My Holiday Season

So! It has been forever since I've posted. My laptop crashed and I lost all my files and everything so I haven't been able to update for a while. So here's my update on everything since Thanksgiving!

Every year my choir and the other top choir put on a performance we call "Feast of Carols". There's a dinner included and and we put on some skits and sing, This year, I wrote and starred in the skit for my choir and wrote one of the songs. Here's a picture of me and my girlfriend Nicole backstage.

After feast of Carols we had a girls night. We drove down to Centerra and got dessert and appetizers from On the Border and then watched enchanted. We all kind of matched though, on accident. It was pretty funny!

My mom and I did most of the Christmas decorating this year. I really cherished the memories because I realized that this could be the last year I'm home for decorating.

Feast of carols wasn't the only holiday concert I had. I also sang in the "Stocking" which is the big concert we put on at the Lincoln Center. But there are a LOT of choirs and bands that perform so we had a lot of time backstage and got a little bored.

After all of my crazy performances, Lizzy had a concert that was really similair to my feast of carols. She was a dancer and did a great job!

Then Lauren and I made a ginger bread house...

And after the gingerbread house Lauren and I fought with the icing

The Tuesday before Christmas, we went to a holiday party at Courts. lauren and I were proud of our outfits!

Brielle and I speant Christmas Eve tracking santa from the internet. Amazing the things technology can do!

And we all got matching robes for christmas!

This year for New Years we went down to boulder for a party at my friend Nicole's sisters house. Most of the fun was in getting ready, but we had a lot of fun during the party dancing the night away and being all dressed up!

Let The Good Times Roll!

Thanksgiving

I had a really fantastic thanksgiving this year! I really missed Lon, Steph, and Eden, and Lauren, but it was a blast to have Rick, Robin, and my Grandad here! I really appreciate Robin for always being there for me! Thanks for coming down for thanksgiving! Love you!

Rick and Robin rented a mustang from the airport, I got pretty excited about it, so we all took a ride!

And we got Robin in on the DDR fun!

My Mini Me!

TODAYS THE DAY!!!

Thanksgiving

I love this time of year! Thanksgiving to Christmas is the best time of year! I love it when the christmas lights go up and it starts to snow! Thats when all the magic happens! I can't wait! I also love getting to spend it with family!

Speaking of family, I heard that there was a chance that Rick and Robin were maybe going to come up to Ft. Collins for Thanksgiving. That would deffinately make that the best thanksgiving ever. So, this is me BEGGING you guys to please please please come up for thanksgiving! It would be so much fun! Please?

Rocky/Collins game and Corn Maze!

This has been the craziest weekend! It has been so much fun!!! Friday night was the Rocky/Collins game, and we won! Yay! Saturday morning I went out to Greeley to take the ACT's which wasn't fun, but then I speant the day with my sisters which was really fun! Then that night I went out with some of my friends to a haunted corn maze! It was a blast!

This is beginning to make math class look like fun...

*Warning, this post contains personal details about me and my health, so if you don't want to know, don't read*



Monday afternoon after getting home from taking my senior pictures, I was getting out my homework so I could get started when I was suddenly in so much pain that I hit my kitchen floor and curled up. I was in pretty bad pain for about the next hour. I couldn't sit up or move or do a whole lot of anything but moan. After about an hour the pain wasn't quite as bad so I started to work on homework but eventually gave up and went to bed. The next morning I woke up about 4:30 in pain so I didn't go to seminary. I got up around 6:45 and got ready for school. I went to my first hour but was in so much pain that it was basically worthless. After 1st hour I went home and figured if I just rested for a while I'd be fine. When 4:00 rolled around and I still wasn't feeling better my mom called the doctor. I went into the doctor and they sent me over to the hospital to have bloodwork done and a CT scan. They let me leave there around 7:30 and called a half hour later. They told me it looked like I had a cyst on my left overy and to call the Doctor in the morning.



We called the doctor as soon as they opened on Wednesday morning but the earliest they could get me in was 11:15, so I went to a little bit of school and then my mom picked me up and took me to the doctor. They sent me BACK over to the hospital for more blood work and gave me a perscription for some pain pills. I got my bloodwork done and rested for a while and then had to go BACK to the hospital for an ultrasound. They finally found out last night (wednesday night) that I had a hemorrhiegic cyst on my left over that had ruptured. There is usually a small amount of blood in your abdomin when this happens, but I had a little more than usual. The good news is that this is supposed to mean I'm over the worst of it and should only get better from here. The bad news is that I'm still in SO much pain and can hardly move without getting nauseous. Hopefully I'll be feeling better in a few days...

So this one time at choir camp...

(I'm told this quote comes from a bad movie that I have not seen by the way, but it was the quote we used all weekend long, so I had to use it!)

This past weekend I had a choir retreat with my advanced woman's choir- Prima Voce up at Buckhorn camp. It was way cold but we had a blast being very silly and singing our vocal cords out. There are so many girls in the choir that I absolutely adore! It was a really nice break to get out with so many girlfriends because basically all I do anymore is homework, studying, seminary and school! So I appreciated the weekend even though it's great to be back to my own bed and clean showers! :)



It was really foggy when we got there and kind of creapy actually!



All the Girls in my cabin out on the balcony




Me and Nicole, I love her!



Dance Party!!!



By the end of the weekend we were really tired but it was worth it!!!