Thanksgiving and school

I'm behind on posting! That means I have to catch up on two weeks of stuff. On Tuesday, November 26, I drove to the Salt Lake City airport and flew to Denver, where I met Mom, Dad, and Josh. I felt pretty proud of myself, because I've never driven on the highway alone or been in an airport alone. It made me feel like a real adult! Mom, Dad, Josh and I flew to DC, but our flight was canceled, so we didn't get to Morgantown until about noon the following day. We were picked up by lots of beautiful faces in the Morgantown airport, where I finally got to meet my newest niece, Mary! She is absolutely perfect and I wanted to hold her all the time. She is so soft and warm and smells amazing. After they picked us up and showed us their new home, we relaxed for the rest of that day and ended it with a fantastic meal at Olive Garden.

Mary and I:

And her beautiful smile (she loves Grandpa!):

The next day, Thanksgiving, I mostly played with the girls until we went to go see Frozen and had a great Thanksgiving meal! Afterwards, Lainey, Evie, Nora, Josh, Bob and I had the coolest dance party ever. :) We read a lot of books during the week:

Also, one day during the week, Lainey and I decided to be ballerina-bun twins:

On Friday, we went bowling in the morning, much to Nora's excitement.

We then had lunch at Qdoba, at my request. The Cannon center doesn't have anything like Qdoba food, and I've been missing it! That night, we went to Cold Stone.

On Saturday, Bob, Josh and I babysat Carolyn and Kip's four beautiful girls while they went on a double date with Mom and Dad. We had another dance party, ate macaroni, and watched The Lorax. That night, I watched the BYU basketball game on TV with Dad and Kip, since we are all major fans. :)

On Sunday, we went to sacrament meeting, played for a couple of hours, and then had to leave for the airport. It was hard to say goodbye after such a fun and wonderful week! I love our family so much and hate having to be separated again. It was a wonderful break. Here are some additional photos (some are Carolyn's -- thanks for sharing!)

When I got back to Provo, I had to jump back into another week of school. It was a pretty busy week! On Tuesday morning, we woke up to a ton of snow! Here's the view from our window:

That night, we went to the basketball game and had a lot of fun. This picture is absolutely horrible, but here we are anyway :)

On Thursday, I volunteered in my kindergarten classroom. Because of Tuesday's snowstorm, my car was absolutely buried in snow and it took me at least 15 minutes to clear it off. It was an adventure! I didn't clear off the roof, so I drove around with a snow hat on my car. I wish I had taken a picture of it because I felt ridiculous. When I got to the elementary school, the little boys were very charming! They kept whispering to each other and saying "he wants to marry you!" and "he wants to kiss you!" One of them even kept whispering "kiss me" in my ear. I had no idea what to say to those crazy kids!

On Saturday, Amelia and I had a Lord of the Rings marathon with three guys from our ward. We only had time to watch the first two movies, but it was a lot of fun! Especially because one of the guys kept saying "Aragorn is so hot!" and cracking us up. :)

Other than that, things have been about the same as usual. Finals are coming up next week, so I'm trying to get all of my assignments done so I can focus on studying! I can't wait for Christmas break!