Christmas!!! :)

This Christmas was great! I have enjoyed being home and spending time with my family; playing constant games, going to countless movies, and just relaxing. It's nice to sleep in and not be stressed out with school, work and money! I just wanted to express how much i love my family!!

                               My Family!!!

                                My siblings!!!

             McKayla and Shana's Gingerbread house!!!

                 Mine and Stephen's Gingerbread Suite!!!!

                             Sister Love!!!!!!!

                          Sister Christmas Tradish!!!!!

Oh the joys of being a college student....POOR!!!

So its winter break and I'm home for three weeks. I don't have a job to come back to and i really need to start saving money for next year of college. So desperate in fact that I've started babysitting again..... i told myself after  the other high school i was! But i really needed some money!! The kids i babysit are absolutely adorable. One is 7 and the other is 3 and the baby a little over 1. Today i was a hard day for me. I babysat for eight hours and the baby cried non stop for 4 of those hours. And then the three year old peed her pants and made a mess and then refused to go to bed! I was exhausted by the time the parents came home. I'm not trying to complain because I'm glad i found a way to earn money for a few weeks, but oh man, kids can be tough. It definitely has made me not want to get married and start a family any time soon! So not ready for that!! I just need to keep the money coming in!! I got a ways to go for having enough money for fall semester tuition next year! This girl pays her own way through college!! PROUD OF THAT!!! :)

The three bestest friends!!!!!!!!

First semester at  college and i was nervous!! But having my cousins and my sister here, was more than i could have asked for! Today is the end of that first semester and I'm really sad. Jaiden and Tyson packed up and went home, not just for the holidays, but for good. They aren't coming back because they both will be headed out on missions  next year. I didn't want them to go, but they needed to. Shana is done with undergraduate school. She got an internship in Dallas, Texas and will be leaving for there shorter after Christmas. That is such a great opportunity for her and i am so proud of her, but i don't want her to leave me too!
I am terrified for next semester! my best friends have left me! Jaiden and Tyson ARE my best friends. Shana IS my best friend. This sucks!

I'm glad they are moving on with their lives. And I'm glad i got to have the best first semester of college with them! Sure do love them tons!! :)

Favorite memories with them"

SHANA:
1) My birthday weekend in Salt Lake

2) Eating in the market place every Tuesday with dad's money!
3) Dance parties!

4) Driving home for Thanksgiving and scaring the crap out of her!
5) "Family dinners"
6) Fall pictures

7) Boy talk
8) Her birthday cake i made!
9) Football and basketball games!

10) Getting to spend more time with her than i have in the past three years!!!

JAIDEN:
1) playing ball in the gym
2) "do i have an boogers?"
3) stealing his bed when i had a rough night, he slept on the floor
4) him falling out of his chair countless times
5) teaching me how to ride a dirt bike!
6) countless road trips
7) Jimmer All Star Game!

8) When he would take me out to go do something when i had a bad day
9) Letting me put my feet under his head when we camped out for the BYU game cause they were cold
10) basically living over at his place and having so much fun!

TYSON:
1) going to each others bball games
2) him always having my back with trying to hook me up with guys haha
3) Camp out for BYU game, me and him only ones who stayed in that tent the longest and froze our butts off!
4) squished in the back seat on our way home... and i mean SQUISHED!

5) "Zing"
6) "it was the cheese its!"
7) Jimmer All Star Game!

8) watching him give blood! hahaha
9) double date (star gazing bahaha)
10) basically living at his place and having so much fun!!!!

~mCkAyLa~

Today i just felt like writing about my sister Mckayla. I love her. She is my best friend. I'm very protective of her. I miss her a lot. She is beautiful. Courageous. Stubborn. Tough. Always right. Hilarious. Sarcastic. Weird. Serviceable. Sympathetic. Honest. Quiet. Loud. Smart. Envied of. She is perfect the way she is.

Last night i watch the new movie Warrior, and it was about two brother. It made me think of Mckayla. How i missed her and wished i was home and supporting her and helping her through basketball season. Its at odd times when you realize how much some people mean to you and you wish you would have spend more time with them and done more things with them. I sure do love her! <3