Monday, January 5, 2009

Bday party!!




It was crazy fun this last weekend (jan 3rd) i had a giant birthday party / new year's party / farewell party / bonfire / whatever and it was so much fun!! The day before, i went looking around for lots of firewood cuz a bonfire is no good unless it's gigantic, so i went to the asian market across the street from my house and got 4 palettes of wood, and we also got a few from a friend of ours! haha so we were totally stocked on firewood.
We got to dockwieler and got the fire started, and slowly people started to trickle in. It ended up being the usual suspects: sam, sherv, brian, kristin, krista, brandon, and then brook showed up later, along with the fam. We all had fun makin smores and weenies on the fire, then we took turns jumping over the fire and i got some sweet pics! (if i do say so myself :] )

After we went to the mall and sat around trying to figure out what we were gonna do, and i had a gift card burning a hole in my wallet, so we went to Black Angus and got a bunch of desserts and pigged out. Brian ate nearly a whole chunk of cake with his hands cuz the girls were complaining that the guys hadn't eaten anything lol. in his words, he "hippopotomusized it".
All in all, it was an awesome birthday/farewell/newyear's, and it would be totally fun again next year, except i won't be there :[

New Life's Resolution

So I've decided that it's time i did a stupid New Year's resolution, so that all of those who read this and notice I'm not doing it can yell at me and remind me to do it again :]
I'm thinkin that I'm gonna... study japanese? actually there's not much i can do because I'm leaving in about a month lol i just realized...
Well fine how about an update on the life! This Christmas was basically amazing. We got to have Christmas at home, then i went over to Katelin Hatter's house and had a ton of dessert and played charades with her family, even tho i kinda stink at it :]. I got to go to the temple!! That was amazing, and totally put me on a spiritual high for a while. I'm gonna try to go to as many as i can because the feeling is apparently different in each one. For Christmas i got a ton of missionary clothes, which was expected. I'm almost ready!! I've got a few more things to get ready like ordering the luggage and a few more white shirts, but for the most part I'm ready to get out the door. 
Later, on Dec. 27th, Bebe got married!!! So i was able to go to her sealing, which was really really cool. after we went to my house and had a greed game with the cousins that were able to come to the wedding. The following monday we went to visit with the cousins up in Valencia, and got to hang out with them and meet Kelsie's fiancee!! CRAZY GIRL YOU'RE ONLY 11 DAYS OLDER THAN ME!! haha congrats but still it's friggin scary for moi. 
aaaand we got an xbox 360 for christmas so we've been killing nazi zombies late into the night basically every night which has been a blast (get it???? :D )
ahhh i need to get more pics up of stuff we do!