Happy New Year 2008!

Hello family and friends! Happy New Year! I cannot believe that 2007 is over already, but that's how it goes. Time just slips away sometimes! I went home for Christmas. It was a really quiet Christmas at home, but I love spending the time with my parents. We got a lot of organizing and cleaning done while I was home. But of course there is always more to do. I haven't really been home to spend a chunk of time cleaning up my things in like 4 years. My poor mother. We also got to go and see a couple of movies. We saw Charlie Wilson's War and The Debaters. Both of them were great. Of course we went to eat at my favorite place ever, On The Border, yummm!!!

I came back to Utah on Sunday. I am so lucky, my dad drove me to Utah because the weather was kind of questionable. I am glad my parents care so much about my safety. We drove the Yukon so that I could have it for moving. I have decided to move from one place to another for a couple of reasons: to save money, to have a shorter contract (April instead of August), and to have a new ward with new people to meet! I have been spending the last three days getting all settled in to my new place. I love it! My room is bigger but I am paying less in rent, yay! haha. Hopefully I will be all finished tonight and have the weekend to relax a little bit before school starts on Monday. This semester is going to be really hard.

I hope that everyone had a really great New Years Eve! I had a really good day. My really good friend Mike and his family invited my best friend Karly Jo and I to go out to dinner with them to this really nice steak house in Salt Lake City. It is called Flemings, and it is really nice. The type of place I would never go because there is no way I could afford it! Dinner was absolutely fabulous! After dinner we went over to Temple Square to check out the Christmas lights because it was the last night they were going to be on. I love Temple Square. Then we drove back to Provo. Karly Jo and I were just planning on having a low key New Years Eve, we were going to throw in a movie. My friend Nate came over to Karly's new apartment. They have a projector screen in their basement it is super nice! So he helped us set it up, but then we realized we needed a DVD player. We decided to go to my place and get mine. Then I noticed that I didn't have my purse. I looked everywhere and then called Flemings, sure enough I left it in Salt Lake City! They were just about to close so we jumped in the car and headed to Salt Lake City. After we picked up my purse, which thankfully had everything in it. We went to this party called First Night in downtown Salt Lake. It was so much fun. There was a live band that is a lot like Dave Matthews Band, and we just danced around for 30 minutes until the countdown. Then we got to do the countdown and see the fireworks!! It was a great night. I love fireworks so I was really happy. I got 2 kisses on the cheek for New Years, one from Karly Jo and another from Nate. Overall it was a lot of fun! I will try to post pictures of the night soon.