Christmas Time is Here and the New Year is Just Around the Corner

First and foremost I must announce for those of you who have not heard yet that I am officially an aunt! My niece is adorable. Although I haven't had the pleasure of meeting her in person, I met her via skype on the day she was born. Best moment of December!

I can't believe tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Cannot believe it! That also means that it's travel day for me. Crazy? Maybe. Worth it? Definitely. I'm curious to see whether the airport will be packed or not too bad. A lot of people have already done their traveling, but I'm sure there's a lot of people who saved it for the last minute just like my sister and I. It just sort of worked out that way what with job schedules and everything. I'm okay with it because I'm going home :)

In other news, if you've never seen the Christmas lights/displays on Temple Square, you should do it sometime. Megan and I got to go as a church activity. I'd been there once before a few years back. It's beautiful, and packed, and just all out awesome. We actually went inside the assembly hall and tabernacle this year. I don't know about you, but I think pipe organs are really cool looking. Just saying.

As the year is quickly coming to a close, I've started to think about what resolutions I want to make for next year. This year didn't entirely go according to plan, but such is life. I can't say it's been a horrible year because it hasn't. I've had some good experiences and adventures, and I even accomplished a thing or two. I can't even remember all of my resolutions from last year. I think that's why it's good to write your goals down. If you don't, they're too easily forgotten or set aside. I realized as I was thinking of possible resolutions that it's important not to overwhelm ourselves. Sure we should be setting goals, but we shouldn't pile ourselves up with tons of goals all at once. Focus on a a few at a time or maybe just one at a time. Some goals are a lot harder to reach than others. Just something to keep in mind as you think about your own resolutions for 2012.

Pardon my Lameness

I deserve to be disowned. I forgot to mention the most exciting event due to take place this month in my last post. Thank you, Laura, for pointing it out. I'm the worst.

For the first time ever in my life I'm going to be an aunt! Huzzah! Little ninja, as she is affectionately known, is due at the end of this month! It's the best gift of all, and despite my lack of a brain during the writing of y last post, I truly am very excited to have a new member of our family.

Congratulations Stuart and Laura! You know I love you even though I'm lame, right?

And Then December Came

It is December first, don't you know. I can just feel the magic in the air! Or maybe it's just that incessant wind that's been blowing about in a crazy fashion all morning. Either way, it's a start of a new month, which means a few things.

1. NaNoWriMo is officially over! Congrats to all those who successfully reach their 50,000 word goal. I'll be blunt. I did not. CURSES! I didn't have a bad run though. I mad it to somewhere in the 30,000's. This is only my second year, but t seems I kind of slump at the halfway point. And then with Black Friday and Thanksgiving and this year a wedding to attend, it all kind of goes downhill. Still, it's a good experience. And just like last year, I won't give up on that story until it's reached at least 50,000 words. I think the experience was harder on Megan. Check out this picture I got of her. You know what day of the challenge that was? You guessed it. Day  one.

2. 2011 is quickly coming to a close! That means new goals to set and a retrospective glance at everything that's happened this year. One thing that helps me remember all that's happened is to look at my collection of pictures. I've slacked off a little this year, but I still have some good moments captured for all time. It always amazes me to look at my pictures and realize all the things that have happened. Tons of things seemed to have happened forever ago, but in reality, a lot of it was just a few months ago. Crazy how time flies. More on the retrospective glance later to be sure.

3. You can start listening to Christmas music now if you haven't already. Go on. You know you want to. And feel free to sing along or perhaps even dance if you're feeling up to it. I'll leave that up to you.

4. Speaking of Christmas, that is also fast approaching! That means I'll soon get to travel back to the home I love, enjoy good company, foods, and traditions! I am so excited. You have no idea. Megan and I are flying on Christmas Eve. A daring move perhaps, but that's the way it had to be done. One of our Christmas Eve traditions is to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol before we head to bed and dream of sugarplums. Even after all these years, it's one of my favorite traditions! I absolutely love that movie. It's probably my favorite Muppet film. I haven't seen the new one yet, but I've heard good things. It's the most wonderful time of the year!

5. Those were the only things I could come up with at this time...

So may you have a wonderful, fabulous, extraordinary December this year!