What a life! It's finals week and I'm currently just sitting in my bed wondering what to do with my life? I'm going to get my hair cut today, maybe I'll go shopping, clean my house a wee bit, and pack for Christmas break. Tomorrow I have my last final at 9am and then I'm outta here! Back to Richfield I go:)
I drove home to Richfield on Saturday morning and I was able to attend the Jensen Family Christmas Party and it was awesome. I wasn't able to make it last year and that was a huge bummer so this year was fantastic! Except Kambry wasn't able to make it because she was off playing basketball in Parawon, but it's okay because I got to see her play in Cedar the night before!! That was fun.
The Christmas party was great.; great food, great people, great experience. It was luau themed because we have a cousin living in Hawaii that wasn't able to make it so we partied with hawaiian haystacks, leis, and were also able to skype with them. We sang "We wish you a Merry Christmas" and everyone started crying. It was odd, but it was an amazing experience. Just the feeling of the love that we all share as a family was SO strong, it was incredible. We all definitely needed that. It reminded me of how important family really is and how blessed we are to be able to be with them forever.
My grandma looked gorgeous. She recently won her battle against Lymphoma cancer and WOW, she proved to all of us how strong she truly is. She's incredible and throughout the entire experience she was an amazing example of optimism. I know for a fact that with a lot of faith, and many, many prayers, my grandmother was blessed.
This is a picture that my cousin Chelsea Eyre (the one in Hawaii) created. This is my grandpa June and my grandma Carol. Beautiful eh? The quote couldn't be more true either! Gotta love the goodies grandma bakes ;) I hope to be like her someday.
Well after much fun and laughter with the family, I had to run home quickly to get bundled up for the annual Light Parade! I got to be in it this year with the Miss Richfield royalty. I quickly put my coat, scarf, banner, and crown on and was dropped off at my float. It was freezing but it didn't even phase me because I was too distracted by the little children who would see us and say "look at the princesses!" as they would wave to us enthusiastically. It seriously was priceless. I loved it.
This is my family after the Light Parade! I love them so much! I can't wait to go home tomorrow to be with them for the next few weeks.
The smells of Christmas, the decorations, the lights outside, all the Christmas goodies, and let's not forget to mention the Christmas spirit... Christ's spirit, the true meaning of Christmas... awe this time of the year is simply amazing.
I hope that we can all keep the Christmas spirit with us throughout the entire year because President Thomas S. Monson said, "the spirit of Christmas is the spirit of Christ."
Love,
Kate
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