a little bit scary looking...but they really sing good songs! I recorded like 3 songs that they sang on my camera but I don't know if it was too loud or something because they are really fuzzy and you can't hear them so I uploaded a video of them from You Tube, this isn't from the concert we went to, but just so that you can see who they are if you don't know them!

The lead singer

Colby, Julia, and Me

The Satanic base player....


At the end of the concert they shot off TONS AND TONS of confetti! We didn't think it would ever stop it just kept coming and coming!! So we took some pictures!

This is the floor at the end...it had about 2 inches of confetti...poor janitors
After we got home we realized we had it all down our shirts and in our purses, such a pain! At least it was big!

A song from the Goo Goo Dolls!