Christmas Break

No I have not fallen off the face of the earth, I've been busy working at the daycare and also relaxing at my parents. I have enjoyed doing nothing so much, I'm not sure if I want school to start again :P But just think in four months I will be done for the year!!

Before Christmas break my roomates, Lindsey, and I had a party where we ate way to much and watched movies all night. We even went for a late night slurpee run :P It was a good time. Then a week later we had our own little Christmas where we gave each other our gifts, I love my roommates and am so blessed that we love each other as much as we do :).

So here's the rundown of my Christmas break, pictures will come later :P

First on the weekend before Christmas we headed to Calgary to spend some time with my dad's side of the family. It was nice to spend quality time with my grandparents as we prepared the meal together. I also enjoyed seeing my cousins and their families, it's amazing how old we're all getting :P.

So for Christmas Eve we headed to my aunt and uncle's house for dinner and a program, it was great to be surrounded by family and remember the truemeaning of Christmas. I have to say my favorite quote of the night was from Josher, he was looking very thoughtful and then turned to my Aunt Kathy and said "Mom, do hamsters fart?" I'm pretty sure he's my favorite child ever :P Only a five year old would think of something like that.

Christmas Day was spent at my house with my parents and my brothers. I got a lot of presents and guess what? Santa brought me a blender!!! I can't wait to use it. I also got some books, some cute clothes, a rice maker, some jewlery, a few gift certificates, a CHI (can I just say, i LoVe my CHI), and a Sunday coat. I loved every one of them :). After spending the day with my family my Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jason, and the family came over for left overs. I love my family.

Then on Monday we packed up and went to Medicine Hat for a couple days. The majority of the time was spent on the waterslides :) That's one of things that hasn't changed as my brothers and I have gotten older, we still love going on the waterslides together. One evening we watched Tangled in our hotel room, that has to be one of the cutest movies, I'll deffinately be buying that when it comes out.

From Medicine Hat we went back to Calgary on Wednesday for one of my childhood friend's wedding reception. She moved away when I was 12 or 13 and then I found out in September that she was in the same program as I am in so we reconnected. It was weird seeing all these people at the reception that I have not seen in five years, I can't believe how old I am getting, I saw some children there that I knew when they were babies and now they are ten...it's a strange feeling :P

Now I am back at my parents house and loving it, I'll be going back into town this evening for New Years Eve and then back here for tomorrow. It's been busy but I've loved it :).

Happy New Year to everyone!!

Done :)

I Julie Marie O’Brien just finished the last of my homework! Well besides tomorrow’s observations, but those will not take long. I cannot believe that I have survived my first semester of college :) and that I pulled out with at least a B in every class, how do I feel? Relieved and relaxed :P Although I’m sad that I have to say goodbye to the children at my practicum I am really excited to be done.


What’s next for the next MONTH? Christmas :), reading, blogging, facebooking, piano, and visiting my children at the daycare. I really can’t wait to see them and be able to pick them up and give them all big hugs :). Oh and tomorrow my beautiful roomies and I are having a girls night (so excited :P) Anyways I’m going to bed…and it’s only 12:30! Wow that’s a first in a long time :P. Good night blogging world

Good Laugh

When I woke up this morning this was the first thought that came into my head; "nOoO I want to sleep longer, I feel like one of those gophers that have been run over by a truck but is not quite dead yet. Yeah like those ones that are twitching and trying to get off the road but they're half dead so they can't move and so they stay on the road twitching and slowly dieing." Oh dear...how can you tell I was tired?? :P Anyways that's all for now. I'll write more in a few days when I'm done for the semester :)

Christmas Once Again :)

There is nothing like spending the day with family to lighten your mood, I feel like this week has been horrible (read previous post) but after spending all afternoon with my family I found that I have the motivation to do everything I need to this week. We decorated this tree this evening at my parents and I have to say that is one of my favourite parts of Christmas :) I love our ‘family tree’ basically it’s not the modern organized tree, all the decorations have no specific place they are all put in a different spot each year. Each of them has a memory attached to it and every year as we’re going through the decorations it takes me down memory lane. Even though my mom was sick and the fact Chris was being dumb and not taking pictures with me, it was a good night.


I also attended the First Presidency Christmas Fireside and usual it was fabulous. I love hearing the brethren talk and how every year it seems like they remind me what Christmas is about. And no Christmas is not about the presents, it’s a season of giving and being with family. If all I had was my family I think it would still be a great Christmas.

I can’t wait for the holidays to start and to finally take a break from life. *Sigh* I just have to make it through this week first :P but I can do it!

*Sigh*

I’m almost there! I know I bring this up every time I blog but with every passing day I get more and more excited for Christmas holidays :) I finished all my assignments on time this week and I got a fairly good mark on my psychology test on Thursday. One week down and one to go. So I have to be honest I have not been going to institute on a regular basis, it just seemed like there was always homework and projects that got in the way (it shouldn’t and I realize that), but the times I did go I felt so much more enlightened, this week we talked about the Atonement and it was great to be able to spend that class talking about something that is so mind boggling that every time we talk about it there is always something new that stands out. Next semester I am going to go every week, I need to set my priorities straight.


I was amazed on Thursday how a day can go from so lame that I came home in tears to fine. So the day started out fine but as usual I was a little sleep deprived and thus every niose the children made was worsening my headache but I was fine. That is until the children had a drumming presentation, they loved it however, I did not (imagine thirty children pounding on drums for an hour…). After that we headed outside and had crying and crabby children for the remainder of the day.

I then took two tests on a row, both I thought I had studied enough for but I didn’t. It’s not that I did horrible but I could`ve done better. By the time both exams were over I was mentally and physically exhausted, so I came home and had one of those 'why am I doing this?' moments and broke down in tears for a bit. And then I prayed. I basically asked for Him to make my day better because I hate feeling sorry for myself. He did. I checked the efy website and realized that I could apply to be a councelor :) I tried but for some reason I couldn`t get past the `submit my resume` part, but I’m going to call the help number on Monday and figure it out. Then Julianna texts me asking if I wanted to come over for a movie, it was so great that of all the days she invites me over it was my bad day.

Anyways I am sorry for the depressing post; it ended up all good though. I just need to make it through the next week then I will be free for a month :)

PS: Sitting by the tree, listening to Christmas music, and smelling our various candles seems to make everything better :P