A Regis Christmas

On Friday night we had our Regis Family Christmas Party! We started off the night by doing some Christmas shopping for a family in need. Last Christmas our grandma gave each family a glass jar that we were to put all our spare change in throughout the entire year. At Thanksgiving we brought all our coins together and counted it all up. We used this money to do the Secret Santa. We split up into teams and raced through the stores finding what was on our team's list. We had such a good time.

After we finished up shopping we went into Salt Lake to the Gallivan Center to go ice skating in the outdoor rink. It felt so Christmasy skating in the chilly air all bundled up in our scarves and mittens. It was an adventure helping the little cousins skate. Even Grandma got out on the ice!

After some delicious hot cocoa, the adults headed home and all the grandkids went to Grandma's house for a giant sleepover! We made mini pizzas, played games, and watched a movie. Although most of my cousins are a lot younger than me I'll admit that most of them stayed up later than I did. Not only did they stay up late, but they also got up quite early! So I was up a bit earlier than I would have liked but Grandma's delicious breakfast made up for the lost sleep. Our parents rejoined us during breakfast and we wrapped all the gifts purchased from the night before. This was definitely a Christmas party to remember!!!

Temple Square

Every year my ward goes into Salt Lake and walks around Temple Square to look at the pretty lights. This was the first activity with our new young women's presidency and it was fun to have my mom their with me (new 2nd counselor). I forgot to take my camera so all these pictures are via google images. If you haven't yet, make sure you go and see the lights. They are amazing!!!

Blood Drive

Today at school there was the semi-annual blood drive. Last year I donated both times and actually had fun doing it. So this year I signed up thinking I would have a similar experience. I was wrong. I think the nice man sticking the needle in my arm was new or had poor eyesight. He missed my vein and spent the next few minutes trying to move it around in my arm to find it. Well he was unsuccessful. Then he asked a lady for some help and after a few more minutes she finally got it into my vein. So all was good, or at least I thought so. As I was being laid back in my chair, this same guy accidentally moved the needle and I had to go through searching for my vein a second time by both him and the lady. After the needle was finally in the right spot I was informed that because of all this moving around I probably wouldn't meet the time requirements to fill the bag. They took what they had and let me go. Needless to say, this was not the best experience. Although, I did get a pretty cool t-shirt and lots of goodies and juice out of it. And they did put a cute bow on my arm wrap. So I guess that does make things a bit better.

December Challenge

Who: Brother Preece's 6th Period Seminary
What: Read the entire Book of Mormon in one month
When: December 1 -31
Why: Why not??
How: Lots of determination and prayer :)

I'm looking forward to this challenge and I think it will really help me feel the real spirit of Christmas. Feel free to join in on the challenge. I promise it'll be worth it :)