Christmas Eve

Here I sit at work again, doing a whole lot of nothing at work. I would have hoped and expected so, since hopefully most people are thinking about their families and not their course work on Christmas Eve!
This picture by Liz Lemon Swindle hangs in our home above my favorite nativity by Willow Tree. I love collecting nativities, setting up many of them in each room of my home and just sitting there looking at them. I think they are beautiful and add that perfect Christmas touch to our home. Mike even bought me a really inexpensive nativity to put in the bathroom when I was having a bad day! He knew what would cheer me up! :)
But, sometimes I think I might not have the right attitude about the nativities. Do I like them because they remind me of Jesus, or just because they are beautiful? I tried to imagine my Willow Tree nativity without the Mary and Baby Jesus figurine. It would still be beautiful, but I decided I wouldn't want it if He wasn't there. Christmas wouldn't be fun if there was no Christ. That sounds funny, but what I mean is that we may not always be thinking of Christ when we are shopping, decorating, or giving gifts, but if we never thought of Him it would make Christmas empty. We need those moments when we stop to think and our thoughts turn to Him- the true reason for the season. It makes everything wonderful and peaceful even through all the crazy madness of traffic jams, crowded stores and empty pockets!
It makes me feel better that He really still is the reason for the season, but I'm just incapable of multi-tasking and I don't think of Him all the time. :)

Hello World!

We have not blogged for a very long time! We have a good excuse though--BYU. Need I say more? Well, we are done for the semester and rejoicing! It has been a long semester and I'll admit that we were crawling for the finish line. Now we just have one more semester and we are FINISHED!!! I love BYU, don't get me wrong, but when school is done, school is done! :) We think we got pretty good grades, but who knows and well, we are at the end of the line now, so we just need C's right? :) When all is said and done, no one is going to look at our grades right? Hmm... hopefully...

I am excited to announce that I will be Student Teaching in Spanish Oaks Elementary in the 6th grade next semester. It will be so much fun to teach in my hometown!
Speaking of teaching I recently did my practicum/cohort experience teaching at Meadow Elementary in Lehi. I helped in the 5th grade and had a blast! I love those kids!

I am really at a loss for what to Blog about. Our life has been school and now it's Christmas break. We will be staying home for Christmas and enjoying the break!

We did go to Arizona for Thanksgiving. That was really great. We drove there and were able to stay in a relative's winter home with most of the family. I'll post some pictures when I get home. As it is, I'm at work and doing nothing. I work at BYU Independent Study and we are moving buildings today so I am sitting here at the front desk waiting for anyone who may happen to come in, not knowing we are closed, to take a test. We are so nice to be here for our moving day, especially since today is the last day of Finals at BYU and everyone is wanting to finish their classes for this semester! :)

Peace out... or war in... either way.