Merry Christmas!

Knowing that I won't be home for Christmas next year, for the first time ever, just makes this Christmas that much more special. Even when I didn't get much fun stuff, it was just great!

I am now pretty much set with my new suitcases, coupons for temple clothes and shoes, my very own missionary library, Book of Mormon and Preach my Gospel in Portuguese, letters to write home in, notebooks, personal journal, jewelry, and a Brazil Vitoria Mission shirt. That was only what I could use for my mission. I also got a bunch of candy, a Glee CD and a BYU Bands CD, pajamas, a bunch of gift cards, and some new snow boots (for the impending snow storm this week).

Also, my family got an XBox 360 with Kinect. That is basically the coolest thing ever! Even if we need to stand on the couch to get far enough away from the sensor. Seriously, seeing a 44 year old man and a 5 year old on the couch jumping around seriously made my day! It's funny really. For ever we didn't have any gaming system, but in the last 5 years or so we have gone from a Playstation 3 to a Wii to an XBox 360.

Teagan got a Kindle Fire, Tyson and Trevor got millions of legos, and my mom got her dream blender and coffee (hot-chocolate) maker.

Also, Santa left us a winter wonderland. We woke up and found a bunch of snowflakes made out of paper taped to our living room ceiling. That was pretty cool.

All-in-all, this was probably one of the best Christmases I've had. I have felt the Christmas spirit this season, and I fell like I'm growing out of the "gimme, gimme" phase and into the "i just want what i need" phase.

Except for the part where I couldn't sleep last night until about 3 am and then woke my brothers and the rest of my family at 7 am. Yep, still a kid there. And probably will be forever :)