Packing

This week has been a great week to remember relationships with loved ones, spend time with family, and enjoy the wet weather. I am looking forward to relaxing with family this season. I hope you all enjoy this time spent with family and friends, and remember to appreciate all they do by a little service. Don't forget Christ this season :)

You all are the best! Thank you for being in my life. <3

On the Tenth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...ten hours of packing

nine hours sleeping

eight pictures taken

seven hours of cooking 

six toasting bagels

FIVE DAYS TILL FLORIDA

four rolling oranges

three weeks off school

two papers in

and one final done. 

Christmas Songs

Each Christmas people start playing Christmas music earlier and earlier, it's rather annoying. I do not like the new kinds of songs that are played on the radio. 

Here are my top least favorite songs:

Gave you my heart song

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Frosty the Snow man

But my favorites are the classics like Handel's Messiah, The Christmas Shoes, Away in a Manger, and Oh Holy Night (by far my favorite). They make me feel like Christmas is here, and they take the commercialism out of the holiday and bring the focus back on Christ. 

What are your favorite or least favorite Christmas Songs?

Sorry I got behind on the 12 Days of Christmas it was a busy weekend with my family.

My Beautiful Family

On the Ninth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...nine hours sleeping

eight pictures taken

seven hours of cooking

six toasting bagels

FIVE DAYS TILL FLORIDA

four rolling oranges

three weeks off school

two papers in

and one final done. 

On the Eighth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...eight pictures taken

seven hours of cooking

six toasting bagels

FIVE DAYS TILL FLORIDA

four rolling oranges

three weeks off school

two papers in

and one final done.

On the Seventh day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...seven hours of cooking

six toasting bagels 

FIVE DAYS TILL FLORIDA

 four rolling oranges

three weeks off school

two papers in 

and one final done.

Family

On the sixth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me.. six toasting bagels 

FIVE DAYS TILL FLORIDA

 four rolling oranges

three weeks off school

two papers due 

and one final done. 

It is so fun to hear about your traditions, and the things that bring the Christmas Spirit to your family each season. My sisters, mom and I make candy for friends and neighbors each year, it's always a blast, and just fun to have a girls day. With my parents not living in State it makes it hard to do our usual traditions, but it's so fun to find new ones or make time to do our old ones. My mom flew in town yesterday, I am so happy to have her here, and I am so excited to see my dad this weekend too. Family is just so important to me and it will be SO nice to have all my siblings and parents together on Sunday, and to be all together with Nathans family next week. Christmas time is such a great time to relax and be with family. I feel so blessed to be able to be with both families this year. 

It is Friday today so that means that we have another winner to announce. Yes!

 Today's winner is......

Karin Salisbury

I am just so excited for all the winner's we've had this month. I look forward to bringing you your gifts. 

Have a Happy Happy Friday. 

Both Nathan and I are DONE with finals and can now enjoy our 3 weeks off!! I hope all of you who had finals finished well, and enjoy your break as well!

Tradition

Tradition, Tradition!

Each year for Christmas my Family has the extended family parties then on Christmas day we hang out together go on hikes, walks or just play with our gifts. 

My mom's side of the family does their family party on the 23rd every year, we can always plan on it and not have conflicts with other family parties. 

This year Nathan and I will be missing it. 

The first year EVER that I have missed family parties. 

BUT, We are going to be spending Christmas with Nathan's Family this year, and we get to start some of our own traditions, as well as his families traditions. 

I am SO excited to get away from the 'white Christmas' feel and have a warm Christmas with sun, running and swimming. That's the recipe for the perfect day!

On the fifth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me.. FIVE DAYS TILL FLORIDA

 four rolling oranges

three weeks off school

two papers due 

and one final done. 

Tomorrow I will be posting up more Holiday Winners. 

Post your comments about your family traditions and if you are dong anything new this year. 

Winter Wonderland

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.. four rolling oranges

three weeks off school

two papers due 

and one final done. 

Christmas is quickly approaching and there isn't much time left to get in your shopping and all that is on the to do lists. 

Through all your business don't forget to take time and reflect on the Savior and his birth, what sacrifices he has made for us and just what a wonderful brother he is to all of us. 

Christmas isn't the only time to reflect and think of him, but it certainly is a perfect time of year.

Give yourself the gift of service this year, find someone that you may not normally give to, or simply needs a little extra love and give to them this holiday season. 

The winner of yesterday's commenting posts, and prizes is:

Melissa Glad

Congrats Melissa!! Everyone else don't forget to comment on tomorrows post for more awesome Christmas prizes and giveaways. 

Until then, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Days of Christmas

This weekend was really busy so I was unable to really think, and start on the 12 days of Christmas. So I am going to do some improvising this morning.

On the First Day of Christmas my True Love gave to me.. a final with my grades. 

On the Second Day of Christmas my True Love gave to me.. two papers due. 

and a final with my grades. 

One the Third Day of Christmas my True Love gave to me.. three weeks off (school). 

Two papers due

and a final with my grades.   

To celebrate finals week comment below and you have a chance to win (comment today and Thursday to win on Wednesday and Friday). 

This weeks prizes include custom earrings and other goody treats. 

Stay Tuned. :)

Winners Of Giveaway

I have been so excited all week for this, and now it's here! The two winners for my Birthday Giveaway are:

Drum Roll Please....

Marci Preece and Steph Stagg

Congrats Girls. 

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday!

~Linn

Can't Wait!

