Nativity Scene

Tuesday 12-28-10

Today was one of those wonderfully relaxing vacation days. I did very little. In fact, I had so little to do that I decided to clean my room and do laundry, just cause.

I thought that you all would apreciate a picture besides just my laundry, especially cause I've already done that haha.

So here is a picture of one of our family traditions, a nativity scene that is from my dad's family that we put up every year in our dining room.



Christmas Tree pics

Monday 12-27-10

Because of the weather, K's flights were all messed up and we got an extra day with her. We played around with my camera a little bit, trying to get a picture in front of the tree with the lights looking big and blurry. We sort of got it to work, but not entirely. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to make this work, I'd love to hear haha.

This is my favorite shot of K, even though the lights a little weird on her face.

And here is where the lights are doing what we were going for the best. If only she had been looking at me...



It was so awesome having K here for so long and for Christmas. I love you and miss you already!!

Merry Christmas!!

Saturday 12-25-10

We had a great Christmas this year. It was really great having K here!!

My main present this year was a new camera, a Canon DSLR, so from now on I'll have lots of pics as I experiment and learn how to take cool pictures.

Here are some that I took Christmas morning.

One of the new ornanments that my mom picked out this year. She got one for all of us with our first initial on it.

Apparently, I turned 8 this year and not 20. My dad likes to get kinda goofy gifts sometimes, which I love. So this year, I received from him: a computer game that we used to play as kids, Harry Potter legos (already talked to the roomie, it will be going back to college with me haha), and Toy Story 3.

Brent with the whip that K brought back for him and the platter for Mom, somehow he ended up with it and thought that it was a hat. I have no idea..

K with the shirt that I gave her from India.

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas!!

Christmas Eve!!

Friday 12-24-10

Every year on Christmas Eve, my dad makes fondue for us. This year, a couple of my friends from International Friends came over for dinner and to our Christmas Eve service at church.

I hope that the girls enjoyed it, fondue takes a little bit of getting used to sometimes haha. They seemed to really enjoy the service and had some good questions.



Oh, and I don't have a picture, but we also taught them to play spoons. Needless to say, it got a little violent haha.

Dinner with the Smiths

Thursday 12-23-10

Some good friends of our's moved back to Durham over the summer and so we went over to their house on Thursday for dinner. It was really fun to get to hang out with all their girls. Here is a pic of the girl, Erika, who is my age and me, of course.



Wrapping up the Christmas presents

Tuesday 12-21-10

Wrapped Christmas presents with my mom tonight. 

Sorry I got behind, I'm going to try to keep up better, I also have some other things that I want to post about when I get around to it. 

I hope that all of you are having a wonderful Christmas! It's the best time of the year!

Christmas Lights

Friday 12-17-10

Sorry the picture is super blurry, but it shows the lights better without the flash. I love the Christmas lights all over the place. We like to keep our decorations simple outside. We used to do more, we would put lights all over the deck and everything. Pretty fun, when you're ten. My favorite is that when we used to have peach trees in the side yard, my brother would put lights in them and when it was dark, it looked like the lights were floating in the air. Really cool.

Christmas Shopping

Wednesday 12-15-10

My exam schedule had a big break in it, so I went home for a day and did some Christmas shopping with K. (Not the best way to keep yourself motivated for studying haha). I always forget to take pictures while we're actually out, so here's the bags of stuff. Of course I can't show you what's inside of them... 

Christmas Cookie Time!!

Saturday 12-11-10

We had an International Friends Christmas party Saturday night and made Christmas cookies. It was so much funny. A first time for some of the students decorating cookies and they loved it!

Everyone working hard.

We made so many cookies! It was a little ridiculous haha. They were really good though.

The two different versions of a Christmas wreathe. Which one is prettier? 

 

Ok I couldn't get this picture to look right. Ben had to make a UNC cookie of course and not really sure what the other one is supposed to be. I'm saying its Nagini after Neville got a hold of him (if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm sad for you). 

Small Group Christmas Party!

Wednesday 12-8-10

We all took a short break from exam studying to have a small group Christmas party. I'm in small group with some of the best girls at UNC and I love them all so much. It was really fun to get to hang out with them and to see some of the girls who are in the other Summit group at UNC.

Bridget and Rebecca, the only two who let me take their picture haha. Bridget is the leader of the other group and really awesome!

The beginning of Davis pictures haha

Monday 12-6-10

So the reason I got so terribly behind is because exams have started here. Unfortunately, that means some of the coming pics are less than exciting. I spent more time in Davis this past week than I would care to repeat. But, they did try to make the place a little bit cheerier, which is nice. 

Christmas time!!

Friday 12-3-10

We decided to decorate our room this year and make it a little bit more Christmasy. I'm so excited for Christmas this year!!! also, all of our decorations (the bow and the lights haha) are Carolina themed haha. Not on purpose, its just what I had at home to steal haha.