Merry Christmas!

We got a white Christmas! Yeah!
Merry Christmas! I can't believe it but I'm a day late! I was to busy on Christmas sledding and building a snowman, opening gifts (I got a guitar!!!), eating fondue, and just hanging out!

These are two really cute, must watch Christmas story videos from Ann Voscamp's blog! Click here to watch them! You'll have to scroll down for a while till you get to the part where it says "I can't count how many times Shalom(her daughter) has giggled over this...."(or something like that)

Thankful Things!

My Thankful Things:

-Our exchange student arrived!

-We're going to see the Sight and Sound production of Jonah!

-We are going to our grandparent's an hour and a half away and we'll get to see our cousins from Ohio and our cousins from Lancaster City!

-We are going to get our Christmas tree on Saturday! (I know it is very awkward but we didn't get our Christmas tree yet!)

-I finally finished my lapghan that took me forever! It's great for keeping warm for movies!

D.C. in December!

This is my 3rd(?) trip to DC but my 2nd time in December! One of my friend's grandparents have time share and so we even got to stay in a nice Hotel! (or is it called motel? I don't know:) )

Here are two of the MANY pictures I took!

Washington Monument from the steps at the Lincoln Memorial

The White House through a fence

 

Places I went:

 

~National Zoo~

 

~American History Museum~

 

~Library of Congress~

 

~Hershorn Art Museum~

 

~Lincoln Memorial~

 

~Vietnam Memorial~

 

~Women's Memorial~

 

~World War II Memorial~

 

~The White House~

 

~Natural History Museum~

 

~Supreme Court~

Thankful things

Yes, I'm a day late, but it's better than last time! My Thankful Things:

 

~Babysitting

 

~A Christmas Carol Play put on by The Lancaster Academy for the Performing Arts. They did a great job!

 

~Amazing cupcake recipe! I definitly recommend it. It's from a book called Bake it in a Cupcake by Megan Seling. They are called Chocolate-Covered Pretzel Brownie Bites with Salted Caramel Frosting, Yum!

 

 

~New sink that works a lot better! It doesn't squeak!☺

 

~Going to Washington DC with friends this weekend! (Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday)

Christmas Pin :)...Christmas is coming!

I was Christmas shopping at JCPenny and they were giving pins with codes on to possibly wina coupon. Mine won a five dollar coupon there! What a surprise:). But I really thought the pin looked so cute!

 

Mom's birthday!

 And every day Mom! ♥ Happy Birthday!

Yummy cake! We had a delicious meal for mom's birthday that she made:). Stake, chicken, potatoes, salad! She got a new knife, watch, and a couple other small things!

New Sidetable!

 My sister Erika got a new side table from Craigs list. She and my brother and dad put it together. These are some of the "progress pictures." It's so beautiful and matches her room well!

 

Thankful things!

Okay, I am really bad! I made this list for last friday and never posted it! I'm just combining it with this weeks list!

Thankful Things:
 

~Art Class 

~Trying to be thankful for a LONG school week....At least it's going well. I say long because our coop semester has ended and a class I take had a Thanksgiving break and so I've been at home for a lot of my school.

~Our car reaching the 200,000 mile mark on the way home from our cousins (in Ohio) and we got donuts ahead of time to eat once it reached that exact point. Donuts are such a treat:) Even if our reason for them was a little weird...:)

~Snow!

~Finding out the name of our exchange student that is coming to our house for two weeks over Christmas...And seeing her picture!

~Chalk talk

~Field trip to Harrison house for Christmas caroling then making graham cracker houses.

~Cousins:)

~Little children that make you laugh with all the funny things they say and do:)

Mac and Cheese!

December the 5th is was my mom's birthday! She went to lunch with a friend and so I made mac and

cheese for lunch for my siblings and I. It was really steamy, and I had to keep blowing it to keep the

bubbles down. Turns out I had forgot to turn the fan above our stove on. ☺ Anyway, it all turned

out fine and the mac and cheese was good!