A Week In January

There was no school on Monday, so I spent the morning doing homework and then at 3:00 Meredee, Anna, and I went to Bride Wars. It was so funny. Then we got stuff for ice cream sundaes and ate those while we watched The Return of the King. This week in sewing class we learned how to do a bunch of different seams like a french seam, a flat fell seam, a self bound seam, and a stretch seam. They are really cool. I seem to have found a hidden talent that I have. I have been working out at the Sports Academy and on Wednesday I pulled a muscle which resulted in a huge black bruise on the inside of my knee. I didn't really even feel it! On Friday night I picked up Chase from basketball and then fed everyone. Mom and Dad went to the temple so the others needed someone to look after them. I ended up staying out there until close to midnight talking to my mom and Chelsea. Then I braved the thick fog to drive home. It was so thick, but fortunately I was able to follow other cars up until a block away from my apartment. I was okay as long as I focused on the tail lights ahead of me. It made me extremely nervous when I would look over and you couldn't see anything to the sides of you. I made it home just after midnight and then ended up staying up until two o'clock. My roommate had a bunch of friends over for movies. I think that we are all getting sick and the late Friday night didn't help because last night Anna and I both fell asleep while watching a movie at abou 6:30. I woke up at 7:45 and started another movie to try to keep me awake a while longer. She didn't wake up until 9. Then we both went to bed at 9 and neither one of us got up until 11 this morning. I have a bad stomach ache and a terrible sore throat. I have to meet with the bishopric this morning for a little meet and greet. They are trying to better get to know the members of the ward by haviing 5 or so of us meet with them for about 20 minutes and it is my turn today.

Not Much Going On

Well, I have been in school for 2 weeks now and I am so glad that I am getting a break tomorrow. I really like my sewing class and I am excited to start working on the projects. We are each making a skirt, pair of pants, and a shirt. I have already found patterns and am getting excited. Nothing exciting has really been happening in my life and I guess that is okay. It just doesn't give me much to write about. Chase came over on Friday night and helped me clean up my room and then he spent the night. This is him with all of my bedding on him because I was trying to make my bed and he was taking up my whole room. I really love that kid!

Wow A Lot to Report. Oh and Happy New Year!

Well our family had a very merry Christmas! I was so spoiled. The girls got luggage from our parents so that we would have something to carry our stuff to California in!!!! On Christmas Eve our family had a light dinner and then we played Bingo and Wackee Six. I won a magic deck of cards and that entertained us for a while. Chelsea was so confused as to why it worked and how I could do it. I think we all had fun laughing with her!
The Saturday after Christmas we went to Pocatello to have a little Christmas with Grandma and Tom Montgomery and the rest of my mom's family. It was really nice even though we couldn't stay very long due to the snow storms. On the 28th, we went to Salt Lake to stay the night at the Whites. We had another little Christmas party with them and then we stayed the night there. Ann took us to the airport on Monday morning to catch our flight to Oakland, CA!!! It was all of the kids first time on an airplane. It was a really small airplane too. Our flight attendent was really nice and guessed all of our ages (he guessed me & McKenna right!) and spoiled Chase. We flew into Oakland, picked up our rental car and headed to Monterey. We got to Monterey around 4 pm and we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for a couple of hours. It was really cool!

(This is Chase laying under the shark tank)

Then we stayed the night in Monterey and went back to the aquarium in the morning. Because my parents bought a membership, we could get in a half hour before the public. This provided a perfect opportunity for Dad, Chelsea, and Chase to take pictures without people in their way. We went to some souvineer shops before we left town and then we headed down the coast to Arroyo Grande. The winding road in the dark made all of us very carsick. We got to Aunt Pat's around 8 and spent the night there. The next morning we went to the Monarch Butterfly Grove and watched the butterflies. We also went to the beach for a couple of hours. Never had we imagined ourselves sitting on Pismo Beach on New Years Eve without jackets and sticking our feet in the water!

We also ended up having breakfast both New Years Eve and New Years Day in their outdoor kitchen. Pat made us a delicious pasta dinner on New Years Eve and then on New Years Day we went back to the beach and then we went to a restraunt with Pat and Morley. It was really good food.

Friday we went to Hearst Castle in San Simeon. It is really cool!! Everyone should try to someday go visit. On Saturday we headed back to Oakland and flew home. We finally arrived back in Cache Valley a little after 9 pm. We weren't excited to be back to the cold and snow. School started today and I am not quite in the mindset to be back. My mind is still on vacation!

Although a good jolt into reality occured this morning just before 6 am when my roommate came in to tell me that the water heater was leaking all over the hall and that I needed to take care of it. We got the water turned off and our water heater is being replaced this afternoon! Welcome to life and Monday morning!!!