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!

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.

Holiday Trivia

The semester is pretty much over, I only have my play writing portfolio due on Tuesday which I'm pretty much done with, so I thought I would do something fun to get ready for the Christmas Holidays. I'm going to put the questions first and the answers at the bottom. I want you to try answering as many questions as you can without cheating and let me know how you did. Have fun and good luck!

Questions:

1. Who was dreaming of a White Christmas?

2. What movie combines the holidays of Halloween and Christmas?

3. What does Ralphie want for Christmas?

4. How many ghosts visit Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, and who are they?

5. What do you do under the Mistletoe?

6. What Christmas movie stars Sam Elliot?

7. What ocean is Christmas Island located in?

8. What year was December 25th declared Christmas?

9. Where is the town of the North Pole located?

10. What movie does Judy Garland sing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"?

11. What is the angel's name in "It's a Wonderful Life"?

12. Who wrote the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas"?

13. What Christmas Carol was originally written in German by Josef Mohr and Franz Gruber?

14. What classic Christmas comedy was filmed in 1989 and is an installment of several movies involving the Griswold Family?

15. What city does Miracle on 34th Street take place?

16. What do the Christmas colors Red and Green symbolize?

17. If you got all of the gifts from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" how many gifts would that be?

18. After Red and Green what are the next most popular Christmas colors?

19. What LDS Christmas movie does Jimmy Stewart appear in?

20. What Christmas movie does this quote come from: "An why is the carpet all wet, Todd?" "I don't know, Margo"?

21. What was holly originally used for?

22. What is my (Jessie) favorite Hallmark Christmas movie? (It's about a soldier who gets a Christmas card from a woman, who sends Christmas cards to soldiers every year, and falls in love with the girl.)

23. Was Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer originally a song or a story?

24. What item was considered "frag-il-e" in A Christmas Story?

25. Who is credited for creating the first Nativity Scene?

Answers:

1. Bing Crosby.

2. The Nightmare Before Christmas.

3. A Red Rider BB Gun.

4. Four: Marley, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.

5. Kiss

6. Prancer

7. Indian Ocean

8. 354 A.D.

9. Alaska, Approximately 20 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. (I've been there)

10. Meet Me in St. Louis

11. Clarence

12. Clement Clarke Moore

13. Silent Night, also known as Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht.

14. Christmas Vacation

15. New York

16. Red symbolizes the blood of Christ and Green represents eternal life.

17. 364, one for each day of the year except for Christmas.

18. Gold and Silver.

19. Mr. Krueger's Christmas

20. Christmas Vacation

21. Holly was used to protect the home from witches and spirits.

22. The Christmas Card. (Such a great movie).

23. Story 1939, Song 1949.

24. A leg Lamp.

25. St. Francis of Assisi

I hope that you all enjoyed this little Christmas quiz. I'd like to know how everyone did and I hope that you were able to get a lot of the questions or at least learn something new about Christmas. If you have any Christmas Trivia that you would like to share I'd love to learn more about Christmas, and please let me know how you did. And of course I'd like to wish you all a

Merry Christmas!!!

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!

My new Talent

I'm back at the Chocolate Factory for the holiday season, and I fill the internet orders, which includes baskets. I don't like doing creative stuff like that because I don't usually make stuff look very pretty, but they are forcing me to do it, and here is one of my finished baskets. Doesn't it look pretty?

They taught me how to make a bow look pretty. So now I have a new talent. Making baskets. I've made others but I keep forgetting to get pictures of them.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

So this Christmas we spent Christmas in Kanarraville at Cash's house. All six of us were there and it was just a great holiday!! It was nice for all of us to be together and enjoy the holiday. We had cousins and aunts and uncles and friends join us throughout the holidays. On Christmas Day we got a lot of snow so some of us decided to make a giant snowman! Cash and Adam did most of the work, but I came out and helped with the top half of the snowman.


We also did a lot of sledding and my butt was very cold and sore after sledding.

Last Christmas as some of you may remember I got a lifesize cardboard cutout of Legolas from Lord of the Rings. Well this Christmas I got a lifesize cardboard cutout of Edward Cullen from Twilight. I don't know why people get me these things but I must say I really do enjoy them. As you can see I wasn't the only one who enjoyed Edward around. Along with Edward I got the movies I wanted, plus a few gift cards, and some pajamas and a couple of robes.
The Saturday after Christmas I had a blind date. His name is Byron Reeves (and no he is not related to any of the Reeves in Utah). It was such a fun date. We talked the whole time, and we actually have a lot in common. We doubled with my boss who set us up and his wife (Ben and Staci). We met them at Outback Steakhouse then went to their house after dinner and had a foosball competition. Let's just say that Byron got to see the real me. Nothing has happened since the date, but Ben seems pretty confident that Byron is going to call me soon. Byron has been in Salt Lake for a couple of weeks.
New Years Day I went on another date. This time with a Marine! He is the Doty's cousin and I've actually been out with him before but it has been about two years. We went shooting and 4-wheeling and it was a blast. Gabe (the Marine) is very attractive but very shy. I was the one trying to keep him talking. He did show me how to shoot some pistols or hand guns. I did get really good at shooting the clay pigeons with the shot guns. I also ended up with a bruise on my shoulder the next day.
So this holiday season I had a lot of fun and experienced lots of new things. Such as going on two dates with two different guys within less than a week. That is totally not like me as most of you know.It has been a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it, but now I'm back to work and it is so boring!

I Saw Santa!!!

So Friday I was working at Tuachan, and they have Santa there and I thought "I think I should go see Santa and tell him what I want this Christmas." What do you think I want for Christmas. Well if any of you know that Christmas song sung by Britney Spears "My Only Wish This Year" then you'll know what I want. A man under my tree with a big red bow...you can laugh I do. Anyway my point was that I got to see Santa Clause and sit on his lap. I didn't tell him that was what I wanted I pretty much just sat on his lap to get a picture, but he really nice and he gave me a free candy cane!!!

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!

Oh Christmas Tree!

So this Christmas and last Christmas, and the Christmas before that and...anyway. This Christmas I was the one who was in charge of putting the Christmas Tree and Christmas decorations up this year. I did it last weekend because that was the only time I had free from work and homework. Here are two pictures of my Christmas Tree. One has a star made out of duct tape the other has a star that I bought at Target.

Happy New Year!!

So I've been kind of busy the last few weeks and have not been able to get to a computer that had the internet, so I apolagize for the delay. Christmas was great. I got a digital camera so will be able to put pictures on my blog more often. That was the biggest thing I got. I also got a lot of gift cards and I got a cardboard cut out of Legolas from my cousin Ethan and his wife Libby. Which made me laugh really hard. It is also kind of creepy. It took me a while to find a place for it so it was just standing in the middle of my room so whenever someone would walk into my room there he was just staring at you. It scared Cash really bad when he went into my room. After Christmas Libby and I granny-sat Grandma for a few days so that Mom and Dad could have a little vacation. I'm never going to have Libby help me again. The whole week she complained about everything. It took like an hour, and a lot of persuasion, to convince Libby to empty Grandma's pot. And I got an earfull each time. When my parents got back I went and stayed the weekend at Cash's house and we watched the whole first season of Dr. Quinn medicine Woman. I had a great time other than Libby bossing me around. Next time I go to stay with Cash I'll make sure Libby's not there. Other than that I had a wonderful break and am not looking forward to the new semester. I hope everyone has a great 2008!!!

Libby I really do love you, you can just be very obnoxious sometimes!!!