Bodies the Exhibition

Tonight I went to Bodies the Exhibition. It was amazing. They were able to perserve human parts and show them to us. Basically we were able to see what is inside of us. They showed us a healthy lung compared to a smokers lung, the brain after a stroke, and much more stuff. I so appriecative of my body after learning how everything works. My plan for the 2008 year is to go on a diet and this exhibit helped me see literally where everything goes and how it all works together. I mean afterwards we did go spilt a double chocolate brownie. Its not 2008 yet so don't judge. The exhibit travels all aroudn so if it comes to your neck of the woods then go see it. Here's the website to see when its coming or too learn a little more about what they do.

http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/

Gotta love Christmas

Christmas has come once again. This year was a little out of the norm. Usually we all go up as a family and spend Christmas Eve with my Dad's side of the family. This year however my dad had to work and my brother, although he was home, wasn't able to come to celebrate. So my mom and I headed out on our own. There was a little bit of a problem. The Chargers were playing at 5 and the party started at 6. So I made the suggestion to go to a local sports bar to watch the game and then go over there during half time and watch the rest of it. Brill ant right? I called my cousin and she got her mom and brother along with my other aunt and uncle to come too. We ended up having half the party at the bar. I felt kind of bad that we took away from the festivities but its the Chargers. They won by the way so it was a great Christmas after all!

San Marcos hear I come!

I applied for the San Marcos teaching credential program about a month ago. They said they would get back to us in a week. Well its been more then a week so I kind of ruled it out. I have been looking at other options on what to make of this life of mine and have come up with some great options. I have had a couple of different job opportunities that will help me go forward in life. I was looking at 2008 as my year! While this morning I found out that I got in the program! I feel that my cup has been runneth over lately with all the blessings the Lord is giving me. My only problem now is figure out what awesome option to choose from. But it may look like that the young minds of the future are going to learn their math skills from me. Cal State San Marcos is know for thier education program so I am really honored that they have accepted me in their program. I think the mascot is the cougar. Do you think it will still work if I wear the BYU cougar gear that I already have?

Christmas in May

I am doing my shopping in May next year. I just got home from spending 4 hours getting only a couple of items from 2 different places. I already knew what I wanted and was thinking I was going to be in then out. I didn't calculate everyone else trying to get in and out. It took forever to get home. Traffic doesn't really bring in the holiday cheer!

Never leave home without it!

I have been working at the temple for 3 weeks now. I finally went to bed early and got up early to really get ready. When I got to the temple I couldn't find my recommend anywhere!! I talked to the front desk and they had to talk to the presidency to see if I could come in. So I thought I was getting blessed but then I was making so many mistakes during my shift. It was more then just messing up on the words. I accidentally poked a girl in the eye, sent someone who was all dressed in her temple clothes out in the lobby, and other embarrassing things. Not sure if I was being taught a lesson on always bringing your recommend to the temple. Minor detail.

Department 56

A couple of weeks ago I went with Shelby to get her first addition to her Department 56 village. We spent like 2 hours picking one out. We were first going for the Dickens Village but after much debating we went for the original snow village. We first said no to it right away but then they started to warm up to it till we loved it. Well it was all fun for her but I was convinced on the villages too. So Shelby was nice enough to buy me my first piece for Christmas. Its a high school and it lights up. I am going to save money through out the next year so I can buy another one next year and continue to add on each year. You should check out the website. Such cute things. http://www.department56.com/

Ellen Take 2

Last May Shelby and I went to the Ellen Degeneres Show. We waited in line forever and literally right before we were about to go in they cut us off! We were bummed but they did say we could come back anytime and get guarantee tickets plus we got a free cd. So it wasn't a bad trip. Well we decided to get our tickets right around the 12 days of give away. We got in line again and when the girl came out to tell us about the show she said it was going to be airing Jan 9th. Again another bummer. We learned that Scott Baio, some health girl and a child piano player were coming on. We weren't too excited. We got in and they gave us front row seats. Then Ellen surprised us all. It looks she had one more give away! She gave us a really nice Italian cookbook, the game brain age and a Nintendo DS. Then last but not least we won a trip to Las Vegas!! Its a three day and two night stay at the new planet hollywood hotel. We are given tickets to see Stomp and a dinner at the buffet. Merry Christmas to us. Even without all that it was a really fun show! My parents were excited for they Nintendo DS. They haven't given it back to me so I can play it.

Christmas is not Christmas without Christmas Sweaters!

We had our ward Christmas party this saturday and the instructions were to wear our old christmas sweater. So of course we went all out.

Unfortunately no one else decided to get into the Christmas spirit. They just wanted to look nice to impress all the guys. Well all the guys were talking to me telling me how awesome my sweater was. Who ended up impressing who?

I did try to dazzle everyone with my piano skills.

Silly people didn't realize it was a self playing piano.

The Temple

This morning I started working at the temple. It was amazing. I got to be apart of so many things. I was a little tired though. I kind of stayed out late the night before. But other then that I think it was a great way to start my saturday. And I got invited to go to a fireside in January with President Monson. I have no problem with that.

Good Ol' Gingerbread House

At our family home evening last night we made ginger bread houses. I am not bragging because we made it but ours was the best! We even got really detailed in our house.

There is a wreath on our door, Christmas tree to the side.

We have our logs to the side if it gets cold.

There is a snow sprinkled all over the house. The snow was brown but still good.

And what house would be complete with our a little pie on the window seal. And if you look carefully on the chimney Santa's feet our hanging out because he dove in head first.

It really is the most wonderful time of the year!

BYU takes over San Diego

Because of the fires about a month ago the BYU vs SDSU game was rescheduled for last night. Now usually when you go to a home game you think there would be more fans for the home team. That was not the case for this game. When BYU scored more then half of the fans were cougar fans! BYU killed SDSU. It was a little bit of a flashback to those fun games in Provo, UT. Go Cougars!

It beginning to look alot like Christmas

Yesterday I headed to LA to help Shelby decorate her house for the holidays. It was a really rainy day so it was fun to stay inside and get warmed up. We put the movie Elf on and drank caramel apple cider from Starbucks. A perfect combo if you ask me. We then went to pick out lighted buildings from Department 56. She is going to start to buy one every year. These villages are so cute. Everyone of them have so much detail to them. We spent like a couple of hours trying to figure out which theme to go with and then which buildings to start with. I kind of wanted to start them myself. Despite the rain and horrible traffic going there, it was way fun to sing Christmas songs and decorate for the holidays. Yea for Christmas!