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I love the English!!

there are those poeple who just make you smile the are so completely themselves at every moment of the day but you can't help but love them i met one of those people today and i loved her!!!

so i was in the writing lab and i had just sat down at the table and at the table directly in front of me there is a lady sitting there with flushed cheeks and funny looking head phones and we happened to meet eyes and she gave me the biggest smile EVER which made my day i love it when people smile at me....so i didnt think much of it and went back to writing.....

3 minutes later she starts laughing...what she is laughing at, i have no clue so i start looking around thinking to myself i am missing something, nope nothing we are the only two poeple there so obviously i start laughing to myself because she is going to cry she is laughing so hard

another 2 minutes goes by she stands up and has the WORST PLUMERS CRACK ever so no i LOVE this woman even more because i feel like we just bonded without bonding because as most of you know i am the queen of plumers crack

1 minute later....she continues laughing to herself...so i start to wonder who is this woman? why is she here? she is not wearing one of the tutor vests so i just assume she is not a tutor! i start wondering what has made this woman so happy and if she would share whatever it is with me so i can be as happy as her.

another 2 mintues later...i start to wonder where my tutor is now realizing i have been staring at this woman for at least 6 mintues and feeling a little frustrated because i only have a half hour appointment and my paper needs every minute of it when all of a sudden the laughing butt crack woman plops herself in the seat next to mine and says "i will be helping you today" with the most amazing english accent i have ever heard!! i have a girl crush not only are we soul sisters she told me i was a great writer so MANDY you rock!!!!

Tradition!!!!!

Traditions are my favorite part of Christmas. My favorite tradition that my family has is getting together on Christmas eve with my aunt and uncles family. This year was one of the best yet...we mixed it up a little bit and had chinese food I even went above and beyond and made coconut shrimp(and it turned out dang good if I do say so) anyways we always get together and play games and best of all we play the chimes!! yes that is right the chimes it is the GREATEST tradition we have!! Last night we finally came to the conclusion we play the chimes because we can't sing but no matter what the reason I love it and wouldnt want to do anything else on Christmas eve. However this Christmas eve was sad my cousin Sam, whom we have not have a christmas eve without since I can remember couldn't join us because he left on December 15 to the mtc...so Sam you were missed and we hope you did something somewhat as enteraining as chimes in the mtc(if that is even possible)...

Playing chimes!!(look how happy they all are)

example of the things said and done at our christmas eve party:
While getting dinner we had the slush for our drinks set on the bar by the food my dear sweet grandma then proceedes to put it on her plate(thinking it is some kind of jello no doubt)...so of course we cant let her keep it there so my Kami grabs it with her hand and sticks it in my grandmas cup. while everyone is busting there gut laughing because grandma doesnt even really notice she has done something wrong.

Conversation about Sam in the MTC

Mom"so can Sam email you from the MTC"

Aunt Phyllis"yes he gets to email once a week"

Kevin"I didn't get to email when I was in the MTC"

Stan"yeah me either"

Alex(very sarcastically)"yeah and did you know soon they also get community cell phones and they get to send one text a week!"

It might not be funny to anyone else but I love my family they are the best EVER and I will be so sad if our Christmas eve tradition ever has to stop!....

ps Alex if you ever read this I owe you ten bucks...and it was worth every penny;)

"Tis the season to be jolly"

12 days of Christmas 2010:

On the first day of Christmas my life gave to me: One amazing sister

On the Second day of Christmas my life gave to me: Two patient parents

On the third day of Christmas my life gave to me: Three days of decorating

On the fourth day of Christmas my life gave to me: Four cute stockings hung with care

On the fifth day of Christmas my life gave to me: 5 new boyfriends(hahaha i wish!!)

On the sixth day of Christmas my life gave to me: 6(hundred) treats

On the seventh day of Christmas my life gave to me: 7 diapers to change

On the eighth day of Christmas my life gave to me: 8 weeks without a car

On the ninth day of Christmas my life gave to me: 9 christmas parties

On the tenth day of Christmas my life gave to me: 10 presents to buy and wrap

On the eleventh day of Christmas my life gave to me: 11 days of art projects

On the twelth day of Christmas my life gave to me: 12 beautiful students

I am not very creative but that pretty much sums up my December...

We got Santa to agree to surprise our students he brought gifts and everything!!

Only 8 of our students made it to school through all the snow...we had a fun little Christmas party.

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving what an amazing holiday we have so much in our lives to be thankful for I have been overwhelmed with gratitude this week for my life, for Christ sacraficing his life that I may have mine, for heavenly father watching over me in everything I do. I love Thanksgiving I was able to have a great meal surrounded by people I love what more could I ask for!!

"Be cool man"

So I love my class they are adorable and make everyday a good one for me.
I am teaching the the sond "Jingle Bell Rock" to sing in the Christmas program in a couple weeks(and not to brag but I am doing a seriously good job they have made major improvement in the past three days) back to the point we were practicing it today and my one of my favorite students(mostly because he ALWAYS does what i ask him to) was not singing and had this sad little pouty face(which was adorable)(sorry i will stop inserting and get to the point) and the boy next to him turned to him and said "be cool man, just sing its the cool thing to do" i LOVED this for one he said man in this hilariou voice and another singing is cool!! and this whole situation just brought me joyous thoughts of GLEE i am addicted and think about how much i want to be on the show daily but anyway point of the story BE COOL MAN JUST SING!!

Stronger than I ever knew!

"A mighty wind blew night and day
it stole the oak tree's leaves away
then snapped is boughs and pulled its bark
until the oak was tired and stark

But still the oak tree held its ground
while other trees fell all around
the weary wind gave up and spoke
How can you still be standing oak?

The oak tree said I know that you
can break each branch of mine in two
carry every last leaf away
shake my limbs and make me sway

But I have roots stretched in the earth
growing stronger since my birth
you'll never touch them you see
they are the deepest part of me

Until today, I wasn't sure
of how much I could endure
but know I found with thanks to you
I am stronger than I ever knew"
-Johnny Ray Ryder

Elder Ballard shared this poem and I love it, I think we are all so my stronger than we know and that if we always have our heart on Christ and his gospel with will be able to withstand anything!