Day 6: The Long Road Ahead

Today marks the first day of studying throughout my very long week for finals(Mine are all on Monday, bummer!) By this time next week I will be done and enjoying my Winter Break from school. While I'm writing this blog I'm listening to Christmas music on Pandora, this really gets me into the spirit of the holidays. Around this time of the year I feel that everything is perfect and that nothing can go wrong, I think that's the way the music makes me feel. I love it!

While I was walking to class today I was thinking about how I've changed over the years and how different things matter to me now when they didn't before. I was thinking that now I look forward to this year even more now than last year. It's not the presents that I look forward to, it's the small things that I cherish. Like picking on my brother and getting on my moms nerves, having dinner at home and especially waking up Sunday mornings to my dad's wonderful papas(potatoes), sausage and egg burritos, decorating the house, and even putting the lights on our house. When I used to walk home from school during these times and I knew that as soon as I walked in the door my mom would be decorating for Christmas, I would start to smell Christmas. The smell is basically rain combined with the smell of a Christmas tree. I love it and when I go home from school to this day I can still smell it. It warms my heart.

Year after year I look forward to this year more and more. I'm excited to go home and see all of my friends and family and spend 3 lovely weeks with them. I don't think this feeling will ever go away. Even as I grow older and eventually get married and have a family of my own I'm pretty sure I will be one of those parents that goes decorating crazy for Christmas, hopefully my kids feel the same way, if not then oh well more Christmas cheer for me! I decided that this year I would send out Christmas cards. My family has done them before, but not for awhile and so I decided that it would be a good way to show people that you are thinking of them at this time of year. This is great especially if they are currently going through things. I can't wait to mail them and receive the usual ones in the mail. Good times are yet to come!

Til Next Time!

This is my color changing penguin I bought at Target, it now resides on my desk giving my room some Christmas GLOW!

Day 5: Gratefulness (thankful)

So this is going to be my Thanksgiving post since its tomorrow and I might be in too much of a food coma to write anything :p

I love this time of year, not just for the food or the presents, but because I love being with my family and the people I love. I love the traditions my family and I have, the ones that I can remember growing up to. These traditions include for Thanksgiving, going to my grandma Nina's house for lunch with my dad's half of the family then over my house for dinner. I love helping my dad cook, that's right my dad is the cook in our family, the turkey and preparing everything especially making our homemade apple cider, it goes great with everything!

Like Thanksgiving, we have our Christmas traditions. They are gonna be a bit different this year since Christmas is on a Sunday. Usually what we do is Christmas Eve is our service at our local church, then we come home and bake cookies for what used to be Santa, but now I make them for anyone who wants them. Then Christmas morning we all wake up early and open presents. Since I'm older now and don't get much sleep at school I tend to be the last one to wake up. After presents we go to my grandma Esther's for Christmas breakfast and presents. Later that day we head to my aunt and uncles for Christmas dinner. Out of all of these things I have grown to love just being around my family and having a good time laughing and making memories. I remember when I was a kid all I would think about were the presents, but can you blame me? I was a kid, nothing was better than getting toys. 

I hope to make my own traditions when I have a family of my own and look forward to their company. It's at this time that I say I am very thankful for my family and friends and all of my loved ones. They make me who I am and I always look forward to seeing all of them. I'm a lucky person. I have a wonderful family, great friends, an AWESOME boyfriend!(Sean :D) and so many people that love and care about me. I wouldn't trade my life for anything in the world. Go and hug someone special to you and tell them how thankful you are to have them in your life!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Til Next Time!

This is my wonderful family that I cannot live without! This is from the summer of 08

Day 4: The Future

Yesterday my AWESOME boyfriend and I went to my church back home and surprised everyone...well except for one person Kendra. I had to tell someone so I told her, but the best part was that I succeeded! I loved seeing everyone so happy, my grandma, my aunt, and my mom. My mom especially, she looked like she was going to cry. The thing was that I had talked to her 2 days before on the phone saying that I would be home the night before Thanksgiving. This brought joy to my heart.

Like the title says this blog is about the future. I think about the future A LOT, probably more than most people. I worry how it will turn out, whether it will be good or bad, how I will be in the future and how my life will be. When my boyfriend found out ow much I think about the future, he seemed to get frustrated. He said I worry too much about the things that haven't even happened yet. I know it's true, but I can't seem to get away from that, it's just who I am. I worry so much that I stress out and it doesn't seem like its something I can control.....willingly.

I guess this is something I should really work on though there are some things I love thinking about! Being a girl and all I tend to think about my wedding and even the proposal, I even have my dress picked out already! An off the shoulder dress, backside corset with pickups. I think about having a family and doing all of the motherly/parental things you know? That's not so bad right?

Til Next Time!

ONLY 2 MORE DAYS TIL I GO HOME FOR THANKSGIVING!!!!

Here is the dress I've pictured for the longest time :D