Merry Christmas is over and Happy New Year is coming!

Well Christmas is over, but we still have to celebrate the coming new year! 2oo9! Goodness! It seems like it was just yesterday when it was 2000 and everyone thought we were going to die! Haha, the good ole days!

Well I had a good Christmas! It was kind of sad not being with Jake, but I got through it perfectly fine! The first gift I opened was from Jake, and it was plane information for him! I am so excited! He is coming to visit on the 31st and staying until the 7th! Yay! That definitely made my year end with a BiG bAnG! It was the biggest surprise! I got $150 in gift cards to the store I work at...SHOPPING SPREE! I got LOTS of new clothes! Some cute ones that I can wear after I am married! Goodness was it hard! I got Jake tickets to his favorite basketball team, the Pistons, playing against the Jazz in SLC. Hope he has fun!

Now that 2008 is ending and 2009 is beginning, I look back and this year was a BUSY year for me! Starting school at BYUI in January, finishing 2 semesters, and then getting engaged! Crazy fun though! As of today it is 28 days until I get married! Time has gone by SUPER fast! Still have some things to get done, so note to mom: HURRY!

So I just want to wish you all a safe and happy NEW YEAR!

Christmas Time. . .

C h R i S t M a S t I m E i S h E r E . . .!!

Well I just thought it would be cute to post these pictures on here.

Christmas time is one of my favorite times! (Besides the freezing cold!) I love the time that is spent with loved ones. People become nicer around the holiday season. Yes there are the times when everyone gets cranky because they are poorer and because they have to walk SO far because they got a crappy parking spot. But other than that it gets pretty cheery. My favorite is seeing the kids get so excited for Santa to come! This year my dad has played Santa several times. Ashleigh Rockwell (a friend of ours for those of you that do not know her) has her mother (Whitney) call Santa, or my dad, every once in a while. It is very sweet. She gets so excited to talk to him, of course he doesn't do the greatest job disguising his voice! But the kids do not catch on and that is all that matters. It just makes me so happy seeing their faces when we talk about Santa! We took Ash to go see the famous Christmas lights in our town. This house spends THOUSANDS of dollars or MORE on electricity! It is nuts!

On Sunday we had our Nursery Nativity Play for the primary! It was very cute. A lot of the kids screamed and cried because they didn't want to get dressed up, and then when they were done with it and got to take everything off, they didn't want to do that! Haha, it was quite amusing! Some were okay with dressing up, and some were very excited to do it! Especially because their parents came to watch.

There was Mary and Joseph, sheep, wise men, shepherds, and angels! It was adorable! They didn't know what they were doing and just stared at the large group of people staring at them.

Cute Kids!

Even the young women wanted to join in!

And with the Christmas spirit in the air, even the animals come together and rest. They definitely enjoy each others company far more than the people! :)

H a P p Y h O l I d A y S !!!

36 days and Home for the holidays

Well we are at the point where we are counting down the days. 36 days left! I can't wait! It is getting closer and closer! I am home now until the wedding! Got lots of stuff left to do, but we have a lot done too. It is fun, but I think I am too relaxed about everything. Haha. Definitely better than too stressed! Now that I am home I get to do everything with my mom. YAY!!! It isn't fun being away from Jake for so long, but it is okay. I will be married to him soon! :)

Jake finished his second semester of school. 2 down, 39028430938 to go! (That is if he goes to med school). OH JOY! We moved out of our old apartments in Rexburg and moved everything into one apartment in Idaho Falls. We are just down the street from his parents, which will be nice. We got his bed and dresser in there, and tv. And his parents bought us new furniture for the living room. (THANKS SO MUCH!) We have our couch in there

now, and then we have a recliner and t.v. stand coming soon! (For Christmas). It is starting to come together. Jake is living there now by himself. Then I will be there after the wedding. I am so excited! We started hanging up pictures around the apartment, and will hang up the rest when we get wedding pictures back. It is very cute for a newly married couple.

I also got a new Volkswagen Jetta. It is a cute white 4 door manual. I love it! I of course have my Yankees sticker in it. (Jake doesn't like it too much, but he has his Sox sticker in his truck...!) It is fun.

Christmas is coming so fast! I can't believe it is NEXT week! 7 days! Goodness. I haven't done ANY shopping at all! I really need to. I have no idea what I am going to get anyone though. We'll shall see!

My flight back from Idaho was TERRIBLE!! That is how it always is when I am flying anywhere! There is always some delay or something that goes wrong. This time I took a shuttle to SLC into the airport. I got to my flight quite early, but just sat there and watched the tv there. I got to Minnesota and still had a little more than an hour. I took my time to get to my next gate. Stopped and got food (DO NOT get chinese food at an airport!) It was about 20 minutes before we were supposed to board, and I decided to say that "nothing wrong [had] happened this time" and of course, IMMEDIATELY after, they came on the loud speaker and said that we were going to be delayed an hour. Gr. I was so mad! So I sat there a little longer, and then...delayed another 30 minutes. Finally they boarded us, and we started to pull out and the pilot came on and said we weren't going to take off for another 45 minutes! Let me tell you I was very mad, until I realized the flight was practically empty and so I got to lay down on the 3 seats and sleep. :)

It is fun being home with the Rockwell kids. I have been babysitting this week, which is fun sometimes, but they are definitely 2 hands full! Garrett not wanting to EVER be put down and only falling asleep when in the car. Ben who destroys EVERYTHING he sees and likes to beat up Matt. Matthew just likes to follow Ben, I guess he just wants the attention. Ashleigh is a HUGE help, but also can get bossy and just wants attention too. I had her try on her flower girl dress for the wedding, she is so cute! Definitely looks good on her. Yes it is fun cause they are SooOoooOOOOO adorable, but I am okay when they head home and I go take my tylenol. :D GOTTA LOVE 'EM!