Year in Review

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
-Charles Dickens

2008 in Rewind: (in no particular order)
- Completed my bachelors degree in Psychology!
- Got Bangs :)
- Made the decision to have a life changing surgery
- Threw an amazing bachelorette party for Kelly
- Got Crafty!
- Sang in church
- Started a blog...and a craft blog...
- Read Twilight (twice)
- Went to General Conference in April
- Got my first speeding ticket
- Participated in London's Run
- Went quading for the first time
- Went to 3 concerts ( Carrie, Keith, and Dashboard Confessional)
- Became addicted to Hobby Lobby
- Learned and admitted that I am a blog stalker

Plans for 2009:
- Get better with my finances
- Learn to play Guitar
- Learn how to crochet
- ROADTRIP ... up the west coast with my bestie!
- Hike Havasupai in May
- Write in my Journal more...
- Be more organized
- Become a better blogger

I am sure there are more...I just cant think right now...I will add them throughout the year.
Happy New Year!!! It is going to be the best one yet!

You've been warned

I am determined to be a Better Blogger...for that one person who reads this there will be more posts. Many more. I want to utilize my blog in a better way. Maybe its more for me than anyone else. So no more holding back blogosphere. Here I come!

Bangs!

So I decided I was ready for change. After seeing a fellow blogger with these cute bangs I thought I would give it a go and see how I liked it. I love them and I am glad I decided to go through with it. It was a lot of hair that was cute off. Thank You Bette-Sue for doing them on such short notice. I love it!

Christmas Recap...

Christmas was GREAT! It was the first Christmas in like 3 years that the entire family was together. It was super nice. Randon and Callie came into town on Tuesday. I did have to work all week except for Christmas but it was not too bad.
I love the Christmas traditions we have. We also incorporated a couple new ones this year.
---We have a Taco Dinner Christmas Eve (New tradition). It was so good!

---Christmas Eve we have a White Elephant gift exchange...I won The Office Trivia Game.


---We also do our sibling gift exchange Christmas eve as well.
---We started a new tradition with a 'Shaker' gift. Everyone is allowed to shake this gift. We all guess what it is and the person who guesses correctly wins the gift. Randon won it this year...
--- And it's not Christmas if you don't watch 'It's A Wonderful Life'
Callie got a yoga set for Christmas so Mom, Callie, and I decided to try it out...It was fun. I sure felt it in my shoulders the next day though.


I love Christmas. Most especially the Christmas Spirit. I wish it lasted all year long.

Christmas at Tempe Marketplace

This past weekend I went out with Chelsea and Sam to Tempe Marketplace. It was so nice to visit with these girls, I love them!

It also "snows" there every night at 7 pm ... I don't know that I would call it snow but close enough for Arizona. It was bubbles...it was fun and it did look like snow.

We went to see Matt Weddle perform (singer from Obadiah Parker). He has an amazing voice....I will try to post the video later...its taking to long to upload right now.

Merry Christmas!