I am so excited for 4:00 when the party starts! I am going to have so much fun! Wahoo! I'll need to have my mom take pictures.

Meddy Chreestmas

My mom has developed a strong opinion about Christmas season. And she's told us that there might not be one this year at all because of financial problems and all that good stuff. But she says it's good, because we are learning something. I mean, isn't Christmas kind of gradually turning into a second Black Friday?  

The real meaning of the holiday is disappearing, I'm afraid. People have one question around this time of year: "What do you want for Christmas?" That question is somewhat depressing. I'm just thinking, doesn't Jesus not want all this greed? We are supposed to be celebrating His birth--but I guess some people have invented a new definition/title for Christmas: Want Day.

I'm not saying I'm not guilty of the "greed plague", of course I want an iPod or a pet cat or a Nintendo DS. But I'm really trying to resist it! 

My mom wants us to donate to Family Crisis Center this year for the people that don't have as much as we do. We aren't considered the most fortunate family in the world, but there are people in greater need than us. So I guess we are going to donate, I think!

Mostly I'm sick of Santa Claus. He gets on my nerves! For one thing, he doesn't exist, for another, he goes around spoiling snotty kids rotten, and for one more thing he's just bribery. Pure bribery. He's an excuse. I suspect parents can't think of any other way to get their kids to behave!

I'm really trying to think more about the meaning and/or spirit of Christmas this year. Looking back, I feel rather guilty about everything I've always wanted. For me and Ethan's b-day party tomorrow, we asked the guests not to bring presents. A kid's parent said they were surprised, quote: "I thought kids didn't know the difference between want and need." That hurts, actually. Really hurts, right here. (Motions to heart.)

I am very excited to see my Grandmas and Grandpas and all my relatives. I am thinking about the gifs, I can't deny it, but I'm trying! I want to be more mature like my Mom. I got the idea of this post for her.

I hope y'all have a merry Christmas. Enjoy the time with your family! Play games! Sing songs! Donate to charity!

(And if you were confused by the title of this post I was just saying Merry Christmas with a weird accent so r's sound like d's and i's sound like long e's and w's sound like v's. It's a little confusing but I think it's funny!)

Mommy & me time

So we went to Salt Lake (again) last weekend as a birthday present for me. We went to see Ballet West's Nutcracker and we ate yummy Indian food and we got me fitted for...................

POINTE SHOES!! They are Grishko 2007.

And I am so happy for me.

The ballet was so fun to watch. The costumes were gorgeous! They must have taken forever to make.

The Cavalier kind of stumbled once or twice, but if you compared and contrasted him to Cache Valley Civic Ballet's Cavalier from a few years ago he did absolutely stupendous. I was told by Mom that the other Cavalier fell over...several times.

Then after that we went to get me fitted for.........POINTE SHOES!!! And the lady there was very good at fitting. She told us that this one time a teacher came in with her student and the student wasn't ready so the fitter told them she wasn't ready and the teacher called back and said "I don't care if she's ready; I just buy the shoes." And we were like, Wow. We are in the midst of a professional.

Then we were at the Indian restaurant and it was so deliciously savorily yummily good, that I ate nearly all of it. It was spicy and the mango pudding was sort of like vanilla but sooooo much better.

Then we got stuck in traffic trying to see the Christmas lights in Temple Square for something like an hour. The pedestrians were moving faster than us!! 

We finally got out and parked a few blocks away on a cliff! Our van was just about hanging over the edge! I'll need to upload pictures.

So we saw the lights and they were pretty and I goofed off because I was really hyper, like I am right now because I'm all excited telling you this. 

Then I saw a building and it had A WATERFALL on the WALL! It was crazy.

Then we got in the van and we drove and drove until I fell asleep and Mommy got so tired she started seeing things so we had to pull over in Pocatello and we slept in a comfy bed in an 8 Motel.

Then we ate at iHop in Idaho Falls and it was good because I really like eggs and bacon and pancakes. We were so hungry! We finished in five seconds!

Then we got home all happy and greasy because we needed to take showers.

I know it's not a very in-depth description of the trip but I'm not in the mood to write a novel write now. OH! Speaking of novels I finished Twilight and it was both weird and good. And I'm almost done with Orson Scott Card's The Memory of Earth and it vaguely reminds me of the Book of Mormon. Just kidding! It is a total rip-off of the Book of Mormon! I always can predict what is going to happen! It's just like the story about how Nephi went to get the Plates of Brass from Laban. Except Nephi's name is Nafai and Laban's name is Gaballufix and Sam's name is Issib and Laman's name is Elemak and Lemuel's name is Mebbekew. And there's like this computer thing called the Oversoul and it really is a way cool book but you can just tell he's stealing these ideas from somewhere... I love the book though! I can't put it down! Except for right now, of course, because I'm typing on the computer. Ha.

I'm reading it! I am no longer an enemy

I have started reading Twilight and I am about 162 pages into it. It may be good, but it is a very easy read. I am natuarally a slow reader; I like to really take in what I see in the words on the page and try to understand it. I can just skim through this book. That's all I have to say.

Thanksgiving, happy, happy day

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!

I was at my Grandma Coco's house on the 27th and she seemed to be doing better than when I saw her on her birthday. She recognized me and was walking okay.

Over the past couple years we've applied a new tradition for Thanksgiving. We bring paper, glue, markers, pencils, and scissors to the family gathering place so that we can make paper dolls! I made a few that were very good. I had my backpack stuffed with supplies!

The food was savory. My Aunt Nancy prepared most of it. During dinner, my Uncle Ben showed us an inside joke within his family that he uses on his coworkers at his job! What you do is you do the "made you look" thing--where you point at something and say "Look at that!" Then when they look back at you you have a weird expression on your face and it gets everyone laughing like crazy!

We went to Aunt Angell's house at 3:00 AM after the celebration and went straight to bed, we were so tired! Then I woke up at 11:30 AM and I ate pancakes and eggs. We made more paper dolls and we played a safari game when it got dark. Didi used Anna's camera and pretended to be an Australian explorer: "This is explorer Didi, and I'm in the Australian Outback. Look, It's a koala bear, he's so cute. I believe that's a leap frog."

Now we are at my Daddy's house. I am typing, yay!

Also my Mommy and I saw Twilight and it was cheesy. And I haven't read the book yet, still! There was a part of the movie when Bella's in the car and they're running away from the freaky cannibal vampire. Then Edward jumped onto the car and he looked in the window and a bunch of teenage girls behind us screamed--LOUD! And so did I. Then we realized it was Edward and everyone in the theater was laughing hysterically in that suspenseful section of the film.

I'm gonna go to bed now. Night night. And Mom, don't pay any attention to the time that this post was written. Pretend that it's really noon on the 28th of  November.