Question of the day...

If the fire alarm goes off in class... is class canceled? Even if we were only 15 minutes into class?

Well, that happened to me today. I was sitting in Creative Arts in the enormous Kent Concert Hall at USU. 15 minutes into class, in the middle of a movie, all the lights come on and a calm woman's voice says, "There has been an emergency reported in this building. Please don't run, and exit the building in an orderly manner." Then the alarm goes off. So the whole 500 of us students exit the building into the cold winter. It looked like most students were going to stick around to see if class would reconvene, but I figured it wasn't worth standing in the cold so I left to start work a little early.

Christmas 2009

This year for Christmas, we spent almost the whole week at my parents' place. It worked out really well- I didn't have to cook and clean, and Caleb was only 20-30 minutes away from work. We celebrated Christmas with Caleb's family two Saturday's before and that worked out great, too!
On the Tuesday before Christmas, we had a party with some of my friends from high school. The following are only a glimpse of the joyous time we had there:

The men intensely playing old-school Mario

Mario Kart Battle

My two wonderful friends got a hold of my camera and let me many pictures of their beautiful faces! :)

Half the crew

The other half of the crew

Christmas morning came early with lots of anticipation. We opened gifts at my parents' then went to my grandma's to visit with my dad's side of the family. It was a fun morning!

Perhaps too early... (also note the blanket- my mom and sister made a quilt of all my participation t-shirts from high school. They are so awesome!)

And finally, Christmas evening was at my uncle's house for dinner and games. We played Mario Brothers on the Wii, Ticket to Ride, and Golf- the card game. The food and company were great!

Aunt, Uncle, Dad, Mom playing Golf

My three sisters and Caleb playing Mario Bros.

Going Public

I don't know how many people follow my blog. I have been horrible about keeping up on it. And I've started to realize lately that it is probably a pain to follow because I have set as private.

Well starting on my next post, I am going to make my blog public. I have some pictures to post from the holidays, so look for those coming soon. Also, I am going to try to be better at keeping the blog up to date with all of our adventures.