Final post of the year

WHELP!!! Here it is!! The last post of the year! I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to say in this... I just feel like I should probably get one more post in before the year is out.

Break has been good. I've been awful at taking pictures though... The whole family is here! Cept Andrew... I love being with family. It's been different this year... but I guess that's how things go. haha

Shar is expecting her 4th baby!!!!! Due on July 24th. :D :D :D I'm so so so so so excited!!! Kayda wants a sister SO bad! I hope it's a girl. That's been one of the most exciting parts of this whole break. haha Anyways... I've had some good time to sit and relax and sleep and watch awesome movies. Ramona and Beezus is possibly the best movie EVER made. I LOVE it. Seriously. Definitely a new favorite!! haha I've had some good times with the kids and some good times with the siblings and parents. :) Jen is in my room and so we're staying up wayyyyy too late every single night talking! haha I LOVE IT.

Here are some cute pictures from the break so far... again, I've not been very good at getting pictures, but these are my favorites. Kayda was throwing a party, so after I took a shower, she took a bath, then we brushed her hair, put on her favorite clothes, and put on lipstick and earrings. We also painted her fingernails. :) She is the cutest girl EVER. I absolutely adore her. I gave her a locket for Christmas and she said "I want your picture on this side, and my picture on this side. That way, we can always be together." AWWWH!!! hehe I totally almost cried. I love her.

Payson is talking so so much now. Shar took the cheese away from him and he ran away from her crying. I picked him up and was like "Payson, what's wrong?!" he pointed at Shar and just babbled away, totally tattle tailing on her! hahah!! Today he was sitting down and Tucker ran up and took the ball away from Payson. He screamed "OW!! BIT!!" haha I have a feeling he can talk a lot more than he lets us know he can. He said "A PUZZLE!!" when he opened a puzzle from Aaron and "WOAH! Big tree!" when he came in. haha!! He's so cute.

Also, on Christmas day, Jen gave me a poster wrapped like this:

She cut out the letters on the white side... but realized they were backwards. So she did the whole thing backwards so it would look good in the mirror! hahahahahahaha Oh man, I love my family. :P

AAALLLSOOOO!!!! SO EXCITING. OK one night I was checking to see how many minutes I had left and LOOK AT HOW MANY TEXT MESSAGES I HAD!!! ::::

1234!!!! hahaha yeah. I made a wish. hhh... that kind of made my day. lol

Anyways... Here's to a Happy New Year!! :D This year, I hope to get good grades, make wise choices, cook good food, and dance a lot. :P hmmm... I think I need to do some serious thinking about my actual new years resolutions... Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. haha!! anyways!! GOODNIGHT!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Mahh dang...

Daaaang... I wish I was better at blogging. haha Things just get so busy! But, its been a good busy. :) All I can think about right now is that FINALS ARE OVERRR! :D haha They actually went surprisingly well and I'm super stoked about my grades. I did better than I've ever done before. :) Happy day. :) Ok, before we get there... let us start before. lol

So, Thanksgiving was wonderful. It was so good to see Shar and Tom and the kids again! I adore those kids. Kayda and I painted finger nails, braided hair, tried on pretty dresses, and even made necklaces! Well, Shar and I made necklaces for Kayda. It was so fun though!!

On Thanksgiving, we went around the table saying things we were thankful for. :) We each said as many as our age. So we started with Payson and we were like "Payson! What are you thankful for?" and he grinned and said "Cheese!" hahaha SO CUTE! That's pretty much all he can say. Then we asked Kayda and the first one she said was "Prayer." I thought that was so adorable. And of course, all of Jarom's had something to do with the potty. haha!! oh boy... Bring it on 7 years old!

Hehe we tried to have fun outside, but it was FREEEEZING cold! The kids' school got cancelled which was exciting for them. :) And me! haha The roads were pretty bad coming up...  but yeah. It snowed a lot and one morning was like 6 degrees outside. whooo! COLD. I loved the time with Tom and Shar and the kids. They had fun playing with my camera... some of our cooler shots:

haha anyways. After Thanksgiving was pretty much straight shot to finish finals. Things got kind of insane... ASL drove me up the WALL. haha I was supposed to go to 8 labs and I hadn't gone to any. haha we needed two deaf activities and I hadn't done anything. YAY PROCRASTINATION!! All the labs were full and there were only a few more activities we could go to. Long story short, I was able to finish EVERYTHING!!! Seriously, it all just worked out. :) hhh... my final was really funny. I only had to do half of it!! WOOOT! :D The department didn't print out the rest of it. And, my class was too late and the department was already closed. So, I only took half!! WOOT! hahaa my other classes went pretty well. MCom was a nightmare... but that was expected! haha one night, I stayed up ALLLLL night long working on papers. I was writing the final paper for MCom and it just took me wayyy too long. I was in the library till 2 am,  but then came home and wrote mah paper. I finally went to sleep at 7:30, but was up again at 9:30 to turn in the paper... UGH! haha love finals.

Later, I went to the Hill's to make gingerbread houses!! It was SO much fun!! :D Chris was there too... so that was fun. 

Well, between movie nights and a lot of junk food, I made it through finals!! haha I watched the entire 10th season of The Apprentice!! YESSS! love it. On my last day before the break I stayed up pretty much all night cleaning for cleaning checks. I totally passed out on my floor by my heater. haha! oh dear, back to the homestyle ways of falling asleep by the heater! :P At least it's not in the bathroom here. hahaha!!

Then it was off to the airport for hometime... (: 

I'm here now!! I love Sequim. Jen gets here tomorrow, so that should be good! I've gotten to go to a few classes of hula and I LOVE IT! I forgot how much I missed dancing. I love Mahina. I've missed the class so much. hhh... I've learned like 2 new dances and we're learning a Tahitian one!! I can't wait to learn all of that one. It's SO much fun. Anyways... I'm sure I've missed a lot. So, I'll probably be back on to fill in the gaps. hhh... well, that's about it for now. :)