I Love Winter

This is just about the only reason why I don't love winter..icy hills to my apartment

But I solved this problem with
these bad boys

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On the other hand I love winter because of yummy hot chocolate with candy canes

Warm Fires
Cuddling with cute boys
The silence the soft snow brings
Building snowmen
Cute scarfs
Cute coats
Christmas (mistletoe:)
My birthday
The color white
Celebrating a new year
Breaks from school which means lots of family time which I LOVE

Thanksgiving Break

was fabulous! Here are some of the highlights:

Sledding down Old Main Hill

Making cookies and watching "Elf" with these cute people

Seeing these incredible people. -Some of the Gelwix fam. (my missionary's family)

Going to my cabin where we snowmobiled, ate Thanksgiving dinner, read books, played games, watched movies and..

..just relaxing!

Hope you all had an amazing break. Family and friends, I want you to know how incredibly grateful I am for you amazing people in my life. Love you all!

Pretty Much a Journal Entry..No Need To Read

It seems like everyone's getting married. Two of my best friends from elementary school have recently gotten engaged. I'm so happy for them, they're such great people. Of course this got me thinking about how I want to get married someday..not for a while..definitely after a mission...but someday. My mom always gave me advice to be the person I wanted to marry. I never really took that advice to heart until yesterday. I was really thinking about what the qualities are that I want in my husband and how I really want to develop those qualities before I meet the man I'm going to marry. There are so many things I want in the man of my dreams. And so many things I want to work on so I can be the person that kind of man wants to be with forever. One thing I really want to work on myself is having more meaningful scripture study. Julie B. Beck, the first couselor in the young womens general presidency gave a great talk on scirpture study you can read it here. When I have my own family I want to be able to have meaningful scripture study with them and be able to teach my kids the stories in the scriptures. Honestly I am very scripture illiterate, so I look forward to strengthening my knowledge and testimony of the scriptures.

My Mom Became Old, So We Went to Cali

Last weekend the whole fam went to Disneyland for my mom's 50th birthday. It was such a great trip!

Here's the cute birthday girl! I love you mom, happy birthday!

On this trip I got my niece fix with these sweet two girls. I love them so much!

Me and my brother Matt just acting like cute asians in our sweet matching shirts.

Yes, our whole group had the same shirt for Disneyland. It was so fun! They said "Celebrating 50 Magical Years Happy Birthday Gramma Sug" (my mom thinks she's from the south so we call her that:) then had a silhouette of the Disney castle below it. We were proud to be reping our family pride.

We also had a fabulous party for my mom that included a candy bar (good job Steph!)

Thanks for the picture Paige!

We stayed right on the beach, which was awesome! It was a fabulous trip. Thanks mom and dad!

Movies

Today I bought the first movie I have ever bought with my own money.. what a big girl I am! I just never had the desire to spend twenty bucks on a single movie I could borrow from someone or redbox. But today I decided to buy one of the best movies in the world and start my movie collection. I bought "It's a Wonderful Life". I love that movie! So tonight starts my Christmas movie marathon.

Little Peanut

My beautiful sister-in-law is pregnant with her and my brother's first lil baby. Yesterday they found out what they're having...and... IT'S A GIRL! I'm so dang excited for them! They're going to be such incredible parents. I get the pleasure of living two seconds away from them up here in Logan when they're sweet girl is born. YAY!

Life

I absolutely LOVE this. I found it on someone else's blog and it really is for me. You know when you find something and it's exactly what you needed at that moment in your life? That's how this was for me. When I was younger, just like many other girls, I thought about how my life would be when I grew up. (I actually had a detailed plan.) My life hasn't turned out anywhere near what I've ever thought it would be and you know what? I am so incredibly greatful for that.