Movie Time

Well this Christmas break I have had plenty and I mean plenty of time to catch up and watch movies that I have wanted to see!! I am pretty sure I have almost watched a movie (sometimes two) everyday this break. It has been great. I have watched a lot of movies with my nieces and nephews. My nephew Jackson and I have watched Toy Story 3 about 3 times now. There is still a lot more movies I want to see so good thing that I have plenty of time to watch them!!

Jack Jack and me watching Toy Story 3 in my sister's room

Some of the other movies I have watched since being home are Inception, Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Salt, The Tourist, Made of Honor, Sweet Home Alabama, Step Up 3, The Sound of Music, Dear John and I know there are some more that I am forgetting about. I love movies!!

Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

My dad as Santa Clause

Christmas is a wonderful time of year. I can't believe that this day has come and gone already. I still feel like we should have another few months till its Christmas. This Christmas has been amazing and I have so much to be grateful for!!
1. The birth of our Savior!! I think a lot of people especially me get caught up in buying, giving, and receiving gifts; food; time off; friends; parties; Santa and much more that comes along with the holiday season that we forget about the true meaning of Christmas. It is a time to remember our Savior and all he has done for us!! He gave us the atonement which I am so thankful for because I know I am far from perfect. It is nice knowing that I can always repent and be forgiven for my sins. I am so grateful for the birth of our Savior and I am grateful for Christmas to come so I can be reminded of it and how important it really is. My friend Minni sent me a picture the other day. It is a picture that they found in the Provo tabernacle after it burnt down. My brother in law brought it up again today and we got into a conversation about how the Savior is ALWAYS there. Here is the picture.
2. My Family!! It has been so nice to be able to come home and spend the time I have with my family. I really do love them and am so blessed to have them all in my life. When my family gets together it is like a circus. The kids running around going crazy and tons of jokes going on. If anyone knows my family they know they are very sarcastic and love making fun of each other. I always die laughing when I am with everyone. We always get together and have food and just chat. This year for Christmas Santa Clause got Just Dance 2 for the Wii. Oh can I just tell you how much my family loved this. Everyone in my family got up and had to do at least one song. It was very entertaining and funny especially since no one in my family really has rhythm. We spent hours playing the game. After, being with them just once it makes me realize how much I miss being home with them! I love my family!!
My brother in laws Kasey and Dave playing Wii DanceMcCaslin, Kassidy, and DillonMe and my sister Ashley
3. Gifts!! I am so grateful for the opportunity to give and receive gifts this holiday season. I love giving gifts and seeing the excitement on the people's face when they open the presents. My favorite thing is to watch my nieces and nephews open gifts because they get soo excited!! My family since we are so big every year picks names to see who we will be getting a present for. This year I got my brother Matt. I asked him what he wanted and all he kept telling me was a house so I came up with a brilliant plan. I printed off an flyer for a house then but an I O U $5 (toward your house) note in the envelope and gave it to him!! haha don't worry I gave him a shirt from American Eagle too! My sister Adina had me. She gave me a shirt which I guess all my sister's and Sister in law have so we were thinking about wearing it all on the same day! lol NEVER would happen!! Also, she gave me these frames that are all connected together with pictures of my nieces and nephews in it. The pictures are hilarious and I love all my nieces and nephews! I am so excited to hang it up in my room at school. Santa brought me gloves and money!! My parents then got me gift card to nordstrom and some perfume!! I didn't really care or feel like I needed any gifts but I am so grateful and excited for the ones I got!!
Karson Luigi bringing in presentsMy Presents
There are many more things that I am so grateful for during this Holiday season but it would be the longest post ever if I kept going. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas because I definitely did!!

School is OUT!!

Finally, after one long semester school is out and it is winter break!! This semester was probably one of my hardest semesters since starting college. My psychology stats teacher was like out to get Minni and me in making sure we wouldn't pass. We definitely proved him wrong even with missing because of soccer I was able to pull off an A-. I would say that is pretty dang good considering at the first of the semester he said a C and B were good grades. Also, after we told him that we were going to miss for soccer all he told was "good luck." It reminded me of the guy that said it on the movie Taken!! After he said that I knew I was going to work my butt off to get a good grade and it definitely paid off. I ended up with an A- in behavioral neuroscience but I ended up with A's in the rest of my classes. This semester I had room to take bowling so I definitely signed up!! It was probably the best idea I had. The class consisted of going twice a week and bowling two games. I improved my average and the bowling teacher taught me how to improve my game. lol I can't remember what my highest score was but I think it was around 190 or something!! I LOVE bowling!!! I hope to be on a bowling league when I am older like my mom and aunts.

The other classes that I had were Human Development, Sports Psychology, Adult Aging (such a boring class), and Soccer (love that I get a credit for playing soccer). Overall it was a great semester and I am definitely way happy about my grades. I don't want to even think about next semester....its going to be HORRIBLE!!! What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger right? haha Now I am going to forget all about school and just enjoy spending time with family and friends!!

Soccer

I can't believe it my junior year of soccer is over!! It was a way fun season and I loved my teammates. We ended up taking third in our conference which is good but we should have done a lot better. In the end it was a really exciting season and there was definitely some rough, intense, fun, exciting, disappointing, and enjoyable times. There were many memories made that i won't forget from this year. I made (with the help of my bro) a video of pictures for our team banquet of some of the amazing times we had as a team. I definitely will miss my seniors! They were amazing and I loved playing and hanging out with them!! It was a great year and I can't believe I will be a senior next year!! Here is the video I made!!