Day 5 of Christmas Break!

Today was finally Christmas aaahhh and I was up bright eyed and bushy tailed at about seven!! I got up and got dress but it was still early so I usuallly open my stocking to help put off opening present until everyone was awake. Then my dad who also was awake stopped and said I needed to wait for mom to look inside, so instead I just go into her room and literally jump on her waking her and saying "ITS CHRISTMAS, COME ON", she then after a couple minutes walked into the living room dead, and I did my stocking. We then had a really good family breakfeast and cleaned up the kitchen! The best part had come the opening of presents everyone had at least one except me who had a few others. It was a very laid back, relaxed, simple christmas but i decided those are the best. It was a wonderful day, and latter that night Vicky and Chuck came and we enjoyed some visting time and playing games but when the Monopoly game we started was finally down to just my dad and I Chuck decided to be a hassel and I ended up lossing he kept teasing me about being a bad bussiness women!

Day 4 of Christmas Break

Today has been a wonderful day. When everyone was up and ready we did all of our menu and food planning for the day creating a list then going shopping for everything. Grandma, mom and I all walked down to the Gorcery store (which I love being able to walk basically anywhere in this town), and dad and grandpa made the trip to the Post Office. We all did some reading, relaxing, and for me napping for the afternoon, then the fun started we did some work and cooking in the kitchen and while doing that grandma, grandpa, and I played Monopoly which I love playing any kind of games. Though to my surprise grandma and grandpa were really good at the game and were the winners. We had a wonderful carefully made dinner for the evening then sat down to watch a movie together. A new tradition I think Iwant to start is reading the Christmas Story on Chrsitmas Eve and hopefully I can pass it on to my own family one day. When I do have my own family I want to create new and different traditions! Tomorrow is CHRISTMAS, I can't wait, I don't think I will sleep at all tonight and then I also sleep out in the living room so Santa is going to have to be sneaky to get past me :)

Day 3 of Christmas Break!

Today was an even EARLIER morning everyone in the house was up showered and had eaten by nine HOLY COW. Then we all decided to go into St. Geroge, Utah which is about an hour drive to do some shopping. We first went to Costco and grandpa was so funny his favorite part and the only way grandma says she can get him in there with her is all the food sampling tables throughout the store :) We then headed over to the mall and did some quick yet satisfying shopping for clothing. Afterwards we all went to grandpas favorite eating place Chuck Arama.

Day 2 of Christmas Break!

Today I was up early in the morning again, the sad thing is I don't think I will get any sleep in opportunities while sleeping here my body just won't let me and thats what break is all about..... oh well life will go on. The family spent some time with my grandparents this morning utnil about noon when my mom and dad and I got in the car and drove to Las Vegas which is an hour drive, not to bad. Vegas is where my grandma Morris (my dads mom), and great grandma pare live. We went down to spend the day with them, when we got to there house grandma showed us pictures and all the new ceramics she had made for the year, its funny she does a ceramics class every week and just makes tons of different things and likes to give them to her family so we always get them for birthdays and christmas. We went out and did some shopping in the mall which was a lot of fun even great grandma who is 97 years old had fun and walked with us the entire time..... waht an amazing women! After we went out to dinner and all in all the day was so relaxing and enjoyable. ITS ONLY THREE DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!

Day 1 of Christmas Break!

Well its finally Christmas break, and I am lovin life a way away from home!! The weather here in Overton Nevada got up to 65 degrees and the sun was shinning. It is December, Sunday the 21! I really couldn't sleep in this morning for one thing because my body is so used to early morning, and as usual dad and grandpa were up at seven talking and eating hahahah. AFter everyone was up and ready we helped the grandparents fix and clean little things around the house and then we brought out the usual traditional springbook puzzle which is a peacock this year and 1,000 incredable hard peices. Then grandma, mom and I went on a bike ride around town since its quite small and dosn't take long to get through. As the day has gone on its gotten a little boring with one teenager and adults, so I decided to take some pictures and had some fun doing that. Tomorrow will be really exciting we will be going into Las Vegas to see my dads mom and my great grandma and have fun walking the city, and just having lots of fun. Boy one thing about christmas time is all the good food I have already ate way to much, so I need to keep running around, and working off all that yummy stuff. Christmas day is only FOUR days away.