Early Birthday + Thanksgiving

This past week was so much fun! It was such a wonderful Thanksgiving, it's always good to be with family and friends, I brought Jessica with me; her family is in Alabama and come on. You can't go to your bosses house for Thanksgiving... jeez. :-) When I got to Grandma's this time, mom and dad were waiting with a 2 month early birthday present for me. All I could gather from Mindy was that it was "too big to take on a plane, too big for her to lift or carry (I admit, I thought it was Jennie at this point, haha, j/k), I would supposedly love it more than David Archuleta.. and a few other tidbits. They brought it out and I opened it - it was an electronic keyboard!!!

It's so beautiful, and I love it! I played it for 3+ hours last night, so fun!!! My mom was worried that I would "lose my talent" haha.. so funny. Anyways, THANK YOU MOM AND DAD!! I love it! Isn't it beautiful?? Oh, and one of the best parts? Headphones so my roommates and anyone who might be listening don't have to suffer, haha. They also included the Children's Songbook which was really nice.

So, as for Thanksgiving, we did the usual stories, the 7 kernels of corn, eggnog toast which I chugged by myself because Alan or Michael weren't there... and then an amazingly delicious feast! Mel, Christian, their boys, Michael, Steph and their boys joined and it was a loud table of happiness. All the food was amazing! We played a lot of wii while we were there, and I read a lot. It was nice to relax and not work. Jessica and I went to temple square the evening after Thanksgiving and saw the lights, they never cease to amaze me! I seriously don't know how they put the lights on so perfectly to make the leaves that are left on the tree appear to be on fire!

Now back to reality though, and with only 2 weeks left in the semester, I'm starting to think about how I'm not prepared for a few finals... but it will be done soon, which is what's getting me through it. Also, I'm putting up my Chritmas lights in my room today - now all we need is a good snow storm!