10 Days till Christmas...

Okay, it's definitely time to post.  I was so going to post four times last month, but then I went to my dad's and that failed.  Getting an iphone didn't help.  It's so much harder to make myself blog when I instagram and facebook now.  (btw, facebook was my dad's idea.  He didn't know how instagram worked and wanted me to try facebook so he could 'keep up with me better' so I told him I'd do facebook if he did instagram.  So now we're both doing it.)  Anyway, I'm loving my new iphone!  I'm love love loving my camera and how beautiful the pictures look.  It is so easy to capture moments now.  I can keep up with friends who are far away (or not so far away :) and I'm just loving it.  I ordered a pink Mickey Mouse case for it and it's on it's way. ;)

Alright, I'll do some catch up on our Thanksgiving trip to Utah then skip to the present.  I had such a fun time this trip.  We didn't spend as much time with the boys cause we were only there one and a half weeks and they spent four or five days in Arizona with their dad for Thanksgiving like they always do, but it was fun anyway.  Me, my sisters, Dad, and Diane went to temple square to see The Savior of the World musical, as you saw on instagram.  That was just beautiful. We also saw the Christmas lights and I almost froze to death.  But honestly, I think I get more cold in California than in Utah because of what we expect.  I expect to be freezing in Utah so I really bundle up and it ends up not being that bad.  In CA I have this sunny weather expectation and have too much pride to bundle up, even though I would be more comfortable if I did.  Anyway, that was fun.  For Thanksgiving we went to Idaho and spent it with my grandparents.  My grandpa has started working in the garden section at Walmart and he had to go to work Thanksgiving afternoon so when we got there the night before almost all the food was made.  Almost everyone got up around 6 the next morning (not me, hehehe) and we ate at 11:30.  It was the smoothest Thanksgiving I have ever experienced.  And so yummy.  My grandparents brought out some of their apple juice that they personally juiced from the apples, I might have actually helped, I'm not sure.  It was basically heaven in a glass.  NOTHING like store bought apple juice.  Oh, I just remembered that for mutual while we were there the young women went to the new exhibit at BYU.  It had tons of paintings from all over the world.  Back story: BYU did an exhibit like this before, no idea when, and they ran into a lot of old churches with paintings that they had kept for years and years and were not willing to let them leave.  So BYU got what they could and the exhibit was really successful.  Because of how respectful, successful, and loved the exhibit was last time, this time churches were a lot more willing to give up their paintings for a while.  So we got to see paintings that had not been moved from those old churches in who knows how many years.  It was so amazing and moving.

Christmas is 10 days away.  That went by so fast and I'm kinda depressed about it.  Oh well, we have school off now.  I have seminary on Monday then I am done! Happy day!  I really need to get caught up, on the book I'm supposed to be reading for Shakespeare class, cleaning my room, reading my scriptures.  I just fell apart this week and it makes me sad.  Not fall apart the sense that I broke into tears but that I just let my priorities go and wanted to be lazy before it was time to be lazy.  Well now I can be lazy during vacation and I'm gonna work to get caught up!  Haha, anywho, love you all and hope you're having a good Christmas season!