I Want It To Be Christmas!

Sorry for the hiatus in posting. Thank you Bre, for motivating me to get with it and update the blog. I haven't done a whole lot since the last time I posted, I've just been lazy and wasn't motivated to add anything. For most of last week, I worked from "home" at Ron and Cal's to house/pet sit while they went on vacation. Probably one of the laziest weeks of my life!!! I worked for 8 hours of the day, and pretty much watched movies and baseball games the rest of the time. I went through Ron and Cal's DVD collection and watched anything that I hadn't seen yet, that I had been wanting to. And I watched a couple of movies that I just hadn't seen in a really long time. I also bonded with the new kitten, Gracie. She actually drove me nuts sometimes!! She was very hyper in the mornings when I wasn't quite awake and trying to get started with my work. She would attack my legs, so then I would pick her up and put her on the couch with me. But then she would just jump onto the table and walk all over my computer, and attack my computer mouse, and any other sort of wire. I enjoyed her most when she would fall asleep and just be a cute and cuddly kitten.


I'm one of those people that gets way too excited for Christmas to come, that I don't even really care about the holidays before it. I've never been a big Halloween person. Maybe as a kid, when I could get tons of candy, but that's about it. I don't like to dress up. I don't like scary things, so I find no excitement in watching a scary movie or going to a haunted house. I usually spend my Halloween nights at Cal's house. I hang out with Cal and help hand out candy to the cute neighborhood kids that come around. I absolutely love that they start playing Christmas songs on the radio the day after Halloween. That is one of my most favorite parts. Come November 1st, my radio in my car will be on the same station for the next two months, until they quit playing Christmas songs. Don't get me wrong, I don't completely blow off Thanksgiving. It's a fun holiday, but seeing as I don't usually get to go home to be with my parents for it, it's not as exciting to me as Christmas is. Especially since we get to spend our Christmases with the Christies!


This Christmas is going to be a blast for me. I convinced my managers to give me a full two weeks off from work! Before I was only able to be home for part of the Christmas vacation, and then had to come back to Utah for work, and I would totally sulk that I was here while everyone else was at home having fun. I'm so excited that I will be there the whole time everyone else is this year, and won't miss out on all the fun that we always have:

Getting in the hot tub, no matter how cold it is outside.

Making Gingerbread houses.

Our family's lovely portrayal of the Nativity Scene.

Watching Elf (over and over).



And of course, a Nuttall/Christie get together is not complete without a little mattress surfing!

The Office Quote of the Day:
Michael: "Hey, that was really fun last night. I'm actually thinking about getting my own set of putt-putt golf clubs."