Sleepover Party!!!

On Monday our niece Rachel came to play! We planned a sleepover a couple of months ago but had to wait until I was done with school to do it. Rachel and I were both excited and planned to go to Temple Square to see the lights and ride on Trax (the public transportation train). Of course that night it decided to storm. It was so cold outside and the snow was so thick that we decided not to go. We watched movies and played Go Fish with Spanish cards. We had a blast and Rachel was really excited when she beat Kelvin in the first game of Go Fish! We watched movies and made cookies with Mint M&M's and had a great time!






The Mint M&M cookies

Chilenos de Corazon

Querida familia de Sur America! Por fin tengo unos momentos para escribiros. Emilee y yo queriamos agradeceros por todos los regalos de Navidad que nos disteis. A Emilee le encanta el sweter que la disteis y la camiseta que me disteis es genial. Los dulces... bueno he comido casi todos, pero es que no puedo resistir. Queriamos deciros que os amamos muchos y que siempre estan en nuestros corazones. Esperamos anhelosamente el dia que podamos ir a Chile juntos para veros. A la Mami Eca le enviamos un beson grande y un abrazon tambien. No creo que puedo poner en palabras lo que siento para ti, Mami Eca, tu amor siempre esta conmigo, has puesto tu huella en mi corazon y quedara para siempre. A todos mis queridos tios y tias tambien os enviamos nuestro amor. Siempre han pensado en nosotros y sus sonrisa brillan en todos nuestros tiempos dificiles. Tengo que decir que me asombra el amor que tiene Emilee para todos vosotros. Cuando pasais por dificultades Emilee esta casi lista para vender todo y ir a ayudar a toda la familia. Yo la tengo que apaciguar y decir que la oracion tendra que bastar hasta que podamos ir con dinero no prestado. Y a todos nuestros primos enviamos amor y yo os digo que practiqueis con las espadas y en la lucha libre o cuando nos vengamos os tendre que ensenar como luchar!! Muahahaha ( mi risa de maldad ).
Con amor, Gregory y Emilee.

Do I laugh or do I cry?

The day has finally arrived (and technically gone since that day was yesterday)!! I am DONE with the most stressful and horrible semester I have ever had. Originally I was going to take my finals on Mon (tomorrow) and then be done but then I thought, ya know what? I'm not going to be studying this weekend. No matter how much I like to think that I would be productive, I knew it wasn't going to happen. So I crammed in what I could and decided that I was much better off only making one trip to Ogden on Sat instead of going back on Mon. It did end up being 4 tests that I had to take but I was so burned out that I just didn't care anymore! That's what I did and I am so elated that it is finally over. I think I did pretty good. We will see though. Now I get a month to relax before I start another semester in Jan. Yeah for me! I get to start cooking again!

On another note, some weird things have been happening. A couple weeks ago my blow dryer freaked out and got way too hot and burned off a chunk of my hair, and then it happened again this morning. I also went to put on my tan skirt and it had a big stain all over the back of it. The washer at the complex we live stained a lot of my clothes that I didn't notice until this morning. When we got up, Kelvin tried to turn on our desk top computer and it wouldn't turn on. We think it is just the monitor that broke but don't know for sure. So now, I only have a few clothes left, my hair can only go a certain way until it grows back, and our main computer is broken. Hence the question, do I laugh or cry? With each new thing that goes wrong, I just have to shake my head and laugh. It's much better than crying and much more enjoyable. I am so blessed and even though my clothes have become quite diminished, my hair gone crazy and we no longer have our main computer, I am still blessed to have clothes, have hair, and have another computer even if it's a lot slower and doesn't have all of our stuff we use on it. Good thing that I can laugh!