Happy No School For 2 Weeks Day!

The tree is decorated, and has been for a while now! Only one bulb has been shattered and I got the decorations from my parents (who we get alot of stuff from) My plan is to stock up on all Christmas decorations after the holidays and hit the ALOT% off deals.

In about 28 hours we're off to play in warmer weather with Ben's family for Christmas!! It will be my first non-white Christmas and first Christmas away from my family. I'll miss them sooooooooooo much but I think I'll be fine. I keep telling Ben it's going to snow for me in California, just a little bit. We checked on his phone what the weather looks like and it predicts 50-60 degree weather, no sign of snow, but this is good. Ben's weather app is ALWAYS wrong. It predicted clouds and rain for our whole honeymoon and not to my surprise it was beautiful, sunny, humid, the whole time, except for one day. So I'm still crossing the fingers and think it will snow.

Side note: it seems funny that we are going to have to pack a suitcase just for presents, open them, and then pack them back. It's fun and I hope Ben doesn't see everything I got him when we open the bag or worse the bag gets lost, bag please don't get lost.

I'm so excited for this break!!!!!!! I thought I was school free until I got an e-mail from a professor telling me to read over the break for the 1st day of class :( and I need to study for the GRE and finish polishing my internship application. The internship, it's a big deal, without the internship I can't take the test to become a registered dietitian. If I don't get one I have a plan B.

Plan B: move to Hawaii and open a fruit stand. Ben said he'd join me!

P.S. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Smells Like Christmas Around Here

We have a Christmas tree, and it's REAL!! (not decorated yet, but will be soon) Mmmmmm the smell of pine fills the rooms of our condo and it smells like Christmas. Monday night we looked around but we didn't find "the one." Wednesday we tried again and found it! It was at Lowe's waiting for a home. The guy who helped us was funny. I told him we needed a hole drilled in the bottom because that's what our stand required. He looked at me funny and said, "A drill? I don't know if we have a drill." I told him, "This is Lowe's you have to have a drill." They ended up having a drill and as we talked to the man from Georgia he looked at me and asked "Are you Indian or something?" Ha ha, Indian.

I don't know why I get asked, Indian. I can tell when people are wondering what I am, because they look at me and then ask something like "Hope you don't mind me asking but are you __________?" Fill in any ethnicity, I have been called everything, maybe not Antarctic or Danish, but everything else. This is the 3rd time that Indian has been guessed.

1st time- I was at EFY and a girl in my group found out I was half Japanese. She told me she thought I was Indian this whole time. She was 13, she didn't know what indians looked like.

2nd time-I told a sealer in the temple that I was from Blackfoot. He then asked it I was Indian. Nope.

3rd time-Lowe's Christmas tree man.

When I moved into Raintree, as I was getting to know my roommates for the first time, I didn't want them to wonder and hurt their brain to figure out what I was, I immediately eliminated Indian from their pool of guesses. I randomly blurted out "Guys I'm not Indian." They just looked at me and laughed.

Can you see the resemblance? We're both holding things and have dark hair. Both have a necklace, no red tattoo but I do have a red shirt, I like little birds on my shoulder. As I compare myself to Pocahontas, the famous Indian who I'm guessing everyone is comparing me to, I look more Indian than I thought.

I'm holding up the famous cake we made for our ward Christmas party. Ben's sister Mary and her husband Ryan gave us a cake pan in the shape of a cookie! We made the cakes and filled it with cookies and cream ice cream to make an ice cream cake. I was embarrassed to take it out of the freezer because it was melting, but Ben brought it out and it was a HIT! It was the biggest cake there and the first cake gone, success!

And Ben grew a beard last month for a work competition. It's gone now and we are both happy.