2013? What just happened here?

I don't know why I don't write more often.  Other people may not want to read what I have written but I love reading old posts and journal entries.  Probably 6 months ago I was reading one of my old journals and it was mostly about things I wish I would do or what I have done with my friend Martilyn.  I got so choked up reading about our adventures and dreams I called her in tears.  I just love you Marti.

A lot has happened since I last wrote in this here blog.

Thanksgiving...  A great friend invited us to her families Thanksgiving in Santa Fe.  Let me tell you, they made us feel so welcomed and AMAZING food.  Thanks Adrienne for the invite.

End of semester.... What is there to say...WHEW! glad that one is over with and I passed (barely).

Traveling to UTAH... ROADTRIP to my FAVORITE place!!! LOVE

CHRISTMAS...   Holy cow,  I love being at my parents house for the Holidays.  I love the fluffy white snow, the warm TV room, fighting with my little buddy (and big brothers).  I love watching Kendall work so hard to help around and learn new things (welding).  MAKING CANDY, was so fun this year we made cherry, orange, coconut, carmel, pretzels, pinoche (or something of the sort) and nut clusters.  If it wasn't so unpredictable of how it would turn out,  and so frustrating when it doesn't, we would start a business.  Our CANDY is so good.  "what did you get for christmas?"  "Fat, I got fat for christmas!." :)  That quote made me laugh cause it is true. Kendall really did surprise me with a HUMONGOUS gun, 30.06.  Seriously I love it!  He had a little present for me to open and it was bullets.  At first I was like what am I going to do with these?  Then I read what size they were and I was like we don't have a gun for these... Then me brought it out to me.  It is AWESOME!!! He bought it used so he refinished the stock (I got to chose the color) and it turned out BEAUTIFUL!!!  Christmas was awesome!  My mom always make Christmas special for me, she always goes overboard with gifts, I would be happy just to be with my family.  I loved my little buddy's reaction to the gift we got him.  He is constantly arresting us, so a bought him an outfit so he would at least look like he should be arresting people (lol, it came with a whistle and noisy walkie talkie)  I loved spending time with the newest addition to the family, LIBBY,  She is just perfect.  I love watching Alli with her, she is the second best mom in the whole world, because mine is the first.

New Years... Almost "pulled an all nighter" with my little buddy.  I think he crashed about 1:30 ha ha.  We had little plastic goblets to drink sparkling cider out of. They were plastic so we had to make the clinck sound when we made a toast.  Brax didn't like the cider but he would have the tiniest amount every time we toasted so he would be part of the group. HILARIOUS!!! Then I don't know what we did for the next hour and a half but I couldn't get Brax to sleep, I guess we were having too much fun.  The next day we went sledding!!!  The Brenchleys created a ramp on the hill and we set Brax up to go down by himself (he wanted to) to the right of the ramp so he wouldn't hit it.  We gave him a good push.  He heads straight for the ramp.  Hits it.  Goes flying.  Lands face down.  Lays there a minute.  Bad Auntie is LAUGHING with tears at the top.  He says "I'm fine." He gets up and we try again only this time to the left of the ramp.  Same thing happened.  I didn't laugh so hard the second time, I felt bad.  We learned it was best to use the tube for this hill. We had so much fun.  By the end he wanted to go down but not climb the hill back up.  I had to hold his hand to get him up.  "too tired"  Ha!  I also got to SHOOT my new gun.  We went and saw the elk at hardware.  We had a great day.

Traveling back to NEW MEXICO...ROADTRIP
A STACATION (my own apartment)....PUZZELS
Starting a new (LAST) semester...One more to go.... I think I can, I think I can.