I hate finals

I figured it's time to write a little bit more, so here we go. Jerry and I inn keep at the Blue Boar Inn in Midway so we stuck around Heber for Thanksgiving, but it was good to be with family. Jerry and I went to my dad's for breakfast with my sisters Maddy and Haley. It was yummy. Sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, hash browns, and toast, all the wonderful things that will clog your arteries. It was nice to spend time with my dad because we don't see him a whole lot. Then we came home and Jerry and his dad put up the lights on the house. I was kind of nervous about that because we now have a metal roof so Jerry couldn't climb on it, but they were able to use a ladder and a pole to put the lights on the hooks so no one ended up in the emergency room. Thank goodness!! While they were outside playing I was inside making pie (OK, so I cheated and bought the Marie Callendar kind you defrost and bake, but I did make a French Silk pie the night before), 7 layer bean dip, and another bean dish. We went to my mom's for dinner and there was tons of food! I don't think half of it got eaten, but we had yummy leftovers! My brother was there and Jerry's parents came so it was a regular little party. Good food and good people, what more can you ask for, right?

The semester is winding down and I of course have procrastinated writing my papers. I have been frantically writing. One down , one more to go. My final is on the 16th and of course the teachers gave us another project that is due next week. How lame, next week is supposed to be study time. I am definitely looking forward to Christmas break.

Jerry and I are going to get our tree today. He has an insured who owns a landscaping business and his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer so we are going to get our tree from them. It's our way of being able to support them he told me. We bough one on sale at Walmart last year after Christmas and we went to put it up and it is pretty pathetic. It was only $10 dollars so I guess you get what you pay for (and I personally think Walmart stuff is cheap, sorry not a Walmart fan). I am excited to have a real tree again, they are my favorite.

I had a meeting with the bishop on Wednesday night so I now have another calling. It is ward sports specialist or something like that. Basically I am in charge of letting people in the ward know when the stake has scheduled sports like basketball, volleyball, and softball. Sounds pretty easy, which is good because I don't have a whole lot of extra time!

My birthday is on Monday and I will be 24. I feel so old, hahaha. My best friend is supposed to be coming up tomorrow, but who knows. She is funny like that. I think my mom is getting tickets to Wicked for me, and that makes me really excited. I have always wanted to see Wicked. I don't know what Jerry has planned, he is pretty good at keeping surprises from me. I had no idea where we were going for our honeymoon and he planned our 1st anniversary in secret too. He is so sweet:)

Our ward Christmas party was last night. I volunteered to cook some food so Jerry took that opportunity to have his scouts come and do it to help with a cooking merit badge. So they got their first experience making funeral potatoes. Yes, I know, typical Mormon party food. They did pretty good for 11 year -olds. I didn't have to do anything. They even did the dishes, took out the trash, and wiped off the counter. The party was good. The primary kids sang a couple of Christmas songs, someone read the "Twas the Night Before Christmas," and of course the bishop had something to say. We had ham, rolls, and funeral potatoes. I was good to socialize a little bit. The only thing that could have been better was a Santa. You can't have a Christmas party without Santa!