Girl's Night!

Last night I had my girl friends over for fun and games! All of the girls, except my roommate Annie, were my friends from high school. We are all going to college in different places and some of us are either married or getting married (SCARY!!!), so we wanted to hang out while we could. We played the game called "Loaded Questions". It was hilarious! We then watched one of our all-time favorite movies, "Bride and Prejudice". It brought back so many memories! We also created new ones. I love them all so much!

A family night to remember...

On Monday night, we had my mom's side of the family join us for family night. First we had dinner, which was a mexican fiesta. We then sang Christmas carols and had our own "bell band". My Auntie Ruth brought some bells for each of us to ring to form a Christmas carol. It was really fun, but got annoying when all the little kids kept ringing them. Ha ha! We then got all of the kids dressed up to act out the Christmas story. The costumes were hilarious! After the nativity, we went around the room and shared a favorite story or something that we love about Jesus Christ. It was so wonderful to hear everyone's testimonies of Christ. The spirit was so strong, that I know that none of us will ever forget this family night.

My brother Grant played Joseph. He was not happy at all with being married to his cousin. :)

This is a picture of me and my cousin Alexa playing the bells. We were awesome!

Gingerbread Houses

One of our family Christmas traditions (starting last year) is making gingerbread houses. We make them with our good friends the Nelsons. Sister Nelson makes the gingerbread houses (out of real gingerbread), and my mom makes dinner. This year was a blast! Everyone was really creative with their decorations. We made a huge mess, but it was worth it!

Finals Week!!!!

So, the dreaded finals week has arrived! My brain is totally fried!!! I feel like I live at the library... actually I do...I am at the library right now! I have four finals so I am extremely stressed out! I am glad to know that it will not last forever. I am just going to study as much as I can and do my best! I can't do anything more than that!

Basketball Game

This weekend we had a game against BYU! It was being held in Salt Lake at the Jazz's stadium. My friends and I drove down to see it. It was crazy fun! We wore our "Y B U?" shirts. On the back of them it says, " Win or Lose, you still Live in Provo...'nuff said!" Ha ha! I loved it!

         

We lost 68 to 63! It was such a close game! I WAS SO MAD!!!! (as you can see in the picture above). Even though we lost, it was extremely fun! It was such an intense game! 

Thanksgiving!

      

Usually our family does the Turkey Trot, or the city of Mesa's Thanksgiving run, every year on Thanksgiving morning. This year however, I was the only one that represented the Porter family. I was really nervous because I hadn't run for awhile, but I did great! I ran all six miles without stopping and finished strong! What was even more fun though was seeing my old teammates and running with them. I just love running!

On Saturday morning I went to the temple with my dad and siblings to do baptisms for some of our ancestors. There were a lot of people that day, but it was alright because we got to spend more time together in the temple. It was such a neat experience!

It was wonderful to go home for Thanksgiving break. I had missed my family so much! When you are away from home you truly realize what you are most grateful for!