{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!