Okay, so with the Birthday Giveaway being pretty awesome and exciting, I have decided to do a 12 Day's of Christmas extravaganza! (I just like that word). 


In one week I will be starting the 12 Day's of Christmas. I am pretty excited, as you should be too. Because that means only a few days before Christmas. Yes!! 


And remember tomorrow is the last day to post to win some pretty earrings for my Birthday Giveaway.

Fogging Fun

Last night was so cool!! There was a whole lot of fog around our place. 

Nathan and I went out for a little walk, and we decided to take some fun pictures under one of the lamps at the Village. Nathan did a great job taking the picture while being in the picture. He is TALENTED!! 

Birthday Giveaway!!

Happy Birthday to ME!!! 

ha ha. Today is my 22nd birthday, Nathan got me some awesome gifts and my parents have spoiled me as well. I have so much wonderful family and friends like all of you!! 


Since all of you are so wonderful, I would like to give you a gift of your own for my birthday. I think one of my favorite things to do around this time of year is give people gifts. I will probably do several giveaways but for now, we will try this one. 


Okay, so I'm not an amazing blogger like my sister (melissaesplin.com), her blog is amazing. But she does giveaways quite frequently, and I've have decided today, In celebration of my birthday that I am going to do a giveaway!!! 


What this entails is 2 winners (for my 22 birthday) and you will win handmade jewelry made by yours truly! 


Post a comment below, I will do some randomizer thing to draw two winners. Comment by Thursday December 9th. I will draw winners on Friday morning. 


I am so excited to do this!!!

Goals

As of today December 4th, 2010 I will not cut my hair until December 4th of 2011.
My new goal (and challenge) is to record and document my hair growth for the next 12 months.
Each month (on the 4th) I will take a photo of my hair and post it, and I can kinda challenge myself to see how long I can get my hair in a year.
Also, I am going to try my HARDEST to not straighten my hair during this time. Today will be the last day, and I can see how it effects my hair curl.
Growing out my hair is a really hard thing for me to do, I get bored and just chop it off, so what I am going to do is when I get bored with it, I will have my lovely and talented sister to color it. (she is amazing with hair, if you’re looking for someone :).
Here is what I am starting with:

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What kinds of things are really hard for you to do? Can we work through this challenge together? It’s always more fun with motivation and with awesome friends to help :)

Unfocused

Today is one of those days where I can not concentrate at all, I don't want to study for finals, or work on papers. I just want to go home and do nothing. But, I can't, so instead I just play on the computer more and procrastinate. 

In my time of procrastination, I went back and looked at all my old pictures (kinda to compare my hair styles), and to just see what I do have on Facebook. I came to a few conclusions today and they are that a. when I had longer hair it was always up in a bun or ponytail, and b. when I had straight hair, for the majority it was straight. So in all, I have concluded that I don't like my hair, or at least for pictures. I have noticed though that my hair tends to be really frizzy in pictures. I have got to do something about this! There has to be a change. 

Here is what I am want to try to do, I want to try switching the products I do use in my hair to keep it from being nasty frizzy, I will TRY my hardest not to put my hair up (emphasis on try), and I will not straighten my hair much (Nathan is going to be so so excited about that one). My goal is to grow out my hair real long. It's driving me nuts so it ends up by 2pm everyday, if not by the time I get home from work it is. So, I am going to try getting it real long, so that it's not in this in between awful stage. Each month I will record the length (by taking a picture) and we can see if in fact my hair starts getting better. I will post a picture this weekend (because it's in a ponytail already :). 

With this new challenge, I will have a very happy husband :) ha ha. I am nervous and excited. 

December

Happy December Everyone! 


I sure hope that it's a happy month, so far this month (in the few hours we have been in it) it has been real crappy. I was bugged with everything from my mascara not working well, my hair looking like crap two days in a row (welcome to long hair), and my clothes being annoying. Also we have hardly any food, so it was a very frustrating morning. 


Coming to work trying to make it a better day, I just got stuck behind crappy drivers, one of which was a cop, Ugh. Plus it's freezing outside. Double Ugh. 


Once I am at work things are okay until I start working on my lectures for class, and I just can't focus, I am burned out and have so much to do I don't know where to start. To top it off I found out a lady at work's son's girl friend is having a boy (had the ultrasound yesterday) and he has Spinabifida (spelling??). It's just such a sad situation. It's all around a downer day and it's only 9:43 am. 


What can I learn from this. Well... Makeup is stupid no one needs it, clothes are just dumb and no matter what you put on it won't fit right so just wear the first thing you put on, hair has a mind of it's own, be glad I have all of the above. As for the drivers, I just need to leave a few minutes earlier tomorrow. 


The rest, I just need to remember Christ and his suffering for us. He loves us so much that he made it possible for us to be as imperfect as we are but still repent daily and become better so we can return to our Heavenly Father. In regards to the child with Spinabifida, if his parents do decide to abort him, he will be made whole again with his father in heaven, he is a choice son of our Heavenly Father and this is a blessing to be able to have something like that to humble his parents and to bring them together in times like this and to be shielded from the wickedness of the 'worldly' things that we face all the time. 


There is always good among the bad things. In all I think this is a perfect way to start this month of celebration of life and especially our Savior. 


Please remember, Christmas is about Christ. Not all the commercialism that we see on T.V or in the stores. I challenge all of you to find someone to give an extra special something to, possibly a co-worker someone in your ward, or someone you don't know. Share that love with someone you otherwise wouldn't. 


Happy December Everyone.

Today is going to be a good as I make it to be (a reminder my mom always told me.)