Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! (I know it's late but better late then never right?) We finally have internet so I'll be posting more blog posts. Sorry I haven't been around for a few months :P We've been busy. With work for the both of us and married life to deal with it keeps us on our feet. But we love it. I love Christmas time and I love the fact that it's such a wonderful time to spend time with family. This Christmas was nice, I got to spend time with my family while also having another family to talk to.

I loved being able to spend Christmas with my husband, it was a unique experience and I can't wait to have more :). Although it was different it was fun. I got to spend time with my family and Arles at the same time, they get along so well and for that I'm truly grateful. Our family just keeps growing and before we know it Eric and Chris will be bringing in new people as well.

There is so much I want to talk about but I can't seem to bring my thoughts together in a way that sounds somewhat intelligent. So I'll just list all the happenings around here:
*Eric finally went driving today
*I got more shoes for Christmas
*Sleep is a wonderful thing
*I went out for sushi with the girls last week....oh how I love them
*I took Arles out for sushi the next night
*My brother in law has been living with us
*I cook...amazing right?
*Arles and I are heading to Edmonton for a couple days (I guess you can call it a honeymoon since we never went on one)
...and there's more but I'll post about them later.


Sorry for the short post but I really should get to bed. I've been pretty tired lately and this week is the perfect opportunity to catch up on sleep. Oh but one more thing...Emily is engaged :) :). I'm so happy for her and can't wait for all of us cousins to meet up with our husbands :P. Anyways good night :)

Thoughts

Today in class we were listing things that we are good at, mine were things like piano, reading, ect. then one girl in my class said procrastination...it was then I realized that I too am very good at procrastinating. I always think "I'll do it tomorrow" or "it's not due for a couple of weeks" but then tomorrow never comes and those couple weeks turn into the next day. I also tend not to do my readings, because I procrastinate I am always scrambling to do assignments the night before so I don't get a chance to do my readings. Maybe if I actually stayed on top of these things then I wouldn't be so stressed. So I have decided to do all my assignments ahead of time, then I could do my readings and maybe my marks would imporve. So since it's on the web for the whole world to see I figure I now have more accountability.

In other news I went to institute last night :) It's amazing how your day instantly improves after attending institute. I had the worst day and institute turned it all around.We talked about the Priesthood and although I'm a women and cannot hold the Priesthood directly I still find it so interesting. I find it amazing how men have the ability to bless and recieve a direct link to Heavenly Father, they can say things that are so profound and can say things to help you in your personal life that they don't even know your struggling with. I find it pretty fantastic. I am so grateful that I grew up in a home where the Priesthood was always present, even now it's weird not having it in my house, I mean my dad is only twenty minutes away but still it's not the same. But I know if he ever needed me he would gladly come into town. and I'm sure when my brothers are old enough to give blessings they would do the same thing.


PS: My feet are healing! They still look gross still but they don't hurt at all. Except when children decide to play a game of 'step on Julie's feet because she yelps in pain when we do'.

OCD

I am so OCD, seriously: P when it takes an hour to cut out 5 calendar pictures there is something wrong. For one of my assignments I have to make a picture file with at least thirty pictures and so far I have twelve cut out, none cropped onto a piece of construction paper, and defiantly none laminated…I might be working on this for a while yet haha. It would’ve taken less time had I been ok with a slight diagonal in my cutting skills ( no one would probably notice), but nOo I have to get it completely straight and spend about ten minutes on each one. Too bad I’m not that OCD about my room…


At least I got one thing accomplished tonight. I studied for about an hour for my psychology test coming up on Thursday. Hopefully I do well because like my instructors tell me if I don’t do well in psychology then I’m hooped :S I think I’ll do alright though, I memorized Freud’s, Erikson’s, and the Newman’s theories of development (it’s the center of everything that I’ll learn this semester and next).

In other news both of my brothers turned a year older in the past couple weeks :) I can’t believe that Eric is 16 and Chris is 14. Where did the time go? It seems like only yesterday that we were making mud pies in the backyard and now Eric can date, Chris can go to stake dances and I am almost half done my first semester of College. That’s scary.

Speaking of birthdays I will be twenty on Saturday! Weird hey? I will no longer be a teenager and enter into true adulthood. Not that I haven’t already but being nineteen makes me feel young still :P. Another advantage of being twenty is that I can be a paid councillor at EFY, hopefully this year they won’t reject my application like last year haha.

Anyways it’s time to get back to work...lame :P