Hello Again.

Well in my 2 months of not blogging things have been a little busy. As for Christmas and New Years, they were great. Amber and my mom blogged about those though so I don't have to.
For those of you that didn't know I moved from Oregon to TX at Christmas. I miss Oregon but I know that I am so post to be here right now. So on the hard days when I want to be anywhere but TX I remind myself of that. How long will I be in TX? I have no idea. On the bright side I get to enjoy the company of my family.
While I wasn't planing on going to school this semester I am. Insurance is important and I can't be on my dads of I'm not attending school. My classes are oil painting, drawing and psychology. I like them. Drawing can be tedious because it is 3 hours straight and some of the mediums (that's what they call the different types of things you draw with. ex. color pencil, charcoal) are very annoying to use. In oils we have been doing monotones but were starting color in our next class. This is great because while you learn allot when doing monotones I was getting tired of blue and brown.
Well I have a class I need to head over to. I hope you are all well and that life treats you great.

Future Blog Makeover

So I get to go home on Wednesday. After I have hugged my family set up the two remaining Christmas trees, grown two love handles (one for fudge the other for caramel) I am going to give my blog a real makeover. My own personal header and everything. I am so excited. My mom is really good at it and can teach me to use her program. I admit that it is rather pathetic that my mother has to teach me a computer skill when computers are so post to be my generation. On the bright side having my mom teach me things makes me feel like a kid again.
Lucky Amber gets home on Tuesday. I am so jealous. That is ok though because then I don't have to compete for arrival competition. Hopefully I will have lots of pictures to show you soon of all the fun projects we are planing on doing. Of course there will be lots of pictures of my family. All 13 of us.

Pictures

Did you think I forgot to take pictures of people while out in the snow? Nope. Here they are.

This is Serena

She is new to the high school scene and is handling it great. I am very impressed with her self confidence. She doesn't seem to care what others think. If she likes it she likes it, even if some people would see them as childish or immature. Not that they are but that high school nerves would seem to make them though. Not Serena though. Her out going, fun loving, general happy personality and dedication to her goals conquerors all.

This is Jeremy.

No he is not part Chinese. He just has the eye squinting smile like some of us in my family. Jeramey loves to help in the kitchen when it comes to cooking and, like most boys, just wants to have fun. He also seems to want to be older then he is sometimes. I have tried to explain to him that being a kid is fun and he should enjoy not having the responsibility of various things. It didn't work. Oh well.

Here is Autum.

While in many ways she is a girlie girl she has the energy to keep up with her two brothers that are close in age. She also loves one on one attention, the cat and fisher price dolls. Apart from that she has a set of lungs made for singing. At the ward party Santa came. Darcy, the lady who cut my hair, told her to go tell Santa what she wants. Autum said she didn't know what she wanted. I think in many ways Autum has the ability to be content with what she has as long as there are people to be around and interact with.

The youngest is Wes.

Don't let his size fool you. He is small but is more then capable of holding his own in a squabble.

He also has a tender heart and can be quite the gentleman. Lately he has taken to pushing my chair in for me. He will sometimes even hop up out of his chair so he can. Wes is very creative in a silly way. Sometimes he will tell joking stories about why such and such happened to so and so or they could do this next time that happens. Another thing I find so cute is that he wants nothing more then to be like Jake and Ross. I think that says many good things about the kind of big brothers they are. One of the ways Wes is trying to accomplish this is by eating allot. He is succeeding very well.

Then there are Garn and Aj. Sorry, I didn't get a picture of them. They are wonderful though. They both give excellent advice that is based on spiritual understanding and their life experiences. They have taught me so much and I am very grateful for it.

A Walk in the Snow

Today I was woken up to someone telling me it had snowed. A minuets later someone came and told me breakfast was ready. I must admit that if you have to wake up that those are some great things to wake up to. A special treat to breakfast was hot chocolate. Thank you snow for giving me an excuse. The snow also canceled church. I guess people are a little scared of snow here or maybe it is way worse in other places. Oh well. To substitutes church we watched music and the spoken word along with other programs from the BYU channel via the Internet. The music was especially wonderful because it is Christmas music. I love Christmas music. After lunch we went on a walk. Here are some pictures for you.

A little lesson from a little branch. This branch is very thin yet supports allot of snow. I think people are like this. We are very little, yet we can support allot of things.

It's a Wonderful Life

For years I would never watch It's a wonderful life because all I could remember about it from my childhood was the sad part from when he jumps off the bridge and then no one knows who he is to when he gets back to the bridge. I don't think I ever really got to see the end where things go back to being happy. So today, after Uncle Garn reassured me that it was not sad, I watched it. Very very good movie. I did ALMOST cry though. I wold also like to add that James Stewart is a great person from what I can tell. Someone went to do a Biography of him and they couldn't find any scandal that he had been involved in. That is awesome, especially when you work in Hollywood.

Ward Christmas Party

This morning was the ward Christmas party. Part of the activity involved making gingerbread houses. Here is mine and Autum's. Do you like our deck?

Here is Wes's. He is very proud of his garage.Jeramey had a house but he had a tornado come through and destroy it. It was actually rather nice. Not your normal gingerbread house though. He had done something different with the roof.

Christmas Card Garland

Aj was telling me how she will sometimes hang the Christmas cards she gets. She already had some red yarn so I decided to dress it up a little. This is what I came up with. It only cost about $5. Don't you just love the dollar store. Now all I have to do is hang up the cards on the red string.

It doesn't show up on the picture very well but there is glitter glue on the pine cones.