2012 in Review

So this year has been a very exciting year for me. So lets cover it by month.
January:

I started my year off right by slicing my finger with a rotary blade causing me to spend New Years Day in instacare. Don't worry all I got was a pretty big bandage and a tetanus shot.
I went on my one and only date of the year in January, which of course went well as I'm still single ;)
I began my final semester of school.
February:
I bought my plane ticket to go to London, and made all my final arraingments for London.
March and April:
Nothing much happened except work and school. I decided that I was going to move to Salt Lake in August with my friend Allison
May:
I turned 24 and graduated from SUU with a Bachelor of Arts in English: Creative Writing emphasis.

Because my birthday and graduation were so close we had a party and several of my friends came up to Kanarraville and we had a BBQ.
May was a very exciting month because I went to London!!! London was the best trip I've ever taken, and the most memorable for sure. Hopefully there will be many more trips to England.

Right after London my friend Kymn got married.
Memorial Day weekend I moved in with my friend Erika.
June:
I started working at Tuacahn and the Chocolate Factory again. Discovered that the Chocolate Factory was merging with Utah Truffles and would be moving to Salt Lake City. I of course went and saw the plays at Tuacahn. Loved Hairspray, Aladdin was okay. I absolutely loved The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
July:
I spent the 4th of July in K-town with my family

I continued working. At the end of July my family went to Idaho and Wyoming for a weeklong trip.

I had to leave early from Idaho for my friend Erika's wedding. I was her Maid of Honor, plus we've been friends forever, so I had to make sure to be there.

August:
I moved up to Salt Lake City.

Allison and I went to the Brigham City Temple open house.

September:
My friend Camilla came down from Alaska for a wedding, and stayed the weekend with me.

October:
Allison and I drove up through one of the many canyons up here and enjoyed the Autumn leaves.

Then of course there was Halloween.

November:
There was Thanksgiving with the family in K-town.
I saw Breaking Dawn Part 2, and yes I did enjoy it. Now I get to look forward to The Host.
December:
Went and saw The Hobbit and loved it!
Walked around Temple Square and enjoyed the beautiful lights.

Allsion and I went to the zoolights at the Hogle Zoo.

Made Gingerbread houses

Then spent Christmas with lots and lots of family.

Sorry Libby, stole your picture :D

All in all a very busy, very exciting year for me. Hopefully this next year will be just as eventful and exciting!

From Halloween to the Christmas Season

So for about the last month my computer has not been working, so my totally awesome roommate, Allison, is letting me borrow her computer for a minute so that I can update my blog. So let's begin with Halloween. The Monday before Halloween Allison, me, and my friend Benit (it's pronounced Benny) from work carved pumpkins while watching Dial M for Murder.

It was Benit's first time carving pumpkins and he got very into it and made Jack the Pumpkin King from Nightmare Before Christmas. Sadly that night I got sick with the 24 hour flu, and I didn't think that I would be able to actually dress up for Halloween, which was the day after I was sick. Luckily I was able to dress up but I felt very much like I looked in my usual costume. I know very flattering as always.

November was pretty low key for me. I went and saw a couple of movies: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which I really enjoyed, it made my laugh and cry. I kind of want to read the book now. I also saw Skyfall which is the new James Bond movie, and it was amazing!!! I liked it almost as much as Casino Royale if not better. Then of course we had Thanksgiving in Kanarraville with the family, which was lots of fun, and I helped my sister make eight pies plus I had to make my yummy creamed corn for dinner. After dinner I did do a little Black Friday shopping and bought a ton of movies that I really shouldn't have. I also went and saw Breaking Dawn Part 2 the day after Thanksgiving with my friend Kymn. I absolutely loved it, and yes I know it's silly that I enjoy the Twilight movies as much as I do, but they're a guilty pleasure that I don't feel so guilty about. Speaking of guilty pleasures, I recently discovered the movie Xanadu with Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly. Seriously it is amazing and super cheesy, but I think I could watch it over and over again!
So far December has been busy. I've been to Temple Square twice to see the Christmas lights, word of advice, I would go on a Thursday, that seems like it would be the least busiest day to go. I went to a live Nativity with Allison as well as the Zoolights at the Hogle Zoo, which was actually really cool. I did also make a gingerbread house for FHE.

Other than that I am adjusting to City life and trying to be more sociable. I am on the Publicity committee in my singles ward. I'm looking forward to Christmas in Kanarraville with lots of family and lots of food. I'm looking forward to seeing The Hobbit this weekend, and I may be dressing up. We'll see. That's it for now. Until nexttime.

Gingerbread Competition

My friend Kymn and I have sort of made a tradition out of making Gingerbread houses for Christmas. Last year we didn't get to it until after Christmas so this year was an improvement for us. It started out just the two of us then Kymn's boyfriend Russ decided to join us. Unlike last year when we made just one awesome Gingerbread house we decided that we would each make our own and then have one of Kymn's roommates decide which was the coolest.

 Here are the finished products. Can you guess which is mine?

 If you couldn't tell here we are holding our completed houses. The mast of my ship broke by the time we took this picture, so it ended up just being a buoy ;) I'm holding my ship, Kymn is holding her fort, and Russ is holding Stone henge.

 Here's one side with me looking pretty. Notice the Teddy Grahams walking the plank and being eaten alive by Swedish fish ;)

And the other side with me looking silly. Notice the Teddy Graham floating in his tube.
In the end we had Kymn's roommate decide which was the winner. She said that each was cool and unique in its own way, so in the end we were all winners. I think mine was the coolest ;)
I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas and enjoying time with family and friends.

This Christmas

This Christmas was an enjoyable one. First on the 23rd my mom made some delicious food and we had some cousins over and just enjoyed good food and great friends and family. Of course I had to get a picture of cute little Peyton, with reindeer ears that Trace was wearing when he showed up. Trace was so funny when he showed up. As soon as I opened the door he yelled "Merry Chistmas!"

Christmas, like always, was interesting. All six of us were together for a long weekend. Don't worry, I didn't get any cardboard cutouts this Christmas, but I did get the movie Eclipse and I already watched it once with Kali.

Yesterday Kymn and I made a gingerbread house. I know it's a little late for gingerbread house making, but we wanted to make a house. Well after much debating we finally decided to make "The Burrow." For those of you who aren't Harry Potter fans, The Burrow is the Weasley's house. Of course we did make some alterations, and it didn't turn out exactly like the Weasley's house, but we had fun making it.



I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Look I can do Construction!!

So Last Saturday (the 13th) it was snowing and raining so Tuacahn was cancelled, so I decided to go to my friend Kim's house to help her build a gingerbread house!! I saw this gingerbread house kit at Lin's that comes with everything you just have to put it all together. After we got the house set up we decorated. We split up the house so I did one side of the roof and Kim did the other. See if you can guess which side I did?



I think that my side of the house has more character, if that gives you any hints!